Profiles
Walking into a New York City pharmacy, Scott LeRette had no idea how life was about to change for him and his family.
LeRette, author of "The Unbreakable Boy," mentioned to the pharmacist he was an...
He bought the farm. To many it may simply mean he passed away. But in a spectacular turn of events, this lofty purchase, in a very roundabout way, ties together generations past.
In fact it is a...
After 30 years, it's not often that Andrea Bocelli performs in a new city, but that will be the case when he takes the stage at CHI Health Center Omaha Feb. 6.
The Italian tenor looks forward to...
In popular culture and in card games, deuces signifies a card, say a two of diamonds.
A team of seven students from Duchesne brought home the state mock trial championship for the second year in a...
When my Editor came to me and asked if I wanted to get paid to head to 36th and V Street to write about street tacos, I did my very best to hide my enthusiasm and remain as professional as possible...
Today’s News
A Micron Technology, Inc. employee moves through a clean room at an existing fab facility in Boise, Idaho, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. (Darin Oswald / Idaho Statesman via AP)
Semiconductors power nearly every aspect of modern life – cars, smartphones, medical devices and even national defense systems. These tiny but essential components make the information age possible,...
State Sen. Loren Lippincott of Central City (left) joins Gov. Jim Pillen for a ceremonial bill signing for a bill aimed at boosting Nebraska National Guard recruitment and retention on Dec. 10, 2024. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
President Trump put some pressure on Governor Pillen, so Governor Pillen then put some pressure on the members of Nebraska’s Government, Military, and Veterans Affairs Committee and got winner-take-...
Col. John Bolduc, superintendent of the Nebraska State Patrol, and Gov. Jim Pillen. Pillen on Tuesday announced that Bolduc will retire May 4, when he reaches the NSP mandatory retirement age of 60. (Courtesy of Governor’s Office)
LINCOLN — Col. John Bolduc is set to retire as superintendent of the Nebraska State Patrol on May 4, when he reaches the agency’s mandatory retirement age of 60.
Gov. Jim Pillen announced Bolduc’s...
It was a hard sell.
I was loitering around in that dark Omaha alleyway, one of those ones that still have those red bricks that bring more character than the unfilled potholes on old concrete. Next...
The University of Nebraska at Kearney campus. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
The unfortunate advent of Legislative Bill 552 in the Nebraska Legislature’s hopper once again exposes the tentacles of national politics creeping into the state’s process of making policy.
State...
This Week's News
A Micron Technology, Inc. employee moves through a clean room at an existing fab facility in Boise, Idaho, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. (Darin Oswald / Idaho Statesman via AP)
03/18/2025 - 12:00am
Semiconductors power nearly every aspect of modern life – cars, smartphones, medical devices and even national defense systems. These tiny but essential components make the information age possible, whether they’re supporting lifesaving hospital...
Col. John Bolduc, superintendent of the Nebraska State Patrol, and Gov. Jim Pillen. Pillen on Tuesday announced that Bolduc will retire May 4, when he reaches the NSP mandatory retirement age of 60. (Courtesy of Governor’s Office)
03/18/2025 - 12:00am
LINCOLN — Col. John Bolduc is set to retire as superintendent of the Nebraska State Patrol on May 4, when he reaches the agency’s mandatory retirement age of 60.
Gov. Jim Pillen announced Bolduc’s retirement and an application process for his...
03/17/2025 - 7:00am
It was a hard sell.
I was loitering around in that dark Omaha alleyway, one of those ones that still have those red bricks that bring more character than the unfilled potholes on old concrete. Next to me pale-yellow light formed a cone in the dark...
The University of Nebraska at Kearney campus. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
03/17/2025 - 6:00am
The unfortunate advent of Legislative Bill 552 in the Nebraska Legislature’s hopper once again exposes the tentacles of national politics creeping into the state’s process of making policy.
State Sen. Loren Lippincott’s proposed law would require...
03/17/2025 - 5:00am
OMAHA — The first debate of the Omaha mayor’s race spent Tuesday amplifying what increasingly looks like a four-way fight to join three-term Mayor Jean Stothert in the May 13 general election.
Stothert’s top challengers in the nonpartisan April 1...
