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When professor Susan VanderPlas learned the Statistics Department was among those on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s $27.5 million chopping block, a flurry of emotions hit. Shock. Anger. Confusion. The professionally trained statistician set out to understand the metrics guiding the university’s decision making....

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – A Lincoln teen who went missing in August has been returned home safe, police said Sunday. Angeleah Wright, 17, went missing on Aug. 26. She had been seen leaving her home in northeast Lincoln around 8:30 p.m. Police asked for the community’s help in the...

The YMCA of Lincoln is preparing for the arrival of cold weather through their 5th annual Winter Coat Drive to benefit the People’s City Mission. New of gently used coats can be dropped off through Tuesday at all four Lincoln YMCA branches. Since the coat drive’s inception, nearly 11,000...

Nebraska offensive lineman Rocco Spindler was taken to the hospital during Friday’s loss to Minnesota, Cornhuskers head coach Matt Rhule said. He went down early in the game with an injury. Rhule didn’t know many specifics about Spindler’s injury, which occurred in the first quarter of Friday’s game. The offensive...

Some updates have been made to the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission’s annual fall rainbow trout stocking schedule as anglers across the state are reaping the rewards of the effort to enhance fishing opportunities. The stockings at Fort Robinson State Park’s three Grable Ponds, originally planned for the week...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - A powerful play will soon be performed at the Lincoln Community Playhouse. The Diary of Anne Frank, a play adapted by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett and newly adapted by Wendy Kesselman, will be performing Nov. 7-9, 13-16 and 20-23. The shows are scheduled as follows:

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - It will be a chilly morning across the state Sunday with subfreezing temperatures expected for many. Overnight lows will range from the upper 20s to low 40s. Freeze warnings are in place across parts of northern, central and western Nebraska while frost advisories are in effect...

Last week for Friday Flakes I wrote that it might be a good time for Nebraska to give Matt Rhule a new extension. One of the main reasons was the possibility of the Penn State job opening up. What I did not expect is that it would open up two days later.

In a week dominated by discussion of Matt Rhule’s future, the embarrassing loss leaves him with work to do in the present.

Nebraska remained perfect in the Big Ten Conference while Harper Murray put up another perfect hitting performance.  The junior outside hitter didn’t commit a h