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The chancellor oversees the Nebraska state college system, and each of the three campuses — in Chadron, Peru and Wayne — has a president. Stan Carpenter is retiring after 18 years with the system.

Twenty years ago, two Omaha friends stumbled across the Holy Grail of movie advertising: 60,000 metal plates used to make movie ads for newspapers across the country and throughout the 20th century.

A Mass will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday for Edgar Gregorio Loarca Garcia at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church near 16th and Center Streets.

The Nebraska State Board of Education approved a new three-year contract with a 2 percent raise next year for Nebraska Education Commissioner Matt Blomstedt.

The Department of Health and Human Services tucked the new requirement into a recent request for applicants to provide federally funded Title X services in Douglas and Lancaster Counties.

Players say the game is highly addicting. It has a social aspect of players teaming up with or competing against their friends. It offers the rush that comes with winning. And it’s highly accessible: free to download and available to…

UNL announced that Chancellor Ronnie Green accepted the recommendations of a university committee and solidified the cuts in response to a 1 percent trim in state support.

Benjamin Lupo looks like an average, 30-something, born-and-raised-in-Omaha guy. He has a 2-year-old son, a wife, a mortgage and a lawn to mow. He also has tens of thousands of people who follow him online and pay to watch him…

The incident occurred about 11:45 a.m. just east of the South Saddle Creek Road and Leavenworth Street intersection, Douglas County 911 dispatchers said.

North Omaha cattleman and entrepreneur Herbert C. Rhodes lived a singular life of self-determination, from defeating racial segregation at the Peony Park swimming pool in 1963 and running the half-mile for Omaha University to leading the City of Omaha Human…