Gage County News

One suspect is arrested after an early morning pursuit of a stolen minivan in Jefferson County.

State troopers chased a stolen minivan Tuesday morning at speeds near 100 mph. A trooper saw the 2008 Kia Sedona minivan speeding east through Harbine just after 2 a.m. The vehicle matched the description of one that fled from Gage County deputies earlier in the morning.

Fans are available to low-income, aged or disabled people and families. The Low Income Energy Assistance Program in the Department of Health and Human Services purchased the fans.

Lancaster Manor supporters rallied for the nursing home Tuesday morning. Then, they moved their fight inside to a public hearing in front of the Lancaster County Board.

Today, emergency preparedness officials in Topeka are practicing how they might respond to the threat of a foreign animal disease.

Gage county Emergency Management Director Mark Meints says two tornadoes briefly touched down Wednesday afternoon.

A tornado was spotted Wednesday afternoon on the ground near Odell, about 20 miles south of Beatrice, but it was hail that caused considerable crop and property damage in the area.

Two escaped Kansas jail inmates who were captured in southeast Nebraska will contest their return.

A missing Nebraska woman's husband has been sentenced to several years in prison on charges that have nothing to do with her disappearance.

When the economy seizes the job of an older American, Experience Works steps in to help.

The husband of a rural southeast Nebraska woman missing since April last year has been given several prison terms in an unrelated case.

Farmers, once desperate for rain, are now praying for recovery from hail damage.

Stormy weather hampered two high visibility enforcement efforts planned over the weekend for Gage and Hall Counties in Nebraska.

State authorities have issued a health alert for Pawnee Lake in Lancaster County and continued the warning for Rockford Lake in Gage County.

Morningside College's seven-year fundraising campaign has come to a prosperous close.

Nebraska State Troopers will conduct a night of high visibility patrols on Saturday, June 6, 2009, in Gage County.

Iowa Governor Chet Culver just finished signing the last of the Legislature's bills into law this week.

More than 150 species of native prairie grasses and flower seeds were recently planted on a 125-acre tract of land south of the historic Osage Orange hedgerow to restore some tallgrass prairie in Gage County.

Six people spent years in prison after confessing to the 1985 murder of Helen Wilson.

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