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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...

A Douglas County District Court judge sentenced 22-year-old Damaree Amos to 27 to 38 years in prison for a shooting that killed 22-year-old Chance McCowin and injured two others during the 2025 Native Omaha Days celebration. The shooting happened near 24th Street and Patrick Avenue in North Omaha on Aug. 4, 2025, after a fight broke out at the festival.

MILLARD, NE. — A new building in west Omaha that was supposed to open on October 1 as a combined home for two Millard veterans organizations will not open at all this year. The former El-Bee's building near 144th and Werner Way was supposed to become a joint home for the Millard American Legion Post and the Millard Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Rising food, rent and utility costs are pushing more Omaha-area families to seek help as local organizations see growing demand for assistance

LINCOLN — Amid concerns raised by a Nebraska legislative committee, the state's director for economic development Wednesday defended her team's handling of a roughly $235 million grant program aimed at lifting North and South Omaha. The hearing before the Economic Recovery Special Committee featured a question-answer period between four...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - First Alert Six continues an investigation into an alleged travel scheme that left more than 100 customers without prepaid vacations. After the initial stories, the FBI made the rare move of asking potential victims to file reports. Another federal agency is involved. A special getaway that...