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Now Serving Omaha: Tixteco Mexican Restaurant
OMAHA, Neb. — Family-owned restaurantTixteco has called Omaha home for six years, giving customers an authentic sampling of Mexican cuisine. Celestino "Tino" Bustamante and his wife Eusebia run Tixteco and say they're eager to welcome new customers to try their signature dishes like the popular Molcajete. "It's chicken, pork,...
Man accused in Omaha manslaughter enters plea
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - An Omaha homicide suspect accused in a man’s death last summer has pleaded “no contest.”. Nadim Zarazua-Hernandez, Jr., now 25, pleaded no contest to manslaughter Thursday in Douglas County District Court in the death of 30-year-old Carlos Salguero-Canar. Salguero-Canar was found down at an...
Two suspects caught on video shooting 11 rounds into multiple north Omaha homes
OMAHA, Neb. — An outburst of gunfire that hit a couple of Omaha homes was caught on camera. Omaha police are looking for the people responsible. In the video, an SUV that had a couple people inside can be seen as they pull into a neighborhood just north of 45th Avenue and Fort Street.
Omaha fire crews say Thursday night blaze deemed accidental
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Omaha fire investigators say a house blaze late Thursday night was accidental. OFD tells 6 News crews were called to a home near 63rd and Spaulding Streets around 11:40 p.m. Smoke was showing when crews arrived and a working fire was declared. Everyone inside made it...
Iowa DOT worker is killed in construction zone crash
An Iowa Department of Transportation worker was struck and killed in southwestern Iowa Thursday morning while he was patching a section of Interstate 80. The Iowa State Patrol says 36-year-old Matthew Dickerson, of Neola, died from the accident that happened on I-80 eastbound northeast of Council Bluffs, at around 9:15 a.m.
Technology helping Council Bluffs man who lost fingers gain independence
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (WOWT) - New tools are reshaping possibilities for a Council Bluffs man. Loren Knauss with AmeriServe International spends time working to get Rob Phillips independent once again. “This is their home, we just happen to work with them,” Knauss said. The stuff most of us take...
Motorcyclist Arrested After Narcotics, Gun Found at Crash Scene
LINCOLN–(KFOR May 17)–An update to a story about a motorcycle crash that happened early on May 6 at 70th and Douglas in northeast Lincoln. According to LPD public information manager Erika Thomas, 40-year-old Jeremy Wilcox of Omaha lost control of his northbound motorcycle and ran into a yard of a home, being ejected. Wilcox was taken to the hospital for his injuries and he apparently was confrontational in the ER, where he spit on staff members.
Omaha nonprofits report overall decline in donation rate since COVID
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - With the help of generous donors, Ronald McDonald house charities in Omaha has served families of sick children for years. But since COVID, individual giving has taken a hit. “Group events took a downturn,” said Lindsey Rai Kortan, CEO of Ronald McDonald House Charities Omaha. “The...
Nebraska Medicine unveils new treatment for difficult cancers
OMAHA, Neb. — There's an electric slide happening inside Nebraska Medicine and we're not talking about dance moves. It's a new a wave of procedures involving electric pulsations. They're being used to treat everything from heart disease to cancer. Laurie Yonkers remembers the severe chest pain she was having...
Omaha Police investigating separate robberies Thursday morning
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Omaha Police are investigating a pair of gas station robberies in Midtown that happened just five hours apart Thursday morning. Around 1:20 a.m., officers responded to the Quik Trip on the corner of Saddle Creek Road and Leavenworth Street. A store employee told police that an unknown Black male jumped across the counter and stole cash from the register before leaving in a dark-colored sedan.
Glen Smith of the Farm Credit Administration Board of Directors Weighs in on Interest Rates
(Atlantic) Glen Smith of Atlantic, a of the Farm Credit Administration’s three-member Board of Directors in Washington D.C., spent a couple of days this week at a seminar with the Kansas City Federal Reserve in Omaha. Smith says interest rates were one of the major topics at the table.
Top-two candidate election margins expand in Omaha legislative races
OMAHA — With most early ballots from the Tuesday primary election counted in Nebraska’s largest county, the top two finishers in a tight legislative district race expanded their leads. The Douglas County Election Commission counted more than 8,000 votes Friday morning, widening the leads for first and second finishers in north-central and southeastern legislative districts. […] The post Top-two candidate election margins expand in Omaha legislative races appeared first on Nebraska Examiner.
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