Posted: 05/24/13 18:00
A 20-year-old Maxwell man was jailed Thursday evening following an incident at a residence in Maxwell. According to the Lincoln County Sher...
Posted: 05/24/13 15:30
The 4th annual Thunder in the Valley car show takes place in downtown Lexington Sunday. Event organizer Mike Lonowski explains the proceeds will...
Posted: 05/24/13 15:05
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ A group that opposes alcohol sales in Whiteclay is alleging that one of its beer store owners gave baseball bats and a stick to m...
Posted: 05/24/13 13:40
The Tri-Cities Medical Response System (TRIMRS), in their efforts to prepare for disaster and public health emergency events, is providing Mass Casual...
Posted: 05/24/13 04:43
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - A Nebraska bill that would expand protections for human trafficking victims has won first-round approval from lawmakers.
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Posted: 05/23/13 23:00
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) A search and rescue team from Nebraska is returning home after helping with tornado damage in an Oklahoma City suburb. The Nebrask...
Posted: 05/23/13 21:00
The Lexington Volunteer Fire Department conducted a practice burn of a house Thursday evening about 5 miles northeast of Lexington.
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Posted: 05/23/13 19:25
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ A proposed work-subsidy program aimed at Nebraskans who qualify for welfare is headed to a final vote in the Legislature. ...
Posted: 05/23/13 17:30
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) _ The Nebraska State Patrol says a traffic stop on Interstate 80 just west of Grand Island turned up nearly 53 pounds of...
Posted: 05/23/13 15:52
LINCOLN - Attorney General Jon Bruning today announced University of Nebraska-Kearney psychology professor Joseph J. Benz, Ph. D., 52, was arrested an...
Posted: 05/23/13 05:00
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - When travelers hit the road for Memorial Day weekend, they should be careful when crossing railroad tracks.
It can take mo...
Posted: 05/22/13 20:00
The National Weather Service reports that a weak EF-1 tornado was responsible for some destruction late Sunday afternoon about 4 miles north...
Posted: 05/22/13 18:00
In Washington, D.C.; Congressman Adrian Smith helped fill care packages from the United Service Organization(USO) to be delivered to American tro...
Posted: 05/22/13 17:47
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ A bill that would allow more working families in Nebraska to qualify for child care subsidies is headed to a final vote in ...
Posted: 05/22/13 13:57
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning says the only nurse at Dr. LeRoy Carhart's abortion clinic in Bellevue should lose her ...
Posted: 05/22/13 12:01
Norfolk, NE - Efforts continue in northeast Nebraska to raise money for an animal shelter.
Judy Funk, executive director with the Animal Sh...
Posted: 05/22/13 09:34
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - An experienced fundraiser and former executive director of two nonprofit Nebraska foundations has been named the new executive di...
Posted: 05/22/13 09:15
WASHINGTON (AP) _ The House has taken up a Republican-sponsored bill that would speed approval of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to...
Posted: 05/21/13 23:00
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ A bill that would extend sales tax breaks to large wind-energy companies that locate in Nebraska is headed to a final vote in the...
Posted: 05/21/13 21:00
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) _ A 24-year-old Hershey man has pleaded not guilty to vehicular homicide and driving while intoxicated in a crash that k...
Posted: 05/21/13 19:00
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has used a line-item veto to strike $200,000 from the state budget that was approved for an Oma...
Posted: 05/21/13 12:08
Senator Deb Fischer says she and others in Congress are frustrated with the lack of answers from IRS officials regarding their agency's targeting of t...
Posted: 05/20/13 22:00
TULSA, Okla. (AP) _ The tornadoes that have raked communities in Oklahoma, Texas and other states over the past week belie what has been an unusually ...
Posted: 05/20/13 21:07
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Lawmakers have rejected an attempt to repeal a new Nebraska law that lets cities raise their local option sales tax rates, ...
Posted: 05/20/13 19:00
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Nebraska lawmakers have given final approval to the seven budget bills that make the state's two-year budget. Lawmakers pa...
Posted: 05/20/13 18:47
MOORE, Okla. (AP) _ Several children have been pulled out of the rubble alive at a school in an Oklahoma City suburb. An Associated Press photographe...
