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Lone Frosh: At one Nebraska school, the entire freshman class is just Bailley
TAYLOR – Bailley Leibert walks into civics class and plops her sunflower-print backpack onto an empty table. The 15-year-old rummages for her notebook and colored pens. Around her are enough chairs t...
Up close and personal: Nebraska couple telling, showing, bison story to visitors
Their low, rumbling bellow first cuts through the silence of the Sandhills. Next comes the crunch of pointed hooves, trudging their way through tall prairie grasses. Then, the oohs of the...
Using loophole, Seward County seizes millions from motorists without convicting them of crimes
Seward County routinely seizes money from motorists on Interstate 80, keeps the cash – and never convicts the drivers of a crime. The county's sheriff's department and county attorney use this p...
Six years after 'Cabela's debacle,' Sidney's lights are still on
The forest green roof and pair of bronze stags frozen in combat are impossible to miss as you drive down Interstate 80. So are the two corporate buildings – 550,000 square feet of nearly empty o...
Nebraska schools are going to a four-day week. Teachers are pumped.
WEEPING WATER – Superintendent Kevin Reiman had a problem. He couldn’t find new teachers. So, in spring 2022, Reiman took an idea to the school board of Weeping Water Public Schools. What about a four-day school week? Reiman expected the board to tak...
1,000 pounds of medicine: How Nebraskans are helping get medical care to Ukrainians fleeing war
WARSAW, Poland – The 3-year-old was too sick to leave his hotel room. He has had congenital heart disease since he was born. A second surgery was already planned for when he turned three. Then the war...
Prison leaders wrote a bill to release prisoners earlier.
In 2011, the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services wrote a bill that would allow well-behaved prisoners the chance to shorten their time behind bars. Eleven years later, that same department is applying the resulting law in a way neither the...
