Latest Nebraska Headlines
All the headlines from our Nebraska Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nebraska District Sued Over Axing of Student Paper After LGBTQ Issue
Apr 3 2023 // LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – A former high school journalist and the Nebraska High School Press Association sued Friday over a school district’s shutdown of the school newspaper after it published an LGBTQ-focused...
Nebraska School to Pay $1 Million After Boy Who Ate Teacher’s Snack Died
Mar 16 2023 // PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) – A Nebraska school district has agreed to pay $1 million to the family of an eighth grader who died after eating a granola bar given to him by a teacher. The Papillion La Vista school board will...
Nebraska Company Fined $531K After Worker Engulfed in Corn Silo
Mar 13 2023 // A 34-year-old worker’s attempt to clean out a Roseland grain silo, in preparation for fall harvest, turned tragic on Sept. 12, 2022, when corn engulfed and asphyxiated him. An investigation by the U.S. Department of...
Teachers Could Physically Restrain Unruly Students Under Nebraska Bill
Mar 3 2023 // LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Nebraska lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow teachers and school staff to physically restrain disruptive students and remove them from classrooms without fear of being disciplined,...
Nebraska Supreme: Rental Car Customer Doesn’t Owe Avis for ‘Voluntary’ Payment
Feb 15 2023 // No one threatened to sue Avis Rent a Car after Roynetta McDavid’s little sister borrowed her rental car without permission and smashed it into another vehicle. But a claims handler for the company paid three people...
Nebraska’s Barney Joins Highstreet
Jan 12 2023 // Highstreet Insurance Partners announced that it has partnered with Kearney, Nebraska-based Barney Insurance Group. Barney adds 25 employees and additional office locations in Lexington and Lincoln to HSIP’s footprint...
Nebraska Alfalfa Sprout Recall Tied to Salmonella Outbreak Expanded
Jan 4 2023 // OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ A Nebraska company on Friday expanded a recall of alfalfa sprouts after more than a dozen cases of salmonella were linked to the food. SunSprouts Enterprises doubled its recall that was first announced...
Bird Flu Outbreak Prompts Slaughter of 1.8M Chickens in Nebraska
Dec 1 2022 // OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Nebraska agriculture officials say another 1.8 million chickens must be killed after bird flu was found on a farm in the latest sign that the outbreak that has already prompted the slaughter of more...
EPA Seeking Penalties for Clean Water Act Violations in Missouri, Nebraska
Nov 8 2022 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ordered Michael Zahner of Bollinger County, Missouri, and Mark Schmidt of Lancaster County, Nebraska, to take immediate steps to comply with the federal Clean Water...
Nebraska Dept. of Insurance Conducts Review of Guidance Documents
Nov 4 2022 // This month, the Nebraska Department of Insurance (NDOI) completed a process improvement project focused on their guidance document library. Governor Pete Ricketts has encouraged agencies to reduce their regulatory burden....
Theft of Frozen Beef in Nebraska Uncovers Midwest Crime Ring
Oct 27 2022 // An investigation into the theft this summer of several semitrailers loaded with frozen beef from Nebraska has led to arrests and uncovered a multimillion-dollar theft ring targeting meatpacking plants in six Midwestern...
Prairie Fires in Nebraska, Iowa Force Evacuations, Destroy Homes
Oct 25 2022 // LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Prairie fires pushed by tinder-dry conditions and winds topping 60 mph (96 kph) led to evacuations in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa and destroyed homes and injured two firefighters south of...
Nebraska Court: Contractors with Assigned Benefits Can’t File Bad-Faith Claims
Oct 21 2022 // A restoration contractor that had been assigned benefits by a policyholder cannot pursue a bad faith claim against an insurer because it was not a party to the insurance contract, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday in...
Nebraska Sandhills Wildfire More Than Half Contained
Oct 6 2022 // A destructive Nebraska Sandhills wildfire that saw one firefighter die while fighting the flames was more than half contained by Wednesday, officials said. The size of the Bovee Fire in west-central Nebraska was mapped...
Nebraska Wildfire Razes Camp, Prompts Evacuation
Oct 5 2022 // A wildfire that exploded in size in drought-stricken central Nebraska has destroyed much of a youth campsite and led officials to evacuate a nearby village. The Bovee Fire was initially reported as having burned around 100...
Phone Alerts Responders After Car Hits Tree in Nebraska, Killing All 6
Oct 4 2022 // A passenger’s cellphone automatically alerted responders after a car hit a tree early Sunday in a Nebraska crash that killed all six of its young occupants, authorities said. Five men in the Honda Accord died at the...
Judge Dismisses Former Nebraska Officer’s Discrimination Lawsuit
Aug 25 2022 // A judge has dismissed the discrimination lawsuit of a former Lincoln, Nebraska Police Department spokeswoman, saying her allegations did not sufficiently prove a hostile work environment. Erin Spilker said in her lawsuit...
Nebraska Recycling Company Fined $338,000 for OSHA Violations
Aug 10 2022 // A 20-year-old worker’s attempt at clearing a jam in an industrial cardboard baler at a Grand Island, Nebraska waste disposal company turned tragic when the worker fell into the baler, became caught and suffered...
Omaha, Nebraska to Host Insurtech on the Silicon Prairie in October
Aug 5 2022 // Nebraska Department of Insurance Director Eric Dunning announced that the Insurtech on the Silicon Prairie conference is back in-person and will be held on October 24 and 25. Omaha’s Holland Performing Arts Center...
Western Nebraska Wildfire Forces Evacuations, Destroys Homes
Aug 3 2022 // A wildfire that has forced evacuations and destroyed some homes in the Nebraska Panhandle grew to about 25000 square miles (64749.77 square kilometers) Monday, but firefighters were managing to limit the spread of the...
