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The organizers had sought to replace the Nebraska State Board of Education, education commissioner and Nebraska Department of Education with a new Office of Education accountable to the governor. Go to Source Author: Joe Dejka Omaha World-Herald Top Featured Tags: – Nebraska News Press Release Distribution Service

Surprised to learn how many Cortland residents were in their mid-30s, Lindsey Oelling decided to renovate an old hair salon into a bakery. Go to Source Author: REBECCA HUMMEL For the Beatrice Daily Sun Top Featured Tags: – Nebraska News Press Release Distribution Service

Officials are celebrating the 50th anniversary of a marker that sits at the site of a sunken steamboat. The marker commemorates the Steamboat Bertrand Discovery Site. Go to Source Author: Kelsey Stewart Omaha World-Herald Top Featured Tags: – Nebraska News Press Release Distribution Service

The nation’s largest food distributor has joined the other businesses accusing the four largest meat processors of working together to inflate beef prices. Sysco recently filed a federal lawsuit in Texas accusing Tyson Foods, JBS, Cargill and National Beef of… Go to Source Author: JOSH FUNK The Associated Press Top Featured Tags: – Nebraska News…

Sponsors of a petition drive to place a voter photo ID proposal on the November ballot turned in petitions containing 172,000 signatures — far more than required. Go to Source Author: DON WALTON and CHRIS DUNKER Lincoln Journal Star Top Featured Tags: – Nebraska News Press Release Distribution Service

A rural Minatare man was arrested Sunday after he allegedly crashed his car into another one, sending it into the side of a moving train. Go to Source Author: Scottsbluff Star-Herald Top Featured Tags: – Nebraska News Press Release Distribution Service

The decision came the day before the signatures were due to the Nebraska Secretary of State’s office, meaning petitions still must have signatures from 5% of registered voters in 38 counties to get on the ballot. Go to Source Author: LORI PILGER Lincoln Journal Star Top Featured Tags: – Nebraska News Press Release Distribution Service

A girl under age 16 who was at the Siouxland Community Health Center reported she’d been sexually assaulted. She was interviewed at an Omaha child abuse prevention and resource center. Go to Source Author: Sioux City Journal Top Featured Tags: – Nebraska News Press Release Distribution Service

Smithfield Foods will pay restaurants and caterers $42 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the giant meat producer of conspiring to inflate pork prices. Go to Source Author: JOSH FUNK The Associated Press Top Featured Tags: – Nebraska News Press Release Distribution Service

Three young people are dead and seven others were sent to the hospital in a shooting at what appeared to be a holiday block party in Northwest Indiana, officials said. Go to Source Author: Bob Kasarda bob.kasarda@nwi.com, 219-548-4345 Top Featured Tags: – Nebraska News Press Release Distribution Service

McCollister, who has been an outspoken independent Republican voice as a member of the nonpartisan Legislature, looks ahead with a mixture of concern and cautious optimism. Go to Source Author: DON WALTON Lincoln Journal Star Top Featured Tags: – Nebraska News Press Release Distribution Service

At 8-feet tall, the flower is about twice the size of the other lilies that were planted in the Millard home’s flower bed. Go to Source Author: Marjie Ducey Omaha World-Herald Top Featured Tags: – Nebraska News Press Release Distribution Service

The grant will initiate construction on the 2,400-square-foot space that will serve as the future home to UNL’s Hospitality, Restaurant and Tourism Management program. Go to Source Author: CHRIS DUNKER Lincoln Journal Star Top Featured Tags: – Nebraska News Press Release Distribution Service

Six Amur tigers received booster doses of a COVID vaccine designed for animals at the Lee G. Simmons Wildlife Safari Park near Ashland. Go to Source Author: Kelsey Stewart Omaha World-Herald Top Featured Tags: – Nebraska News Press Release Distribution Service

It’s estimated that only four of every 100 Cub Scouts earns their Eagle Scout badge. Go to Source Author: SAM CRISLER Waverly News Top Featured Tags: – Nebraska News Press Release Distribution Service

An inmate at the Omaha Correctional Center died Saturday morning at an area hospital. Go to Source Author: Omaha World-Herald Top Featured Tags: – Nebraska News Press Release Distribution Service

After a special congressional election that divided rural and urban voters in eastern Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District, Mike Flood and Patty Pansing Brooks will do it again in November. Go to Source Author: DON WALTON Lincoln Journal Star Top Featured Tags: – Nebraska News Press Release Distribution Service

Lewis Klanderud joined the Army in 1945 and trained as an engineer. He was sent to Okinawa — which had been destroyed in the last major land battle of the war — to help rebuild roads on the island. Go to Source Author: STEVE LIEWER Omaha World-Herald Top Featured Tags: – Nebraska News Press Release…

Superintendent at Fort Kearny since 1982, Hunt said his job hasn’t changed much in the last 50 years. The way people use the outdoors has. Go to Source Author: MARY JANE SKALA Kearney Hub Top Featured Tags: – Nebraska News Press Release Distribution Service

The special election between Mike Flood and Patty Pansing Brooks revealed the potency of abortion as an election issue. Will it remain as powerful a motivator when they meet for a rematch in November? Go to Source Author: MARTHA STODDARD Omaha World-Herald Top Featured Tags: – Nebraska News Press Release Distribution Service

Paul Hartnett, a former member of the Nebraska Legislature, will be remembered as the driving force behind the Kennedy Freeway through Bellevue and for working to bring a national veterans cemetery to Sarpy County. Go to Source Author: ADAM BRANTING Bellevue Leader Top Featured Tags: – Nebraska News Press Release Distribution Service

Mark Rezac discovered the fledgling as he was raking a field, and thought it was dead until it swiveled its head. He called the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and a conservation officer Dina Barta arrived within the hour. Go to Source Author: Marjie Ducey Omaha World-Herald Top Featured Tags: – Nebraska News Press Release…