Bruning News

The office of Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning issued negative opinions Monday on eight bills introduced so far during the Legislature's special session intended to cut $334 million from the two-year state budget.

Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning's office acknowledges a 12-year-old girl had sex with a 17-year-old boy placed in foster care in her home last year.

Eight more current and former Dakota County corrections officers sued the northeastern Nebraska county, its sheriff and others Monday, echoing allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination lodged by their colleagues.

Former Papillion Mayor James Blinn and the ex-employee who accused him of sexual harassment have sparked dinnertime debate at the home of Ray and Tonia Aranza, just as they've prompted countless kitchen table conversations in recent weeks.

Nebraska's Attorney General stopped by the Scotts Bluff County Detention Center today for his first visit to the facility since it was completed.

The Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department serves Chase, Dundy, Hayes, Hitchcock, Frontier, Furnas, Perkins and Red Willow counties.

Racheal Cascio - filed a sexual harassment claim against her boss, Papillion's then-Mayor James Blinn.

A $200,000 public payout in a Papillion sexual harassment case was hasty and probably unwarranted, Nebraska's attorney general said Friday.

A Norfolk bank robber and killer could be executed five times, if it were possible.

Mayor David Black of Papillion is addressing taxpayer concerns about a $200,000 payout to a woman who worked for former Mayor James Blinn.

Two top state officials - Auditor Mike Foley and Attorney General Jon Bruning - will investigate the City of Papillion's previously secret, $200,000 settlement with ex-Mayor James Blinn's female assistant.

Bruning says identity theft is happening in Nebraska, adding, "last year, more than a thousand Nebraskans were victims of identity theft according to the Federal Trade Commission.

A Lincoln company will pay the state $175,000 to settle a claim filed over the "valueless services" it gave a young woman with multiple disabilities.

The food drive is a goodwill contest among law firms across the state. Awards will be presented to the winners at the Nebraska Bar Association's annual meeting.

A 49-year-old man already in prison for another crime is has been convicted in the 1977 death of an Ashland woman.

Whether so-called alcopops are beer or hard liquor will likely be up to a judge to decide.

Lotter is on Nebraska's death row in murder of Teena Brandon and two others that inspired the 1999 film ``Boys Don't Cry.'' Jon Bruning says that as Lotter continues to challenge his conviction and fails, the state will fight to keep him on death row.

An anti-abortion group says Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning is investigating allegations of criminal conduct at Dr.

A former Adams County official will not argue that she didn't evade taxes. According to a Nebraska State Patrol investigation, former Adams County Treasurer Julia Moeller, 66, purchased a 2004 Scottsdale motor home in Nebraska and took it to Texas to register and license it.

Anti-abortion protesters pray in silence with the word "Life" taped over their mouths on Saturday.