Murdock News

The head of the Douglas County Crime Lab is on paid administrative leave while the lab, Nebraska State Patrol and Cass County Sheriff's Department are being sued in connection with how a murder investigation ...

The commander of Douglas County's crime scene investigations has been put on paid suspension as authorities try to determine how he found a microscopic amount of a murder victim's blood in a car that had no ...

American Legion Baseball results: Monday SENIORS Elmwood-Murdock 5, Ashland-Greenwood 4: Facing a bases loaded, no-out jam in the top of the seventh, David Hvorka struck out the side to preserve the win for ...

“We have increased our business 15 to 20 percent since we got the permits”

ELMWOOD, Neb. - One of Nebraska's oldest dry towns will decide whether it's time to rewrite history. via Omaha World-Herald

In Murdock, Neb., a small village south of Omaha, Argonne planted more than 2,000 trees in 2005. via WebWire

“The community looked at it and said, 'We've done our homework, and we've done our research, and we've done what's best for the long-term health of the community,'”

Local taxes are going up in some parts of Nebraska, thanks to voters who decided the projects they'll be paying for are worth the money. via The Topeka Capital-Journal

Matt Livers, who was released from jail after spending seven months locked up for a double murder, has filed a lawsuit. via Action 3 News

“Therefore . . . blood from the crime scene was planted in the Will Sampson automobile by one or more persons whose identity is not now known to (us).”

A former Nebraska man filed suit Tuesday against Cass County and investigators after he spent more than seven months in jail before being exonerated in the April 2006 slayings of his uncle and aunt in their ... via Omaha World-Herald

Solid shooting helped Elmwood-Murdock win its first Class C-2 boys basketball championship. via Omaha World-Herald

“They left my parents lying on the floor in their bedroom for me to find the next day”

People on both sides of a measure that would allow young murderers to be released from prison made emotional pleas to lawmakers Wednesday inside a hearing room that included relatives of people brutally ... via Beatrice Daily Sun

A lawmaker who wants to end Nebraska's practice of putting away teenage murderers for life preached a message of hope and second chances Wednesday. via The Papillion Times

“Schools are cancelled due to the large amount of UV rays that could harm our kids.”

Several area schools were closed and events canceled on Wednesday due to low wind chills. via Lincoln Journal Star

“How can you have this wide a disparity? That's a concern of the Supreme Court right now.”

Steve Walker posed the question moments after an Omaha man was sentenced for killing Walker's loved ones, Terry Jasper and Diane Caveye. via Omaha World-Herald

“Two innocent people were callously murdered in the solitude and sanctity of their own home”

The life sentences given to the Wisconsin pair convicted of breaking into a farmhouse near Murdock and shooting two people to death in 2006 were upheld Friday by the Nebraska Supreme Court. via Lincoln Journal Star

“Without provocation or justification, two innocent people were callously murdered in the solitude and sanctity of their own home”

The Nebraska Supreme Court today rejected the appeals of two convicted killers from Wisconsin who argued that their life prison sentences were excessive for killing a rural Cass County farm couple in 2006. via Omaha World-Herald

Many area schools and some businesses are closed today due to the winter storm. Stay with us for continual updates. via Lincoln Journal Star

“Any day when you do math is a good day”

Walking four wide and five deep, over 1400 high school students took over the University of Nebraska City Campus on Thursday. via News Net Nebraska

“He pleaded guilty because in large part his co-defendant (Reid) implicated him”

One attorney argued Friday that a Wisconsin teen's life sentences were excessive in the murders of a rural Murdock couple, while another said the death penalty would have been justified. via Lincoln Journal Star

The Wisconsin pair who were convicted of breaking into a farmhouse near Murdock and shooting two people to death in 2006 both claim the life sentences they received were excessive. via KOLN-TV Lincoln

“Appellant's culpability with respect to the Stock murders was significantly less than that of her co-defendant Gregory Fester”

The Wisconsin pair convicted of breaking into a farmhouse near Murdock and shooting two people to death in 2006 both claim the life sentences they received were excessive. via WOWT-TV Omaha