Lexington News

If Norman Rockwell had carried an iPod and posted on Twitter, he probably would have liked living in the Nebraska town of Gothenburg.

A food drive conducted by Lexington Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts and Heartland Chiropractic matched by Plum Creek Market Place collected nearly 5,500 items for the Lexington Food Pantry.

The Nebraska Department of Economic Development has awarded $73,500 in Community Development Block Grant funding to Lexington, Plattsmouth and Scribner to complete the Phase I portion of downtown revitalization projects.

Lexington Boy Scout Troop 88 will conduct a flag retirement ceremony on Sunday, November 8 at Heartland Museum of Military Vehicles starting at 3:30 p.m. The ceremony, which is open to the public, will take place on the south side of the museum facility, located near the Lexington I-80 interchange.

Troop 88 Boy Scouts took part in a flag ceremony on Saturday to dedicate a new 25-foot flag pole at Shackley Retirement Village in Lexington.

Friday B: Alliance at Aurora has been postponed to Saturday, October 31st at 4:00 p.m. CT.

First the judge excoriated the former high school teacher for violating a 14-year-old student's trust and sexually assaulting her.

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In a separate case, Bates was sentenced to 20 to 60 months on a charge of making terroristic threats against a Cozad woman, both charges are class 4 felonies.

All rail lines are open at the site where an eastbound Union Pacific coal train derailed in central Nebraska.

Thirty-nine coal cars tipped over early Saturday morning in Dawson County. Union Pacific officials reported that the derailment occurred at 12:13 a.m. between Lexington and Overton.

A Lexington man facing attempted murder and sexual assault charges has had his next court appearance continued to next Monday.

Chuck Gildersleeve was more than a geography professor. He was the kind of teacher that students don't forget.

William Feller III was arraigned Tuesday in Dawson County Court. He's charged with attempted first-degree murder and with strangulation, false imprisonment and sexual assault.

A Lexington man was arraigned Tuesday in Dawson County Court on a charge of attempted 1st degree murder and assault charges for an altercation Sunday afternoon at a rural residence that sent a woman to Tri-County Hospital.

Japan has suspended beef shipments from an American meatpacking plant after officials say they discovered cattle parts banned under an agreement to prevent the spread of mad cow disease.

Health ministry officials were trying over the weekend to locate hundreds of boxes of U.S. beef from Nebraska following the discovery of bovine spinal columns in a recent shipment.

Japan has suspended beef shipments from an American meatpacking plant after finding cattle parts banned under an agreement to prevent the spread of mad cow disease, the agriculture ministry said Saturday.

CENTRAL CITY, Neb., - As Bill Pullen tells the story, his original decision to buy Kenworth trucks was automatic.

A Holdrege woman charged with being an accessory in the murder of 49 year old Rodney Marshall of Lexington has had her Dawson County District Court trial set for next month.