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LINCOLN, NE – Governor Jim Pillen wrapped up a highly productive trade mission to Japan. The mission included meetings with key importers of Nebraska beef and pork; opportunities to promote Nebraska-made biofuels; and high-level discussions to strengthen the state’s longstanding commercial, cultural, and educational...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – Police are searching for a man who stole hundreds of dollars in cash from a vehicle in southeast Lincoln. The theft happened on Aug. 22 at a home near 56th and Pioneers Street. Police said the victim went to the bank and noticed a silver...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – A man was arrested Tuesday after an attempted kidnapping in a neighborhood near downtown Lincoln, police say. Around 3:30 p.m., officers responded to the F Street Rec Center on a report of what was believed to be an assault. Officers discovered that a 12-year-old boy...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — Around 11 million children in the U.S. and almost 73,000 in Nebraska wear diapers, according to the National Diaper Bank. And 1 in 2 families in the U.S. struggle to afford diapers. On Tuesday, Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird declared Diaper Need Awareness Week in Lincoln...

All of the students were in stable condition, including four who were thrown from the bus during the crash. (KOCO) The 23-year-old victim had come to the United States to escape the war in Ukraine. (CNN, POOL, WCNC, CHARLOTTE AREA TRANSIT SYSTEM, CMPD, LINKEDIN | IRYNA ZARUTSKA, MECKLENBURG COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, X...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - A Sunday fire at Habitat for Humanity of Lincoln’s ReStore was put out by Lincoln Fire and Rescue in just ten minutes. But in that 10 minutes, the blaze managed to cause $200,000 in damage. According to LFR, the fire began in a dumpster behind...

LINCOLN, Neb. (WOWT) - It’s a moment that will live on in Husker history. “She said yes,” Nebraska junior tight end Luke Lindenmeyer said. A postgame marriage proposal from Lindenmeyer to his girlfriend, Kailyn Storovich, a dancer for the Husker Scarlets. “I am so lucky that I get...

Editor’s Note: This story contains mentions of domestic violence. A 25-year-old man was arrested Saturday on suspicion of domestic assault near the University Suites. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Department responded to a call late Saturday night, when a man allegedly assaulted two people in the...

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Terence "Bud" Crawford doesn't need anyone to bolster his confidence or reinforce his swagger. He certainly doesn't need another fight to accentuate his résumé. If he

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The Lincoln Board of Education named John Skretta superintendent for Lincoln Public Schools at its regular meeting on Tuesday, 7-0. Skretta was appointed to serve as the interim superintendent in January after Paul Gausman retired, but will now officially take on the superintendent title. After...