The U.S. Postal Service is responsible for delivering Social Security and veterans benefit checks, prescription medicines and more to all Americans regardless of where they live. (Trinity Nguyen/Unsplash)
Small-business owners in Nebraska are concerned about losing customers during the upcoming holiday season as the U.S. Postal Service makes additional changes aimed at reducing costs.
David Bell,...
Mohammad Hamoudi, a federal public defender, poses for a photo Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021, in Seattle. Auburn Police Officer Jeffrey Nelson has been charged in the shooting death of Jesse Sarey, and has been investigated in more than 60 use-of-force cases since 2012, but he wasn’t placed on the King County prosecuting attorney’s “potential impeachment disclosure” list, or Brady List, which flags officers whose credibility is in question due to misconduct, until after being charged in Sarey’s death. Hamoudi said given Nelson’s history, all his cases should be reviewed. And he hopes his story will encourage prosecutors to track excessive force cases involving other police officers. (AP)
Isaiah Obet was behaving erratically and in mental distress in 2017 when Auburn police officer Jeff Nelson ordered his police dog to attack and then shot Obet in the torso. Obet fell to the ground...
Rep. Cindy Axne, D-Iowa, speaks about during a meeting with local officials in Indianola, Iowa, Sept. 2, 2021. Axne’s current district spans southwest Iowa, including Council Bluffs. (AP)
Democrat Cindy Axne and Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks would be pushed into the same congressional district under Iowa redistricting maps.
The proposal last Thursday from Iowa’s nonpartisan...
Iowa Auditor Rob Sand explains results of an audit his agency conducted of the Iowa Medicaid Home Health Services program during a news conference at the Iowa Capitol, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020. (AP)
Iowa’s privatized Medicaid system has illegally denied services or care to program recipients, and both private insurance companies managing the system have violated terms of their contracts with the...
A crew on a Union Pacific freight train works at a siding, Jan. 24, 2020, south of Tucson, Ariz. (AP)
Union Pacific and its labor unions are suing each other to determine whether the railroad has the authority to require its employees to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
The unions argue that...
Legal News
10/22/2021 - 10:45am
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Business News
A sign requiring masks is displayed at a restaurant in Rolling Meadows, Ill., June 17, 2021. (AP)
10/14/2021 - 5:00am
For a brief moment this summer, it seemed like small businesses might be getting a break from the relentless onslaught of the pandemic. More Americans, many of them vaccinated, flocked to restaurants and stores without needing to mask up or socially...
In Memoriam
Michael D. Boyle
09/24/2021 - 4:00am
Bigger than life, this guy wasn’t easy to label.
Mike Boyle carved out a political niche, lost it, then regained it and soared to the end.
Omaha and Douglas County lost one of its most dynamic public figures on Sept. 13 when Boyle passed. He...
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Kirk Hicks, a certified public accountant in Omaha, poses for a portrait, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. (Scott Stewart/Daily Record)
10/22/2021 - 12:00am
In 2021, the Nebraska Legislature dramatically expanded both the benefits and the timeframe for a relatively low-profile but significant tax credit program for qualifying small businesses in Nebraska.
Most people are unaware of these changes, though...
