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39 min ago | Science News

News in Brief: In dark fishing spiders, males' post-mating nap is permanent

View the video Once is apparently enough for male dark fishing spiders. After delivering only half of their available sperm to a single female, males curl up and wait for death.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

4 hrs ago | KLKN

Some Lincoln homeowners have questions about plant

People who live near a lead recycling plant site in Lincoln have questions and suspicions about a recently release contamination report.

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4 hrs ago | US News & World Report

Budget for Unexpected Personal Expenses in College

The cost of college beyond tuition and fees, textbooks and room and board can come as a shock to many parents and students.

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Related Topix: University of North Texas

9 hrs ago | Gretna Breeze

Midlands teaching schools fare poorly in new rankings

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln ranks best in Nebraska for educating new elementary school teachers, according to a controversial new report that sounds an alarm about the quality of the nation's teacher preparation schools.

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Related Topix: Nebraska, Education Etc., University of Iowa, Wayne State College

Tue Jun 18, 2013

The Papillion Times

World-Herald editorial: FURTHERMORE

The Omaha Library Board will discuss the potential closure of library branches and other service cuts Wednesday in response to budget cuts proposed by Mayor Jean Stothert.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Blog News, Opinion

MSNBC

Why is this news? Havent we known this for like 50 years or something?

An eight-legged love tragedy may go something like this: The male spider approaches the female, who is four times his size.

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Related Topix: US News, Liberal Political News

Ralston Recorder

Nebraska, Iowa gas prices continue their fall

The Omaha Library Board will discuss the potential closure of library branches and other service cuts Wednesday in response to budget cuts proposed by Mayor Jean Stothert.

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The Papillion Times

Laurel, Neb., welcomes $20 million ag project

The Omaha Library Board will discuss the potential closure of library branches and other service cuts Wednesday in response to budget cuts proposed by Mayor Jean Stothert.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, US Governors, Dave Heineman

Huntington News

Dr. Christopher Barrick Selected as Chairman of WLU's Department of Music and Theater

Dr. Christopher J. Barrick, West Liberty University music professor, has been selected as the new chairman for the Department of Music and Theater.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Liberty University, Doane College, Crete, NE, University of Tennessee

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Silicon Alley Insider

Climate Change Will Create Dangerously Dry And Dust-Bowl Like Conditions

Drought has beset the Earth since before farming began. In developing nations, it brings suffering and death.

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Related Topix: Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought, Agriculture, Science, US News, United States Department of Agriculture, Global Warming, Texas

Valley News Live

to air Bishop Folda Ordination Live

On April 8, it was announced that Pope Francis appointed Monsignor John Thomas Folda of the Catholic Diocese of Lincoln, Neb., as the eighth Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Fargo.

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Related Topix: Roman Catholic Church, Religion, Lincoln, NE, Omaha, NE, Adams, NE

Covington Reporter

Little Girl - poem by Tami Haaland | Ted Kooser

American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation , publisher ofPoetry magazine.

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Related Topix: Arts, Poetry, Entertainment

Omaha World-Herald

Farm kids can compete to get college NEST egg

Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said "other innocent lives would have been lost" had an Omaha police officer not stopped a shooting suspect Saturday afternoon.

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Related Topix: Family, Kids, University of Nebraska Kearney, Creighton University

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Switched

Sibling Bullying As Detrimental As Peer Bullying, Study Claims

Sibling squabbling is a rite of passage. Brothers and sisters argue; they roughhouse; they steal each other's clothes and toys.

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Related Topix: University of New Hampshire, Family, Kids, Psychology, Science, Nebraska

Omaha World-Herald

Crews stay strong with Nebraskans' support

The front side of a commemorative coin minted for the 20th anniversary of the USS Nebraska depicts the submarine's crest.

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Related Topix: Nebraska, Nebraska Government, Omaha, NE, US Military, US Navy, US News

Sat Jun 15, 2013

KLKN

Nebraska firefighters museum gets new director

The Kearney Hub reports that Kristi Behlmann was recently hired to replace Lindsay Schluntz, who is leaving to take a new job as the executive director of the Alabama Firefighters Museum & Education Center in Shelby County, Ala.

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Fri Jun 14, 2013

The Hastings Tribune

Faces of Business: Kelly Sheets

Kelly Sheets is pictured with a piece of the goalpost he collected from University of Nebraska's 200 consecutive sellout in 1994.

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Related Topix: Hastings, NE

Live Science

Another 1930s Dust Bowl Drought Possible This Century

Drought has beset the Earth since before farming began. In developing nations, it brings suffering and death.

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Related Topix: Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought, Agriculture, Science, US News, United States Department of Agriculture, Global Warming, Texas

Daily Mail

How higher levels of certain hormones can play into your political preferences

Your parents, upbringing and political science classes might not be the only factors playing into your ideology.

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Ralston Recorder

Grace University's moral stance isn't that unusual

The expulsion of a lesbian student by Grace University in Omaha may seem like the latest skirmish in the cultural war over homosexuality.

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Related Topix: Grace University, Creighton University, Human Sexuality