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Dashcam Video Shows Car Flipping on Icy Nebraska Road
A Nebraska state trooper’s dash cam captured the moment a frosty road caused a car to fishtail across multiple lanes. The state trooper was able to pull over and provide help. Neither the driver nor the passenger suffered injuries.
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Campaign to Cap Payday Loan Interest Rates at 36% Moves Ahead in Nebraska Even as Federal Measures Remain Stalled
The Nebraskans for Responsible Lending coalition announced Thursday they had collected enough signed petitions to get an initiative that would cap the annual interest rate on payday loans at 36% onto the ballot during the 2020 general election.
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Man Arrested in Deadly Attack at Nebraska Sonic Restaurant
Authorities have arrested a 23-year-old man in the fatal shooting of two people and wounding of two others at a Nebraska fast food restaurant.
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Trump Supporters Stuck on Freezing Cold Airfield After Omaha Rally, 7 Taken to Hospitals
Hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters were left in the freezing cold for hours after a campaign rally at an airfield in Omaha, Nebraska, on Tuesday night, with some walking about 3 miles to waiting buses and others being taken away in ambulances, NBC News reports. Seven people were taken to area hospitals, suffering from a variety of conditions, and another...
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Nebraska Man Asks City Council to Rename Boneless Chicken Wings
Ander Christensen, of Lincoln, Nebraska, made a plea to the Lincoln City Council to rename boneless chicken wings because they are not, in fact, wings from a chicken.
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Nebraska Primary Voters Avoid Polls, Shatter Mail-in Record
Nebraska’s primary voters mostly steered clear of polling sites Tuesday while shattering the state record for absentee voting with nearly 400,000 mail-in ballots in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic
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Nebraska Will Open Voting Sites for Primary Despite Concerns
Officials in Nebraska are forging ahead with plans for the state’s May 12 primary despite calls from Democrats to only offer voting by mail and concerns from public health officials that in-person voting will help the coronavirus spread
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Emaciated Dogs, Contaminated Food: Puppy Mill Problems Persist
Five years after the Humane Society’s first report, it continues to find horrendous conditions across the country — emaciated dogs with open, festering wounds, rats feces in food, and puppies with mange. Its “Horrible Hundred” is not meant to be comprehensive, but to expose conditions prevalent among disreputable dog breeders and brokers.
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19 Nurses in Nebraska Neonatal Unit Welcome New Babies in 2019
Nineteen nurses in the neonatal intensive care unit at Nebraska’s Methodist Women’s Hospital all had babies of their own in 2019.
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‘Mystery Drones' Spotted Over Nebraska After Colorado Sightings
Reports of mysterious drones have been in the news since late December. WOWT’s Lileana Pearson reports.
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Photos: ‘March for Life' in DC Celebrates 45th Anniversary
Up to 100,000 anti-abortion activists plan to gather in Washington, D.C. on Friday for the 45th annual March for Life, where President Donald Trump is set to become the first sitting president to address the anti-abortion demonstration. March for Life marks the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, Roe v. Wade. Thousands of people are expected to rally…
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Charles Schwab Buys TD Ameritrade in Brokerage Blockbuster
Charles Schwab is buying rival TD Ameritrade in a $26 billion stock swap, a blockbuster agreement brought about by massive disruption in the online brokerage industry. Bowing to competitive pressure, brokerages have made it free for customers to trade U.S. stocks online. A combination of two of the biggest players in the industry would allow Schwab to save billions of...
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Krispy Kreme Strikes Sweet Deal With Student Whose Doughnut Side Hustle It Had Nixed
Krispy Kreme has reached an agreement with a Minnesota college student who drove to Iowa every weekend to buy hundreds of doughnuts to resell them in the Twin Cities area. The company said in a statement Monday that Jayson Gonzalez of Champlin can now work with Krispy Kreme as an independent operator. The deal also includes a 500-dozen doughnut donation...
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U.S. Income Inequality at Highest Level in 50 Years, Economic Gap Growing in Heartland States
The gap between the haves and have-nots in the United States grew last year to its highest level in more than 50 years of tracking income inequality, according to Census Bureau figures. Income inequality in the United States expanded from 2017 to 2018, with several heartland states among the leaders of the increase, even though several wealthy coastal states still...
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Slain DNC Staffer's Family Can Sue Fox News, Appeals Court Rules
A lawsuit alleging Fox News exploited the killing of a Democratic National Committee employee was revived by an appeals court Friday after a lower court tossed it out. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said Joel and Mary Rich, of Omaha, Nebraska, had sufficiently alleged they were subjected to emotional distress after their son, 27-year-old Seth Rich,...
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Bride Told Maid of Honor She Could Wear ‘Anything' — So She Dressed as T. Rex
When a bride-to-be told her sister she could wear anything she wanted to the wedding, her maid of honor made an unexpected choice: a T. rex costume. Deanna Adams, 40, a legal administrative specialist in Omaha, Nebraska, said her wedding was supposed to be “low-key.” “I didn’t want to make a big deal out of anything, as long as I...
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David Koch, Billionaire Conservative Donor, Dies at 79
Billionaire industrialist David H. Koch, who with his older brother, Charles, transformed American politics by pouring their riches into conservative causes, has died at age 79. Charles Koch announced the death on Friday, saying, “It is with a heavy heart that I now must inform you of David’s death.”
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Hundreds Come to Honor El Paso Victim After Public Invited
When Jordan Ballard read that one of the victims of the El Paso massacre had few relatives and the public was invited to her funeral, the Los Angeles resident bought a plane ticket and flew to Texas to honor a woman she had never met. She was one of hundreds of strangers who braved 100-degree (38 Celsius) heat to pay...
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As Pam Grier Celebrates 70, She Finds Peace off the Grid
Pam Grier’s role as the owner of a hardware store in rural Nebraska in the ABC sitcom “Bless This Mess” isn’t a complete departure for the film legend: She lives in rural Colorado and has spent much of her life on ranches to find serenity from Hollywood life.
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Iowa Couple Arrested in San Diego for Smuggling and Allegedly Abusing Migrant Girl From Guatemala
The alleged assault happened just days after the girl and her father were released from an overcrowded ICE detention center in El Paso, Texas and flown to the defendants’ Iowa home.