Sasse, a Republican from Nebraska, is leaving the Senate two years into his second term. He resigned, effective Sunday, to become president of the University of Florida.
But he exits with an eye on another top political position, the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Nebraska’s junior senator, Ben Sasse.
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Legislative and business leaders urged voter support Tuesday for a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow Lincoln and other communities in the state to offer an initial revenue guarantee as a new means of attempting to attract additional airline passenger service.
Supporters and opponents of ballot initiatives to enact voter ID and raise the minimum wage made their final arguments Tuesday at a public hearing held at the Capitol.
Rep. Mike Flood, Sen. Eliot Bostar and Sen. Lou Ann Linehan visited Grand Island Monday to advocate for passing the amendment.
Some Nebraska lawmakers allege that a State Department of Education website promoted critical race theory. A department spokesman said that isn't the case.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s attorney general on Thursday condemned the violent death of an 18-year-old allegedly struck by a man who said he drove his SUV into the victim after the two had a political argument, and he offered to help a county attorney prosecute the case.
Vice chair of the Greeley County GOP Nadine Bane said that former state senator and gubernatorial candidate Theresa Thibodeau helped her put the Greeley County GOP’s version of the resolution together.
Trent Loos said his farming and media experience will help Nebraskans unite, regardless of where they live.
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LINCOLN — Federal prosecutors in California pushed back Friday on appeals from former U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry that he was wrongly convicted of lying to federal agents and that he was wrongly tried in Los Angeles, instead of Nebraska. In a 73-page filing, prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in L.A. argued that at least […]
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LINCOLN — Chueqa Yang told a legislative panel Friday that she wasn’t always such an activist for her Asian American community. Born in Omaha to refugees who arrived in the U.S. 44 years ago, Yang said she grew up in a largely white area, with little exposure to her Hmong heritage outside the family home. […]
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A total of 83 projects from across Nebraska will receive a share of nearly $20 million in federal pandemic recovery funds to bolster the development of the state's behavioral health workforce.
WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday announced plans to speed up the use of infrastructure law funds to replace lead pipes in underserved communities, with a focus on Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin beginning this year. The four states, each led by Democratic governors, will be part of what’s called the Lead Service […]
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The man's arrest came about two weeks after a pre-school aged girl told investigators he had touched her inappropriately, police alleged in court filings.
Trautman was also found guilty of three counts of visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct. For each count, he was sentenced to three to four years
The collision forced the vehicle to slide across the roadway.
The Hall County attorney pointed to Omaha's Rosenblatt Stadium. A few years after millions of dollars were put into renovating that ballpark, "they bulldozed it to the ground."
With a substantially smaller supply, officials said, treasurers in some counties don't have the ability to hold back plate numbers from customers who need new plates first.
An Omaha lawmaker said his bill exempting diapers from sales tax would help parents of young children and those caring for adults with medical conditions.
"Let’s take a legislative body that has worked well since 1937 and make it more like Congress, because we know how well that’s working out," J.L. Schmidt writes.
"I hate that it's become a battle with law enforcement on this issue," Sen. Tom Brewer of Gordon said, before police officials testified against his latest "constitutional carry" bill.