Nebraska

BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities arrested a 23-year-old man in an attack at a Nebraska fast food restaurant in which two employees were shot and killed, two were wounded and officers responding to a report of a possible bomb inside a moving truck in the parking lot arrived to find the vehicle on fire. Roberto […]

Deputy Jason Jones pulled over an SUV for speeding, but the routine traffic stop turned into a safety lesson and a good deed. Jones called for back up when he noticed that two children in the car weren’t properly strapped in. Deputy Jessica Manning purchased two car seats, then the two deputies installed them properly for […]

Every time you have a runny nose, you get reminded of just how annoying it is. It comes along with a cold or allergies and sometimes you wonder when it will end. Kendra Jackson thought she was suffering from allergies when a nose constantly ran for two years, according to CBS News. Multiple doctors told her […]

Anthony Conner, 39, is set to become the first African-American president of the Police Officers Association in Ohama, Nebraska according to Blavity. Conner has given 18 years of his life to four different police stations in Nebraska and believes during all those years that the Omaha Police Department has been mindful of diversity inclusion. “At the end of the […]

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A surgeon who contracted Ebola while working in his native Sierra Leone has died while being treated in a biocontainment unit at a Nebraska hospital, the facility said Monday. Nebraska Medical Center said in a news release that Dr. Martin Salia died as a result of the disease. “Dr. Salia was […]

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A doctor who was infected with Ebola while working in Liberia is being flown to a Nebraska hospital for treatment, doctors there said Thursday. Officials at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha said Dr. Rick Sacra, 51, is expected to arrive sometime Friday. Sacra will begin treatment in the hospital’s 10-bed […]

PILGER, Neb. (AP) — A powerful storm with tornadoes ripped through northeast Nebraska on Monday, destroying more than half of the tiny town of Pilger, killing a 5-year-old child and injuring at least 19 people, hospital and emergency officials said. The National Weather Service said dual twisters touched down within roughly a mile of each […]

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a toddler has been reunited with his mother after employees found him playing inside a claw crane machine at a Nebraska bowling alley. Lincoln police say a 24-year-old woman called 911 Monday afternoon because her 3-year-old son was missing from her apartment. Employees at the bowling alley across the […]