Omaha authorities reported no injuries early Friday after a house caught fire near South 46th Avenue and Martha Street.
Firefighters quickly doused the blaze that was reported at 3:45 a.m. in the home’s basement.
All occupants were safely out of the house minutes after the fire began, officials said, and firefighters reported that they had the fire under control by 3:55 a.m.
Omaha police have arrested two brothers in connection with Saturday's fatal shooting at the Westroads Mall.
A man critically wounded was taken to a hospital, where he died. A woman in her 20s suffered a gunshot wound to her leg that was not life-threatening.
The proclamation comes as President Joe Biden recently announced a plan to address gun violence. A growing number of Nebraska counties have adopted similar "sanctuary" resolutions.
If the concrete truck driver who was killed in the crash had not taken evasive action, a deputy Sarpy County attorney said, the driver of the other vehicle would have been killed.
Papillion La Vista Superintendent Andrew Rikli said he has received "countless" emails and phone calls from people with varying view points on a book shared in two schools.
Steve Borowski was seriously injured and nearly drowned after his boat hit a submerged tree in Swanson Reservoir in southwest Nebraska.
James Fairbanks and his attorney contemplated a self-defense claim, which Prosecutor Brenda Beadle called "comical." She said Fairbanks was planning to hunt sex offenders.
Relatives of Phyllis Kirby — about 70 of them — gathered at her former home in Omaha to honor their mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, who died in March.
The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission says genetic testing has confirmed that a gray wolf was killed on Jan. 28 by coyote hunters near Uehling, which is 21 miles north of Fremont.
As someone descended from Irish and German immigrants, Sen. Mike Groene said he considered himself a mongrel, and said others in the community where he grew up proudly saw themselves that way, too.
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