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Mujtaba Karimi crowded with hundreds of others outside a half-open gate to Hamid Karzai International Airport one night last August. Afghan or maybe American soldiers fired their rifles…
University of Nebraska volleyball coach John Cook entered the 2009 season having won 281 of his first 300 games – a ridiculous .937 winning percentage. He had already…
This story is a collaboration between the Flatwater Free Press and Nebraska Public Media. Flatwater Free Press · Nebraska’s Juvenile Detention Education The half hour before class is…
Six-year-old Elijah Wastell, of Omaha, started feeling anxious last fall. It came hard for the kindergartener at bedtime. His parents tried breathing exercise.They attempted to build up his…
When the pediatrician recommended Lisa Pascoe have her then-toddler tested for lead poisoning, she thought there was no way he could be at risk. Everything in her South…
In early April, a Lincoln woman noticed something puzzling – yellow and blue striped signs planted in yards, printed with three words: Thank you, Matthew. So she looked…
Rain was pouring down, and his roof leaked. Dr. Josef Roeder, a German archeologist, needed to find a dry place to work.A nearby palace hadn’t suffered too much…
It wasn’t until Vida Stabler was a teenager in the 1970s that she came face to face with her own people, the Umonhon, represented in artwork. She walked…
Below is a letter I sent to our donors earlier this week. Occasionally, we like to give them a peek at the story behind the story. In this…
The Flatwater Free Press analyzed data provided by the Nebraska Board of Parole in response to a public records request. The data shows parole board members’ individual votes…