Content found for
Social Issues
Articles
If you were at Pioneers Park Sunday afternoon enjoying the warmer spring weather, maybe you saw a man Lincoln Police have in ...
A DNA sample taken in 2011 after a Nebraska man's burglary conviction has linked him to five sexual assaults in Omaha bet...
Nebraska Lawmakers are having to cut services or make up another $8 million less in federal Medicaid funding. This comes ...
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services is raising awareness about child abuse during April in recognition of Na...
A group of conservative Nebraska lawmakers are trying to derail a proposal to expand Medicaid to more low-income adults. Stat...
Nebraska lawmakers voted 33-8 to pass a measure that would leave register voters with fewer days to cast in-person early ball...
Two Nebraska men have been charged in separate federal indictments with child pornography counts. The U.S. Attorney's off...
A judge has given jail time and probation to a Lincoln woman reported being attacked by three men who carved anti-gay slurs i...
Nebraska lawmakers began debating a proposal to expand Medicaid as part of the federal health care law. Sen. Kathy Campbell i...
Monday is Tax Day, a day off for state lawmakers, but Tuesday when they come back to Lincoln, they'll have money on their...
While you slept, Lincoln Police arrested a 22 year old man for drunken driving and having marijuana. Capt. Jason Stille tells...
A Lincoln woman has been given four to five years in prison in connection with the death of a 12-year-old girl. Twenty-four-y...
The State Patrol says a western Nebraska woman whose body was found in a field in the Panhandle by searchers on snowmobiles d...
Nebraska lawmakers have granted first-round approval to a measure that would give housing assistance to youths aging out of f...
The Nebraska Supreme Court says a man can withdraw his no contest pleas to kidnapping and attempted child sexual assault beca...
Lincoln Senator Amanda McGill's legislation, known as the Young Adult Voluntary Services and Support Act, would create a ...
Owners of livestock that are seized in abuse or neglect cases could be ordered to pay for the care of their animals, under a ...
A western Nebraska man has been charged with a hate crime in the March assault of another man at a Sidney bar. Cheyenne Count...
As Nebraska's members of Congress get ready to return to Washington D.C., more than 40 Nebraska organizations gathered to...
A monthly economic survey index for nine Midwest and Plains states jumped last month, suggesting improving economic growth fo...
A committee of the Legislature Thursday halted an attempt to repeal state-funded prenatal care for the unborn children of ill...
Lawmakers have passed new insurance requirements for licensed child care providers in Nebraska. Child care services would hav...
In February, investigatorsreceived evidence indicatingthat Michael Nguyen (Win) was sharing child pornography on the internet...
A Nebraska lawmaker is set to present his bill that would repeal state-funded prenatal care services for illegal immigrants. ...
A long-shot attempt to repeal state-funded prenatal care services for illegal immigrants is drawing criticism from a variety ...
A long-shot attempt to repeal state-funded prenatal care services for illegal immigrants is drawing criticism from a variety ...
For the 37th time in his long legislative career, Omaha Senator Ernie Chambers is working to do away with the death penalty. ...
A legislative committee has set the stage for a battle over Medicaid. The bill expands eligibility to people with incomes up ...
A 21-year-old Lincoln man is in stable, but critical condition at Bryan West Campus after he was shot twice at a Bennet home ...
For the second time during his 2 1/2 years in office, State Treasurer Don Stenberg is asking the NebraskaLegislature to reduc...
Nearly two-thirds of Nebraska's counties lost population in 2012 as the longstanding trend of the state's rural popul...
A Nebraska man is suing his former employer, saying the company fired him because his medical bills were contributing to the ...
Four hours of testimony on bills that would expand gay rights in Nebraska. They were before the Legislature's Judiciary C...
Nebraska would become the 18th state to abolish the death penalty under a bill introduced by Omaha Senator, Ernie Chambers. T...
It matters where your kids grow up. Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Bowling Green State University foun...
Nebraska lawmakers are again talking about gay rights.Three proposals come up Thursday to extend gay rights for employees and...
A bill that would require government-issued photo identification to vote in Nebraska is triggering a heated debate in the Leg...
Progress has been made on solving the federal budget debate. President Obama met for dinner last night with a dozen members o...
