Douglas County News

The Commit to Quit smoking cessation program consists of 8 one-hour group sessions designed to help people re-learn to live their lives smoke-free. Cost is $75. A class for family members and friends.

A teenager was hurt Sunday night when the car they were driving was rear-ended and pushed into the path of a pickup truck.

Bill Green, and Floyd Stenneche, driving, check on the snow plowing in a SID in Douglas County west of Omaha.

Leroy Parmar Jr. took the witness stand in 1988 and tried unsuccessfully to convince a Douglas County jury that he didn't kill a man for a few hundred bucks.

The plan emulates Hawaii, where employees at religious institutions that do not offer free contraception in the health insurance plan can get birth control through side benefits.

Omaha television station WOWT says Jill Lewis had the hoop installed for her three sons at their home in Merrifield Village.

Fred Witzig, born 1864. Sons Albert Witzig and Carl William Witzig . They lived in Douglas County, Nebraska, USA as of 1910.

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Michigan and Nebraska couldn't be at much more different places in their seasons when they meet at the Devaney Center on Wednesday.

Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine has determined that Omaha police were justified in pursuing suspects last month.

Local baseball fans will get a chance to learn more about the history of the Negro Leagues this summer.

The Nebraska Supreme Court reversed Friday the September ruling that the Learning Community of Douglas and Sarpy County's tax levy was unconstitutional.

The bartender told police he took cover behind the counter when a man entered the Spaulding Bar in north Omaha around 8 p.m. Dec.

Stewart O. Newman took the stand Monday and admitted to doing all sorts of "wrong" sexually charged acts with an underage girl - including snapping at least six graphic photos of him and the girl.

Douglas County joins more than 22 other local Nebraska police departments such as the Bellevue Police Department and the Lincoln Police Department in adopting the services of PropertyRoom.com. "Property Room looks forward to working with Douglas County to auction off their surplus and seized items, and to make the auctions more easily available ... (more)

The NFL's greatest quarterbacks are usually ranked by the number of rings they've won.

If the suspected carjacker hadn't been Facebook friends with his alleged victim, he might never have been charged in the case.

Rain was starting to change over to snow as wind batters the flags by the Henningson Memorial Campanile on the University of Nebraska at Omaha campus Friday night.

A judge on Friday ordered a Lincoln man charged with making terroristic threats at Eppley Airfield, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, to stand trial.

It appears some people believe the Douglas County Board has been on a spending spree, but nothing could be further from the truth.