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Someone entered the Omaha Community Playhouse after hours Monday night and drilled a hole in the 300-gallon water tank that produces the onstage storm for "Singin' in the Rain," the theater's current show. Water flowed into the paint and scenery…

The corporation would function like private entities that the University of Nebraska used to develop the University of Nebraska Medical Center's Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center and the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Baxter Arena, officials said.

A former Creighton University student was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in jail and five years of probation for a February 2017 attack in which, while drunk and high, he swiped a female student's neck with a knife.

A 40-year-old Omaha man was arrested Wednesday in connection with a shooting near 24th Street and Ames Avenue.

On the issue of abortion, the contrast could not be clearer in this year's race to represent Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District.

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to keep immigrant families together, reversing his insistence that only Congress could end his policy of separating children from parents who are caught illegally crossing the U.S. border with Mexico.

Aubrey Trail appeared in person Tuesday morning in Saline County Court in Wilber, Nebraska, and waived his right to a preliminary hearing. The case will be bound over to Saline County District Court.

Some early reviews were negative, with people posting on social media that the new name sounded like a hospital or medical center. But officials shrugged off the notion that people may be confused.

Is it a hospital? Would any of my pre-existing conditions bar me from entry to a Garth Brooks show? Do you do flu shots? Can I have a Dora the Explorer Band-Aid? Also, I don’t have insurance, will that be…

A Nebraska State Patrol trooper used Narcan to revive a woman from an opioid overdose Wednesday evening near Dunning.