Ponca News

Vermillion stretched its winning streak to four and its season record to 13-8 with a pair of victories in competitive matches at home last week.

Citing testimony from family members of Dana Turner Sr., the state denied parole for an Omaha man who shot and killed Turner at a Ponca Hills-area party in 1993.

The 5th annual Missouri River Outdoor Expo wrapped up in Ponca, Nebraska on Sunday.

Standing Bear Elementary, 15860 Taylor St., is part of the Omaha Public Schools.

From the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission -- Youths again will have a chance to win a half-price lifetime hunting or fishing permit via drawing this fall, according to the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.

Ezra Millard Elementary, 14111 Blondo St., was built in 1988 and named for the man who founded the town of Millard, now a suburb of southwest Omaha.

Trudy Hartline made her weekly stop Tuesday at the Florence post office, then visited the nearby multipurpose center that houses the public library.

Construction on the Transcanada Keystone Pipeline has made its way to Norfolk, Nebraska.

The body of a missing Ponca City man was recovered at a lake in Canada over the weekend, according to reports.

A Guatemalan woman should not lose custody of her children because she was deported from the United States, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday.

Ponca Chief Standing Bear's death 101 years ago in his beloved northeast Nebraska marked the passing of a historic figure.

Mark Sipma and his wife Kimber both grew up in town, and are now looking to make a career out of dairying.

The Nebraska Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday over whether the state's legal procedures can trump a federal law that allows American Indian tribes to intervene in child-welfare cases.

Wasilla, Alaska resident Frances Earl VanBuskirk, 79, died April 20, 2009, at home of natural causes.