Sarpy County News

If your yard waste has been sitting on the curb longer than usual you're not alone.

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The tradition continues in Sarpy County with LaVista Daze. The festival marks the unofficial kick off to the long holiday weekend ahead.

It has its own top-flight medical facilities and attractions, and it has public services at least on par with its bigger neighbors.

The space is lush green, with newly planted trees and a Great Lawn that's illuminated at night by flashing, swirling lights.

Last September, the body of 31-year-old Jose Luis Quintero was found badly burned in a field near Linoma Beach in Sarpy County.

Dot Nelson works on a rhinestone design at Bling by Zing in Papillion on May 6. The shop is family owned, and a ribbon cutting was held on May 10 with the Sarpy County Chamber of Commerce.

The Sarpy County attorney has dismissed charges filed against a Bellevue police officer after his cruiser collided with two vehicles on an icy road.

Tim Miles can't stop talking about his new recruit. This kid may not be the biggest in the Big Ten, but he's big enough.

Swanson and eight other Creighton residence halls were part of a program called Give & Go that encouraged students to drop off items while cleaning out their dorm rooms.

Margi, left, and Wendy Fletcher of It's All About Bees! will provide honey tastings for those who stop in as part of the Nebraska Passport program this summer.

Patrick K. Clarke of Bellevue - the county's fleet manager until he was fired last fall - pleaded guilty to theft and official misconduct after an investigation found that he had used a county-issued credit card to buy fuel for his personal car.

The timing couldn't have been worse. On a day when the thermometer hit 100 degrees, OPPD crews were working on power outages scattered throughout Douglas & Sarpy Counties.

The Peter Kiewit Institute is to be congratulated on important steps it's taking to put the University of Nebraska - and the Omaha area in particular - on the map nationally as a center of engineering and technology excellence.

Bellevue Mayor Rita Sanders says she will renominate Bellevue businessman Mike Hall to fill the vacated Ward 1 council seat and will veto any attempt to fill the seat by special election.

Candidates Lacey Merica and William Forsee bring two entirely different sets of experiences to the race to represent Subdistrict 8 on the Omaha school board.

Heineman also signed into law a measure that reduces the taxing authority of the Learning Community of Douglas and Sarpy Counties.

Last year 736 file boxes were destroyed to conserve room at the Sarpy County Clerk's Office.

Senior Jeff Lechner, 18, leads prospective students and their parents on a tour of Benson High School.

"We can't have this type of conduct - it's a betrayal of public trust," Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said in announcing that the two have been charged in connection with the controversial arrest of three brothers in north Omaha.