Problems with a novel approach to ethanol production could be imperiling an aquifer.
Read moreNebraska faces a class action over its Medicaid expansion plans and its work and public service requirements for some receiving benefits.
Read moreA Black woman working as an Omaha firefighter filed a lawsuit against the city after she said she faced verbal abuse from coworkers and found her gear hung from a station flagpole in a way that simulated “a public hanging or lynching.” She said she had to take a leave of absence after the city did nothing.
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A Nebraska woman filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Lincoln and others Tuesday, after police officers fired rubber bullets at close range into a crowd of people protesting racial injustice and one of the bullets severed the woman’s nose.
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The quest of two Nebraska inmates to get married virtually while incarcerated in separate facilities landed before an Eighth Circuit panel Wednesday, which wondered why the issue was being litigated at all.
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As Covid-19 surges in Nebraska, the state’s Republican governor — who has resisted mask mandates and safety restrictions — has been forced into quarantine after he and his wife were exposed to the virus at a Sunday dinner party.
Read moreTwo Nebraska taxpayers accuse the Nebraska Environmental Trust Board of incorrectly recording — and refusing to correct — a vote that shifted funding to a large ethanol project, which was 78th on the board’s list of funding priorities.
Read moreNebraska secretary of state improperly certified a voter ballot initiative to create a constitutional right for people with serious medical conditions to produce and use medicinal cannabis, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled, finding it violated a single subject rule pertaining to such initiatives.
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Eight football players from the University of Nebraska have sued over a decision by the Big Ten Conference to cancel the fall sports season in the face of health risks and uncertainty caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The attorneys general for Iowa and Nebraska sued an Omaha-based stem cell therapy center Thursday, claiming it committed consumer fraud by making unproven claims in both states that its therapies can cure or prevent disease and even turn back the aging clock.
Read moreNebraska sued Pivot Concierge Health and Banyan Medical Systems, both of Omaha, for deceptive trade involving drive-through Covid-19 testing.
Read moreOver 182,000 Nebraskans have signed a petition to put a medical marijuana initiative on the November ballot.
Read moreA loud but peaceful crowd of over 1000 people Sunday marched from Crossroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, where the city’s most intense protests originated a week ago, to a nearby park to protest police violence and mourn the death of James Scurlock, a 22-year-old black man who was shot and killed by a white business owner during unrest last weekend.
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The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday that corrections officials in the state must share documents related to the state’s half-decade effort to acquire and use new lethal injection drugs.
Read moreThe plan between a licensed Nebraska pharmacist and a dark-net drug dealer was simple enough: firebomb a rival pharmacist who they saw as a competitor so their illegal business could flourish.
Read moreThe Nebraska Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the state’s controversial protocol for lethal injection executions Friday, finding the plaintiffs lack standing to sue.
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