Some new information involving 57-year-old Michael Miller of Lincoln, the man arrested last June for luring teenage boys to h...
Panelists for a gun violence discussion atthe University of Nebraska-LincolnTuesday nightsaid lacking access to mental health...
Another major building project got under way in LincolnFriday morning, adding even more fuel to the city's Billion Dollar...
University of Nebraska officials are unhappy with a preliminary state budget that allocates less money than what Gov. Dave He...
What if a school was designed to reduce obesity and foster student health ??? It's already happening. University of Nebra...
Authorities say a suburban Omaha couple have been arrested, accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting their 5-year-old son. T...
A registered sex offender has been accused of molesting a 7-year-old girl that he'd lured into his Omaha apartment. Autho...
A bill that would have let Nebraska work-camp inmates perform labor for charities, fraternal groups and nonprofits is dead af...
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman is holding firm in his opposition to a proposed Medicaid expansion that could come as a result of...
Monday was a significant day in Nebraska politics. A state senator announced he's running for governor and a U.S. Senator...
The Nebraska Supreme Court has found that a Platte County prosecutor violated terms of a plea bargain by promising to recomme...
The state's deputy chief medical officer has been promoted to become the chief officer and the director of the Division o...
A hearing officer has determined that Douglas County election workers violated the Federal Help America Vote Act in the Novem...
Former Nebraska Womens basketball player Charlie Rogers' case has been delayed. Rogers will now face a March 14 sentencin...
Charlie Rogers' case has been delayed.Rogers will now face a March 14 sentencing date after a Lancaster County Court judg...
The Nebraska Supreme Court has reversed a District court ruling that kept a father, who was intentionally misled about the bi...
The numbers of marriages and divorces in nebraska are both going down. The state reports 2011, the latest year for which stat...
Nebraska lawmakers have set a hearing date for a proposal to expand Medicaid coverage as part of the federal health care law....
One of the area's leading advocates for child safety has received a national award. Lynn Ayres, the head of Lincoln's...
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - A Nebraska lawmaker has introduced a bill that would lower the state's inheritance tax rates.Sen. Jo...
A man sentenced last month in state court for beating and raping a Beatrice woman has been indicted on federal pornography ch...
A 49-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a methamphetamine-related death from 2011. Charles Blowers was taken i...
A former minister already sentenced for sexual assault in Iowa has been given a 30-year sentence in Nebraska. 57-year-old Efr...
Disabled veterans who live in Nebraska would receive a preference when competing for state contracts, under a bill presented ...
Mayor Chris Beutler and a group of local health care executives have thrown their support behind an expansion of Nebraska'...
A legislative panel has scheduled hearings on four bills that would exempt various forms of retirement pay from Nebraska stat...
A Beatrice man in prison for beating and raping a woman has pleaded not guilty to separate federal child pornography charges....
Public hearings have been scheduled for Gov. Dave Heineman's proposals to overhaul the state tax system. The Legislature&...
A bill has been reintroduced in the Senate by California Democrat Dianne Feinstein that would ban assault weapons, in the wak...
Omaha Sen. Ernie Chambers introduced a repeal measure on Wednesday, the final day for lawmakers to submit bills. Chambers is ...
Doctors who treat newborns are urging Nebraska lawmakers to support a bill that would require congenital heart screenings as ...
A Nebraska woman accused of pimping out her 7- and 14-year-old daughters has been given 80 to 90 years in prison. The 36-year...
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska lawmakers are introducing a bill to expand Medicaid coverage as part of the federal health care...
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has unveiled two proposed tax reform measures that would eliminate or reduce state income taxes.T...
Does a person have to register as a sex offender, even if they weren't convicted of a sex crime? A man from the Buffalo C...
Lincoln Senator Amanda McGill is in the 2nd phase of her 3 phase effort to address human trafficking in Nebraska. The first p...
A Lincoln firefighter has been arrested for possession of child pornography.A probable cause affidavit says that Lincoln Poli...
Governor Dave Heineman is calling for an overhaul of Nebraska's tax system, saying the state needs to get rid of its indi...
A 37-year-old man had to be TASERED multiple times early this morning (Wednesday) after allegedly trying to run his girlfrien...
