Profiles
Walking into a New York City pharmacy, Scott LeRette had no idea how life was about to change for him and his family.
LeRette, author of "The Unbreakable Boy," mentioned to the pharmacist he was an...
He bought the farm. To many it may simply mean he passed away. But in a spectacular turn of events, this lofty purchase, in a very roundabout way, ties together generations past.
In fact it is a...
After 30 years, it's not often that Andrea Bocelli performs in a new city, but that will be the case when he takes the stage at CHI Health Center Omaha Feb. 6.
The Italian tenor looks forward to...
In popular culture and in card games, deuces signifies a card, say a two of diamonds.
A team of seven students from Duchesne brought home the state mock trial championship for the second year in a...
When my Editor came to me and asked if I wanted to get paid to head to 36th and V Street to write about street tacos, I did my very best to hide my enthusiasm and remain as professional as possible...
Today’s News
PLATTSMOUTH, Nebraska — The prospects are again uncertain for a long-sought recreation trail across rural Cass County.
On Tuesday, the Cass County Board voted 4-1 to withdraw its November approval of...
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“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
November 8th, 1838 – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A great American philosopher, Henry David Thoreau,...
LINCOLN — The legislative committee mulling how to help implement Nebraska’s voter-led medical cannabis laws awaits an amendment before lawmakers vote on whether to advance the bill.
Legislative Bill...
President Donald Trump speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 6, 2025. (Evan Vucci / AP Photo)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration can stop approving new refugees for entry into the U.S. but has to allow in people who were conditionally accepted before the president suspended the nation...
BELLEVUE, Nebraska — Construction officially kicked off Thursday on what Bellevue called the “crown jewel” of its state-approved good life district, despite uncertainty still swirling around a...
This Week's News
03/28/2025 - 7:00am
PLATTSMOUTH, Nebraska — The prospects are again uncertain for a long-sought recreation trail across rural Cass County.
On Tuesday, the Cass County Board voted 4-1 to withdraw its November approval of a route for the trail, a 10-mile segment that...
(Shutterstock)
03/28/2025 - 6:00am
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
November 8th, 1838 – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A great American philosopher, Henry David Thoreau, who wrote and spoke in length about the importance...
03/28/2025 - 5:00am
LINCOLN — The legislative committee mulling how to help implement Nebraska’s voter-led medical cannabis laws awaits an amendment before lawmakers vote on whether to advance the bill.
Legislative Bill 677, from State Sen. Ben Hansen of Blair, seeks...
President Donald Trump speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 6, 2025. (Evan Vucci / AP Photo)
03/28/2025 - 4:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration can stop approving new refugees for entry into the U.S. but has to allow in people who were conditionally accepted before the president suspended the nation’s refugee admissions system, an appeals court...
03/27/2025 - 7:00am
BELLEVUE, Nebraska — Construction officially kicked off Thursday on what Bellevue called the “crown jewel” of its state-approved good life district, despite uncertainty still swirling around a proposed revamp of the law governing such districts....
03/27/2025 - 5:00am
PHOENIX (AP) — When you walk into Title 9 Sports Grill in Phoenix's Melrose District, its mission to be a haven for watching women's sports permeates every nook and cranny. From the over dozen TVs mounted on pink and orange walls to the “Play Like a...
The boundaries of the Omaha Inland Port Authority. (Courtesy of City of Omaha)
03/27/2025 - 4:00am
LINCOLN — A bill aimed at enlarging the area where a long-awaited North Omaha business park could be developed advanced Tuesday to its final reading in the Nebraska Legislature.
However, Legislative Bill 290, introduced by State Sen. Terrell...
03/27/2025 - 3:00am
Federal Investigators Were Preparing Two Texas Housing Discrimination Cases — Until Trump Took Over
by Jesse Coburn
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one...
03/26/2025 - 7:00am
Jessie Holmes crossed the finish line at the 2025 Iditarod, a little bit of Teagan Rodrigo was with the champion. The Omaha teen's art was featured on envelopes carried by each of the 33 mushers participating in the Alaska dog sled race.
