Beatrice News

The Nebraska Supreme Court has signed off on allowing media cameras and audio equipment in another state court.

The economy has put a damper on a lot of Iowa families' plans for vacations this summer, but, Lieutenant Governor Patty Judge says she has a solution.

Five of the 47 medically fragile people ordered out of the Beatrice State Developmental Center by state officials have now died since their sudden move.

During my time on the Ohio Developmental Disabilities Council, I learned of the passion that disability advocates have for community services.

A new Iowa law lets you take your bottle of wine "to-go." As of today, if you don't finish the bottle, the restaurant can cork it for you.

Gov. Dave Heineman once argued for putting the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services under a single chief executive officer.

Fans are available to low-income, aged or disabled people and families. The Low Income Energy Assistance Program in the Department of Health and Human Services purchased the fans.

Frail elderly and geriatric syndromes are the topics for the next geriatric care conference to be broadcast live via the state-wide telehealth network July 16-17. The two-day conference is targeted to health care professionals and will focus on urinary incontinence, unintentional weight loss and failure to thrive, management of hip fractures, ...

The Beatrice Daily Sun, an 8,000 circulation daily newspaper in southeast Nebraska, is currently accepting resumes for the position of page designer The Daily Sun is located 40 miles from Lincoln and just a short drive from Omaha and Kansas City.

What do you do when you've just hanged someone for murder, and then their "victim" pops up alive and healthy a few towns away? Justice went thataway for some people convicted of murders they didn't commit.

Gage county Emergency Management Director Mark Meints says two tornadoes briefly touched down Wednesday afternoon.

A tornado was spotted Wednesday afternoon on the ground near Odell, about 20 miles south of Beatrice, but it was hail that caused considerable crop and property damage in the area.

Term limits cast out State Sen. Tom Baker from the Nebraska Legislature in 2006.

Two men who escaped the Marshall County jail Sunday night were caught early Monday morning in Nebraska.

A missing Nebraska woman's husband has been sentenced to several years in prison on charges that have nothing to do with her disappearance.

About 630 people from 35 states pedaling across Nebraska made a stop just outside of Beatrice, in Wymore, Monday.

Morningside College's seven-year fundraising campaign has come to a prosperous close.

Joseph Albrecht , he settled in Lincoln, Nebraska circa 1872. Family lore is he may have been part of a large family or group who ended up in Beatrice, Nebraska around 1870 or so.

An 80-year-old driver was killed in Beatrice, Neb., after his vehicle ran a stop sign.

Thirty-two dogs and one cat were taken from a Sioux City home earlier this week by Sioux City Animal Control.