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Scores rose across three grade levels, although comparing this year's fourth-grade scores to 2012 is impossible because of testing changes made by the Nebraska Board of Education.

The Nebraska Legislature advanced a bill Thursday that would make sex trafficking of juveniles a form of child abuse.

Renee Rayls, an infielder out of Menifee Heritage, signed with York College in York, Nebraska.

Barring a last-minute change of heart by opponents, a bill expanding Medicaid to more low-income Nebraskans appears dead for this year.

One of the galleries isn't quite empty: rocks are placed on the edges of the tiles on the floor.

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The Broadway musical tour of "The Addams Family" seeped into the Orpheum Theater on Tuesday night for a weeklong haunt, and it was apparent that about 1,800 people got a kick out of the famed funereal family's antics.

Consumer alert: If you or someone you know needs costly medications and you're hoping President Barack Obama's health care law will meet the need, you may be in for a surprise.

A Brooklyn state senator last week became the 32nd New York state official caught in a corruption case in the past seven years.

It began when Charles Addams drew a simple, single-frame offbeat cartoon back in 1933, the first of dozens published in The New Yorker over five decades.

Chelsea Clinton, who will speak Friday in Omaha, said she may go into politics someday.

Players >> Ted Brown, TB, North Carolina State >> Tedy Bruschi, DE, Arizona >> Ron Dayne, RB, Wisconsin >> Tommie Frazier, QB, Nebraska >> Jerry Gray, DB, Texas >> Steve Meilinger*, E, Kentucky >> Orlando Pace, OT, Ohio State >> Rod Shoate , LB, Oklahoma >> Percy Snow, LB, Michigan State >> Vinny Testaverde, QB, Miami, Fla.

Despite worries about inflation, an economy stuck in slow-growth mode and stifling health care costs, Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger remain optimistic about their company's growth and the nation's future.

The York swimming pool and softball concession stand got a fresh coat of paint Monday night, just in time for summer.

The Nebraska Corn Board says Nebraska farmers will be making a $3 billion investment in the next few weeks as they plant 9.9. million acres of corn.

The embattled Democratic mayor who is fighting for his re-election bid has lost ground in the Democratic bastion that is South Omaha, a traditional battleground district that may decide Suttle's fate in the May 14 election.

When this month's Food Prowl team first assembled to find the best crab cake in Omaha, most of the members were pretty dubious.

DG Tony Hall tells MPs BBC risk team said verbal consent was sufficient from LSE students for controversial Panorama show Tony Hall , the new BBC director general, has admitted it would have been better to get written consent from the students travelling to North Korea with John Sweeney on the trip that provided cover for his controversial Panorama ... (more)