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A passage from Willa Cather's unfinished and purportedly destroyed novel "Hard Punishments" was among a new collection of writings and mementos unveiled Thursday at the world's largest archive devoted to the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
An Iowa training drill involving a mock school shooting by a teen venting anger over illegal immigration was canceled Friday after authorities said a real shooting was threatened at the high school where the drill was to take place.
An anti-illegal immigration group in Iowa is criticizing a mock school shooting training drill that includes a fake scenario involving a teen who vents his anger over illegal immigration by using violence.
An increased expansion of Nebraska's Memorial Stadium will help satisfy a higher demand for seats and allow for future growth as the school enters the Big Ten conference, athletic department officials said Friday.
Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle appears to have survived this week's recall election, but his narrow victory doesn't say much for the way he's run Nebraska's largest city.
Fred Hargesheimer, a World War II Army pilot whose rescue by Pacific islanders led to a life of giving back as a builder of schools and teacher of children, died Thursday morning. He was 94. Richard Hargesheimer said his father had been suffering from poor health and passed away in Lincoln.
A Nebraska judge threw out a lawsuit Friday challenging a state law that allows some illegal immigrants to pay in-state college tuition.
Abortion rights foes emboldened by a new Nebraska law that restricts late-term procedures based on the disputed notion that fetuses can feel pain after 20 weeks are pushing for similar legislation in other states, particularly those where Republicans won big in November.
A Christian group is proclaiming Jesus' return in billboards going up in Omaha and other U.S. cities for the holiday season.
The Nebraska Supreme Court won't weigh in on whether municipalities can enact immigration-related restrictions on where people can live or work, the court said in an opinion issued Friday.
University of Nebraska regents approved a $9.25 million settlement Friday that clears the way for the school to leave the Big 12 Conference next year for the Big Ten without going to court.
Bolstered by unique abortion restrictions that took effect in his home state of Nebraska on Friday, U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns is pushing for a new federal discussion of the notion of fetal pain.
Three former executives of a Scottsbluff car dealership have filed a federal lawsuit against their bank and Toyota's financial arms over accusations that they stole dozens of vehicles off their own lot.
A federal judge overturned Nebraska's ban on flag mutilation Thursday, clearing the way for Kansas church protesters to continue trampling on the U.S. flag when they protest at military funerals.
Somali Muslim workers at a meatpacking plant in Grand Island were denied prayer time and faced harassment and even termination for asking to pray, according to a lawsuit filed Monday by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
One of two controversial abortion laws put on the books in Nebraska this spring was likely blocked for good on Wednesday, and the future of the other law is murky.
An Omaha man who contracted an infection that rendered him a quadriplegic after taking the immunosuppressant Rituxan says the drug's makers knew of the risk but didn't warn users right away, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday.
A woman was fired last year by an Omaha homebuilder because the company's CEO believed her unborn child carried "negative energy," according to a federal lawsuit.
The state of Nebraska will pay foster care providers and subcontractors left in limbo after an Omaha-based agency closed its doors amid financial troubles, under an agreement announced late Monday.
A Fremont businessman falsified financial statements for his golf course construction company to defraud lenders and insurers out of more than $8 million, according to a 14-count federal indictment.
A Minneapolis nonprofit that develops duck nesting grounds must sell a 949-acre tract in North Dakota because of state restrictions on corporate ownership of agricultural land, the North Dakota Supreme Court said in an opinion released Thursday.
The stock price of TierOne Corp. plummeted in trading Wednesday, a day after the Lincoln-based bank holding company announced that Nasdaq will drop TierOne from its listings.
Federal regulators have blocked Lincoln-based TierOne Bank's proposed sale of 32 branches.
A cell phone company has filed a lawsuit against the village of Doniphan over the denial of a permit to build a new tower.
A South Dakota police department has changed its policy for releasing information to the military following the outing of a lesbian Air Force sergeant that led to her discharge.
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