Bruning News

The Nebraska State Patrol is identifying a 38-year-old semitrailer driver from Manitoba, Canada, as the person killed in a three-vehicle crash on a southeast Nebraska highway.

The Nebraska State Patrol said the driver of a semi was killed in a three-vehicle crash a quarter mile south of Bruning at the junction of Highway 4 and 81.

A south-central Nebraska man accused of trying to entice what he believed were underage girls has pleaded no contest to a felony online enticement charge.

Nebraska should not be deterred by a recently botched execution in Ohio and ought to move forward with a proposed three-drug protocol to carry out executions by lethal injection, State Attorney General Jon Bruning said Monday.

Sarpy County Attorney Lee Polikov said Wednesday that he might have probable cause to bring misdemeanor charges of official misconduct against two Papillion firefighters punished in a cheating scandal.

A 68-year-old man convicted of killing an Omaha bartender more than four decades ago will soon be freed from prison after the Nebraska Board of Pardons commuted his life sentence - a first for the board in nearly 20 years.

Excluding bills introduced on behalf of Governor Dave Heineman, nine of the twelve bills introduced by lawmakers have been deemed clearly or likely outside the session limits that were set by Heineman.

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.