Lottery officials say no one has claimed a $1 million Powerball prize for a ticket sold last month.

Officials in south-central Nebraska say the bodies of two Grand Island men have been found in a subdivision sandpit pond.

Sarpy County officials say a railroad's unauthorized closure of a street near Gretna snarled traffic during the Friday morning commute.

Omaha police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old boy.

Authorities say a man driving a stolen car ran it into an overhead door at the Sarpy County Jail in Papillion (puh-PIHL'-yuhn).

An eastern Nebraska couple has taken a plea deal in the death of one of their malnourished infant twin daughters.

Officials say Nebraska's unemployment remained steady at 3.1% in August, matching the July figure.

Floodwater from the Missouri River has forced officials to close a portion of Interstate 29 in western Iowa.

A 37-year-old Bennington man has been sentenced to 43-to-53 years in prison in a fatal hit-and-run crash that killed a 14-year-old Omaha boy.

A boy with brain cancer who scored a touchdown at a Nebraska practice game is playing football for real.

The Missouri River continues to rise and flood mostly rural land in Nebraska and Iowa, but Interstate 29 remains open near Omaha.

Officers found more weapons and drugs during a second search of the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln.

A former employee has been accused of stealing from the Nebraska Education Department.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln says one student has been diagnosed with the mumps and another student is showing symptoms of the contagious disease.

The rising Missouri River broke through two levees northeast of Omaha, but the flooding affected rural areas that have been flooded twice before this year.

It seems this love was too hot to handle.

Falls City officials are considering declaring their community "a city of arts."

A judge has terminated the parental rights of the mother and father of twin baby boys abandoned at a Kearney hospital in February.

A former Nebraska mayor accused of child sexual assault has taken a plea deal and been given a year of probation.

The National Transportation Safety Board says a South Dakota pilot who died in a single-engine plane crash along with his teenage son should not have had a passenger.

The owner of a dry cleaning business that burned following an explosion last year has been charged with arson and other counts.

The annual grant program sponsored by the College World Series and NCAA is accepting applications through Oct. 1.

Authorities say a 66-year-old inmate has died at a state facility in Lincoln.

Pedestrian safety and rider injuries dominated testimony as the Lincoln City Council considered establishing a pilot program for rental scooters.

The Nebraska trial of a Kansas man charged with the collision deaths of four Iowa motorcyclists has been delayed again.

An Omaha city councilman has pleaded guilty to charges that he didn't file federal income tax returns for 2012, 2013 or 2014.

A major building project at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's College of Engineering is getting a $20 million boost from one of North America's largest construction and engineering companies.

Authorities say a 78-year-old man died after his all-terrain vehicle flipped over and pinned him beneath it in the Nebraska Panhandle.

A new report says parts of a Nebraska prison weren't searched during a recent lockdown that was billed as a safety precaution to locate contraband.

Authorities say an Iowa man died after his car collided with another in eastern Nebraska's Sarpy County.

Authorities say a 9-year-old boy died after being struck by a sport utility vehicle in an Omaha suburb.

An Omaha suburb is planning to scrap bicycle lanes along one of its main thoroughfares in favor of more lanes for cars.

More flooding is likely along the Missouri River after heavy rains and flooding upstream in South Dakota.

Omaha Police are investigating a fatal weekend shooting.

The state of Nebraska has approved $3 million in grants to help communities recover from flooding in the spring and rebuild housing.

A petition drive for a measure that seeks to lower Nebraska property taxes by sharply cutting state revenue is gaining steam and donations despite concerns from some groups that it would force lawmakers to raise other...

The biocontainment unit that was used to treat several people with the Ebola virus in 2014 will be the focus of the next Omaha Science Cafe.

Officials in southeastern Nebraska say deputies seized thousands of marijuana vape pens and other drugs valued at nearly $2 million that were found in a parked pickup truck.

Federal prosecutors for Nebraska have announced prison terms for two Omaha men convicted in separate child pornography cases.

An effort to more tightly regulate the use of jailhouse informants is gaining momentum across the country in the wake of exonerations of people wrongly convicted of crimes.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission is holding workshops to prepare and certify youth fishing instructors in Lincoln and North Platte this fall.

A federal appeals court in New York has revived a lawsuit alleging Fox News exploited the killing of a Democratic National Committee employee.

Advocates for low-income families and children have announced a petition drive for a Nebraska ballot measure to cap the interest payday lenders can charge at 36% annually.

Nebraska state government collected more tax revenue than expected in August.

The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the first-degree murder conviction of an Omaha man sentenced to life in prison for the shooting death of another man.

Two people charged in the slaying of a man at a park near Fairbury in southeast Nebraska have entered pleas.

The state is studying the possibility of a bus service linking Grand Island, Hastings and Kearney in south-central Nebraska.

A Colorado resident has been imprisoned for sexually assaulting one of his art students in western Nebraska.

A Norfolk man has been given 30 months in prison for the crash death of a passenger in his vehicle.

Nebraska prison officials say a 55-year-old inmate serving life for murder has died in a Lincoln prison while being treated for a medical condition.

The Nebraska State Patrol says two traffic stops on Interstate 80 in western Nebraska turned up more than 200 pounds of marijuana and other drugs.

Heavy rains in north-central Nebraska this week washed out some roads and bridges and led to at least one water rescue north of Ainsworth.

Police in Grand Island has identified two people whose bodies were found in a room at a local motel.

A Canadian company has cancelled its plans to buy Cabela's former distribution center and create 300 jobs western Nebraska.

Authorities say a man sleeping in a pickup truck attacked a Nebraska state trooper who awakened him.

Nebraska homeowners and farmers will get a slightly bigger tax credit this year to reduce what they would otherwise have to pay on their property tax bills.

Two companies are making it harder for kids to rent their electric scooters in Omaha.

A judge facing a judicial ethics inquiry has retired from her juvenile court position in Douglas County.

Authorities say a South Dakota man died after his vehicle struck a guardrail on the south side of a bridge connecting South Dakota and Nebraska.

Kearney leaders are backing a proposal to restore an open-air theater in the city's Harmon Park.

A Stanton man is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 12 for the crash death of another driver.

A lockdown and search at Nebraska's largest prison has unearthed a variety of drugs, homemade weapons and other contraband.

A 24-year-old Omaha woman who pleaded guilty to manslaughter for causing an April crash that killed a man has been sentenced to 4-to-6 years in prison.

A Nebraska county that owes more than $30 million to six people wrongfully convicted of murder has approved a new half-cent sales tax to help pay the legal judgment.

A father and his teenage son who farmed near the border of South Dakota and Nebraska have died in a single-engine plane crash.

President Donald Trump has offered a full-throated endorsement of Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse despite Sasse's previous criticism of the president.