Bruning News

Alex Hayes, Omaha's new police chief, is glad that the city has recorded fewer homicides this year than in 2008 - 28 vs.

The first wintry blast of a major storm beginning to move across Nebraska glazed parts of the state with a dangerous layer of ice up to a 1/4-inch thick.

Authorities say a Nebraska man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing cattle in east-central Missouri.

A battle over a new law that seeks to add new restrictions on sexual predators in Nebraska is intensifying, but the last-minute legal challenges may not be able to stop the changes from taking effect Jan.

On Wednesday, the Curtis-based Middle Republican NRD voted to accept the so-called "Option Three" plan that would shut off wells within about 1 ½ miles of the river when Harlan County Lake is especially low.

Mike Tollander was convicted of attempted first degree sexual assault. He served two years and will be on Nebraska's sex offender registry for 10 years, but starting next year, that will change.

It's a law designed to make it easier for you to find out if a sex offender is living in your neighborhood.

The flurries began Monday evening in Ogallala, Ainsworth and O'Neill, and the National Weather Service predicted that much of the state would receive at least an inch of snow overnight.

A deal between the Justice Department and a medical-waste company seeking to buy a smaller rival will ensure the industry remains competitive and costs stay low in Nebraska, the state's attorney general said Wednesday.

Time hasn't been kind to Lucille Kilgore. In the 20 months since a judge ordered the state to give her $447,000 in back pay for decades of work in the juvenile parole office, Kilgore hasn't received a dime.

A federal judge has dismissed portions of lawsuits brought by four people who spent decades behind bars for a 1985 murder that DNA evidence proved they didn't commit.

Nebraska's Attorney General Jon Bruning is looking forward to prosecuting sex offenders under new online enticement laws.

Does the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution apply only to the Federal government, or does it also restrict the states and cities from infringing on a citizen's right to bear arms? That is the issue at the heart of a case to be heard before the U.S. Supreme Court.

For some, they're just a piece of paper issued by a judge, but protection orders carry a lot of weight for some victims of domestic violence.

University of Nebraska -Lincoln Extension's Farmers and Ranchers College classes are scheduled to begin Dec.

The Nebraska State Patrol is identifying a 38-year-old semitrailer driver from Manitoba, Canada, as the person killed in a three-vehicle crash on a southeast Nebraska highway.

The Nebraska State Patrol said the driver of a semi was killed in a three-vehicle crash a quarter mile south of Bruning at the junction of Highway 4 and 81.

A south-central Nebraska man accused of trying to entice what he believed were underage girls has pleaded no contest to a felony online enticement charge.

Nebraska should not be deterred by a recently botched execution in Ohio and ought to move forward with a proposed three-drug protocol to carry out executions by lethal injection, State Attorney General Jon Bruning said Monday.

Sarpy County Attorney Lee Polikov said Wednesday that he might have probable cause to bring misdemeanor charges of official misconduct against two Papillion firefighters punished in a cheating scandal.