La Vista News

Nigel the chinchilla was on a roll. In a supersized hamster ball, the dark-gray rodent tooled around the hardwood floor of the conference room, occasionally banging into a wall in his exuberance.

The La Vista Police Department say a 35 year old Army Reservist sought sex online from someone he thought was a 14 year old girl.

The two cousins who fell from their boat Sunday likely died within seconds of being struck by the craft, authorities said.

A tragic accident on the water kills two fishermen. It happened around 8:20 a.m. on Sunday on Branched Oak Lake in Lincoln.

Community leaders called for cooperation between cities at the Sarpy County Chamber of Commerce's "State of the County" breakfast presentation this morning.

Omahan Nicholle Reisdorff worked for six years at what she called her dream job: a researcher for federal courts in Washington, D.C., with an office that overlooked the Capitol.

La Vista is holding a public meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday for residents to sound off on what they would like to see revive a stretch of 84th Street.

The Douglas County attorney is considering filing charges against a boat driver who police said was driving drunk when the water tube he was pulling crashed into a dock, killing a woman and critically injuring another.

A La Vista man has called Omaha Police to report an attack that he was able to fend off, but now, he says, the suspect continues to harass him.

Residents of a La Vista apartment building were evacuated Thursday when fire broke out on the upper floors of the building.

Twenty apartments have been evacuated because of an apartment fire in La Vista. The blaze broke out at the Pointe Apartment complex near 87th Street and Giles Road, said La Vista Police Chief Bob Lausten.

The La Vista mother who submitted a plea for help for her baby in a Craigslist ad will not face criminal charges for placing the online ad, the Sarpy County attorney said Monday.

A woman who posted an online ad that offered her child for sale will not be charged.

The state has taken an 18-month-old away from a La Vista mother after she allegedly advertised the baby for sale on the Web site Craigslist.

A La Vista baby is in the custody of the state, after a caller notified a child abuse hotline about a disturbing Craigslist ad.

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Police found James Handsaker inside his in-laws' North Platte, Neb., mobile home Tuesday morning, clad only in underwear as he chatted online with a La Vista detective posing as a 13-year-old girl.

La Vista detectives arrested a North Platte man after they said he solicited sexual favors from them while on an Internet chat site.

A year after rejecting a proposal for affordable housing along La Vista's gateway corridor, the city appears ready to support the newly redesigned project.

Nebraska's smoking ban starts Monday. While restaurants in Omaha are already used to the smoking ban.