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Police respond to bad crash in Northwest Omaha overnight
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Metro authorities began Wednesday investigating what led to a nasty looking crash. Douglas County officials confirmed it happened around 11:00 p.m. Tuesday in the area of 78th Street and Crown Point Avenue. Images and video from a 6 On Your Side photographer on scene show a...
Omaha Police investigating overnight homicide
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Omaha Police are investigating after an early-morning stabbing left a 17-year-old dead. OPD tells 6 News officers were called to the area of 53rd and Spaulding Streets shortly after 3 a.m. for a “medical nature unknown” call. Before officers arrived, they were told a person had been stabbed and was being taken to Nebraska Medicine by private vehicle. Once on the scene, officers spoke to witnesses who said the suspect was still on scene. She was taken into custody without incident and taken to OPD headquarters for questioning.
'She saved my life': Family, friends remember 17-year-old Omaha stabbing victim
OMAHA, Neb. — During a 12-minute-long interview, Angela Cunningham didn't put down the photo of her daughter once. That way, it was always in view of the television camera. Her 17-year-old daughter Ezra Sinkiawic was stabbed and killed early Sunday, Mother's Day. "She was just an amazing child," the...
'Start the process of closure': Xavier Bass' family relieved after suspect named in 2017 Omaha murder
OMAHA, Neb. — Back in November 2017, a crowd gathered to remember Xavier Bass after he was killed. "That's just her main question," Bass' uncle Andre McGraw said of Bass' mom. "Wanting to know why. What happened? What was the reason? Just to free her from that thought of why."
Teen arrested in 2023 theft at vintage clothing store in downtown Lincoln
LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – An Omaha teen was arrested Monday in a burglary at a downtown Lincoln clothing store last year. Around 6:30 a.m. on Aug. 18, 2023, officers received a report of a break-in at Exclusive Hype near 16th and O streets. The store was in “disarray,” and...
Police investigating after body retrieved from Missouri River north of Omaha
FLORENCE, Neb. (WOWT) - Authorities are investigating after a body was recovered from the Missouri River a few miles north of the Mormon Bridge on Interstate 680. Police were called to an area near the Surfside Club at about 6:30 p.m. According to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, the body...
Omaha Police arrest ‘several’ after pursuit ends near Benson High School
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Omaha Police said suspects in a stolen car led officers on a pursuit from one high school to another on Tuesday afternoon. Omaha Police confirmed to 6 News that officers, along with OPD’s Able-1 helicopter, began trailing a vehicle near Omaha Northwest High School around 3 p.m. Tuesday afternoon. They believed the vehicle to have been stolen.
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