Police: Student, assistant principal dead after Nebraska school shooting
[Updated at 10:18 p.m. ET] Millard South High School Assistant Principal Vicki Kaspar was pronounced dead at Creighton University hospital Wednesday night, Omaha Police Department Officer Michael Pecha...
View ArticlePolice: Student killed assistant principal after she sent him home
A Nebraska high school senior had been called out of class to speak with an assistant principal just hours before he returned to school and fatally shot her, Omaha police said Thursday. Robert Butler...
View ArticleTough day at the office for Nebraska nuclear plant workers
Think you have a bad commute? It's nothing compared with the one that several hundred employees have at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station near Omaha, Nebraska. The toughest part of their trip to work...
View ArticleAmtrak train derails in Nebraska
An Amtrak train with 178 people on board derailed Friday in southwestern Nebraska, the rail service said. A few passengers were hospitalized, but there were no reports of life-threatening injuries,...
View ArticleDisabled girl gets spot on cheer team, hundreds of miles away
A Nebraska girl born with incomplete arms and no legs has finally achieved her dream of being a cheerleader – thanks to a high school coach about 800 miles away. Julia Sullivan, 16, of Aurora, and her...
View ArticleBus accident injures 33
Thirty-three people were injured - two critically - in a bus accident Thursday morning near Gibbon, Nebraska, the American Bus Association reported. The driver of the bus was among those critically...
View ArticleBig snow disappoints with minor moisture
Six inches of snow in Chicago. A foot or so plastering the Upper Midwest. And up 20 inches expected just west of Washington D.C. Surely, there's a silver lining to these snow clouds though, right?...
View ArticleOil, money, politics: Keystone XL hits a snag
The politics of oil and ecology have put President Obama between a rock and hard place, as he faces a decision on whether or not to permit construction of a new pipeline. The squeeze just got tighter...
View Article3 killed in rash of Omaha shootings
A spate of shootings in less than an hour left three people dead in Omaha, Nebraska, police said. The shootings all took place in south Omaha on Saturday, the same day the city kicked off the College...
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