Gage County News

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.

Lawyer Lyle Koenig says his letter threatening to reveal a prosecutor's alleged car registration violation was intended as a joke, but Gage County Attorney Randy Ritnour didn't take it that way.

The mother of a former Beatrice State Developmental Center resident has filed legal claims alleging her son suffered permanent injuries because of poor care at the state institution and the local hospital.

What started out as a simple traffic violation and some small-town sleuthing has ended up costing one Nebraska lawyer his job -- for the next four months anyway.

A Beatrice lawyer has said he was joking when he told the Gage County attorney he wouldn't pursue charges against him for improper vehicle registration if he dropped similar charges against his client.