Nebraska News

U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, a Massachusetts Republican, will be the featured speaker at the Nebraska GOP state convention in Fremont.

A $900,000 judgment against Omaha's Children's Hospital and Medical Center has been rejected, and a new trial will determine whether the hospital was responsible for a 3-year-old's death.

Community Bank of Lincoln will change its name to Nebraska Bank of Commerce. The bank's new controlling shareholder, Lincoln-based NBC Bancshares LLC, announced the change on Friday, citing the addition of local control of the bank.

The ringleader of killers who gunned down five people at a Norfolk bank eight years ago will remain on death row.

As national attention remains focused on Arizona's immigration enforcement law, opponents of a similarly tough measure passed last month by the local government of a small Nebraska city plan to rally on Saturday in Omaha.

The ringleader of killers who gunned down five people at a Norfolk bank eight years ago will remain on death row.

Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson says he'll vote against confirming Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court justice.

A northeast Nebraska railroad bridge that collapsed during this spring's flooding is being repaired, but it's not clear when it will be ready.

Nebraska's U.S. senators are split on a bill that would create a $30 billion government fund to help open up lending for credit-starved small businesses.

Nebraska has seen its first human cases of West Nile virus this year, and state health officials are urging residents to take steps to avoid the illness.

An arrest warrant has been filed for an unknown man wanted for stealing guns from a Lincoln shop based on just his DNA profile.

The Nebraska Cooperative Council Education Foundation has awarded seven scholarships totaling $6,050 for the 2010/11 academic year to students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture at Curtis, and Chadron State College .

A University of Nebraska-Lincoln organic pasture walk featuring mob grazing and two organic farm tours will be offered in August.

A Cozad man has died after his car struck a parked trailer in Hastings. The Nebraska State Patrol said the accident that killed 21-year-old Raymond Heuck happened around 2 a.m. Thursday.

Bright Eyes, Cursive and other Nebraska music acts will perform at a concert to raise money to fight a law that would ban the hiring of or renting to illegal immigrants in the Nebraska city of Fremont.

Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman wants federal officials to declare agricultural disasters in nine counties.

The Nebraska Department of Economic Development has developed a Spanish language version of its latest brochure on the state's scenic byways.

Authorities in eastern Wyoming have joined the search for a man who fled custody while at a Nebraska hospital.

Lords of Acid bloomed from Europe's burgeoning 80s acid-house scene, combining the crass and the camp, and driven by a break-neck pace.

Nebraska leaders gambled when they set the state budget last year. They bet that state tax revenues would improve enough before the next budget period to cushion the expected loss of federal stimulus money.