1 dead, 2 critically hurt after crash with semi-truck in Otoe County

NORFOLK, Neb.-As travelers hit the road to mark the start of summer, troopers will be working to keep Nebraska roads safe during Memorial Day weekend. In northeast Nebraska, troopers will be teaming up with local law enforcement to patrol several major highways. The efforts include operations in Norfolk, Columbus, South Sioux City, Schuyler, and other areas from May 27 through May 31.

LINCOLN, Neb.-Police in Lincoln say a 15-year-old has been arrested after another teen was shot. Police said on Wednesday at around 7:30 p.m., a 17-year-old male arrived at a Lincoln hospital with a grazing gunshot wound to his left side. Further investigation revealed the teen and some friends had met...

LINCOLN, Neb.-Police have identified the two victims of a fatal shooting in Lincoln early Sunday morning. The shooting happened at around 2:20 a.m. Officers responded to the area of 30th and P Streets after a man called 911 to report that he had been shot. Officers arrived and found two...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man was sentenced to 70 years to life in prison Wednesday for the shooting death of a police officer in 2020. Felipe Vazquez, now 19, shot Officer Mario Herrera when he tried to escape from police who were serving an arrest warrant for him at his Lincoln home. Vazquez was wanted in the stabbing death of 36-year-old Edward Varejcka months earlier.

BLAIR, Neb.-A recent graduate of Fremont High School was seriously injured in a Sunday morning car accident and will not recover from her injuries, according to school officials. According to the Washington County Sheriff's Office, the crash happened early Sunday morning just southwest of Blair on Highway 30. A preliminary...

LINCOLN, Neb.-A dozen Nebraska State Troopers have been recognized for their efforts to keep Nebraska roads safe through impaired driving enforcement and education. Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) presented Hero Awards to the 12 troopers, as well as officers, deputies, and advocates from several other agencies and organizations around the state. The annual MADD Heroes Award ceremony was held Tuesday at Wilderness Ridge in Lincoln. MADD honors law enforcement and public safety advocates for their work to keep drunk or drugged drivers off Nebraska roadways.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A man with a long history of mental illness when he killed the grandfather of two Nebraska football players more than two decades ago has died in prison. The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services says in a news release that Russell Harms died in the...

GEARY COUNTY - The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) is investigating an officer-involved shooting that occurred Saturday night in Junction City, according to a media release from the agency. Preliminary information indicates that at approximately 5:15 p.m. on Saturday, a female subject called 911 to report that a man was...

On Memorial Day, we honor men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in military service to our nation. Time and again throughout our Republic’s history, courageous Americans have ventured into harm’s way to protect the freedoms we hold dear. The liberties we enjoy wouldn’t be possible without their heroism.

Communities across the five state DEA Omaha Division, which includes Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota, demonstrated their support for DEA’s annual National Prescription Drug Take Back Day by dropping off 18,729 pounds of unneeded medications at 176 collection sites on April 30. Nationally, DEA collected more than 720,000 pounds of medications at 5,144 collection sites. Since 2010, DEA, along with its law enforcement partners, has collected nearly 16 million pounds of unneeded prescription medications.

OMAHA — The first court hearing in the legal action between State Sen. Julie Slama and businessman Charles Herbster is now scheduled for 2 p.m. on June 14. The hearing, originally set for June 3, also has been moved from Tecumseh to Beatrice, home base of Johnson County District Court Judge Ricky Schreiner.

An Omaha-based construction company is responding to recent cost inflation by putting something extra in employee wallets, in time for the holiday weekend. Hawkins Construction, a regional contractor that employs about 400 people, has created an “inflation protection fund” and plans to disburse up to $2,000 to each hourly worker this year. CEO and president Chris Hawkins is visiting job sites Wednesday to pass out the first round of $1,000 checks.

North Platte Catholic Schools –St. Pat’s will implement a girls’ golf program for the 2022-2023 school year. Kristine Gale will be the head coach for the Lady Irish. Gale is a graduate of Lincoln Southeast High School in Lincoln, Nebraska where she was a 3- year letter winner on the varsity girls’ golf team, winner of 2- Class A State Championships and an individual State tournament medalist.

News Release University of Nebraska Medical Center. Effective Monday, May 23, masks must be worn in all areas on the UNMC campus. UNMC is updating its masking guidance due to a rise in COVID-19 transmission across the state and a sharp increase in the positivity rate for UNMC asymptomatic saliva PCR tests done on the med center campus.

A total of 129 students qualified for the President’s List during the 2022 spring semester at Mid-Plains Community College. To make the list, each student had to complete 12 or more applicable credit hours in college-level courses and maintain a grade point average (GPA) of 3.9 or greater on a 4.0 scale. The qualifiers were:

Four Nebraska track and field women qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships with their performances at the NCAA West Preliminary Round on Thursday, giving the Huskers a combined seven qualifiers at the midway point of the four-day meet. Freshman thrower Axelina Johansson is on her way to the NCAA Outdoor...

Nebraska forward Lat Mayen has signed a professional basketball contract in his native Australia and will forego his final season of college eligibility. Mayen, a native of Adelaide, Australia, had one year of eligibility remaining because of the COVID-19 eligibility freeze during the 2020-21 season. The 6-foot-9, 217-pound forward started 57 games for the Huskers over the last two seasons after transferring from Chipola (Fla.) College, averaging 7.2 points and 4.1 rebounds per game in that span.