Students, faculty and staff at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will have several opportunities next week to meet the priority candidate to become the next chancellor of the state’s largest university campus.Rodney Bennett, the former president of the University of Southern Mississippi, wa…
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Though he’s found his calling in the band room, University of Nebraska-Lincoln musical arts doctoral student Trevor Frost has always felt a connection to the outdoors.He’ll soon have a chance to pursue both passions simultaneously, having recently been named a member of the six-person “Compo…
A sculpture honoring University of Nebraska alumna Willa Cather will be unveiled next week in Washington, D.C.On June 7 at 10 a.m., Cather’s 7-foot sculpture will be dedicated and unveiled in the National Statuary Hall in the United States Capital.Live viewing parties of the dedication cerem…
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Saunders County authorities are searching for a man who has been missing for nearly two weeks.The Saunders County Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook post earlier this week that 42-year-old Tyler Miers was last seen on May 20 near the Prague Quik Stop.The sheriff's office said Miers left his…
A day after an attack by inmates at a Lincoln prison sent five staff members to the hospital, state lawmakers passed a bill requiring the prison to provide stab-resistant vests to corrections officers.It was included in a criminal justice reform bill (LB50) that passed Thursday in a 34-15 vo…
The driver of a dump truck traveling through south Lincoln on Wednesday crashed into a traffic signal pole — rather than the cars in front of him — after his brakes failed near 56th Street and Old Cheney Road, according to police.The man told authorities that he was driving west on Old Chene…
Police are investigating a suspected arson after vandals lit a fire inside a portable toilet at Lincoln Southeast High School last weekend, authorities said Thursday.A school employee filed a belated report at around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday after discovering the burned portable toilet, which surve…
Southbound lanes of 27th Street were temporarily closed Thursday after a car hit a utility pole.Dispatch records show the collision occurred just before 6 a.m. at 27th and Calvert streets.Lincoln Electric System said its employees would be working at the collision site for several hours, but…
The Internal Revenue Service has reopened their Taxpayer Assistance Center in downtown Lincoln.The Taxpayer Assistance Center is in the Robert V. Denney Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 100 Centennial Mall, Room 158. With additional funding from the Inflation Reduction Act, the IRS has …
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Lincoln Public Schools district offices on O Street were destroyed by fire on May 30, 2011. See photos from the scene.
A 31-year-old Lincoln man got more than 30 years in prison Wednesday for kidnapping a woman and her 2-year-old child during a methamphetamine-induced psychotic episode."This, frankly, was a horrific incident," Deputy Lancaster County Attorney Jessica Murphy said at Joshua Salazar's sentencin…
Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers asked a Lancaster County District Court judge to reject a request to block the enforcement of restrictions on gender-affirming care and abortions after 12 weeks.In a court filing late Tuesday, Hilgers asked Judge Lori Maret to reject a temporary injunct…
The state of Iowa is challenging a ruling that it violated prison workers’ right to be heard on issues of personal safety and assaults on the staff committed by inmates.In a petition filed last week in Polk County District Court, Attorney General Brenna Bird, representing the state, is argui…
