Profiles
Attorneys preparing to appear before Judge Richard McGowan may want to plan for a late morning docket, as Douglas County's newest judge isn't known as a morning person.
McGowan was sworn in as judge...
Brittany Burling recalls enjoying a glass of wine every now and then. During the COVID-19 pandemic, "Then" became a little more often.
"We were all just stuck at home," Burling said. "And I felt my...
The jury has reached a decision. The verdict … Guilty on both counts: Committing terroristic threats and third-degree assault in a road-rage, criminal case, heard recently before the Hon. Thomas K....
In the movie, “Almost Famous,” inspired by the real-life experiences of director Cameron Crowe, who started writing for the “Rolling Stone,” at age 15, his character is given back-stage access to...
Dan Schultz transitioned from a military career as an electronic warfare officer to opening a housecleaning franchise. He embraces his military training in building the franchise. (Tim Trudell / The Daily Record)
Dan Schultz likely could have had his pick of jobs when he retired from the Air Force. Defense-related contractor positions were within his grasp. With two master's degrees, maybe he could have used...
Today’s News
LINCOLN — The Pillen administration faces new questions this week over whether a compressed timeline justified the Nebraska Department of Economic Development rushing into a $2.5 million no-bid...
This is a 1954 photo of one of America's foremost political philosophers and scholars, Hannah Arendt. (AP Photo)
In Minneapolis, two recent fatal encounters with federal immigration agents have produced not only grief and anger, but an unusually clear fight over what is real.
In the aftermath of Alex Pretti’s...
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Anyone who has been in enough face-to-face debates with other people understand just how difficult it is to convince another person of their point of view, let alone to seem as the ‘winner’ by...
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Crime continued to decline in 2025, with homicides down 21% from 2024 and 44% from a peak in 2021, according to a new analysis of crime trends in 40 large U.S. cities released by the nonpartisan...
Anti I.C.E protesters gather in Foley Square to demand the Trump Administration stop deportations of immigrants on February 13, 2025 in New York City. (Katie Godowski / MediaPunch / IPX)
From coast to coast, groups of people are springing up to protect members of their communities as Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents threaten them with violent enforcement....
This Week's News
02/02/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — The Pillen administration faces new questions this week over whether a compressed timeline justified the Nebraska Department of Economic Development rushing into a $2.5 million no-bid emergency bioeconomy contract with a firm Gov. Jim...
This is a 1954 photo of one of America's foremost political philosophers and scholars, Hannah Arendt. (AP Photo)
02/02/2026 - 12:00am
In Minneapolis, two recent fatal encounters with federal immigration agents have produced not only grief and anger, but an unusually clear fight over what is real.
In the aftermath of Alex Pretti’s killing on Jan. 24, 2026, federal officials claimed...
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02/02/2026 - 12:00am
Crime continued to decline in 2025, with homicides down 21% from 2024 and 44% from a peak in 2021, according to a new analysis of crime trends in 40 large U.S. cities released by the nonpartisan think tank Council on Criminal Justice.
If federal...
Anti I.C.E protesters gather in Foley Square to demand the Trump Administration stop deportations of immigrants on February 13, 2025 in New York City. (Katie Godowski / MediaPunch / IPX)
02/02/2026 - 12:00am
From coast to coast, groups of people are springing up to protect members of their communities as Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents threaten them with violent enforcement.
In Portland, Oregon, community volunteers have...
01/30/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska will no longer divert federal survivor benefits for youths in foster care to help reimburse the costs of their care, becoming the 12th state nationally to do so.
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, in an executive order Tuesday, directed...
01/30/2026 - 12:00am
The ocean is under increasing pressure. Everyday human activities, from shipping to oil and gas exploration to urban pollution, are affecting the marine environment. Extensive research shows how this combination of stressors represents one of the...
01/29/2026 - 12:00am
OMAHA — A local artist key to the creation of Omaha’s popular Little Italy mural has launched another art project to strengthen the bridge between Nebraska’s biggest city and a small Sicilian town from where many of the state’s early Italians...
A feedlot in Grand Island on Dec. 30, 2025. (Juan Salinas II / Nebraska Examiner)
01/29/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — The Nebraska Brand Committee could be gone.
A bill from State Sen. Ben Hansen of Blair would eliminate the governor-appointed state Brand Committee and transfer its responsibilities to the Nebraska Department of Agriculture, which is run...
01/29/2026 - 12:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — Three brothers, two of them real estate agents who catered to the jet-set crowd, used a playbook over a 12-year stretch that sometimes involved drugging women and girls before raping them, a prosecutor told a New York jury Tuesday in...
01/28/2026 - 12:00am
As nurses rushed Rachel Woollen to an Omaha operating room, all she could do was pray for the four tiny babies she was about to deliver.
“All I could say was, ‘Please, God, help them.’ I repeated it over and over. One nurse heard me, grabbed my hand...
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01/28/2026 - 12:00am
WASHINGTON — Several U.S. Senate Democrats launched an investigation into how the Trump administration’s child care funding cuts and policy changes are affecting rural families, in a Sunday letter provided exclusively to States Newsroom.
Sens....
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01/28/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — A novel centered on a young Army nurse who served in Vietnam and the latest in a “romantasy” series topped the list of popular fiction titles checked out at public libraries of Nebraska’s capital city.
The City of Lincoln’s public library...
Children disembark from a school bus in a largely Hispanic neighborhood that has been the subject of patrols and detentions by Border Patrol agents, during a federal immigration crackdown in Kenner, La., Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (Gerald Herbert / AP Photo)
01/28/2026 - 12:00am
First, they killed a mom moments after she dropped off her son at school. Then, they came for the children; in one suburban Minneapolis school district, four students have been detained. On Friday, educators, activists, faith leaders and families...
State Sens. Brad von Gillern of the Elkhorn area, chair of the Legislature’s Revenue Committee, and Rob Clements of Elmwood, chair of the Appropriations Committee (from left), Oct. 30, 2025. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
01/27/2026 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — For the second quarter in a row, Nebraska’s federally measured Gross Domestic Product grew by about 5%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
On Friday, the BEA released its report on statewide GDP growth for the third quarter...
A heap of the Buc-ee’s famous Buc-ee the Beaver mascots from a location in Athens, Alabama. (Aaron Sanderford / Nebraska Examiner)
01/27/2026 - 12:00am
GRETNA, Nebraska — Gretna is poised to become home to Nebraska’s first Buc-ee’s travel center — a prospect city officials expect will kickstart further tourism development in the area’s once-conflicted “good life district.”
The path to landing what’...
Rigoletto opera performed by members of the Dnipro State Opera and Ballet Theatre, Oct. 7, 2018. (Shutterstock)
01/27/2026 - 12:00am
“By construction, any automation will defeat the purpose of a live performance, which is the experience that the audience is paying for.”
Every few years, you’ll hear a familiar refrain: “Opera is dying.”
National surveys point to slumping...
