Nebraska News

Wheat growers seek cutters for harvest

OKLAHOMA CITY - Wheat growers, always at the mercy of the fickle Oklahoma weather, have a new concern this year _ whether there will be enough custom harvest crews to help bring in the crop from the fields.  Read More

Self-tracheotomy second one done by Omaha man

OMAHA, Neb. - The 55-year-old Omaha man who performed a tracheotomy on himself with a steak knife says he did the same thing to himself two years ago.  Read More

Deputies handcuff mental patient to chair in hospital lobby

LINCOLN, Neb. - A judge's decision to leave a 19-year-old with mental problems handcuffed to a chair in the lobby of a psychiatric hospital is the latest sign of a growing conflict between the state's justice and mental health systems.  Read More

Sheriff under fire for drinking in car on trip

Confronted by a reporter with North Platte radio station KELN, Sheriff Jerome Kramer said he and four deputies drank beer in a car on their way to a March 26 seminar in Lincoln. Kramer says a fifth deputy who was driving the vehicle did not drink.  Read More

USDA: Wet weather slowing corn planting

DES MOINES, Iowa - Corn production this year could be down as much as 7 percent from the record-breaking heights of 2007, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report released Friday.  Read More

Macy woman sentenced for stabbing on reservation

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Omaha says Janice Grant acknowledged stabbing 24-year-old Erasmo Porter last July in the chest with a kitchen knife. She had testified that that came toward her in a menacing way.  Read More

AP NewsBreak: Archdiocese reports $83,000 theft from parish

OMAHA, Neb. - The Omaha Archdiocese said Friday that more than $83,000 has been stolen from one of its parishes and that the parish pastor has been put on leave.  Read More

UNL restructures alumni organization

The Nebraska Alumni Association board has voted to create a seven-member executive board, which will include University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman or a designee.  Read More

Republican Flynn: Johanns is vulnerable

LINCOLN, Neb. - Republican Pat Flynn acknowledges that if he wins the May 13 Senate primary it would be a phenomenal upset, but he says that's just what his party needs.  Read More

Flooding forces closure of Nebraska Highway 65

The U.S. Weather Service also has issued a flood warning for the area.  Read More

Weight limit set U.S. 81 bridge at Yankton

Nebraska Department of Roads officials say inspectors have found enough corrosion on the bridge to raise safety concerns.  Read More

Thousands of acres of sugar beet plantings lost

Officials say a late April freeze destroyed plantings on 890 acres in the Gordon area.  Read More

Nebraska wheat forecast down 3 pct from 2007

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says that, based on May 1 conditions, Nebraska is expected to harvest 81.4 million bushels of winter wheat.  Read More

Weather Service warns of Big Nemaha flooding

Friday morning the river was about 5 feet under flood stage of 23 feet, but the Weather Service expects it to rise to nearly 26 feet by Friday evening.  Read More

House hopeful accuses opponent of plagiarism

But Jim Esch's primary opponent, Richard Carter, says the words are in the first person and clearly plagiarism.  Read More

Man pleads no contest to Grand Island bar shooting

Authorities say 31-year-old Gabriel Carson of Doniphan faces sentencing June 26 on charges of attempted first-degree murder and using a gun to commit a felony. As part of a plea deal, prosecutors dismissed two counts of second-degree assault and two more weapons charges.  Read More