A Nebraska lawmaker has introduced a bill that would require the state to fast-track concealed carry gun permits for victims ...
Men who conceive children through a sexual assault would lose all parental rights but still might have to pay child support t...
The Catholic Archdiocese of Omaha is dealing with sexual abuse allegations against another priest. Two lawyers who specialize...
The 2013 legislative session starts Wednesday. York SenatorGreg Adams, who is running unopposed for speaker, says he expects ...
MAYWOOD, Neb. (AP) - The Frontier County Sheriff's Office has been investigating the report of a sexual assault at Maywoo...
The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a former Scottsbluff police officer on child pornography charges. Tyl...
"Could have been worse…" That's the reaction from Nebraska Farm Bureau President Steve Nelson to fiscal ...
The Salvation Army's Red Kettle campaign has reached and exceeded its goal. The donations have reached nearly $596 th...
An Omaha middle school student is facing charges because police say he threatened to kill some of his classmates who teased h...
A longtime employee has been named chief executive officer at the Beatrice State Developmental Center. Delvin Koch replaces D...
A severe, yearlong drought that continues in Nebraska has been voted the top news story of 2012 by newspaper and broadcast me...
Eleven non-profit agencies received a large and unexpected gift today (Tuesday.) The Harley Bair Estate left a $2.6 Milli...
Lincoln, NE – For 12 years, those who frequent the parking garage at 11th and “O” have become accustomed to...
A former Lincoln police officer, already in prison for stealing from the police union's Santa Cop Christmas charity, is a...
Omaha police say officers caught two women who stole $150 worth of toys from a children's donation box. The toys were...
State regulators have revoked the licenses of an Omaha mental health practitioner who collected nearly $66,000 in Medicai...
Omaha officials are honoring Nebraska's first female firefighter before she retires. Mayor Jim Suttle scheduled a recogni...
Lincoln Police arrested a local jeweler after finding child pornography on a business computer and explicit DVDs. Police arre...
Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman has ordered flags across the state flown at half-staff in the wake of a Connecticut elementar...
A Nebraska woman has been convicted of faking an anti-gay hate crime in Lincoln. 34-year-old, Charlie Rogers has pleaded no c...
A western Nebraska man was charged with sexual assault of a child after a 19-year-old woman reported he'd molested her fo...
Nebraska will see a cut in federal Medicaid funding in the upcoming state budget, which will force lawmakers to make up the d...
Two needy Lincoln familiesreceived a big boost Friday. Each family received a re-built automobile, courtesy ofTracy's Bod...
It is the goal of Nebraska's Division of Behavioral Health to reduce underage drinking by 6% in the next 5 years. They ho...
A 50-year-old Lincoln man remains in jail today (Thursday), accused of sexually assaulting his estranged wife. Lincoln Police...
Donations given to the Humane Society of the United States are not helping local pet shelters. The Opinion Research Corporati...
A Lincoln woman accused of faking a hate crime has withdrawn a motion to move her trial out of Lincoln. Charlie Rogers' l...
The merits of the death penalty will be debated tonight (Wednesday) at the Lied Center. Nebraska's Solicitor General J. K...
KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) - A 35-year-old Nebraska woman convicted for prostituting her 14-year-old and 7-year-old daughters will be...
Omaha firefighters are thankful that they finally have a new contract. They've been working without one for 5 years. Fire...
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - A 20-year-old Lincoln man who acknowledged sexual contact with a 12-year-old who later died of a drug ov...
A federal jury in Iowa has found a 28-year-old New Jersey man guilty of running a nationwide sex trafficking and prostitution...
Lincoln's Salvation Army is asking for contributions of food during the next few days. The organization is about to holdi...
There’s a big difference of opinion this morning (Friday). Governor Heineman is enrolling Nebraska in a federally run h...
Governor Dave Heineman has chosen to enroll Nebraska in a federally run health exchange program, saying a state-based option ...
People have asked the Grand Island City Council to bar discrimination based on sexual orientation from city employment polici...
Speaker of the Legislature Mike Flood is running for Nebraska governor, calling himself "a budget-minded veteran lawmake...
