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The first official holiday of summer is just days away and many in the metro are still trying to figure out what to do for Memorial Day.

Gretna resident Noel Larrieu is set to play the Cowardly Lion in the upcoming Omaha Community Playhouse production of "The Wizard of Oz," opening May 31.

After 22-1 2 years representing Ward 2 on the Ralston City Council, Mike Gillespie is calling it a career in public service.

The large, venomous lizard was hatched at the San Antonio Zoo in 2007. It was raised at the Houston Zoo before being transferred to Omaha in November.

Veterinarians have been able to save the leg of a 9-month-old puppy shot by intruders during a home invasion in north Omaha last week.

EuStacia Moss, right, celebrates her graduation with biology professor Dr. Phyllis Higley following Sunday's commencement for the College of St.

The space is lush green, with newly planted trees and a Great Lawn that's illuminated at night by flashing, swirling lights.

The Douglas County Attorney's Office says it won't file criminal charges against a woman shot by an Omaha police officer after she threatened police.

Last September, the body of 31-year-old Jose Luis Quintero was found badly burned in a field near Linoma Beach in Sarpy County.

Hundreds of people are bitten by dogs every year in Omaha, not by strange dogs but by dogs familiar to the victim.

An Omaha charitable group will be heading to Oklahoma City, packing 50,000 meals to the victims of this week's tormadoes.

One day after a powerful tornado destroyed a hospital and devastated an Oklahoma town, long-term care stakeholders gathered at a disaster preparedness conference organized by the Center for Preparedness Education, a joint endeavor of the Creighton University School of Medicine and the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

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Before Monday's tornado in Oklahoma, plans were already in motion in Omaha for a national conferene on disaster preparedness.

Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman used his power of the line-item veto Tuesday to cut $200,000 from the U.S. Senior Open in Omaha this summer.

A search and rescue team, made up of Omaha and Lincoln firefighters, is in Moore, Oklahoma helping in the wake of Monday's deadly tornado.

Nebraska legislators debated the issue of local sales taxes Monday, when Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha introduced an amendment to repeal the local option sales tax changes of last year.

ATS 2013, PHILADELPHIA - The surgical management of non-small cell lung cancer in U.S. hospitals varies widely depending on the race of the patient, according to a new study.

Police say a man found unresponsive in a north Omaha home has died, and investigators are treating the death as a homicide.

A Douglas County jury deliberated for just one hour before acquitting an Omaha man of first-degree murder in the March 2012 slaying of Kyle McCroy.