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OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - America’s 250th anniversary is expected to drive higher demand for fireworks and professional shows this Fourth of July, but local retailers say they prepared years in advance. Carey Trowbridge, director of retail sales for Wild Willy’s Fireworks in Council Bluffs, said the timing adds to...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Three people are injured after an incident in Omaha’s Midtown area early Tuesday. Emergency crews got a call to 30th and Cuming streets at about 12:30 a.m. Police tell our First Alert 6 crew on the scene that the driver claimed the brakes went out...

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Neb. (WOWT) - Four men were arrested after the search of an apartment in Douglas County yielded firearms, drugs, counterfeit money, shoplifted goods, and a stolen dirt bike and scooter. According to a release from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, the DCSO SWAT team, along with deputies from...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Troy's first appearance in the College World Series has produced lots of Kodak moments for the Alabama school. Only Troy's photographers are having to use borrowed equipment to capture them after thieves stole cameras and lenses valued at $35,000 from the team bus. The theft...

In a news release, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office says this past March, DCSO investigators were contacted by staff at the Douglas County Department of Corrections who suspected a DCDC staff member of permitting inmates to have unauthorized communications with individuals outside of the correctional facility. This

Skip Johnson praises Sooners' family culture that included advice from Bob Stoops

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Omaha Police are investigating two stabbings that happened within ten minutes of each other early Monday morning. The first stabbing happened in the area of 38th Avenue and Burdette Street around 2:10 a.m. Monday. At the scene, officers found a 31-year-old woman suffering from a stab...

Reaction from people inside the Fairfield Inn and Suites moments after the hotel burst into flames.

Troy's photographers are having to use borrowed equipment to capture the team's first appearance in the Men's College World Series after the theft of cameras and lenses from the team bus.

A Nebraska woman teamed up with her boyfriend and helped him kill her own mother — pinning the mom's wrists to the ground while the boyfriend suffocated her with a sock — following an argument over a grandchild, police say. Samantha Neiber, 25, and Mason Clarke, 30, were...