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Bluejay Baseball Earns ABCA Team Academic Award
Omaha, Neb. -- For the second consecutive season and third time in the last five year Creighton Baseball was one of over 470 college and high school programs from across the country who were awarded the 2023-24 ABCA (American Baseball Coaches Association) Team Academic Excellence Award, presented by Sports Attack. Teams from every level of college and high school baseball were honored with this year's award, which highlights programs coached by ABCA members that posted a GPA of 3.0 or above on a 4.0 scale for the cumulative 2023-24 academic year..
Nebraska push for winner-take-all will wait in line after property tax relief
LINCOLN — Nebraska Republicans who want to change how the state awards its Electoral College votes before the presidential election this fall will have to wait a little longer. Gov. Jim Pillen’s office confirmed Monday that his written call for this week’s special session will focus on property taxes...
'Need our help, need our support': Local veteran helping others despite his own battle
PAPILLION, Neb. — A nonprofit got a huge donation for its ultimate purpose. A truck driving school out of Gretna donated $8,000 to Moving Veterans Forward. Both forces are coming together to get veterans back on the road to success. Moving Veterans Forward helps vets get the furniture they...
NCITE Insights: Outdoor Event Security
On the latest episode of NCITE Insights, Erin sits down with Tin Nguyen, Ph.D., NCITE senior research associate, to discuss the challenges of outdoor event security and the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Listen and subscribe to NCITE Insights on major podcast platforms:
Rusty’s First Alert Forecast - Steady warming leading up to next week’s heat
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Just a little patchy fog again as you head out but we’ll get rid of it quickly as we heat up. Highs will make a run at 90 degrees this afternoon, just a bit warmer than yesterday. That happens with the same level of humidity on the muggy meter.
UNMC College of Medicine ranked among top 15 institutions nationally
The University of Nebraska Medical Center’s College of Medicine was ranked as a Tier 1 institution for primary care training, according to a recent U.S. News & World Report’s ranking of medical schools. UNMC is one of 15 schools nationwide to earn the ranking. It was also named...
Nebraska's Matt Rhule gives unique insight on recruiting in modern era
Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule is no stranger to how much the recruiting landscape has changed over the last few decades. From the time he took his first head coaching job at Temple to returning to the college landscape in 2023, the introduction of NIL and the transfer portal has completely flipped recruiting on its head.
Matt Rhule Turning Heads With Comments About Five-Star Freshman QB Dylan Raiola
In what was arguably one of the biggest recruiting wins in all of college football during the 2024 cycle, the Nebraska Cornhuskers flipped five-star quarterback Dylan Raiola from Georgia. The No. 7 ranked recruit had a long lineage with Nebraska being that his dad played center and was named ...
Home addition redtags turn dream home into nightmare
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - A large family has a big dream of more living space, but an expansion project turned out to be a living nightmare. 6 News talks with construction workers to expose what a contractor allegedly did wrong. The back of the Stickney home has a new two-and-a-half...
White Parents Of Adopted Black Sons Fled Predominately White Nebraska Town Over Anti-Black Racism
It began with one student calling their child the n-word, but other Klan cadets joined in, calling him the n-word and a baboon while making monkey noises at him similar to the white Ole Miss frat bro who went viral after making monkey noises at a Black woman in video footage celebrated at the Republican National Convention last week. The post White Parents Of Adopted Black Sons Fled Predominately White Nebraska Town Over Anti-Black Racism appeared first on NewsOne.
Store and two Iowa pharmacists cited for dispensing wrong drugs
An Iowa pharmacy and two pharmacists have agreed to pay civil penalties for allegedly dispensing the incorrect medications to patients. The three cases, all unrelated to each other, are detailed in the latest settlement agreements involving the Iowa Board of Pharmacy. One of the cases involves Food Land Pharmacy in Woodbine. The board alleges that […]
‘My prognosis is incredibly bright’: Nebraska lawmaker continues blood cancer treatments
LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Examiner) - A Nebraska state senator said her ongoing cancer treatments of a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma have been going “very well,” and she looks forward to getting back to the statehouse. State Sen. Jane Raybould of Lincoln, a first-term lawmaker in her...
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