Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 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, Georgia.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 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.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 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 from Royal Oak, Michigan, was pronounced dead at the scene Jan. 31 at the Oxford Center in Troy. His mother suffered burn wounds while trying to save her boy.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 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.”
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/07/2025 - 7:00am
LINCOLN — The decade-long fight to secure a safe, regulated medical cannabis system in Nebraska could hinge on whether state lawmakers adopt legislation this spring to help implement the ballot measures.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/07/2025 - 5:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas wasn’t the first lawmaker ever to blurt out a shout of protest during a presidential address to Congress.
But he's perhaps the only one in recent memory to actually be ejected from the hall Tuesday night by the Speaker of the House.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 03/07/2025 - 4:00am
LINCOLN — One of Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen’s priorities advanced to the second round of debate with a vote on Monday, as a statewide cell phone ban in schools inched closer to becoming law.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 02/28/2025 - 7:00am
LINCOLN — After Jordyn Bader graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, her husband’s medical residency whisked the couple away to another state. But she continued to nurture her ag and techie roots reinforced by UNL’s Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program.