03/17/2025 - 4:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened a 200% tariff on European wine, Champagne and spirits if the European Union goes forward with a planned tariff on American whiskey.
The European import tax, which was unveiled in...
U.S. Senate Republicans are eyeing an overhaul of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, pictured here. (Courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
03/17/2025 - 2:00am
WASHINGTON — Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy launched a working group on Wednesday that will look at ways to overhaul the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Cassidy, chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, or HELP,...
State Sen. Loren Lippincott of Central City (left) joins Gov. Jim Pillen for a ceremonial bill signing for a bill aimed at boosting Nebraska National Guard recruitment and retention on Dec. 10, 2024. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
03/14/2025 - 7:00am
LINCOLN – After public pressure from Gov. Jim Pillen, Nebraska lawmakers advanced to the full Legislature a winner-take-all bill and a separate proposed constitutional amendment to let voters alter how the state awards Electoral College votes for...
Pioneer photographer William Henry Jackson took this photograph of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River during the 1871 United States Geological Survey of the Territories, lead by Ferdiand Hayden, in the region that would become Yellowstone National Park. (William Henry Jackson / National Archives And Records Administration via AP)
03/14/2025 - 6:00am
I was talking to someone the other day about a camping trip I go on each year, and how I camp on “BLM," land. They kind of scowled and pulled back, then went, "What does the land have to do with "Black Lives Matter?”
Well, I tried to be polite as I...
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., arrives for a hearing on Capitol Hill on April 28, 2022, in Washington. (Carolyn Kaster / AP Photo)
03/14/2025 - 5:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — A union for U.S. Agency for International Development contractors asked a federal judge Tuesday to intervene in any destruction of classified documents after an email ordered staffers to help burn and shred agency records.
Judge...
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy speaks about the recent mid-air collision of an American Airlines flight and a Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, at a news conference in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Ben Curtis / AP Photo)
NTSB Urges Ban On Some Helicopter Flights At Washington Airport Where 67 People Died In Midair Crash
03/14/2025 - 4:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators looking into the cause of the January collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people recommended a ban on some helicopter flights Tuesday, saying the...
Vehicles drive past the entrance to Miami International Airport in Miami on Tuesday, May 12, 2020. (Wilfredo Lee / AP Photo)
03/14/2025 - 3:00am
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Court records say a passenger on a small regional flight to Miami attacked a flight attendant, kicked and punched the seat of the person in front of him and swallowed rosary beads as pilots returned to the airport in Savannah,...
03/14/2025 - 3:00am
The Office That Investigates Disparities in Veterans’ Care Is Being “Liquidated”
by Vernal Coleman
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A hyperbaric chamber at the Oxford Center in Brighton, Mich., is shown Feb. 8, 2024. (David Guralnick / Detroit News via AP)
03/14/2025 - 2:00am
TROY, Mich. (AP) — Four people have been charged in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was “incinerated” inside a pressurized oxygen chamber that exploded at a suburban Detroit medical facility, Michigan’s attorney general said Tuesday.
Thomas Cooper...
03/14/2025 - 2:00am
LINCOLN — State lawmakers again punted Tuesday on making a final decision on how to end Nebraska’s twice-a-year changing of the clocks back and forth, leaving it up to one more debate.
Lawmakers again advanced Legislative Bill 34, from State Sen....
Les Bernal, national director of Stop Predatory Gambling (right) speaks to reporters before a Nebraska hearing to expand gambling, such as to online sports betting. Pat Loontjer, executive director of Gambling with the Good Life watches in the back on March 10, 2025. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
03/14/2025 - 1:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska lawmakers heard from gambling lobbyists that they should expand state gambling to include mobile sports betting, while opponents called out an “industry driven by greed.”
Legislative Resolution 20CA, a proposed constitutional...
03/13/2025 - 7:00am
LINCOLN — A measure that would prevent local governments from imposing rent controls on private property, with some exceptions, took a step forward in the Nebraska Legislature on Monday.
Legislative Bill 266, introduced by State Sen. Rob Dover of...
03/13/2025 - 5:00am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Facing projections of spiking energy demand, U.S. states are pressing for ways to build new power plants faster as policymakers increasingly worry about protecting their residents and economies from rising electric bills,...
