Nebraska News

Formal fundraising efforts begin later this month for a Pony Express Monument in Sidney.

A 12-year-old boy died at an Omaha hospital after he was injured in a collision on the north end of Columbus.

Nebraska consumers will get a little more protection when buying a used car "as is" from a dealership.

Pollsters say economic worries may have contributed to a decline in rural Nebraskans' views of their communities.

Opposition to Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman's plan to use some crop checkoff dollars to balance the state budget may be working.

Nebraska lawmakers have introduced several more budget bills in response to the projected $334 million state budget shortfall.

The award is among more than $17 million in grants announced Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Gary Aksamit hopes that when he meets with local landowners here Thursday evening, he will secure some verbal commitments related to the wind power project he is developing.

A confirmed case of meningitis in Lincoln County sends one boy to the hospital, and has health officials investigating the cause of the sickness.

The firearm deer season in Nebraska runs from Nov. 14-22. The state Game and Parks Commission says large numbers of deer are in the field and plenty of permits remain.

Two Georgia men facing federal charges for possessing and conspiring to distribute hundreds of marijuana plants growing in a central Nebraska field have pleaded guilty.

Far from chastened by off-year election setbacks, congressional Democrats vowed no let-up in the drive to pass controversial health care Wednesday, arguing that the way to regain voter trust was to complete what they started in more prosperous political times.

James Ziebarth said in his resignation letter that he's been named to the state committee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency.

Luna Negra... According to the Chicago Sun Times,"This company knows what it means to really move- --to luxuriate in both the body and the story." The Robert M. Merryman Center will offer an opportunity for area dance students, 12 years of age and older, to participate in a free masterclass with cast members of Chicago- based Luna Negra Dance ...

A house fire in Hastings Tuesday night results in a total loss. No one was hurt.

Holiday shoppers could be in a bah-humbug kind of mood this year, according to a survey of business leaders and managers in nine Midwest and Plains states released Monday.

Police say a 30-year-old woman used her sister's name at a Lincoln hospital to get a prescription for some pain medication.

As part of observing National Adoption Month, state health officials are emphasizing the importance of helping children in foster care find safe, permanent homes.

ANGEL STREET CELEBRATES THE SPOOKY SEASON AT HCT Classic Thriller to "Gaslight" Hastings Community Theatre Audiences Hastings NE -- Hastings Community Theatre audiences will be mesmerized for the Halloween season by Patrick Hamilton's classic thriller, Angel Street.

Most Nebraska agencies will feel some pain over the next year and a half if lawmakers adopt the widespread spending cuts Gov.