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Animal experts educate community on dog bite prevention
The Nebraska Humane Society responds to hundreds of dog bite calls throughout Douglas and Sarpy counties. Experts said education is the key to prevention, which is why this week is Dog Bite Prevention ...
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VSL Rays righty Yepez suspended for 50 games
Minor League suspensions in 2013 Rays Minor League right-hander Angel Yepez was suspended for 50 games on Wednesday after testing positive for a banned anabolic steroid. The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball said Yepez, who plays for the Rays' Rooke-level affiliate in Venezuela, has received a 50-game suspension without pay after testing positive for metabolites of Nandrolone, a ...
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Rivers Edge Park lights up night sky
When the sun goes down at River's Edge Park, a $500,000 interactive light show with 16 pattern projectors and four robotics figures will light up every square inch of the ...
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Abortion clinic nurse under fire
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning says the only nurse at Dr. LeRoy Carhart's abortion clinic in Bellevue should lose her license because of substandard care ...
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Charitable holiday hopes to change lives
-- Follow updates from charities from around the community on Live Wire Habitat for Humanity is one organization hoping donations can help themaccomplish their mission. Wednesday crewsdemolished adeteriorating home near 24th and Emmett streets to make way for a new habitat home. "It's an opportunity for us to renew the community by getting rid of blighted structures, blighted houses ...
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Komodo dragon on display at Omaha zoo
Komodo dragons are native to a handful of small islands in Indonesia. They are listed as vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List due to overhunting of red deer, their main source of ...
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Moore mayor 5 of 6 missing found alive
"We'll try to get it passed as soon as I can," Glenn Lewis said. The ordinance would apply to single-family and multifamily homes. At least 24 people, including 10 children, were killed in Monday's mammoth tornado, the state medical examiner's office said. Another 324 people were injured, said Gov. Mary Fallin. Lewis said Wednesday that six people previously unaccounted ...
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Lincoln comfort dog headed to Oklahoma
A Lincoln "comfort" dog that has been to several national tragedy sites this year is now in Oklahoma to help victims cope with the devastation caused by a massive ...
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Gage County officials seek $5.6 M road bond issue
If passed, the bond would add a maximum of three cents per $100 of valuation to the county's tax levy to be paid back over 10 years. That would add about $30 to the property tax bill for a house valued at ...
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Obama to visit Oklahoma on Sunday
President Barack Obama will travel to tornado-ravaged Oklahoma on Sunday, the White House announced. At least 24 were killed in the mammoth ...
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Central Nebraska woman killed in crash
Latest Headlines President Barack Obama will travel to tornado-ravaged Oklahoma on Sunday, the White House announced. At least 24 were killed in the mammoth ...
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Neb. AG wants to revoke license of abortion nurse
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning says the only nurse at Dr. LeRoy Carhart's abortion clinic in Bellevue should lose her license because of substandard care ...
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Basements scarce in tornado-prone Okla. city
It's one of the most familiar pieces of advice from authorities to people in the path of a tornado: Get into your basement. Yet few homes in the Oklahoma City area have them -- even though that state is hit by far more powerful tornadoes than most ...
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Dog shot during home invasion undergoes surgery
Police were called to a home near 30th and King streets for a report of a robbery in progress on May 16. The couple at the home said that two men forced their way into the home and one man shot 9-month-old Rex -- a Husky/Akita ...
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Search teams report finding evidence in abduction case
--Wednesday: Search expanded around Dayton Authorities planned to regroup Wednesday morning for a larger scale search beyond the 20 mile radius of town searched Tuesday. Crews have been concentrating on three areas: Southeast Webster Grand Elementary school, a hog confinement near Pilot Mound and an area near rural Dayton where Klunder was found dead. Authorities are not asking for additional ...
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Some tornado victims identified by medical examiners office
Staff worked throughout the night and Tuesday in coordination with state and federal agencies to identify victims and document injuries. Of the 24 confirmed fatalities, all but one adult has been positively identified and are ready to be returned to their ...
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Lincoln art-filled plaza wont be seen until 2014
The city had hoped the 18,000-square-foot, $2.6 million plaza would be done this year. The plaza will include Japanese sand gardens, a 57-foot-tall, lighted, multicolor column by artist Jun Kaneko and other artwork ...
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Yankees Refsnyder feeling rejuvenated
wanted to get off to a good start with the New York Yankees organization. His body and mind weren't quite willing, though. "After the College World Series, where every pitch is so important, I was dog tired," Refsnyder said. "I was emotionally and physically drained." But after a slow start, he began swinging the bat last August with Class A Charleston like he always ...
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Royals Smith is polished but still learning
Kyle Smith isn't satisfied just yet. The 20-year-old has gotten off to a good start in his first Carolina League season, but he wants to gain more knowledge and improve as a pitcher. Smith is 2-1 with a 2.36 ERA in eight starts with the Class A Advanced Blue Rocks. He's been one of the league's most consistent starters, already earning Pitcher of the Week honors last month. And ...
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Angels Sappington sees star rise with 66ers
and the organization's reigning Minor League Pitcher of the Month. The 22-year-old right-hander has started the season with a 5-0 record and 2.05 ERA for the Inland Empire 66ers, who have won all nine games Sappington has started. "I'm doing what I need to be successful," said Sappington, adding, "I almost played football instead of baseball in college." A native ...
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UNMC shows off its new eye institute in Omaha
The institute houses research facilities, offers treatments for macular degeneration, glaucoma and other degenerative eye diseases, and provides eye ...
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Moore mayor New law needed
The tornado that struck the Moore, Okla., area Monday afternoon left an almost 2-mile wide path of destruction, flattening homes and businesses and taking at least 24 ...
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Nebraska Republicans name new executive director
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- An experienced fundraiser and former executive director of two nonprofit Nebraska foundations has been named the new executive director of the Nebraska Republican ...
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Neb. man sentenced for wrong-way exit while drunk
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- A 38-year-old Lincoln man who was drunk when he drove the wrong way down an Interstate 180 exit ramp has been sentenced to up to five years in prison for his third ...
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Search for survivors winds down in Oklahoma
No survivors or bodies have been found in Moore since Monday, the day a mammoth tornado ripped through 17 miles of central Oklahoma and pummeled 2,400 ...
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Nebraska residents wary of crude oil pipeline
The Keystone pipeline is highly controversial because it has the potential to provide major benefits to the US and Nebraskan economy, while also posing as a potentially devastating risk, while state leaders recently conceded they have little say in whether it is built in the state.
The Keystone pipeline is a massive 2,100 mile long crude oil pipeline that has been under construction for several years and is intended to transport crude oil from Alberta, Canada to Illinois and Oklahoma, as well as the Gulf Coast. It will pass through the state of Nebraska as part of a 291-mile expansion to provide Cushing in Oklahoma with crude oil. Cushing is a major regional oil hub. Read more
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