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WHITE CLIFFS -- Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers crews worked all weekend responding to the discovery of the invasive aquatic plant giant salvinia near the White Cliffs Public Use Area on the Little River. The Little River is a major tributary entering Millwood Lake.

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — 161 students have been recognized as U.S. Presidential Scholars, including five high school seniors from Nebraska. James C Fletcher Jr. from Litchfield recognized as a U.S. Presidential Scholar in Career and Technical Education. Ava Jule Goodwin from York recognized as U.S. Presidential Scholar in Arts.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (WIBW) - Monday night’s exhibition basketball game between K-State and Nebraska meant more than a preseason matchup. The schools dedicated the game to Greg Sharpe, the former broadcaster who served as the play-by-play voice of both universities and died in February 2025 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. The matchup at the BigIron Events Center in Grand Island was dubbed the Greg Sharpe Scholarship Game.

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Gov. Jim Pillen has requested a federal disaster declaration after a historic downpour of rain that led to widespread flooding in eight eastern Nebraska counties earlier this month. Pillen is asking for public assistance for the following counties: Douglas, Fillmore, Lancaster, Saline, Sarpy, Saunders, Seward and...

Before dawn Tuesday, a crane lifted an 8-foot-tall bronze statue of Johnny Cash — an exact replica of the one representing Arkansas in the U.S. Capitol — onto a pedestal at a newly constructed pavilion in North Little Rock. After working with a crew to adjust its position,...

OKLAHOMA CITY - A dog named Piper has a new group of friends after Oklahoma City firefighters and University of Oklahoma police officers worked together to rescue her from a pipe near OU Hospital. According to the Oklahoma City Fire Department, the dog became trapped when her head got stuck...

The state’s 17th annual free dental clinic is set for in the middle of next month. Dentist Lauren Patrick is the local committee chair as the Iowa Mission of Mercy returns to central Iowa at the state fairgrounds in Des Moines. “It hasn’t been here since 2022 and post...

A FedEx driver is on the run after he allegedly stole a package valued at more than $25,000 from a Baton Rouge jewelry shop that was not on his route, police said. Police have issued an arrest warrant for Jacoby White, 29, for theft of over $25,000. The missing package...

Microsoft Corp. has closed on 616 acres of Dallas County farmland for just over $95.5 million, finalizing a deal that works out to roughly $155,000 an acre for ground the company plans to turn into a data center campus near Woodward. The seller, a company tied to Dallas-based developer Trammell Crow, had picked up the same land for just over $30.7 million.

BATON ROUGE — A woman arrested by Louisiana State Police for her involvement in a crash with a missing Texas woman was booked again for escaping from handcuffs while in LSP custody, arrest documents say. Sandrea Davis, 21, was booked Tuesday for simple escape. She had previously been arrested...