Douglas County News

Law enforcement agencies statewide had extra officers out over the Fourth of July weekend.

The Nebraska man who abandoned his nine children last year under the state's Safe Haven law and whose girlfriend is now expecting twins is "clearly troubled" and brings a "black eye" to the state, local lawmakers told FOXNews.com. Gary Staton, 37, became a single father in February 2007 when his wife, RebelJane, died shortly after giving birth to ...

Last fall, more than 17,000 people walked into the Douglas County election office to cast early ballots in the presidential election.

Former Nebraska football player Willie Miller has been sentenced to 18 months of probation for criminal mischief in a road-rage incident.

Toxicology reports said that a Creighton University student died of an overdose of the prescription painkiller OxyContin, but it wasn't immediately clear where Jonathan Colby got the pills.

A motorcyclist was flown to the Nebraska Medical Center in critical condition after colliding with a deer Sunday evening on U.S. Highway 75 north of Omaha, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.

An inmate in a Nebraska prison, convicted as a teenager of strangling an 8-year-old boy in 1973, has asked for execution.

He talked about ineffective attorneys and over-effective antihistamines, missed fishing trips with his children and the prospect of spending the rest of his life in prison.

Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine says 19 year old Courtney Antillon is charged with manslaughter and leaving the scene of a personal injury accident.

More than three years after local actress Pasinetta Fitzgerald was found slain, Omaha police arrested her former fiance.

It happened just after 7:00 pm in the West Shores neighborhood at 251st and Leavenworth.

The killing of a New Hampshire man in an Omaha alley began as a robbery plot but turned to homicide when the victim claimed to be an undercover cop, according to the case pieced together by Omaha police.

Edward Poindexter was seeking a new trial, claiming he wasn't given a fair trial when he was convicted in the 1970 bombing death of an Omaha police officer.

Police records will be unsealed Friday morning, detailing allegations against Mayor Jim Suttle's former co-chief of staff Matt Samp.

A Douglas County District judge ruled Wednesday that there is sufficient evidence for the state to continue their case against her.

A motion before a Douglas County District Judge alleges political corruption and ineffective council for a bad plea deal.

Nebraska followed other states in declaring that the labeling of the swine flu as a pandemic essentially changes nothing for how the state will respond to the flu.

An Omaha man is in jail after police claim he intentionally set fire to a vehicle and then filed an insurance claim for the loss.

A 60-year-old California man was arrested and 13 pounds of crystal methamphetamine confiscated during a traffic stop Wednesday on Interstate 80 in Omaha.

Johnny Ray Schroeder is seen in this security camera photo from First National Bank.