Top Local News Stories
Cat torture draws probation
6 hours 54 mins ago
A Lincoln teenager has been ordered to serve probation until he turns 19 for helping torture and kill a cat.
Horses seized by Humane Society
7 hours 31 mins ago
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is investigating whether four horses in northwest Douglas County were neglected.
All into the insurance pool?
7 hours 38 mins ago
For affordable health insurance coverage, young and healthy also must buy in.
High-rise platform ready for nest
7 hours 38 mins ago
Volunteers raise the structure in hopes that a pair of great horned owls living in the area will use it.
Leach: ‘Civility crisis'
7 hours 38 mins ago
Speaking at a humanities conference in Omaha, he says current partisan rancor shows a lack of respect.
McConaughy near 8-year high
7 hours 38 mins ago
Nebraska’s largest lake is approaching a volume of 1 million acre feet for the first time in nearly eight years.
Bluffs council to vote trail work
7 hours 38 mins ago
The heavily used trail that stretches from the Iowa School for the Deaf to the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge will get a half-million dollar face-lift courtesy of the federal economic stimulus package.
A conflict of interest for Jerram?
8 hours 20 mins ago
The councilman says he has no ties to a new company operated by his law partner.
Police: Man robbed in home
8 hours 40 mins ago
Authorities were looking for three robbers who assaulted a man during a home-invasion robbery Friday on the northeast edge of Council Bluffs.
Birch, 93, led local HUD office
8 hours 45 mins ago
Guy J. Birch, a longtime attorney who specialized in real estate law and a former area director of the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Office in Omaha, has died at 93.