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Nebraska state job ad touts lack of vaccine requirement
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska's veterans affairs agency is facing questions from a state lawmaker after it published job advertisements for nurses touting the fact that the state doesn't require its emp...
Aug 24, 2021
Douglas County health chief seeks countywide mask mandate
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The health department for Nebraska's most populous county has asked the state for approval to issue a countywide mandate requiring people to wear face masks indoors. If approved, th...
Aug 24, 2021 Olgierd Rudak / CC
Nebraska Delegation Echoes Governor's Request for Major Disaster Declaration for Areas Affected by July Storms
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) and Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) and Representatives Jeff Fortenberry (NE-01), Don Bacon (NE-02), and Adrian Smith (NE-03) wrote a letter to Presiden...
Aug 24, 2021
Leonard E. Proskocil, 93
Leonard E. Proskocil, 93, of Ord passed away Monday, August 23, 2021, at the Arbor Care Center in Ord due to cancer. Funeral Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, August 27, 2021, at the Ord ...
Aug 24, 2021
Paul R. Burmood, 81
Paul R. Burmood, 81 of Niobrara, Nebraska passed away on Saturday, August 21, 2021, at the Fillmore County Hospital in Geneva, Nebraska. Graveside Funeral Services will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Monday...
Aug 23, 2021
Joan Rozella (Payton) Vodehnal, 79
Joan Rozella (Payton) Vodehnal departed her worldly home on August 21, 2021 at age 79 from the Burwell Community Memorial Health Center. Funeral services will be Friday, August 27, 2021 at 10:30 a.m. ...
Aug 23, 2021
Health Alert Issued for Calamus Reservoir
The state has issued a health alert for Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB), also known as toxic blue-green algae, at Calamus Reservoir in Garfield County and Iron Horse Trail Lake in Pawnee County. Wirth Brot...
Aug 20, 2021
Broken Bow Woman Takes Plea Deal in Theft Case
Connie Ulmer, 50 of Broken Bow, has reached a plea deal in the case where she was accused of taking $45,494.09 from the Broken Bow Booster Club in 2019 and 2020. Amended court documents filed on July ...
Aug 20, 2021
Broken Bow Man Sentenced in The Murder of His Step-Mother
A 45-year-old Broken Bow man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing his stepmother last year at her home. The Omaha World-Herald reports that Trenton Esch was sentenced Thursd...
Aug 20, 2021
Gary D. Walker, 73
Gary D. Walker, 73, of Ord passed away on Tuesday, August 17, 2021, at the VA Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. Funeral Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, August 24, 2021, at the Ord Mem...
Aug 20, 2021
