Douglas County News

The penalties are one reason some hospitals are paying nurses to make follow-up home visits and set up doctor's appointments for patients - tasks that used to be left to patients' relatives or the patients themselves.

Marty Bilek has served the Douglas County Sheriff's Office for 38 years, including as the chief deputy for the last 11 years.

Last December, a legislative hearing in Lincoln shed light on the strains and shortcomings afflicting Nebraska's juvenile justice system.

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.

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.

A new task force will investigate whether last week's slayings of a Creighton University physician and his wife are connected to the stabbing deaths of an 11-year-old boy and his family's housekeeper five years ago.

Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer calling for a Task Force that will operate 7 days a week to solve the Roger & Mary Brumback murders and to see if there is a connection to the 2008 murders of Thomas Hunter and Shirlee Sherman.

The writer, of Omaha, was a Douglas County election commissioner and ran unsuccessfully for Nebraska's 2nd District congressional seat in 1976.

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.

"Right now, there are close to 1,000 sex offenders living in Douglas County alone," said Chief Deputy Marty Bilek with the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.

Released from prison for his seventh DUI conviction, it took all of five days for Daniel Cano to get caught drinking and driving again.

OMAHA It could soon be easier to get cited for a DUI. The National Transportation Safety Board wants all states to drop the legal Blood Alcohol Content level from .08 to .05. The board said that drunken driving is a consistent threat to public safety and that lowering the limit will change that.

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

Tuesday night Omaha voters will know who their next mayor will be. You can get the latest results at the Douglas County Election Commission's website .

On September 22, 2010, Officer Peterson of the Douglas County Nebraska Sheriff's Department pulled over a vehicle with an out of state license plate headed eastbound on Interstate 80.

The monitoring will ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and other federal voting rights statutes.

There are the choices between candidates. Voters will choose a mayor, all seven City Council members and all nine members of a new Omaha Public Schools board.

The Peter Kiewit Institute is to be congratulated on important steps it's taking to put the University of Nebraska - and the Omaha area in particular - on the map nationally as a center of engineering and technology excellence.

The Police Department has refined its policy on the public's use of cameras and video in the wake of a YouTube posting of an arrest that led to the firing of four officers, two of whom are charged with criminal wrongdoing.

The Police Department has refined its policy on the public's use of cameras and video in the wake of a YouTube posting of an arrest that led to the firing of four officers, two of whom are charged with criminal wrongdoing.