Rodrigo,...
03/26/2025 - 5:00am
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Amadou Ndiaye meticulously ran his fingers across bumps in a piece of paper, making sense of the world he can no longer see.
Two hundred years have passed since the invention of braille, the tactile writing system that has...
03/26/2025 - 4:00am
All her life, nobody wanted to hear what Christy Farlee had to say.
“I was just an addict, in trouble all the time, no good, in and out of prison,” the Lincoln woman said.
But that’s changing. Now, for what feels like the first time in Farlee’s...
Volunteer Adrian Budnick takes a picture of a dog at the Metro Animal Care and Control facility Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (George Walker IV / AP Photo)
03/26/2025 - 3:00am
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — For over a decade, Adrian Budnick has taken adoption photos of the dogs at Nashville's county animal shelter, but it wasn't until the COVID pandemic that an idea came to her.
As one of only a few people allowed to visit in-...
03/25/2025 - 7:00am
30hop, which opened its first Omaha location two months ago, is all about the beer.
That’s in fact where it gets its name: The upscale bar and grill’s first location, in Coralville, Iowa, had 30 beers on tap.
In Omaha, it’s actually 32 beers, 27...
Evalina Sain, an Omaha Central High School student and executive director of Students for Sustainability in Nebraska, speaks at a rally of mostly young people calling for adoption of a Green Amendment in the state. (Paul Hammel / Nebraska Examiner)
03/25/2025 - 6:00am
Pure water. Clean air. Healthy soil. A livable environment.
These things should be guaranteed as integral to the well-being of our beautiful state, as a well-functioning government or the Earth spinning on its axis.
Yet for decades, the workings of...
Google co-founders Sergey Brin (left) and Larry Page pose at company headquarters Jan.15, 2004, in Mountain View, Calif. (Ben Margot / AP Photo)
03/25/2025 - 5:00am
A heated debate has recently erupted between two groups of supporters of President Donald Trump. The dispute concerns the H-1B visa system, the program that allows U.S. employers to hire skilled foreign workers in specialty occupations – mostly in...
03/25/2025 - 4:00am
SEATTLE (AP) — Cybertrucks set ablaze. Bullets and Molotov cocktails aimed at Tesla showrooms.
Attacks on property carrying the logo of Elon Musk's electric-car company are cropping up across the U.S. and overseas. While no injuries have been...
U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., talks with reporters after a debate for Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District against State Sen. Tony Vargas, a Democrat, on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, in Lincoln. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)
03/24/2025 - 1:19pm
LINCOLN — The Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District has been targeted with new political ads as part of national efforts by multiple Democratic-aligned groups that see Nebraska’s most purple district as a potential flip seat for the midterms.
The...
Attendants sit next to a field contaminated with dioxin before a ceremony marking the start of a project to clean up dioxin left over from the Vietnam War, at a former U.S. military base in Danang, Vietnam, Aug. 9, 2012. (Maika Elan / AP Photo)
03/24/2025 - 1:17pm
Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.
by Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Brett Murphy, ProPublica, and Le Van for ProPublica
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Protesters march during a major rally against populist President Aleksandar Vucic and his government, in downtown Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (Armin Durgut / AP Photo)
03/24/2025 - 1:16pm
Such is true: every action comes with an opposite reaction, but unlike in physics – in regards to people – they do not always respond with an equal reaction. Behavior in people and children is partially modified this way: when a baby is young, it...
Former Lincoln Mayor Don Wesely speaks with current Mayor Lierion Gaylor Baird during her primary election night party in Lincoln, Neb. (Aaron Sanderford / Nebraska Examiner)
03/24/2025 - 1:13pm
LINCOLN — Former State Sen. Don Wesely, who also served four years as Lincoln mayor and several years as a lobbyist, is being remembered as a prolific political leader on health issues who worked hard to build and retain relationships.
As mayor from...
