Omaha News

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center led by Billy Hudson, Ph.D., have discovered a new chemical bond in biological tissue, a fundamental discovery that helps explain evolutionary adaptation in the animal kingdom and may shed light on human disease.

Tests by an Idaho scientist concluded the skull was that of a young Asian male. Wagon train members killed in the massacre were from Arkansas.

In this July 17, 2002 file photo, a marker describes the Mountain Meadows burial site which is in the valley, at rear, in Mountain Meadows, Utah.For decades it sat on a shelf in a brown cardboard box, a skull pierced in the back with an apparent bullet hole and linked by a typewritten note to a dark and violent chapter in Mormon church history.

A man suspected of shooting and killing his girlfriend near Omaha made his first court appearance on Friday morning.

A woman from Boone County is dead, and law enforcement officers say the shooter is still on the loose.

A man sought in connection with the shooting death of an Omaha, Ark., woman earlier this week was taken into custody this morning in Galena.

Boone County authorities say they're looking for a man after a woman was fatally shot in her home near the Omaha community north of Harrison, near the southern tip of Table Rock Lake.

For decades it sat on a shelf in a brown cardboard box - a skull pierced in the back with an apparent bullet hole and linked by a typewritten note to a dark and violent chapter in Mormon church history.