Latest Nebraska Headlines
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Nebraska Funeral Home Discovers Hospice Patient Declared Dead Was Actually Alive
Jun 12 2024 // OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska funeral home discovered that a 74-year-old hospice patient who was declared dead by her nursing home two hours earlier was actually still alive, so workers started CPR and she was rushed to...
Tornado Devastates Iowa Town, Killing Multiple People
May 23 2024 // GREENFIELD, Iowa (AP) — Multiple people died Tuesday and at least a dozen were injured when a powerful tornado tore through a small Iowa town, carving a bleak landscape of destroyed homes and businesses, shredded trees,...
Company Fined $261K After Worker Struck by Semi-Tractor-Trailer at Nebraska Grain Yard
May 13 2024 // Responding to an employer’s report that a worker needed hospitalization after being struck by a semi-tractor-trailer and suffering severe injuries at a Fremont, Nebraska grain yard, federal workplace safety...
1 Person Killed, Homes Destroyed After Tornado Rips NE Kansas
May 2 2024 // WESTMORELAND, Kan. (AP) — One person died Tuesday when a tornado ripped through the small city of Westmoreland in northeastern Kansas, destroying houses, RVs and outbuildings, authorities said. Pottawatomie County...
Tornadoes Kill 4 in Oklahoma, Leaving Trail of Destruction
Apr 30 2024 // SULPHUR, Okla. (AP) — Tornadoes killed four people in Oklahoma, including an infant, and left thousands without power Sunday after a destructive outbreak of severe weather flattened buildings in the heart of one rural...
Multiple Tornadoes Hit Nebraska and Iowa, Leaving Trails of Damage
Apr 28 2024 // OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A tornado plowed through suburban Omaha, Nebraska, on Friday, damaging hundreds of homes and other structures as it tore for miles along farmland and into subdivisions. Some injuries were reported but...
Ex-Nebraska Women’s Basketball Assistant Denies Sexual Relationship With Player
Apr 25 2024 // OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Former Nebraska women’s basketball assistant coach Chuck Love denied ever having a sexual relationship with former Cornhuskers player Ashley Scoggin but acknowledged in a court document that he...
Nebraska, Kansas Brace for Possibly More Tornados: Weather Watch
Apr 16 2024 // Wild weather is sweeping the central US on Tuesday with tornado watches posted across parts of Nebraska and Kansas and an enhanced risk of severe thunderstorms later in Iowa, Missouri and Illinois, the National Weather...
Business Moves
Apr 15 2024 // National Risk Strategies, H.W. International Global specialty brokerage Risk Strategies reported it has acquired the U.S. and Canadian operating entities of global insurance holding company, H.W. International B.V. Based...
Plummer Acquires Nebraska’s Classic One
Mar 25 2024 // Plummer Insurance, Inc. announced the acquisition of Classic One Insurance from Riverstone Bank, effective March 15, 2024. Plummer Insurance was established in 1984 by Steve and Helen Plummer. The agency currently has nine...
Sierra Club Testing Finds High Levels of ‘Forever’ Chemicals in Water in NE Tennessee
Mar 1 2024 // High levels of “forever chemicals,” including poly-fluoroalkyl, or PFAS compounds, have been found in northeastern Tennessee rivers and drinking water supplies, likely from wastewater sludge that is spread on...
Lawsuit Accuses U. of Nebraska of Failing to Address Coach-Student Relationship
Feb 21 2024 // OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former Nebraska women’s basketball player alleges coach Amy Williams and athletic director Trev Alberts did not take appropriate action when her sexual relationship with an assistant coach...
Deaf Nebraska Trucker to Receive $335K in Disability Discrimination Case
Feb 5 2024 // Trucking companies Werner Enterprises, Inc. and Drivers Management, LLC must pay $335,682 to a deaf truck driver months after an Omaha, Nebraska jury found in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Crash Tests Indicate Nation’s Guardrail System Can’t Handle Heavy Electric Vehicles
Feb 2 2024 // Electric vehicles that typically weigh more than gasoline-powered cars can easily crash through steel highway guardrails that are not designed to withstand the extra force, raising concerns about the nation’s...
Federal Court Fines Nebraska Contractor Who Stalled Investigation Into Employee’s Fall
Jan 29 2024 // A federal court has issued an order holding a Nebraska roofing contractor — who has stalled federal investigators for nearly a year — in contempt of court and imposing a fine of $100 a day if he fails to comply with a...
Nebraska Jury Awards $335K to Deaf Truck Driver in Disability Discrimination Case
Jan 16 2024 // Trucking companies Werner Enterprises, Inc. and Drivers Management, LLC must pay $335,682 to a deaf truck driver months after an Omaha, Nebraska jury found in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Omaha Beef Processing Plant Faces $274K in Fines Following Worker’s Amputation
Jan 12 2024 // A federal investigation into how an employee suffered a serious hand injury at an Omaha, Nebraska beef processing plant in June 2023 identified more than a dozen willful and serious violations related to the...
Nebraska Hotel Owners Agree to $100K Settlement to Resolve Discrimination Suit
Jan 4 2024 // The owners and operators of a hotel in Omaha, Nebraska, have agreed to pay $100,000 to a former general manager and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...
Shipping Container Explosion in Nebraska Railyard Raises Questions About Loading Procedures for Hazardous Materials
Nov 28 2023 // OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Federal inspectors have twice found hundreds of defects in the locomotives and railcars Union Pacific uses at the world’s largest railyard in Nebraska, but none of those seem to explain why a...
Nebraska Sheriff Charged With Filing Fraudulent Auto Insurance Claim
Oct 20 2023 // ORD, Neb. (AP) – A small-town Nebraska sheriff has been charged with filing a fraudulent auto insurance claim to get the repairs to his yellow 2004 Chevrolet Monte Carlo paid for. The complaint filed against Valley...
