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Papillion's city council holds a second hearing on a dangerous dog ordinance Tuesday to create clearer designations and penalties for dog attacks.

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office asked drivers to avoid an Elkhorn area intersection Tuesday afternoon after a semi-truck overturned in a roundabout. DCSO posted a photo of the tipped truck in the roundabout near 204th Street and Highway 36, which is also referred to as Pawnee Road.

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says a group of young riders recently rode electric dirt bikes through downtown Omaha and a west Douglas County neighborhood in an incident deputies are calling a “takeover.”. Video shows riders weaving through traffic. The sheriff’s office posted video...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - The Omaha City Council will vote Tuesday to update the city’s towing fees. One city council member said the change could benefit car owners, even if it means paying a higher fee. The change would increase the city’s current administrative fee to $60 and the...

OPS school board unanimously approved two changes to graduation and admission requirements affecting juvenile court placements and older students.

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - The last remaining employees at Kellogg’s Omaha plant are expected to be laid off Tuesday. The company said June 1 that about 450 employees would lose their jobs ahead of the plant’s planned closure in August, including 100 between July 6 and July 20 and the remaining 350 between Aug. 4 and Aug. 18

KEARNEY — An Omaha man charged following a pursuit on Interstate 80 involving a stolen U-Haul has pleaded not guilty in Buffalo County District Court. Jeffrey Ritchison, 40, is charged with robbery, a Class 2 felony, operating vehicle to avoid arrest, a Class 4 felony and habitual criminal, a felony.

Nebraska Medicine announces a new health center under construction at the southeast corner of 42nd and Farnam Streets in Omaha will be called the "Shikhar & Kristin Saxena Family Health Center." The four-story health center is named for Shikhar Saxena, M.D., and Kristin Saxena, M.D., of Omaha, who provided a...

Anthony Smith has pleaded not guilty to four felony charges stemming from a July domestic incident in Nebraska.

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - An Omaha man will spend 17 years in prison for a bank robbery in eastern Nebraska. Bruce Dortch was sentenced on charges including bank robbery and using a firearm during a violent crime. The Saunders County Sheriff’s Office says the robbery happened in January of last...