Lexington News

Cornhusker Energy Lexington and its insurer say the plant lost more than $1.8 million after a pipeline carrying natural gas outside the plant ruptured last December.

The budget cuts that got second-round approval on Wednesday include a measure that would allow the legislative branch to keep more than $1 million.

A Corn and Soybean Workshop will be held Thursday, December 3, at the Dawson County Extension Office on the Fairgrounds in Lexington, according to Bruce Treffer, Dawson County Extension Educator.

Members of the Nebraska Rural Radio Association gathered in Lexington Monday for the annual meeting.

World War II vet Dean Weissert of Eustis. The Lexington Middle School conducted their own Veterans Day Program on Wednesday with students, faculty and veterans filling the auditorium.

A Lexington man facing attempted murder and sexual assault charges had his bond reduced to $500,000, 10 percent following a hearing Friday in Dawson County District Court.

U.S. Senator Mike Johanns will be holding four more town hall meetings throughout Nebraska to talk about health care reform.

Many beef producers haven't been in a packing plant before. Many don't understand the final product .

A man serving life sentences for murdering two women in central Nebraska in the 1970s has died at the state penitentiary.

If Norman Rockwell had carried an iPod and posted on Twitter, he probably would have liked living in the Nebraska town of Gothenburg.

A food drive conducted by Lexington Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts and Heartland Chiropractic matched by Plum Creek Market Place collected nearly 5,500 items for the Lexington Food Pantry.

The Nebraska Department of Economic Development has awarded $73,500 in Community Development Block Grant funding to Lexington, Plattsmouth and Scribner to complete the Phase I portion of downtown revitalization projects.

Lexington Boy Scout Troop 88 will conduct a flag retirement ceremony on Sunday, November 8 at Heartland Museum of Military Vehicles starting at 3:30 p.m. The ceremony, which is open to the public, will take place on the south side of the museum facility, located near the Lexington I-80 interchange.

Troop 88 Boy Scouts took part in a flag ceremony on Saturday to dedicate a new 25-foot flag pole at Shackley Retirement Village in Lexington.

Friday B: Alliance at Aurora has been postponed to Saturday, October 31st at 4:00 p.m. CT.

First the judge excoriated the former high school teacher for violating a 14-year-old student's trust and sexually assaulting her.

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In a separate case, Bates was sentenced to 20 to 60 months on a charge of making terroristic threats against a Cozad woman, both charges are class 4 felonies.

All rail lines are open at the site where an eastbound Union Pacific coal train derailed in central Nebraska.

Thirty-nine coal cars tipped over early Saturday morning in Dawson County. Union Pacific officials reported that the derailment occurred at 12:13 a.m. between Lexington and Overton.