Critically low staffing at a Lincoln prison allowed a mattress fire to grow large enough to send four people to the hospital, according to a newly released report.
A woman said the suspect grabbed her by the ear, forced her into the car and headed back to North Platte.
A 25-year-old man from rural Battle Creek was charged in connection with allegations that he sexually abused a pair of teenagers and paid them to keep quiet about it.
A man who stopped to help a driver whose SUV had stalled north of Madison was killed when a third vehicle struck the stalled one, causing him to be thrown.
A Lincoln woman is being held on $500,000 bail after being charged with motor vehicle homicide in connection with a crash that led to the death of a Greenwood woman.
"You drive around the county, there's stop signs, street signs shot up all over," Sheriff Terry Wagner said, after deputies cited a man who fired rounds toward a stop sign.
In all, three people were killed and about 10 injured in the shooting that police said involved two gunmen, one of whom still awaits extradition to Iowa.
A man died in a rollover crash northeast of North Platte on Tuesday, according to the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office.
An Omaha woman and two Lincoln residents were killed in the head-on crash.
A child died this week from a suspected infection that may have been acquired while swimming in the Elkhorn River, according to the Douglas County Health Department.
A man in the apartment told police that Davon Brown shot Shalonna Houston in the forehead with a rifle, then asked him to help hide her body.
Omaha FBI agents, working with other law enforcement agencies, have found six adolescents identified as high risk for sexual exploitation in the Omaha area.
This is the second time the woman has been accused of threatening the same prosecutor.
"Anything discovered after the illegal detention and arrest ... must be excluded as fruit of the poisonous tree," the judge wrote.
A Des Moines council member is countersuing two police officers who took the unusual step earlier this year of suing several people who participated in a 2020 protest.
One person was fatally wounded by gunfire late Monday near 63rd and Jaynes streets, bringing the number of homicides in the city this month to six.
An investigation has exonerated an Omaha police officer accused of using excessive force during a June 21 incident, the Omaha Police Department announced.
In Lincoln, investigators have used phone records to link three people to a south Lincoln vandalism site, where vandals caused $104,000 in damage in late July.
Truck drivers assisted law enforcement in rescuing a woman who was standing on the edge of an overpass over Interstate 680 on Monday morning.
Authorities responded to the crash around 3:15 a.m. Sunday after a semi that had been headed west on I-80 crashed into a truck that was pulled off to the shoulder.
"This case, your honor, is about his mental illness, it is about how he was coping and dealing with his mental illness," Adam Schutte's attorney told the judge.
Even with about 1,400 miles separating them, the Muscatine County Sheriff’s Office believes a deceased woman was the victim of a man found shot to death in Florida.
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A Nebraska state trooper found more than 250 pounds of cocaine worth more than $4 million in an SUV during a traffic stop on Interstate 80 near North Platte.
In an email to families, the superintendent said the district made a payment to a "third party" entity to ensure critical information that may have been accessed was not released.
Preliminary information indicates that a Smithfield man reported mechanical issues with the single engine Piper airplane, a Sheriff’s Office news release said.
Randall Stollar also will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life and be subject to a possible civil commitment when he's released.
The stolen Nissan crashed into a tree south of Tierra Briarhurst Park. Four teens fled the scene, leaving a "heavily intoxicated" 15-year-old girl in the backseat, police said.
Daniel McGuane admitted to a citizen in Battle Creek that he fled from law enforcement and crashed in the area. He was then detained by a citizen at gunpoint.
Soon after getting out of prison, DeShawn Gleaton Jr. started dating Hailey Christiansen, a 29-year-old who believed in second chances. She quickly found herself in a violent relationship.
A 20-year-old Omaha man wanted in connection with the killing of a woman at Florence Tower is under arrest.