Flatwater Free PressAndrew J. Nelson is a longtime Nebraska journalist who worked for more than a decade as a reporter at the Omaha World-Herald after stints at the Lincoln Journal Star and newspapers in Alabama and Mississippi. He now freelances and serves as the Nebraska reporter for Courthouse News Service. He lives in Omaha with his wife and two cats.
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…
OMAHA – Three days before the Russian bombs begin to fall, the lights of the Ukrainian Catholic Church chapel flip on. It’s the start of the Sunday morning…