Posted: 05/20/13 16:10
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ A mile-wide tornado chewing through the Oklahoma City area has reduced neighborhoods to rubble and left cars and trucks ...
Posted: 05/20/13 16:01
STAPLETON, Neb. (AP) _ The Logan County sheriff's office says a 67-year-old man has died in a two-vehicle crash near Stapleton. Sheriff Jon Hef...
Posted: 05/20/13 10:55
Thurston Manufacturing Company in Thurston, Nebraska is proud to announce the asset purchase of a Spencer, Iowa, based company, Simonsen Iron Works.
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Posted: 05/20/13 09:46
Nebraska's State Patrol Superintendent says he is concerned about the escalation of violence in Whiteclay.
Protestors to the sale of alcohol ...
Posted: 05/19/13 23:00
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ A major insurer is recommending 11 Nebraska hospitals for spine surgeries and knee or hip replacements because they deliver quality...
Posted: 05/19/13 18:00
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) _ Police say a man stabbed his estranged girlfriend at least 20 times in a Grand Island church parking lot before cutting his ...
Posted: 05/19/13 15:00
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Nebraska lawmakers are forging ahead slowly this year with the state budget, a new school funding formula, and an overhaul of juv...
Posted: 05/19/13 12:00
ALLIANCE, Neb. (AP) _ A 20-year-old Hemingford woman has admitted helping hide the body of a Denver man in northwest Nebraska months before her boyfri...
Posted: 05/19/13 09:40
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ An Omaha gay-rights group is seeking the return of some $1,800 donated to a Lincoln woman convicted of lying about being attacked...
Posted: 05/19/13 06:06
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) _ Officials are hoping for the return of some 40 personalized bricks destined for a North Platte veterans' memorial that someo...
Posted: 05/18/13 15:12
Governor Dave Heineman believes even with reductions in the cost of a bill that places new firefighting resources into central and western Nebraska, t...
Posted: 05/18/13 07:52
Lawmakers are planning to review why few Nebraska students
who receive free and reduced-price lunches also participate in the federal funded brea...
Posted: 05/17/13 21:00
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ The utility that owns the troubled Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant in eastern Nebraska says it hopes to have the plant ready to op...
Posted: 05/17/13 11:55
An Asian based firm interested in locating a beef processing facility on a Scottsbluff industrial site will make a presentation before the Scottsbluff...
Posted: 05/16/13 14:10
Governor Dave Heineman says he has concerns about whether the state education funding bill approved by lawmakers is fair to rural Nebraska.
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Posted: 05/16/13 09:00
The Johnson Lake Chamber is hosting its 2nd Annual Art & Wine Festival Saturday June 8, 2013 from 10-4pm at the Lakeview Acres Park located ...
Posted: 05/15/13 20:30
Veteran broadcaster Chuck Schwartz is joining the KNEB staff, according to CEO Craig Larson.
"We have a tremendous staff at KNEB and it j...
Posted: 05/15/13 20:00
Mid-Plains Community College administrators, faculty, staff and its Board of Governors celebrated construction of a new cafeteria at No...
Posted: 05/15/13 17:00
Holdrege voters said "Yes" in a special election on Tuesday to a nearly $14 million bond measure for a new elementary school. Phelps County Clerk Sa...
Posted: 05/14/13 10:52
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ A proposal to abolish the death penalty in Nebraska is dead for the year.
Supporters on Tuesday failed to muster the 3...
Posted: 05/14/13 10:18
BUSHNELL, Neb. (AP) _ A southwest Nebraska natural gas pipeline is back in operation after rupturing earlier this month.
The Lincoln Journa...
Posted: 05/13/13 21:31
Minden volunteer firefighters handled a large fire Monday afternoon about 2.5 miles northeast of Minden at a cluster of three businesses loc...
Posted: 05/13/13 18:30
Jeff Wightman was sworn in Monday afternoon as the newest County Judge in the 11th Judicial District. Wightman will be seated in Lexington. After ta...
Posted: 05/13/13 18:00
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has vetoed a teacher retirement bill, arguing that a proposed increase in the state's contribut...
