Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/02/2025 - 12:00am
The largest tract of public land in the United States is a wild expanse of tundra and wetlands stretching across nearly 23 million acres of northern Alaska. It’s called the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, but despite its industrial-sounding name, the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, or NPR-A, is much more than a fuel depot.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/02/2025 - 12:00am
In Mandi Sedlak’s world, everything seems to fit. Even in her worst moments.
It’s true of her golf game, her husband, her career and the prosthetic leg connecting these threads. The Kearney native will be relying on the list’s last item when she competes in the U.S. Adaptive Open at Woodmont Country Club in Maryland July 7-9.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/02/2025 - 12:00am
Christopher Pelkey was shot and killed in a road range incident in 2021. On May 8, 2025, at the sentencing hearing for his killer, an AI video reconstruction of Pelkey delivered a victim impact statement. The trial judge reported being deeply moved by this performance and issued the maximum sentence for manslaughter.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/02/2025 - 12:00am
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — In the time before widespread vaccination, devastating infectious diseases ran rampant in America, killing millions of children and leaving others with lifelong health problems.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 06/25/2025 - 12:00am
AQUEBOGUE, N.Y. (AP) — Doug Corwin knew there was a problem at his family’s commercial duck farm in Long Island when he spotted scores of dead or lethargic birds during a barn inspection in January.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 06/18/2025 - 12:00am
At 20 years old, he was no longer the popular high school wrestler and football player in suburban Omaha. He was lost inside paranoia and violence. A doctor gave him a name for it: schizoaffective disorder.
When he was arrested in March 2019, Jacque Palczynski begged to get her son out of the Douglas County Jail. An employee gave her a form.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 06/18/2025 - 12:00am
Two men died, and then awoke standing on a gray plain of ash. Above them both should have been an evening sky but instead was a painting of the cosmos; someone with incredible talent had set the stars just right, and with incredible strength had pulled twin ebon moons so near to the horizon. The ash was ever-still in gentle mounds like waves there, yet there was no wind.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 06/18/2025 - 12:00am
OMAHA — Nebraska dropped a notch — from No. 9 to No. 10 — in a national ranking for overall child well-being, according to the latest Kids Count data book, a 50-state examination of how youths are faring in post-pandemic America.