Sarpy County News

Health officials acknowledged long lines Thursday at Douglas County's mass vaccination clinic, saying there's no easy way to vaccinate so many people.

The Sarpy-Cass Health Department is giving people in high-risk groups for the H1N1 flu virus a chance to get vaccinations on Saturday.

Cabela's unveiled plans today to invest $10 million to $15 million in constructing a 16,000-square-foot data center that will create up to 20 new jobs at the Papillion Business and Technology Park.

A dog that attacked a Bellevue woman gets a reprieve for now. Its owner appeared in court Wednesday to answer charges that the animal is dangerous.

Motorists, be warned. Three car-deer collisions in Sarpy County this morning were expected to be the first of a surge of such accidents in coming weeks.

The days of healthy pay raises might seem like a distant memory to workers who have seen their pay drop or their jobs disappear.

Phone calls to Bellevue's City Hall are recorded, without the knowledge of the callers or city employees.

Rarely have vaccinations been so alluring. Several hundred people lined up Saturday at a Papillion clinic for the privilege of getting a needle in the arm or mist up the nose.

A 23-year-old man charged in connection with the sexual assault of a 16-year-old boy pleaded no contest to a lesser charge Monday.

A judge has dismissed a motor-vehicle homicide charge facing an Omaha woman accused of driving and crashing a golf cart while drunk, killing a friend.

A missionary from Chile has pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of sexual assault of a 16-year-old boy.

No doubt, parents will be monitoring the forecast for Saturday. Thousands of ghosts and goblins and other characters will be flooding the sidewalks and overheating the doorbells.

The Nebraska Supreme Court has honored two judges for exceptional service. Chief Justice Mike Heavican recently presented awards to Sarpy County Judge Robert Wester and Adams County Judge Michael Offner.

Charges have been dropped against a man who took a saw to the trunk of a historic tree in La Vista last winter.

Racheal Cascio - filed a sexual harassment claim against her boss, Papillion's then-Mayor James Blinn.

A lawsuit asks the Nebraska Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional a super school board that oversees Omaha metro area schools.

A man found dead on Saturday underneath a railroad bridge often had taken walks in the area, officials said Sunday.

The body of a missing man was found Saturday morning around 11:30 near 118th and Olive Street.

Attorney General Jon Bruning said today that "allegations of unwanted sexual touching and sexually suggestive verbal advances" were behind the City of Papillion's $200,000 settlement with a woman who worked as an assistant to former Mayor Jamie Blinn.

A program on Saturday offered people in the Omaha area a chance to dispose of unused and expired medications with no questions asked.