Saunders County News

A 32-year-old murder case ends with the suspect being sentenced Tuesday morning to life in prison.

Sandra Wade knows herself well enough to know that she doesn't like being without something to do.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission says a program for mentored youth hunts has additional acres available.

This video features the intrepid duo, Dana Beal and arch 'Pieman' Aron Kay, up against the forces of evil.

Marijuana activist Dana Beal, founder of Cures Not Wars .org website, and organizer of the annual Global Marijuana March , was busted on Wednesday night, with two other men in a van containing 150 pounds of marijuana.

The final chapter of a story that began more than three decades ago has been written, ending speculation about what happened here to an elderly widow one cold winter night.

The Ashland Police Department says they seized approximately 150 pounds of marijuana late Wednesday night.

Police officers in Ashland, Neb., seized 150 pounds of marijuana during a traffic stop Wednesday night on Highway 6. The seizure was the largest in Saunders County history, said Ashland police.

A Wahoo man is dead after a serious accident with a garbage truck south of Yutan Wednesday morning.

Authorities have released the name of a 25-year-old Wahoo man who was killed in a collision this morning near Yutan.

A jailhouse confession helped close the case on one of Nebraska coldest cases -- a slaying that happened in 1977.

Attorney General Jon Bruning announced Friday that Jeffrey Glazebrook, 49, was convicted of first-degree murder in Saunders County District Court.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a junkyard owner who sought to go back into business on the outskirts of Ashland.

The sands of time could make it difficult for both prosecutors and defense attorneys when a 32-year-old murder case begins today in the Saunders County Courthouse.

About 200 students representing 35 schools throughout Nebraska gathered at North Platte Community College on Monday for a fall leadership workshop sponsored by Family, Career and Community Leaders of America.

Paperwork has been filed and certified for the upcoming fluoride election in Yutan.

Saunders County Attorney Scott Tingelhoff says former State Senator Ron Raikes died Saturday night after a tragic farm accident.

Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman calls Ron Raikes "a friend and an outstanding state senator." Heineman's comment comes after the death of the 66-year-old Raikes in a farm accident last night.

Former Nebraska state Sen. Ron Raikes died in what investigators said appears to be a farm accident.

Former State Sentator Ron Raikes was killed in a farming accident late last night near Ashland, Nebraska Saunders County Sheriff Kevin Stukenholtz tells Mike McKnight, Raikes was discovered about 10:30 pm.