Posted: 05/13/13 13:54
Governor Dave Heineman told two groups of young people during a visit to the Scottsbluff area today they are "future of the state." Heineman spoke to...
Posted: 05/13/13 11:30
(Lincoln, Neb.) Gov. Dave Heineman is reminding Nebraskans that U.S. and Nebraska flags will be flown at half-staff on Wednesday, May 15 in observance...
Posted: 05/12/13 07:42
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ The Omaha Police Department has revised its policy regarding the public's use of cameras in the wake of an investigation into recen...
Posted: 05/12/13 06:43
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ A new federal report says Nebraska is on track to harvest only 42.9-million bushels of wheat this summer _ the state's smallest w...
Posted: 05/10/13 16:18
The step-father of a three-year-old North Platte boy who survived a drowning this week, has been arrested on a felony charge of Child Abuse. Tw...
Posted: 05/09/13 19:30
The North Platte/Lincoln County Convention & Visitors Bureau awarded an $80,000 check to representatives of the Creativity Unlimited Arts Council Thur...
Posted: 05/09/13 17:30
LB 158 is one of 29 bills in the Nebraska Legislature designated as a priority proposal for 2013.
State Sen Al Davis says the penalty for a ...
Posted: 05/09/13 10:14
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has signed a bill that ends mandatory life sentences for juveniles who commit first-degree murder.
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Posted: 05/08/13 21:00
Construction work is scheduled to begin Mon., May 20 on Highway 183 from the junction of Highway 70 and Highway 183 north to the junction of S21 C,...
Posted: 05/08/13 17:08
A man and woman wanted in connection with a string of robberies in Minnesota and South Dakota waived their preliminary hearing Wednesday afternoon in ...
Posted: 05/07/13 21:00
UNL Climatologist Mark Svoboda of the National Drought Mitigation Center studies weather and climate of all kinds, including the impact of the curr...
Posted: 05/07/13 17:34
Wilson Public Library in Cozad is preparing for another summer of youth and adult reading.
Children's Librarian Ann Matzke says youth regist...
Posted: 05/07/13 10:36
DENVER (AP) _ Colorado lawmakers have put off marijuana legalization until the last possible minute _ and now they're facing some big deadlines to fin...
Posted: 05/07/13 09:30
LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) _ A 23-year-old man has been given 30 months of probation for shaking a baby in south-central Nebraska. 23-year-old Cameron Hovey...
Posted: 05/07/13 01:58
A medical office building will be built on the campus of the new Kearney Regional Medical Center in southwest Kearney. The new building wil...
Posted: 05/06/13 21:00
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ The Nebraska Travel Commission says its goals for this summer's travel season could help the state surpass last year's success. ...
Posted: 05/05/13 06:30
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ Berkshire Hathaway shareholders have again rejected a proposal to require the company's utilities to set goals for reducing greenho...
Posted: 05/04/13 23:00
DAVID CITY, Neb. (AP) _ Authorities are perplexed as to what may have caused several hundred fish to die in eastern Nebraska. Officials at David Cit...
Posted: 05/04/13 12:00
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ Billionaire Warren Buffett says he spends plenty of time thinking about the future of his company after he is gone. But the 82-ye...
Posted: 05/04/13 10:29
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ A beer truck in the Nebraska border town of Whiteclay was vandalized by activists who were protesting the town's alcohol stores n...
Posted: 05/04/13 06:00
Community Day is a "Thank You" to North Platte
NORTH PLATTE, NE-As a thank you to the North Platte community, the Golden Spike Tower & ...
Posted: 05/03/13 21:00
Emergency room physicians at Lexington Regional Health Center are now staffed by a national, reputable health care firm.
But, Plum Creek Med...
Posted: 05/02/13 21:00
LINCOLN - Attorney General Jon Bruning, the Nebraska State Patrol (NSP), the Grand Island Police Department and the Lincoln Police Department announc...
Posted: 05/02/13 16:00
Hildreth Friends of the Library was one of seven Nebraska libraries to receive a grant from the Kreutz Bennett Donor-Advised Fund in April 2013.
...
Posted: 05/02/13 11:12
The incoming Chairman of the Nebraska Bankers Association says the Obama Administration's regulatory environment is hindering the financial industry's...
