Authorities say a 6-year-old girl was burned when she fell into a fire pit at a pumpkin farm and event center south of Lincoln.

A former teacher accused of stealing from a show choir he directed in south-central Nebraska has taken a plea deal.

Officials say nearly three dozen Nebraska National Guardsmen helped search the Lincoln Correctional Center for contraband.

Iowa authorities have recovered the body of a missing kayaker from Nebraska.

Nebraska lawmakers who want to lower property taxes and replenish the state's rainy-day fund could have a slightly easier time accomplishing those goals next year, but many are still worried about the impact of major...

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission is inviting people to do some early Christmas shopping at Mahoney State Park near Ashland.

Police say a motorcyclist has died following a collision with a car in north-central Omaha.

Police say a woman has died after being hit by a car in south Lincoln, which then fled the scene.

Police say a man crossing a south-central Omaha street at a marked crosswalk has died after being hit by a car that ran a red light.

Nebraska game and wildlife officials are offering tips to motorists to avoid collisions with deer this fall.

The University of Nebraska Medical Center's College of Dentistry has announced the opening of a renovated dental clinic in Omaha.

Omaha police are investigating what caused two officers in the city's Northwest Precinct to collapse within minutes of each other.

A flood-damaged highway that connects northwest Missouri to Nebraska has reopened after undergoing months of repairs.

The Nebraska State Patrol says a man whose vehicle had run out of fuel was struck and killed by a semitrailer as he walked down an Interstate 80 lane in western Nebraska.

Officials say Nebraska's unemployment was 3.1% in September, matching the August and July figures.

The lethal injection protocol that was used to execute a Nebraska prisoner last year has survived a legal challenge from death penalty opponents who had hoped to overturn it to prevent the state from carrying out capital...

A driver accused of fatally injuring a 10-year-old girl in a suburban Omaha crosswalk has surrendered.

A warrant has been issued for a California man involved in a construction zone crash in Nebraska that killed three people.

Federal officials in California have indicted a Colorado woman who is suspected of trying to sell three human fetuses and a fetal skeleton online.

Many farmers in the Midwest and South whose planting this year was besieged by wet weather are getting a reprieve, though a few Northern states have seen their harvest prospects go from bad to worse.

The latest survey of bankers in rural parts of 10 Plains and Western states showed an improved rural economy this month, but the ongoing trade disputes continue weighing on the economy.

Officials say Nebraska's average composite ACT score dropped for the 2019 graduating class but is among the highest of the 15 states that test almost all students.

Two people are accused of setting a fire on Christmas Day 2017 in the basement of an Omaha home as part of an insurance scam.

Authorities say at least one person has been killed and another injured in a Buffalo County collision.

The U.S. Census Bureau has opened its Nebraska office in Lincoln as it prepares for the 2020 count.

A federal judge in Lincoln has sentenced a former Santee Community Schools superintendent and Iowa resident to two years in prison for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funds.

A Bellevue day care worker has been arrested after being accused of injuring a 2-year-old child in her care.

Authorities say a man's been rescued after being trapped in a Lincoln storm drain for at least 24 hours.

Proposals under consideration in an Omaha suburb could lead to the ouster of elected officials who leak information from meetings not open to the public.

Voters have recalled two northeast Nebraska county commissioners who were elected less than a year ago.

A Lincoln middle school science and English teacher has earned a Milken Educator Award, which carries a $25,000 cash prize.

Nebraska state government collected more tax revenue than expected in September.

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Business, education and government leaders have announced a new effort to produce and recruit more tech workers for Nebraska.

The local debut of a movie shot in North Platte is scheduled for Friday night.

Court records say a man charged with breaking into the Islamic Center of Lawrence and stealing donations boxes was in possession of almost $1,200 in cash when he was arrested in a Kansas City suburb several days later.

Omaha's mayor says she supports a proposal to expand a tobacco tax to including vaping.

The University of Nebraska has hired its former president as a consultant for $250,000 a year to help raise money to build a new $155 million football and operations complex.

The death of a 32-year-old Douglas County jail inmate is being investigated to determine why she died.

Youths 15 and younger are encouraged to participate in the statewide youth pheasant, quail and partridge season on Oct. 19-20.

People who want to help preserve monarch butterflies can obtain free milkweed seed pods through the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.

Nebraska lawmakers who pledged to lower property taxes are getting ready to try again with a proposal that would boost state aid for K-12 public schools while restricting the districts' taxing power.

A jury has found a trucking company to be negligent in a deadly 2017 highway collision and awarded $40.5 million in damages to the family of a Deming woman who died in the wreck.

Nebraska State Fair officials are blaming heavy rains for a drop in attendance and revenue at this summer's fair.

Police say an Omaha man has died in a late-night crash.

State transportation officials have announced the opening of a bridge near the northeast Nebraska town of Pender that had been significantly damaged in historic spring flooding.

Authorities in western Nebraska say a Scottsbluff man has died in a crash on an icy highway near the border of Dawes County and Sheridan County.

The Nebraska State Patrol says a trooper found nearly 70 pounds (31.75 kilograms) of marijuana inside gift-wrapped boxes in a vehicle.

Authorities in western Nebraska say a Scottsbluff man has died in a crash on an icy highway near the border of Dawes County and Sheridan County.

Authorities say a man died after a vehicle rolled onto him in the central Nebraska community of Ord.

Some people forced from their homes by Missouri River floodwaters will be leaving their refuge at an Iowa state park.

Omaha-based Scooter's Coffee is buying a local competitor, Crane Coffee.

A state prisoner reported missing from a community facility in Lincoln has been found in an Omaha suburb.

State officials say Nebraska's tax commissioner was not involved in the decision to approve up to $200 million in tax incentives for a mining company in which he is a shareholder.

A Papillion city councilman has been cited for suspicion of negligent child abuse after being accused of leaving bruises on his girlfriend's 5-year-old son.

A 15-year-old southeastern Nebraska boy has been arrested after being accused of making a school threat last month that school officials didn't initially report to authorities.

A powerful winter-like storm moving through the Great Plains is closing schools and causing travel headaches in multiple states.

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A former financial controller of an Omaha business has been given a year and a day in prison for not paying federal withholding taxes.

Across a vast expanse of the South spanning from Texas to Maryland, there are growing concerns for the cattle, cotton and corn amid a worsening drought that has been fueled this past summer by record hot temperatures.

Court records show the shooting deaths last month of an Offutt Air Force Base airman and his wife are being investigated as a murder-suicide.

Two tribal leaders have resigned from a Montana task force in protest of the state attorney general's support of a proposed oil pipeline from Canada.

A fall snowstorm is snarling traffic and causing power outages in the Rocky Mountains as it slowly moves across the northern U.S. toward the Great Plains.

A Montana judge must decide whether to once again block the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline or side with the U.S. government attorneys who want him to uphold President Donald Trump's permit to cross the U.S.-Canada...

Police have released the name of a man who was fatally shot by a uniformed railroad officer after the man rammed his truck into a Nebraska restaurant.

The state attorney general's office has filed two more misdemeanor charges against the top prosecutor in central Nebraska's Custer County.