SUPERIOR, Neb. (AP) — A man who had been fired from a grain elevator in Nebraska on Thursday returned with a gun and shot three people, killing two, before he was shot and killed by another employee, the Nebraska State Patrol said.
One person was killed, and another was flown to Bryan West Campus in Lincoln with life-threatening injuries. The shooter is also dead, according to the Nebraska State Patrol, after an employee returned fire.
DES MOINES — Iowans are getting a look at a second redistricting plan that if approved by the Legislature will set the boundaries for the state’s congressional and legislative districts for the next decade.
The top two reasons Wyoming residents said they wouldn’t get vaccinated were a distrust of government overall and a distrust of the vaccines themselves.
Theresa Thibodeau, a former state senator and former chair of the Douglas County Republican Party, said Thursday that she has been encouraged to consider running for the state's top office.
A lawyer representing the Rapid City Journal has asked a judge and the Pennington County state's attorney to explain why a state lawmaker arrested for DUI was able to have his case sealed in an apparent violation of state law.
Paul Iversen, staff at the University of Iowa's Labor Center, said it is unusual to see an injunction ban fire barrels and chairs. Typically, items that are banned have to be "disruptive" and "intimidating."
The top two reasons Wyoming residents said they wouldn’t get vaccinated were a distrust of government overall and a distrust of the vaccines themselves.
Theresa Thibodeau, a former state senator and former chair of the Douglas County Republican Party, said Thursday that she has been encouraged to consider running for the state's top office.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democrat Cindy Axne and Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks would be pushed into the same congressional district under Iowa redistricting maps released Thursday.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Strong economic growth continues in rural parts of 10 Plains and Western states, according to a new monthly survey of bankers in the region.
A lawyer representing the Rapid City Journal has asked a judge and the Pennington County state's attorney to explain why a state lawmaker arrested for DUI was able to have his case sealed in an apparent violation of state law.
Paul Iversen, staff at the University of Iowa's Labor Center, said it is unusual to see an injunction ban fire barrels and chairs. Typically, items that are banned have to be "disruptive" and "intimidating."
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska hospitals can resume lower-priority surgeries starting Friday after Gov. Pete Ricketts announced he's ending the restrictions that have kept facilities from being overwhelmed with patients during the coronavirus pandemic.
Gov. Pete Ricketts also rescinded a directed health measure that suspended certain elected surgeries. The move comes as the total number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients dropped below 10% of the state's beds.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Health officials in South Dakota say they're prepared to handle the vaccination of the state's young people as federal regulators weigh the safety and effectiveness of giving COVID-19 shots to children ages 5 to 11.
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities are seeking a motorist after a pedestrian was struck and killed in a collision that shut down southbound lanes of U.S. 77 for four hours in Lincoln.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police arrested a Des Moines man on murder charges Wednesday in the shooting death of an Omaha woman at a Des Moines bar.
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry pleaded not guilty and will go to trial on Dec. 14 on federal charges that he lied to the FBI and concealed information about illegal campaign contributions that he accepted from foreign sources in 2016.
Some farmers are marketing steaks and hamburger directly to consumers, the pasture-to-plate approach. Others are bypassing large packers by establishing their own, smaller-scale packing plants.
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A western South Dakota inmate who walked away from a minimum-security facility was arrested Wednesday, corrections officials said.
ANKENY -- The country’s top agriculture official said in Iowa on Wednesday that he hopes Deere & Co. and its striking workers achieve a rapid resolution to their labor impasse.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa State Patrol trooper died Wednesday, nearly a week after he was injured in a car crash in northeast Iowa that happened while he was rushing to assist another agency.