Beatrice News

Security First Bank on Friday announced its successful merger with First National Beatrice Bank and Trust, which operates branch banks in Beatrice, Blue Springs, Clatonia, Cortland and Lincoln.

With a fresh coat of paint on the walls, the Beatrice Head Start program is off and running for the year with several new staff members and a third class session.

Beatrice Public Schools Board of Education President Dave Niedfeldt announced Tuesday that he has removed himself from this year's school board election.

Employees of Irwin Tools -- the maker of Vise-Grip -- got the official news Wednesday morning that the plant will close at the end of October.

Local electric customers are looking at a 5 percent rate increase next year as Nebraska Public Power District passes a 7 percent rate increase for purchased power.

A midway worker prepares a ride for the next group of revelers as dusk deepens and the rides begin to pulse with lights one evening at the Nebraska State Fair.

Austin Zimmerman of rural Beatrice stepped into the show ring for the first time when he was 2. Now 18, Zimmerman has had more than his fair share of experience of showing animals - and it shows.

The Nebraska Attorney General's office wants more DNA testing to be done on evidence in a 1985 Beatrice murder to determine whether two men in prison for the crime are innocent.

Pat Timm learned the value of giving back to her community early in life. "I grew up with a lot of influence in my life toward giving back to the community.

Beatrice native and former Nebraska Lieutenant Governor Dave Maurstad will leave his job as assistant administrator for mitigation and administrator of the National Flood Insurance Program next month.

Gage for Obama is hosting a Democratic National Convention party Thursday, Aug. 28, at Risky's Sports Bar & Grill in Beatrice.

Board of Public Works employees started work last week to replace 12- and 16-inch water mains at Fourth and Grant streets, said BPW Water Superintendent Steve Kelley.

BEATRICE, Neb. - Staffing difficulties were the focus of a second day of hearings today berfore a special legislative committee that's looking into continuing problems at the Beatrice State Developmental ...

Parents, guardians and former Beatrice State Development Center residents took their turn Thursday in Lincoln to testify before a special legislative committee investigating BSDC, but on Friday, testimony was ...

The Beatrice High School kitchen was buzzing Thursday afternoon as 15 volunteers sorted and bagged food for the start of the Beatrice Public Schools Food Bank Backpack Program.

Traffic was congested in downtown Beatrice Wednesday as the west southbound lane of Sixth Street between Ella and Court streets was blocked off while the old Hotel Paddock awning was taken down.

Donny Valenti had been kicked out of three group homes and arrested more than once on minor charges before he went to live at the Beatrice State Developmental Center.

Tires, tires and more tires. Two years after more than 300 tons of tires were collected during the last tire amnesty in Gage County, the county may be on its way to another 300 tons.

Sandra Ham panicked earlier this year when she heard that the U.S. Department of Justice found abuse and neglect at the Beatrice State Developmental Center, where her 23-year-old son has lived for six years.

Residential customers in Beatrice could pay an additional $3 a month for water and sewer under a proposed 9 percent rate increase for next fiscal year.