Gage County News

Heavy, wet snow is being blamed for power outages in southeast Nebraska. Up to 6 inches of snow was being reported at several locations on Monday morning.

Some parts of the area had their first taste of winter this morning. Here in Lincoln, we had our first snow last month.

Beatrice firefighters are investigating a blaze that broke out at a restaurant near the courthouse.

The deadline has arrived for Gage County voters to mail in their votes on a bond issue to build a new jail near Beatrice.

Officers in Beatrice talked a man into dropping the pry bar he was brandishing, then arrested him for breaking into the sheriff's department offices.

We have a clarification on a story we told you about on Friday. As we reported Gage county will have an H1N1 Flu Vaccination clinic Tuesday.

A former Gage County jail guard who had pleaded guilty after a deal with prosecutors has been given three-to-five years in prison for sexually assaulting an inmate.

A Kansas man who had escaped briefly from a Gage County deputy has pleaded guilty and faces up to five years in prison when he's sentenced next month.

A 36-year-old Beatrice man has been given 14-to-30 years in prison for sexually assaulting two children in 2007.

Crumbling, decaying and dingy. Dilapidated homes are becoming a nuisance in rural Nebraska.

An Omaha man has been charged with felony child abuse in the death of his girlfriend's 14-week-old daughter.

Nebraska's unemployment rate remained steady at 5% in August, the same rate recorded in July.

Omaha Police Wednesday arrested the man believed to be involved in the death of a 14-week-old child.

Beatrice police say a man sought in connection with the death of his girlfriend's 14-week-old daughter has been captured in Omaha.

Gage County voters will decide in November whether to approve an $11.4 million bond issue for a new jail and law-enforcement center.

For Henry Brandt, the Nebraska State Fair is practically his blood and bones. As fair manager, he lived in a stately brick house on the fairgrounds for nearly 25 years.

Five of the six people wrongly convicted in the 1985 rape-murder of a Beatrice, Neb., woman have now filed claims with the State of Nebraska, seeking $500,000 each for years of wrongful imprisonment.

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A school bus collided with a pickup at a rural intersection in southeast Nebraska, injuring several students and both drivers.

State authorities have issued health alerts for toxic blue-green algae at a lake in northwest Nebraska, one in southeast Nebraska and continued an alert at another lake in southeast Nebraska.