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It was Josh Carse’s big day. He awoke before sunrise on March 19, 2021, and donned his khaki prison uniform, ready to learn if he could leave the…
If Nebraska wants to reduce chronic prison overcrowding, it’s “a no brainer” to let well-behaved prisoners have a shot at earlier parole as a 2011 law intended, says…
In 2011, the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services wrote a bill that would allow well-behaved prisoners the chance to shorten their time behind bars. Eleven years later, that…
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…
When a heart attack killed Oscar Martin Carter in 1928, newspapers marked the millionaire’s passing with pronouncements of his wonder. Finance Wizard. Banker. City Builder. Gold Miner. Inventor.…
Maria Kendall took a break from her job as a cafe manager in 2020 when she decided to do some house hunting on the real estate website Zillow.…
Newly pregnant Omahan Paige Dempsey caught COVID-19 after her older son came home with it in February 2021, before vaccines were widely available. Though she never had to…
For nearly 50 years, fans have loved the burly Husker mascot who wears blue overalls, sports a big red cowboy hat and keeps an ear of corn in…
Seventeen employees of Nebraska’s prison system more than doubled the size of their paychecks during the past fiscal year. How? They made more in overtime payments than they…
Brandy Jordan moved to “itty-bitty” Alvo in August 2020, seizing the chance to buy a white 3-bedroom home with her husband Nathan to raise their two small children.…