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Daniel Covin has landed a recurring role of Hunter on "All My Children." Covin, 19, is a graduate of Papillion-La Vista High School.

Sharon Penner, who has been feeding schoolchildren for 43 years, decided new federal school nutrition mandates were a sign from above to retire.

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Daniel Covin has landed a recurring role of Hunter on "All My Children." Covin, 19, is a graduate of Papillion-La Vista High School.

Bail was set at $50,000 today for an Omaha father accused of ignoring his adolescent son's sexual abuse of a 6-year-old girl.

The event runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in north Omaha. Unwanted or illegal guns and ammunition can be dropped off at Salem Baptist Church.

Omaha cold case investigators have been looking for links between this week's slayings of a Creighton University professor and his wife and the 2008 slayings of an 11-year-old boy and his family housekeeper.

Authorities say that just five days after 37-year-old Daniel Cano left prison after serving time for drunken driving, he was caught driving drunk again.

Susan Russell Toohey, head of school at Marian High and a descendant of the founders of Creighton University, with a book she compiled tracing her family lineage.

Best known as the host of the American Public Media show "A Prairie Home Companion," Keillor will perform Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Holland Performing Arts Center.

Omaha police say a man who was detained and questioned after a shooting Wednesday morning was not connected to the crime.

History was made Tuesday night when Jean Stothert became the first woman to be elected mayor of Omaha.

Need to find a summer camp for your children? What about a family-friendly activity that won't break your budget? All of that and more can be found on a brand new website created by Omaha resident Julie Schmitz.

Rescue crews were called to the soccer fields in the early morning hours Thursday after a damaged car came to rest in the middle of an Omaha park.

In 2011, Steve Gates, who followers of a website called Hit That Dive know as Scuba Steve, organized a bar crawl down Leavenworth Street.

Tim Miles can't stop talking about his new recruit. This kid may not be the biggest in the Big Ten, but he's big enough.

OmaBra owner Cathy Dougherty has been helping women find a proper-fitting bra and feel better about how they look for more than a decade.

After more than a year of controversies on the Omaha school board, district voters have opted for a fresh start.

The City Council of the past four years appears to be quite the popular group. Every incumbent who made it past the primary won re-election Tuesday, most of them by wide margins.