Posted: 05/02/13 03:59
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Nebraska lawmakers have moved to streamline appeals for anyone who challenges a decision of the commission that regulates utiliti...
Posted: 05/01/13 19:00
County Surveyor Jake Ripp submitted his resignation Wednesday morning while meeting with the Dawson County Board of Commissioners in executive sessio...
Posted: 05/01/13 17:00
Knowing how to workout can be difficult, especially for beginners.
Lexington Regional Health Center Certified Personal Trainer Melanie Shube...
Posted: 05/01/13 09:22
Chadron residents Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a new 15-year half-cent LB-840 economic development sales tax and accompanying plan setting how the ...
Posted: 04/30/13 23:30
Two people were injured Tuesday in a semi-truck crash about one-mile west of the Cozad/Interstate-80 interchange in the westbound lanes.
Cozad Fi...
Posted: 04/30/13 21:00
Organizers claim a "big success" with 90 in attendance at the first Survivor and Caregiver Dinner for the 19th Annual American Cancer Society Relay Fo...
Posted: 04/30/13 18:24
Over 70 local residents who volunteer at the Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center in Geneva were recently recognized at a banquet for their servi...
Posted: 04/29/13 23:30
Eight 4-H'ers from Dawson County were among 82 contestants who competed in the 2013 West Central Regional 4-H Public Speaking Contest held S...
Posted: 04/29/13 16:11
Over 120 pounds of medicine was collected at the Lexington Regional Health Center lobby on Saturday during a take back event sponsored by Two Rivers H...
Posted: 04/28/13 09:23
NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) - Authorities have identified the two people killed when a small plane owned by a flight school crashed in northeast Nebraska this ...
Posted: 04/27/13 07:17
The Gosper County Sheriff's Office is currently investigating a report of Fallow deer being shot between April 9th and April 12th.
The deer ...
Posted: 04/25/13 23:00
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Investors who were spooked by Washington's fiscal-cliff showdown have created a one-time cash windfall for Nebraska.
T...
Posted: 04/25/13 21:00
Lexington In today's health care environment, change is constant, and Lexington Regional Health Center is seeing notable changes. On April 22, Lexi...
Posted: 04/25/13 19:00
A man and woman wanted in connection with a string of robberies in Minnesota and South Dakota will make their next appearance in Dawson County court...
Posted: 04/24/13 14:19
Senator Deb Fischer is becoming a regular at the White House. Over the last two weeks, Fischer has visited the White House twice at the request of Pr...
Posted: 04/19/13 15:00
A $2 million donation to Nebraska's Centennial Mall Campaign has been made by Hebron native Glenn Korff.
Coordinator Susan Rodenburg feels h...
Posted: 04/19/13 12:59
M. Frances Burkhalter of Lexington has been selected as Principal of Lake Minatare Elementary and the Scottsbluff Bear Cub Preschool.
Burkh...
Posted: 04/19/13 12:43
All roads in Wyoming are now open. I-80 has opened in both directions from Laramie to Cheyenne and U.S. 85 is now open in both directions from Torrin...
Posted: 04/18/13 16:00
The Chase County Fair has announced this year's talent for the Fair & Expo Concert Series.
Dove Award Winner Laura Story will perform at the...
Posted: 04/16/13 15:54
(Lincoln, Neb.)- The Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) is reminding citizens to remain vigilant in the wake of the tragic and senseless acts of violence whi...
Posted: 04/16/13 12:45
KIMBALL, Neb. (AP) - The Kimball police chief who'd been put on administrative leave has resigned.
The Scottsbluff Star-Herald says Mark Si...
Posted: 04/15/13 16:24
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Gov. Dave Heineman says his $2.2 million budget request to buy an airplane from the University of Nebraska Foundation is needed t...
Posted: 04/15/13 16:10
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman says state emergency officials should have direct control over airplanes that could be stationed in C...
Posted: 04/11/13 18:06
The City of Kimball has hired Wilson Bowling as its new Economic Development Director/Assistant to the City Administrator.
Bowling joins the ...
Posted: 04/11/13 14:51
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ An effort to boost state-level alcohol enforcement in Nebraska is colliding with budget realities in the Legislature.
S...
