Новости за 21.10.2015

A look at games for the final week of the regular season.

OMAHA — A middle school science teacher in Omaha is a winner of the Milken Educator Award for excellence in education, which comes with a $25,000 prize.

Formerly the B2B Tradeshow, the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce moved the Lincoln Business Expo to Pinnacle Bank Arena from Pershing Center.

Bram Stoker’s immortal story "Dracula" is coming to the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St., at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

The following list represents the most streamed tracks on Spotify, based on the number of people who shared it divided by the number who listened to it, from Friday Oct. 9 to Thursday, Oct. 15…

ZURICH -- Syngenta has named Chief Financial Officer John Ramsay as provisional CEO to replace Mike Mack, who quit unexpectedly under mounting shareholder criticism at the world's largest agro…

Cherub is an electro-pop duo that’s on the way up, having great fun riding a hit single and entertaining live shows that have taken it out of Nashville, where the group is from.

The Nebraska Public Power District Board of Directors unanimously approved the utility's 2016 wholesale rate schedule during a special meeting Wednesday in Grand Island.

Nebraska has reached its highest ranking ever in Forbes magazine's Best States for Business and Careers list.

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Nebraska government will save some $5.3 million over the next decade thanks to a series of technology updates and other changes being made by the state's new chief information officer, Gov. Pe…

A federal judge has sentenced the former treasurer of an Omaha union to five years of probation and ordered him to pay $13,196 in restitution for embezzling.

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One new pizza chain may be coming to Lincoln in the future while another may not be coming and another is bowing out.

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, one of the top-tier Republican presidential candidates, will be the featured speaker at the Nebraska GOP Founders Day celebration in suburban Omaha on Nov. 23.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Of the eight finalists in the American Humane Association's 2015 American Hero Dog contest, Harley is the oldest, smallest and most unlikely of winners.

It was enough rain to settle the dust, dampen leaves and fill the air with the smell of autumn.

NEW YORK (AP) — Danai Gurira is a rising star in the theater, the author of powerful, often harrowing plays. When she's not doing that, you can find her chopping up zombies.

OMAHA — People objecting to emergency contraception, abortion and gender identity as new topics for the Omaha schools' sex education curriculum clashed at a forum with people who support addin…

SIDNEY — Cheyenne County and 15 political subdivisions such as school districts must repay nearly $122,000 to a company that won its property valuation challenge.

The Lincoln-Lancaster Health Department dental program is serving a growing number of people, and a higher percentage of people who don’t speak English in part because the program provides int…

Two comfort dogs from Nebraska made the trip to Oregon this month to help students at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg.

Bernice J. Tennant, Wymore, July 24, 1931 - October 20, 2015.

John Simon, Falls City, April 1, 1949 - October 19, 2015

Joseph Bednar, Jr., 84, Wymore, died Oct. 18, 2015. Viewing, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. with family 6-8, Thursday, Oct. 22, with services at 1 p.m. Friday, Oct...