Janet Staley, a lifelong Omahan and singer who died recently, will be honored Wednesday at a live-music “appreciation of life” event.
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Using chalk, an Omaha teenager draws the logos of every team in the College World Series on the sidewalk near Charles Schwab Field.
Eight Nebraskans are among the 513 Vietnam veterans who will be honored Saturday as part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s In Memory program.
Fifty years ago, Ohio native Carl Foote set off on a 33-day bike ride from New Jersey to Oregon. On May 21, he set off on the same cross-country trek that he completed half a century earlier.
Tyler Lindstrom, the 39-year-old brother of State Sen. Brett Lindstrom, was found dead Tuesday inside his home in Austin, Texas.
Sam Teplitsky, a master mechanic from North Omaha who loved fixing cars, served in North Africa and Italy during World War II. He died on Memorial Day at 101 years old.
Mary Kibbee Baines, who became one of the Omaha area's first female real estate agents, has died at age 100.
Bidding for a final, private lunch with Warren Buffett, an event that has raised tens of millions for a California charity, has already topped…
The winner among the final contestants earns $25,000 plus the cover spot with the international men’s magazine, which has a monthly circulation worldwide of 9 million. Voting started Monday.
The annual Stanley M. Truhlsen Jr. Memorial Blind Golfer Clinic lets visually impaired adults and children drive, chip, putt and play a few holes alongside local professionals.
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Where Omaha city officials and developers see a streetcar as an asset for economic development connecting midtown to the riverfront, one transit professional urges caution.
On his 100th birthday, Bob Reisser took to the skies. Taking off from the grounds of the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum in a helicopter, he flew back to his home at Elk Ridge Village.
Bob Kremke, a Papillion native who was an all-stater in basketball at Millard and pitched at NU, died Tuesday. He was 88 and had been a longtime Arlington resident.
Bob Kremke, a Papillion native who was an all-stater in basketball at Millard and pitched at NU, died Tuesday. He was 88 and had been a longtime Arlington resident.
Charles Jackson French, a hometown Omaha hero in World War II, saved the lives of his shipmates by towing a lifeboat of wounded comrades through shark-infested waters. He's finally getting his due.
Estelle Leinen, who served in the U.S. Navy for three years in the 1940s before settling on a large farm in western Iowa, died at her home on May 17. She had celebrated her 100th birthday in April.
Bellevue City Councilman Bob Stinson, who was running unopposed for re-election in November, died Thursday, Bellevue city officials said Friday. He was 63.
Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert has announced that she has married a longtime friend, Dr. J. Kevin O'Rourke, an anesthesiologist.
Pep Vocelka earned four battle ribbons and a Purple Heart in the Pacific during World War II. He came home to run his family's Omaha tavern for decades. "The Man Upstairs took care of me," he said.
The Rev. Joshua Riek Mock, a prominent preacher and physician in East Africa, became a beacon for other Sudanese migrants when he settled his family in Omaha in 1997.
The Empowerment Network celebrated its 15th anniversary Friday in Omaha with an on-brand stylish assist from Earvin "Magic" Johnson.
Nearly a decade after retiring from NASA, Ashland native and astronaut Clayton Anderson has become president and CEO of the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum.
Ellen Brokofsky, who served as Nebraska's state probation administrator from 2005 to 2018, died Wednesday of congestive heart failure. She was 71.
Sophia Pico Del Villar receives her bachelor’s degree in business on Sunday. It's the culmination of pushing forward with an entrepreneurial spirit while working and caring for her younger siblings.
Dr. Edward Malashock will be remembered not only for his storied medical career but also for his generosity to the community and his devotion to his family and patients.