Hall County News

Voters in Grand Island's Northwest Public Schools district have rejected a bond proposal but voters in Superior have approved their district's proposal.

Hall County authorities have released the name of a 21-year-old driver who was killed in a rollover accident.

A Holdrege, Neb., man died today in a one-car crash in southern Hall County. The man's identity and details of the crash were not available.The man was driving the car, which left a paved rural road and rolled about 5:10 a.m., said Hall County sheriff's investigator David Waskowiak.

By MICHELLE ZLOMKE Chief Managing Editor The U.S. Census Bureau's regional office is looking for a few good men and women.

A 21-year-old Grand Island woman has pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of pandering.

Central Nebraska authorities have identified a 74-year-old Grand Island man fatally injured when two pickups collided at a rural Hall County intersection.

Secretary of State John Gale, Nebraska's highest ranking election official, said Northwest High School officials may not have good voter turnout for their Nov.

Early voting has grown so popular that Hall County Election Commissioner Dale Baker is looking to add another site for it.

Two Arizona nitwits decided to take their own version of the Arizona Meth Project on the road this week and found themselves arrested and facing drug charges.

Denise K. Withee, who was convicted of dumping dead and dying dogs in a cornfield, has been prohibited, as part of her probation, from owning or living with any animal for five years.

A Grand Island man pleaded not guilty this week to felony motor vehicle homicide for the death of an elderly woman who was picking berries in her backyard.

Sentencing proceedings began Thursday morning in Hall County District Court for Denise Withee, an Iowa woman accused of dumping 23 dead or dying dogs in a cornfield near Grand Island in 2008.

A traffic stop on eastbound Interstate 80 in Hall County, Nebraska led to the seizure of 10 lbs.

A budget crunch in Hall County turns into a loss for the Grand Island Public Library.

The housing of federal detainees is proving to be a money-maker for a county in central Nebraska.

Hall County property taxes will go up $1.64 on a $100,000 house next year. The County Board will meet this morning to approve a $45 million budget that requires more than $15 million in property taxes to fund the county, Stuhr Museum, the airport, area fire districts and the agricultural society, which operates the Hall County Fair.

Dominic Bardales, a first-grader at Grand Island's West Lawn Elementary School, represents the future of the Nebraska State Fair.

A Grand Island man faces a charge of motor-vehicle homicide for a crash that caused his wife's death.

A three-judge panel has been appointed to determine if a Texas man convicted of killing two Nebraska men should be put to death for his crimes.

A Texas man convicted by a Nebraska jury of a double murder will let a judicial panel decide whether he should face the death penalty.