There were 4 constitutional amendments on the statewide ballot; 2 passed easily, 2 were soundly defeated. Voters made hunting...
Looking for a new career? Go into nursing. The Dean of Nursing at the University of Nebraska Medical Center reports that the ...
A 2 year old Lincoln girl, found alone at a near-south neighborhood grocery store early Monday morning, has been returned to ...
The parents of a Crete High School teen who was allegedly sexually assaulted by 52-year-old Chad Eggebraaten are filing a for...
Nebraskans are flocking to the polls this year. Nebraska's elections chief says voter turnout could be higher than in 200...
Another update on the Midwest's economy is due out this morning (Thursday). Creighton University economist Ernie Goss wil...
Omaha firefighters could soon have their first new contract since 2007 after negotiators reached a tentative deal. The firefi...
Election Commissioner David Shively is projecting that a record number of Lancaster County voters will cast ballots for the 2...
Nebraska's troubled effort to privatize its child welfare services could cost the state $3.2 million in federal money...
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning is apologizing to a man wrongfully convicted in the 1955 killing of his wife. Bruning a...
Nebraska is becoming a state where voters are shunning both political parties, registering as independents in growing numbers...
A sixth man has been arrested in connection with a child prostitution ring in Kearney, allegedly run by a Nebraska woman char...
A 44-year-old man has been given 30 to 50 years in prison for sexually assaulting teenage girls in southeast Nebraska. Ronald...
A child advocacy group is asking Nebraska lawmakers to extend state services to youths who are pushed out of foster care beca...
A sixth man is suspected of having sex with an underage girl in Kearney in a child prostitution ring allegedly run by a Nebra...
A 22-year-old man is in a Lincoln hospital this morning (Wednesday) in critical condition with 2 gunshot wounds. He was shot ...
Whose rights come first? The handicapped, or big donors to the Husker Football Program. A federal court will decide. The laws...
Omaha Senator Jeremy Nordquist wants to shut the governor and other officials out of the state employee health plan. Nordquis...
A Nebraska City man has been given a two-year sentence for selling identity documents. Gerardo Rangel Rojas, aka Ivan Lara Ro...
A 60-year-old Minatare man has been given 30 to 40 years in prison after making a plea deal in a child sex assault and porn c...
Several people have been arrested during a prostitution bust at a motel in western Iowa. Authorities say the operation began ...
There will be no sweetheart deal for UNL's Sigma Chi Fraternity. It was given the death penalty Friday byN-U Student Affa...
The Grand Island City Council will vote Tuesday on extending anti-discrimination protection to gay, lesbian, bisexual and tra...
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) - The Grand Island City Council has scheduled a vote on extending anti-discrimination protection to g...
A 54-year-old man will serve two years of probation for mistreating a 71-year-old south-central Nebraska woman he was hired t...
A former minister convicted of three sexual assault charges in Council Bluffs will be resentenced on one of them, now that th...
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln plans to privatize its health center operations, a plan being closely watched by universit...
More than just rentals were apparently coming out of a Fremont business. A huge prescription drug ring was being operated out...
Former Husker basketball player, Charlie Rogers, is back in court November 19th on charges she faked an anti-gay attack again...
Police are investigating an overnight robbery of a north Lincoln convenience store. Police Capt. Jason Stille tells KFOR NEWS...
The Attorney General's Office is appealing the dismissal of a lawsuit that tried to block part of the federal health care...
Local residents are being asked to check their medicine cabinets. If you have unused or expired prescription drugs, don't...
The announcement from Lincoln's Center for People in Need sounds encouraging; 1,100 fewer people in Lancaster County are ...
Strong farm income helped Nebraska and Iowa record an increase in median income last year while nationally median income decl...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Four years after Democrat Barack Obama managed to win one of Nebraska's electoral votes, the president...
A lawsuit accusing the Nebraska Department of Administrative Services of allowing a supervisor to demean and discriminate aga...
Republican Senate Candidate Deb Fischer said today she is in favor of a federal balanced budget amendment, but admitted achie...
Special benefits and unused sick and vacation time mean Former Omaha superintendent John Mackiel will receive more than $...
Authorities say a 12-year-old boy has been arrested after inappropriately touching a female faculty member at Westridge Middl...
