Steve Liewer
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Steve is the military affairs reporter for The World-Herald. Follow him on Twitter @SteveLiewer. Phone: 402-444-1186.
An Iowa trio calling themselves 'The Misfits' snagged a $100K scratch-off prize in Council Bluffs.
The parents of Pvt. Lyle Reab never learned what happened to their only son, who was last seen fighting in Germany in November 1944. Now surviving family members have some closure.
For three years, Rep. Don Bacon has suffered from worsening cough and shortness of breath. A few weeks ago, he learned that the condition is a lingering injury from a Jan. 31, 2018, Amtrak crash.
A Lincoln woman bought a $20 scratch-off at a Casey’s General Store and won $200,000.
The Air Force is going forward with plans to mothball two aging, trouble-prone 55th Wing jets used for flying aerial photography missions over Russia as part of the international Open Skies Treaty.
An Omaha man has been working two full-time jobs. Now that he’s won a $50,000 prize in the Nebraska Lottery’s Pick 5 game, he’s hoping to quit one of them.
Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer has joined six Democratic senators in signing a letter to the Pentagon’s top watchdog raising questions about the Air Force’s decision to locate Space Command in Alabama.
The social media world wasn't quite sure what to do when the Nebraska-based U.S. Strategic Command tweeted out a bit of gibberish Sunday night on its official Twitter account.
Robin Spark went out and bought several of the $2 tickets in the Nebraska Lottery's Truck$ & Buck$ scratch-off ticket game and came up with a winner, beating odds of 1 in 300,000.
Skeptics say the nuclear threat is hyped, and they fear that building more weapons will add to atomic danger.
sbliewer commented on Risking disaster: Offutt's aging jets are breaking down at sky-high rates
Excellent question! We focused our project on the C-135 recon jets because they are based here and because their missions are so critical. Anecdotally, I've heard the KC-135s pose the same maintenance challenges because of their age, but their break rates are lower. That's probably because t…