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This chart depicts an analysis of drought severity in New Mexico. The U.S. Drought Monitor is produced in partnership between the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The organizers of a concert held last summer at Lincoln's Haymarket Park are suing a Lincoln-based minor league baseball team, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and its baseball stadium for fraud and breach of contract.

Jeremy Nathaniel Jackson of Flint was among more than 2,750 students who received degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln at commencement exercises May 3 and 4. Jackson received a master of science degree from the Graduate College.

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Parts of southwest Iowa received 3 to 4.5 inches of rain this morning, sending water running over roadways and prompting a flood advisory in Pottawattamie County.

Grace University , a 70-year-old Christian college in South Omaha, is adding more academic and sports programs in an effort to attract more students.

David Manderscheid will be the executive dean and vice provost of OSU's College of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1, pending approval by the Board of Trustees.

Many Americans worry needlessly about their salt intake because national sodium guidelines are too strict, a Creighton University scientist said Monday.

Climate change already is being felt around the world, and society must figure out how to adapt to the changes already underway and mitigate the severity of future impacts, experts said last week at a global Water for Food Conference at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The fifth annual conference at the University of Nebraska had a theme of "Too ... (more)

How much CEOs are compensated is often a subject of angst in the media and among the public.

The event is scheduled to run from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday at the museum, which is in Morrill Hall on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus.

With $651,908 total compensation, University of Nebraska President J.B. Milliken was the 34th-highest-paid president of a public university during the 2011-12 fiscal year, according to a new national survey.

The clock hits 6:34 a.m. at the Jansen home in northwest Omaha, and five 14-year-olds hustle out the door with backpacks to catch their bus.

Alex Prusa has the next four or five years of his life to play games Morrison Stadium, but he wanted one more night with his high school buddies.

Kirkland, Wash.: Ms. Amy Goings was unanimously chosen as Lake Washington Institute of Technology's ninth president by the college's board of trustees evening at a special board meeting.

This week U.S. Senator Mike Johann's oversees his first hearing as the ranking member of the Senate Appropriates Subcommittee on Financial Services'. Johanns acknowledges the budget's small move toward entitlement reform, but says it is overshadowed by increased spending, added debt, and higher taxes.

A wet spring continues to soak soil across much of the Midwest, causing the prolonged drought to retreat ever so slowly westward.

Dr. Linda Boeckner, director of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Panhandle Research and Extension Center for the past five years, has accepted a new assignment with UNL Extension and the College of Education and Human Sciences starting June 1, 2013.

The Lied Center for Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has announced its 24th season of world-class performing artists.

Continued below-normal-temperatures and a chilly Saturday night mean it's still too cold to plant most annual flowers and warm-season vegetables.