Nebraska

If Nebraska was ever ripe for the picking to be upset at home by a lower division school, the time is now. Taking stock of the current state of Cornhusker football, it is plain to see there are a number of encouraging signs for South Dakota State University fans heading into Saturday’s...

Mitchell native Jeff Culhane found himself in less than familiar surroundings Saturday. The sports radio personality was in Morgantown, W.V., watching the West Virginia University Mountaineers take on the William & Mary Tribe. Perched in the press box, Culhane saw the sea of blue...

While environmentalists, energy executives and elected officials across North America await the State Department's critical decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, a little-noticed trial scheduled for next month in Nebraska could spell problems for the $5.3 billion project. Despite...

YORK, Neb. (AP) -- A board of county commissioners on Tuesday rejected a resolution opposing placement of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline in the southeast Nebraska county. Three commissioners opposed the measure and two supported it, the York News-Times reported. The measure said...

CHADRON, Neb. (AP) -- Authorities have identified a body found in the Nebraska Panhandle last year as that of a South Dakota man. The Nebraska State Patrol and Dawes County authorities are still investigating the death of 35-year-old Michael Munoz, of Rapid City, S.D. His body was...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) -- Nebraska authorities have been searching for a 39-year-old Missouri fugitive. The Nebraska State Patrol used a helicopter and police dogs while looking for Lloyd Tabor III on Friday. Officers say Tabor fled on foot after a vehicle he was driving got a flat...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Alcohol sales in the Nebraska-South Dakota border town of Whiteclay dropped for the second year in a row in 2012. A year-end report by the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission says the town's four beer stores saw a 10 percent decline in beer sales. The stores...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Nebraska says a law that establishes a review process for a proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline is constitutional. The state responded Monday to a lawsuit filed by three opponents of the pipeline that will carry Canadian tar sands oil across several U.S. states...

BROKEN BOW, Neb. (AP) -- A woman prohibited from practicing as a midwife in Nebraska and South Dakota has been charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of an infant. Judy K. Jones, 65, of Irene, S.D., was arraigned last week in Custer County Court in Nebraska. Prosecutors...

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WINNEBAGO, Neb. (AP) -- A Winnebago man's remains soon will be turned over to his tribe for burial after being stored for decades at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. The Lincoln Journal Star reported Wednesday that the man was among the American...

Wagner native and University of Nebraska 174-pound wrestler Robert Kokesh won his weight class at the Cliff Keen Invitational Saturday in Las Vegas. Kokesh won a 17-5 major decision over the fourth-seeded Mathew Miller, of Navy, before winning by injury default in the championship...