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Group says anti-affirmative ban will be on ballots

LINCOLN, Neb. - Voters in two states may get to decide this year whether public entities can use race and gender when deciding who to recruit and hire.  Read More

Hansen fails to make Olympics in 200 breast

OMAHA, Neb. - In the first major stunner of the U.S. Olympic swimming trials, Brendan Hansen failed to make the Olympic team in the 200-meter breaststroke Thursday night.  Read More

Breeden locks up another Olympic spot in butterfly

Breeden's performance Thursday night followed her second-place showing in the 100 fly, which also should be good enough for a spot in Beijing.  Read More

Weber-Gale edges Lezak in 100 freestyle finals

Weber-Gale overtook two-time Olympian Jason Lezak on Thursday night, winning with a time of 47.92 seconds _ nearly a half-second off the world record held by France's Alain Bernard.  Read More

Hansen fails to make Olympics in 200 breast

The former world recordholder and bronze medalist in the event at the Athens Games finished fourth, fading to a shockingly slow time of 2 minutes, 11.37 seconds. Only the top two can swim in Beijing.  Read More

Boy Scouts going to Washington to meet Bush

The Boy Scouts of America Mid-America Council says the trip is for the Scouts who attended the leadership camp in Little Sioux, Iowa. Four boys were killed when a tornado struck the camp June 11.  Read More

Nebraska Beef Ltd. recall now 5.3 million pounds

OMAHA, Neb. - Nebraska Beef Ltd. is expanding a recall announced earlier this week to include all 5.3 million pounds of meat it produced for ground beef between May 16 and June 26.  Read More

Court ruling likely ends Neb. foundation fight

OMAHA, Neb. - A new federal appeals court ruling will likely end a 6-year-old fight for control of one of Nebraska's oldest and most prestigious charitable foundations.  Read More

Investigator will be reinstated after polygraph

David Kofoed was asked Wednesday about the investigation of the April 2006 murders of Wayne and Sharmon Stock in rural Murdock. Officials said all of Kofoed's responses were determined to be truthful.  Read More

Nebraska investigators make million-dollar shoe find

After stopping a trucker on Interstate 80 Wednesday night, investigators say they noticed some discrepancies in his log book. Sgt. Ed Van Buren said the driver, Qing Yong Ren of California, refused to answer some simple questions such as what he'd been doing in Brooklyn, N.Y. for four days.  Read More

Torres 3rd-fastest in 100 free prelims at trials

OMAHA, Neb. - Natalie Coughlin qualified fastest in the 100-meter freestyle preliminaries, with 41-year-old Dara Torres third-quickest at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials Thursday.  Read More

Appeals court orders new fireworks lawsuit trial

OMAHA, Neb. - On the eve of the July 4 holiday, an elderly Omaha woman who lost one of her eyes to an errant firework six years ago has gotten some good news from a federal appeals court.  Read More

Court: man who hid body in barrel needs hearing

LINCOLN, Neb. - The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that it shouldn't have been presented with the appeal of a North Platte man who beat his girlfriend and hid her dismembered body in a trash can.  Read More

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