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It started with a weird breakout on his face. So Tommy Dennis, who was 22 years old at the time, had the bumps checked out by an Omaha…
A Nebraska family has plowed more than $1.6 million into the Lincoln mayor’s race, an unprecedented sum that represents the latest burst in a multi-year deluge that, at…
When Khalid Sayood and one of his students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln set out to study concussions, they had an obvious group of people to study: the…
When a gunman entered a west Omaha Super Target in late January, he carried 13 loaded rifle magazines and a weapon that has gained symbolic stature in the…
Less studied than Mari Sandoz; less sentimental than Bess Streeter Aldrich; more playful than Willa Cather and Wright Morris, too; Mignon Good Eberhart landed somewhere beyond Nebraska’s literary canon. Perhaps somewhere behind.
Ed Burchfield knows the crucial role the Strategic Air Command played in the United States’ Cold War victory over the Soviets. The retired Air Force colonel served for…
It came down to Ron Hull. In September, the seven members of the Nebraska Hall of Fame Commission met in Lincoln to decide whether to induct civil rights…
It happened on a late spring Saturday afternoon in Omaha. The cool mid-May breeze caused the fans ringing Westside High School’s modest football field to curl up under…
NorthStar Foundation currently works with over 50 Omaha-area private and public schools to provide after-school and summer programming for over 450 boys, grades 3 through 12. The after-school…
Sen. Justin Wayne introduced and has been the driving force behind a bill that will soon deliver hundreds of millions of dollars to North Omaha and other low-income…