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GRAND ISLAND – Stolley Park Elementary School Principal Whitney Flower is being honored with the prestigious Lozier LIGHTS Outstanding Principal Award. The award, given by the Lozier Foundation in Omaha, honors three Nebraska elementary school leaders and celebrates their efforts in improving students’ MAP test scores over the past school year.

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - The man arrested after a shooting that sent two men to the hospital on Tuesday appeared in court for the first time this morning. Omaha Police officers were sent to a Mega Saver gas station in the area of 144th and Blondo streets shortly after 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

An Omaha-area nonprofit is raising funds for a veteran-focused permanent supportive housing project near 92nd and Blondo streets. The $22 million Legacy Grove Senior Veteran Apartments project is part of a broader effort to address veteran homelessness, said Brandy Wallar, CEO of New Visions Homeless Services. “Every night between Council...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - An Omaha man missed his court date after refusing to give up his “Naruto” dagger even though security told him he could come back without it or surrender it, according to authorities. Tony Carter, 32, was booked into Douglas County Corrections on Thursday for...

La Vista's Southport West development will add family entertainment, including what owners call Nebraska's first indoor slide park, plus new housing.

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OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - A man convicted in the 2022 murder of an Omaha woman has been sentenced. Keanu Louis received two life sentences for the shooting death of 20-year-old Daetiauna Kellogg. A jury found him guilty in August on four charges, including murder. It was a retrial after his...

A road-rage dispute near 144th and Harrison Streets that escalated into gunfire has landed an Omaha-area man a four-to-eight-year prison sentence. Trevor Masters was sentenced for discharging a firearm after a confrontation that began on the road and continued at a nearby convenience store, shattering a victim's car window as he tried to drive away.

A man in Nebraska has learned his fate for shooting at another driver's car during a road rage attack in which he threatened he would "put" the victim "on a T-shirt." The post Ford pickup driver who threatened to put a man 'on a T-shirt' before he fired gun and shattered windshield learns his fate first appeared on Law & Crime .

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - A Kansas City woman is the third of three suspects to be arrested for her alleged role in a Medicaid fraud conspiracy worth millions of dollars, according to court records. Dawn Brockington AKA Dawn Reed, 64, was booked into Douglas County Corrections Wednesday for theft by...