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Nebraska K-9s Injured In Line Of Duty Newly Authorized For EMS Care, Transportation

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/09/2025 - 12:00am

Nebraska City Police Department Sgt. Christopher Richardson with retired K-9 Mack. Richardson championed legislation to authorize emergency medical services care and transportation in the event a K-9 is injured in the line of duty, a bill that passed the Nebraska Legislature in 2024.
(Courtesy of Sgt. Christopher Richardson)

LINCOLN — A new state law that took effect this week authorizes emergency medical services crews to provide care or transportation to Nebraska K-9s if one is ever injured in the line of duty.

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Brain Fog and Mental Sloth

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/09/2025 - 12:00am

The world is ever-changing, and politics are along with it. These things are given; however, am I the only one who thinks that people are just getting dumber? It was a general feeling I had, and I wondered after it and chased it down.

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Former Librarian Of Congress, Fired By Trump, Vows To Improve Public Information In New Mellon Role

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/09/2025 - 12:00am

Elizabeth Alexander is the president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
(Ron Edmonds / AP Photo)

NEW YORK (AP) — The former Librarian of Congress abruptly fired by President Donald Trump has found a new position with the country's largest philanthropic supporter of the arts.

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‘Big’ Legislative Package Shifts More Of SNAP’s Costs To States, Saving Federal Dollars But Causing Fewer Americans To Get Help Paying For Food

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/09/2025 - 12:00am

The legislative package that President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, 2025, has several provisions that will shrink the safety net, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, long known as food stamps. SNAP spending will decline by an estimated US$186 billion through 2034 as a result of several changes Congress made to the program that today helps roughly 42 million people buy groceries – an almost 20% reduction.

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A Classical Drive: Road Rumble Strips Play Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony In UAE Emirate Of Fujairah

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/09/2025 - 12:00am

FUJAIRAH, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The humble road rumble strip, used around the world to alert drifting drivers to potential hazards or lane departures, can play Beethoven on a mountain highway in the far reaches of the United Arab Emirates.

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What’s At Risk For Arctic Wildlife If Trump Expands Oil Drilling In The Fragile National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/02/2025 - 12:00am

Pump Station 1 is seen on Monday, June 2, 2025, located near Deadhorse, Alaska, on the state's prodigious North Slope, with the start of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline at bottom center.
(Jenny Kane / AP Photo)

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.

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Rare Disease Cost A Nebraska Woman Her Leg. Now She’s Competing For A National Golf Championship.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/02/2025 - 12:00am

Nebraskan Mandi Sedlak competes at the 2024 U.S. Adaptive Open in Newton, Kan. Sedlak made the cut to compete in the 2025 tournament, taking place in early July in Maryland.
(Courtesy of USGA)

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.

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AI ‘Reanimations’: Making Facsimiles Of The Dead Raises Ethical Quandaries

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/02/2025 - 12:00am

Mystery writer Agatha Christie, pictured in 1957, writes about different types of villains and heroes who provide the thrills in her mysteries, novels and plays.
(DH / AP Photo)

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.

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Takeaways From Interviews With Families Forever Changed By Diseases That Vaccines Can Prevent

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 07/02/2025 - 12:00am

Janith Farnham signs "water" while she and her daughter, Jacque, look at an artwork of a waterfall at the Visual Arts Center at the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, S.D., on May 20, 2025.
(Shelby Lum / AP Photo)

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.

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From Foster Care To Snoop Dogg: ‘Huge Life-Changing Trauma’ Couldn’t Kill Omaha Singer Dreion’s Dreams

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 06/25/2025 - 12:00am

Dreion performs on season 26 of NBC’s “The Voice.” The Omaha native wowed the judges with his rendition of Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Shining Star.” Dreion is now on tour, opening for the legendary group. The band is coming to La Vista’s The Astro Amphitheater on July 16.
(Casey Durkin / NBC)

In moments alone as a kid in his bedroom, Da’Dreion Murrell envisioned himself singing before thousands of fans.

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Nebraska K-9s Injured In Line Of Duty Newly Authorized For EMS Care, Transportation

Brain Fog and Mental Sloth

Former Librarian Of Congress, Fired By Trump, Vows To Improve Public Information In New Mellon Role

‘Big’ Legislative Package Shifts More Of SNAP’s Costs To States, Saving Federal Dollars But Causing Fewer Americans To Get Help Paying For Food

A Classical Drive: Road Rumble Strips Play Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony In UAE Emirate Of Fujairah

What’s At Risk For Arctic Wildlife If Trump Expands Oil Drilling In The Fragile National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska

Rare Disease Cost A Nebraska Woman Her Leg. Now She’s Competing For A National Golf Championship.

AI ‘Reanimations’: Making Facsimiles Of The Dead Raises Ethical Quandaries

Takeaways From Interviews With Families Forever Changed By Diseases That Vaccines Can Prevent

From Foster Care To Snoop Dogg: ‘Huge Life-Changing Trauma’ Couldn’t Kill Omaha Singer Dreion’s Dreams

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