Homebuilder puts finishing touches on a new home in North Omaha. (Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)
03/13/2025 - 4:00am
LINCOLN — Nebraska U.S. Rep. Mike Flood held his first hearing Tuesday as chair of a Housing & Insurance Subcommittee, and introduced as one of the group’s testifiers a local face: Columbus city administrator Tara Vasicek.
Flood, a Norfolk...
03/13/2025 - 3:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Starlette Thomas remembers coming down almost daily to the intersection of 16th and H streets, to protest police brutality and systemic racial iniquities during the summer of 2020.
On Monday, the 45-year old Bowie, Maryland...
03/12/2025 - 7:00am
Hank Kunneman’s booming voice filled the room, topping 100 decibels and repeatedly triggering an Apple Watch loud noise warning. He scrunched his eyes shut and drove his pointer finger toward the sky, shaking with tension.
“And so as our hands are...
03/12/2025 - 5:00am
HOODOO SKI AREA, Ore. (AP) — Ukrainian war veteran Oleksandr Shvachka lost his left leg to Russian tank fire outside Kyiv. Three years on, the latest step in his physical and mental rehabilitation recently unfolded under a brilliant blue sky on a...
03/12/2025 - 4:00am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The day after her house burned down, Lara Ganz sent a group message to the youth theater troupe she runs: They would not let the Los Angeles firestorm stop their upcoming show.
“So many of our castmates have lost everything,”...
Longtime Nebraska State Eduction Association lobbyist Herb Schimek (left) is shown with his wife, former State Sen. DiAnna Schimek of Lincoln. (Courtesy of DiAnna Schimek)
03/12/2025 - 3:00am
LINCOLN — Retired Nebraska lobbyist Herb Schimek is being remembered around the Capitol as someone who cared deeply about teachers, whom he represented over more than three decades.
Schimek, the long-time lobbyist for the Nebraska State Education...
St. Mary Catholic Church’s Ten Commandments monument across the street from the Nebraska State Capitol on Feb. 28, 2025. (Juan Salinas II / Nebraska Examiner)
03/12/2025 - 2:00am
LINCOLN – Across the street from the Nebraska State Capitol, a monument to the Ten Commandments stands on the sidewalk outside of St. Mary Catholic Church. Although it’s not on Capitol grounds, as in some states, religion still similarly influences...
03/11/2025 - 7:00am
The livestock feed company is already feeling the squeeze.
Imogene Ingredients is Iowa-based, with customers across Nebraska. But the company is also global, importing ingredients to use in its feed products from around the world – including from...
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03/11/2025 - 6:00am
The term “DEI” has become politicized and even evil in the minds of many, including President Donald Trump and many of his MAGA apostles, including some here in Nebraska.
DEI stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion. MAGA pitches DEI as a liberal...
03/11/2025 - 5:00am
LINCOLN — Testifiers on Monday were about split for and against a measure that would require some 6,350 Nebraska employers to use an online verifying system to weed out undocumented workers — or face suspension of their business license.
Legislative...
Anahí Salazar, policy coordinator at Voices for Children in Nebraska, spoke at the Nebraska statehouse on Mar. 6, 2025, about bills seeking to soften voter-approved ballot measures on requiring paid sick leave and increasing the minimum wage. (Juan Salinas II / Nebraska Examiner)
03/11/2025 - 4:00am
LINCOLN — Labor activists stood in the Capitol Rotunda during Thursday morning’s agenda and criticized a pair of legislative bills seeking to weaken voter-approved minimum wage and paid sick leave laws, which keep marching on in the Nebraska...
A sign for Walgreens Pharmacy is shown on June 25, 2019, in Pittsburgh. (Gene J. Puskar / AP Photo)
03/11/2025 - 3:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — Walgreens Boots Alliance says it has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Sycamore Partners as the struggling retailer looks to turn itself around after years of losing money.
Walgreens said Thursday that Sycamore will pay $...
Mash'ems, from Basic Fun!, are displayed at the Toy Fair, in New York's Javits Center, Monday, March 3, 2025. (Richard Drew / AP Photo)
03/11/2025 - 2:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — As toy inventors, toy manufacturers and buyers for stores that sell toys met for a four-day annual trade show in New York last weekend, a topic besides which items were destined for holiday wish lists permeated the displays....
