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LINCOLN — The village of Litchfield in central Nebraska “boasts a whopping 280 people,” according to its website, which goes on to say that the small-town atmosphere contributes to a high quality of life.   But a Nebraska State Auditor’s Office probe into village operations has disrupted the calm, revealing apparent misappropriation of public funds, inaccurate utility […]

Tuesday, marked the grand re-opening of Timbercreek Apartments. It serves as affordable housing. Wednesday, KMTV wanted to expand and explore the need for more affordable housing in west Omaha.

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - A California man was sentenced in federal court to over five years in prison for a series of Walmart thefts. Jabaree Mabrey, 27, was sentenced Thursday for fraudulent use of unauthorized access device. There is no parole in the federal system. After Mabrey’s release, he will begin a three-year term of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $690,484 in restitution.

CHAPMAN, Neb. — Chapman is coping with the loss of its school but a redevelopment plan to turn it into a treatment center brings mixed feedback — and another vote after legal issues were found. The village board voted earlier this month to sell the property to Phillip...

Kuemper Catholic Schools will be canceling classes for middle and high school students, allowing for peers and staff to attend the funeral of a classmate after a courageous fight against cancer. There will be no school on Tuesday, Sept. 3 for seventh through twelfth grade students, in honor of 14-year-old Bailey Lux who passed away yesterday (Wednesday). The funeral services will be at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday at Holy Spirit Church. There is special seating for members of the current freshman and senior classes at the funeral. Any freshman or senior wishing to sit with amongst peers during the service are asked to be at the church by 9:35 a.m. to be lined up and proceed into the building at 9:40 a.m. A response team with trained professionals, along with counselors and priests, will be available at the school buildings to assist any students, staff or parents needing help to cope. In May, doctors discovered that the low-dose oral chemo treatment Bailey was on was not effective and the cancer continued to spread quickly. Bailey took on the summer chemo free, getting to experience all of her favorite things like attending the Indiana Fever and Las Vegas Aces game to see Caitlin Clark and Kate Martin, her favorite former Iowa Hawkeye basketball players again, visiting the Henrey Doorley Zoo in Omaha, Neb. and much more. While Bailey’s fight is now over, she now joins her mother, Renee and is at peace. The Lux family wishes to extend their love and thanks to the community and all who have prayed and supported them over the last two years.

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - There were glory days for Benson High School Baseball. The 1974 team won the state championship. At one time, the Benson Bunnies were very competitive on the diamond. “They were championship caliber,” said Paul Brown, the president of the Benson High School Foundation. “They had kids...

The city of Grand Island is reconstructing South Locust Street from Fonner Park Road to Koenig Street.

The new park in Old Market will provide a green space for neighbors and visitors to enjoy and neighbors feel it could enhance connectivity in the neighborhood.

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Thousands of people are behind bars in Nebraska facing a charge related to drugs, some of them for having no more than an empty baggy with drug residue. Those involved in the state’s justice system argue such charges can serve as a gateway to treatment for individuals struggling with addiction.

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - A Beatrice man will serve over two decades in prison for killing a NDCS employee in a drunk driving crash. David Warren, 40, was sentenced to 21-23 years behind bars in district court Thursday for manslaughter, a class IIA felony, and DUI with cause of serious bodily injury, a class IIIA felony. He was given credit for 253 days served.

Ahead of his Cornhusker debut, 5-Star Dylan Raiola drops NIL Store apparel collection

OMAHA, Neb. — The Omaha Public Power District reported over 1700 customers without customers on Thursday evening asstorms roll through the metro. As of 6:30 p.m. there were 254 without power. As of 5:30 p.m., there were 1,743 customers without power. The cause of the outage that left 1,699...

OMAHA, Neb. — A pocket of South Omaha is known to residents at Sheelytown, an area southeast of Hanscom Park, just under Interstate 480. Residents remember looking out for one another and their kids. Demolition and restoration are now on the mind of a city council member after 26...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Dispatching errors combined with the failure of two backup systems allowed a Union Pacific train to slam into 75 railcars that had been parked on a side track for nine months in Southern California two years ago, killing an engineer and a conductor, according to a report issued Thursday. The National Transportation Safety Board’s final report detailed what caused the crash in the desert near the Salton Sea in September 2022. Investigators determined that mistakes made by dispatchers at the railroad’s headquarters in Omaha led to the train being routed directly into the parked railcars. One dispatcher even overruled the train crew who said they had been told by a colleague that cars were still parked on that siding, because his computer screen didn’t show anything on that track. The NTSB said a dispatcher inappropriately removed a note in the computer indicating the track was occupied two weeks earlier without verifying the tracks were empty. Another dispatcher that night ignored a separate warning about the siding and sent the train into it also without checking to be sure the tracks were empty. Both actions violated Union Pacific’s rules.

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (KNOP) - A North Platte man was sentenced to 7 years in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine and illegally possessing a firearm, following a multi-agency investigation into drug trafficking in the area. Brad Jay Leeper, 47 was sentenced on Thursday in federal court in Lincoln. After prison,...

GIBBON, Neb — A Gibbon man has been charged after prosecutors say he killed a dog by hanging it from a tree. Juan Arias Bonilla, 43, is charged in Buffalo County Court with intentional cruelty to an animal. According to an arrest affidavit, on Aug. 13, a deputy with...

(Nebraska City) -- Lourdes Central Catholic football is hopeful a strong 2023 will turn into an even better 2024. The Knights were 8-2 last season, and Coach Jon Borer believes this year’s group can be even better. “We finished the year pretty strong,” Borer said of 2023. “We lost...

10/11's Danielle Shenk chats with Flatwater Free Press journalist Naomi Delkamiller about recent employee lawsuits costing Lincoln millions more than Omaha.