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A Youth Theater Production Rises From The Ashes Of The Los Angeles Fires

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 03/12/2025 - 4:00am

Lara Ganz (right) director of Theatre Palisades Youth, works on blocking with Anna Telehowski, 14 (left) on opening night of the musical “Crazy for You” after the group lost their theater in the Palisades fire, Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. 28, 2025.
(Jocelyn Gecker / AP Photo)

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,” wrote Ganz, the director of youth theater at a beloved playhouse in the Pacific Palisades. “We will continue with rehearsals. I am confident we will find a stage.”

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Lobbyist Remembered For Caring Deeply About Nebraska Teachers

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 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 Association and husband of former State Sen. DiAnna Schimek of Lincoln, died Feb. 25. He was 86.

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Some Nebraska Republicans Join National Quest To Infuse More Religion Into Schools

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 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 the statehouse.

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They Survived The Jungle To Seek Asylum. Now Afghans In Nebraska Fear Deportation.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 03/05/2025 - 7:00am

Afghans gather for a training exercise at the Nebraska Afghan Community Center in Omaha. The center was created in 2021 as a vehicle to centralize services and provide assistance to Afghan families arriving in Nebraska.
(Courtesy of the Nebraska Afghan Community Center)

As he trudged for days through the scorching jungle with about 20 other people following a nameless smuggler, Ashraf Safi felt a tinge of gratitude.

“There were children with us who had to witness everything we saw,” the father of two said. “Every time we started walking again, I told myself, ‘at least my children are not here — I have to keep moving for them.’”

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The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 03/05/2025 - 5:00am

Mr. Pete Marocco is the Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs. In this capacity, he led U.S. defense policy across Africa, and served as the senior defense official charged with countering the continent’s transnational threats to American citizens, the U.S. homeland, and U.S. allies and partners.
(Courtesy of U.S. Department of Defense)

The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway.

by Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Brett Murphy

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Leonard Peltier Remains Defiant In AP Interview, Maintaining Innocence And Vowing Continued Activism

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Native American activist Leonard Peltier sits for a portrait in prison in February 1986.
(Cliff Schiappa / AP Photo)

BELCOURT, N.D. (AP) — More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier remains defiant.

He maintains his innocence in the deaths of two FBI agents in 1975 and sees his newfound freedom — the result of a commutation from former President Joe Biden — as the beginning of a new phase of his activism.

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To Catch A Trafficker: Inside The Omaha Program Jailing Child Sex Offenders, Empowering Survivors

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 02/26/2025 - 6:00am

Child advocates, local police and federal agents who collaborate on sex trafficking cases share office space at Project Harmony’s headquarters in west Omaha.
(Jeremy Turley / Flatwater Free Press)

Editor’s note: A survivor of child sex trafficking will be referred to by a pseudonym in this story to protect her identity.

The bust that kicked off a yearslong crackdown on Omaha’s child sex trafficking underworld started as a single name on a whiteboard in Sgt. Brett Schrage’s office.

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Vatican Announces Daily Evening Prayers For The Health Of Pope Francis On St. Peter's Square

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Pope Francis waves as he arrives for his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025.
(Alessandra Tarantino / AP Photo)

ROME (AP) — The Vatican on Monday announced the start of nighttime prayers for the health of Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square, and invited Romans and others to join in, as the 88-year-old pontiff battled a complex lung infection and complications.

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Roof Safety Delays Orange Light On Capitol To Remember Those Housed At Genoa Boarding School

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LINCOLN — The Nebraska State Capitol will be bathed in orange light later this month to remember and honor the survivors and descendants of the Genoa Industrial School.

On Tuesday, state officials announced that the lighting of the State Capitol to remember those housed at the Genoa boarding school would be delayed from Thursday to Feb. 27 due to “unsafe conditions” on the roof of the Capitol.

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Culture, Tradition Critical for Native American Early Childhood Development

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 02/19/2025 - 7:00am

Native Americans emphasize community relationships over the individual. Those relationships led Dr. Michelle Sarche into early childhood development. The opportunity to work with Buffett Early Childhood Institute in Omaha enticed Sarche to leave the University of Colorado system.

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A Youth Theater Production Rises From The Ashes Of The Los Angeles Fires

Lobbyist Remembered For Caring Deeply About Nebraska Teachers

Some Nebraska Republicans Join National Quest To Infuse More Religion Into Schools

They Survived The Jungle To Seek Asylum. Now Afghans In Nebraska Fear Deportation.

The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway.

The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway.

Leonard Peltier Remains Defiant In AP Interview, Maintaining Innocence And Vowing Continued Activism

To Catch A Trafficker: Inside The Omaha Program Jailing Child Sex Offenders, Empowering Survivors

Vatican Announces Daily Evening Prayers For The Health Of Pope Francis On St. Peter's Square

Roof Safety Delays Orange Light On Capitol To Remember Those Housed At Genoa Boarding School

Culture, Tradition Critical for Native American Early Childhood Development

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