Nebraska's program to improve employee health is gaining national recognition. Nebraska was one of two winners of the 201...
Top administrators from the University of Nebraska Medical Center are expected to brief the university's Board of Regents...
Governor Dave Heineman said Monday there are at least two more meetings scheduled in which members of the public will be able...
One month to the day 33 year old, Charlie Rogers told police 3 masked men tied her up, beat her, scratched anti-gay slurs on ...
If you're not a citizen, you can't get a driver's license in Nebraska. Gov. Dave Heineman says the state won'...
A Nebraska man gets 80 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography. 24-year-old, Matthew McCann, must also se...
Security has been increased at the University of Nebraska at Omaha after a student reported being sexually assaulted by a man...
Gov. Dave Heineman says Nebraska will host a series of informal public meetings to collect input on the state's effort to...
A former firefighter and paramedic for the city of York has filed a federal lawsuit, claiming she was wrongly fired following...
Deputies have taken a man into custody after they got a gun and knife away from him at a hospital in southeast Nebraska. The ...
Mayor Chris Beutler issued a statement today denouncing the sexually-oriented assault of a woman in her near-south home. The ...
A 32-year-old Nebraska man is charged with sexually abusing at least three boys, possibly more, over an eight-year span in Ne...
The director of Nebraska's insurance department is trying to assure lawmakers that the state has made progress in its eff...
A 35-year-old Nebraska woman already accused of prostituting her 14-year-old and 7-year-old daughters has been charged with h...
Billionaire Warren Buffett says President Barack Obama's health care reforms are a positive step, but more must be done t...
Hot temperatures mean spending more time inside in the air conditioning... unless you're homeless. The People's City ...
Jury selection is under way for a former worker accused of abusing residents at a Nebraska center for developmentally disable...
Mayor Chris Beutler introduced his budget proposal to the Lincoln City Council on Monday. The $312 Million dollar package...
Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman predicts that The affordable care act will continue to increase the cost of health care. The ...
A Nebraska lawmaker who has led the push to create a state-based marketplace for health insurance says officials must move qu...
Republicans in at least three states want to abandon an expansion of Medicaid in President Barack Obama's health care ove...
A Nebraska woman with a felony record who used her son's Social Security number to get a job will spend six months in jai...
The Supreme Court has upheld the heart of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul -- ruling in favor of the require...
Congressional republicans have been slamming the Obama Administration's announcement that it will no longer deport illega...
A 27-year-old Lincoln man is accused of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old in the past month. Jay Gilmore called the Nebraska ...
It's a secret that at least one victim held on to for nearly 30 years, but this past February...he felt something had to ...
The family of a Nebraska man killed along a Mississippi highway would like to see a death sentence handed down in the case. T...
The federal Food and Drug Administration has taken Nebraska's suggestion to appeal a federal judge's ruling against i...
New pre-trial hearings are set for three former workers accused of abusing residents at a Nebraska center for developmentally...
Lincoln Mayor Chris Beutler will outline the city's next actionThursday morning regarding the Fairness Ordinance. The Cit...
The Nebraska mom accused of pimping out her 14- and 7-year-old daughters has waived her preliminary hearing, so the case will...
Nebraska's governor says city ordinances barring discrimination against gay and transgender people should be put to publi...
The appeals process is underway in the court challenge to Fremont's new immigration ordinance. Attorneys for the American...
Organizers say they expect to turn in enough petition signatures to force a public vote on Lincoln's new measure barring ...
A 9-year-old boy originally from Russia who was killed in a Nebraska house fire has been laid to rest, but prosecutors and th...
A fourth man accused of paying a Nebraska mother to let him have sex with her 14-year-old daughter has been charged with sexu...
A 57-year-old Grand Island man has been given a year and a day in prison for Social Security fraud. Jesus Chavez-Flores must ...
Mayor Chris Beutler is asking Lincoln residents to take an online survey on budget priorities. The Mayor's "Taking C...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has denied an appeal by the former Gage County highway superintendent. Marli...
A new report by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services shows an ongoing health disparity between minority women...
A Lincoln man has been sentenced to five years in prison in a federal child pornography case. 45-year-old Todd Hobbs was sent...