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Grand Island High School player Elli Ward looks for an opening during a girls high school basketball game against Norfolk High School, Jan. 26, 2024 in Grand Island, Neb. (Jimmy Rash via AP)

Caitlin Clark effect hasn’t reversed the decades-long decline in girls basketball participation

By Josh Funk - Associated Press

Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., speaks during a hearing, March 14, 2023, in Washington. Nebraskans will cast presidential primary ballots Tuesday, May 14, 2024, in a reliably Republican state that could nonetheless play a decisive role in the race for the White House. Voters will also decide several contested state primaries, including U.S. Senate, where both Republican incumbents are on the ballot. Fischer is seeking a third term. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Republican Sen. Deb Fischer in tight race with no-party rival Dan Osborn in deep-red Nebraska

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Nebraska State Sen. Mike McDonnell of Omaha is shown in the Legislative Chamber in Lincoln, Neb., Friday, March 1, 2019. McDonnell is expected to be a key vote for a bill being debated Thursday, April 27, 2023, that would ban abortion once cardiac activity can be detected in an embryo (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Key Nebraska legislator says no to ‘winner-take-all’ Electoral College proposal, bucks Trump allies

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump acknowledges the crowd after speaking at the Israeli American Council National Summit, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump allies push Nebraska to return to winner-take-all system before election

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Artemis Else, right, hugs Angie Caswell as they wait outside Northwest high school after a shooting was reported Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, in Omaha, Neb. (Megan Nielsen/Omaha World-Herald via AP)

Court documents say Omaha school shooting began with a fight between 2 boys

By Josh Funk - Associated Press

Omaha police investigate the death of a 5-year-old found in a hot vehicle near 93rd and Binney Streets in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, July 10, 2024. (Chris Machian/Omaha World-Herald via AP)

A 5-year-old child in foster care dies after being left in hot SUV in Nebraska

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Tennessee coach Tony Vitello, center, celebrates with his team following their victory over Texas A&M in Game 3 of the NCAA College World Series baseball finals in Omaha, Neb., Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca S. Gratz)

Tennessee earns first national championship title in baseball with 6-5 win over Texas A&M

By Eric Olson - Associated Press

Tam Nguyen, wearing cap, is helped to dry land by a Sioux City Fire Rescue firefighter after he and Bruce Ege, left, were rescued by boat from their flooded homes in the Riverside neighborhood of Sioux City, Iowa, Monday, June 24, 2024. The evacuations were occurring in the wake of flooding from the Big Sioux and Missouri Rivers. (Tim Hynds/Sioux City Journal via AP)

Midwestern flooding collapses a bridge, forces evacuations and kills at least 1

By Margery A. Beck, Hannah Fingerhut and John Hanna - Associated Press

Neighbors embrace Penny Thomsen outside of her home in Pleasant Hill, Iowa, on Saturday, April 27, 2024. The Des Moines suburb was one of multiple cities hit as tornados ripped across the state Friday evening. (The Des Moines Register via AP)

Residents begin going through the rubble after tornadoes hammer parts of Nebraska and Iowa

By Nick Ingram and Jeff Martin and Heather Hollingsworth - Associated Press

Terry Kicking sifts through the damage after a tornado leveled his home, Friday, April 26, 2024, in Omaha, Neb. (Nikos Frazier/Omaha World-Herald via AP)

Tornadoes collapse buildings and level homes in Nebraska and Iowa

By Josh Funk, Margery A. Beck and Heather Hollingsworth - Associated Press

People are pick through the rubble of a house that was leveled in Elkhorn, Neb., on Saturday, April 27, 2024. Residents began sifting through the rubble after a tornado plowed through suburban Omaha, demolishing homes and businesses as it moved for miles through farmland and into subdivisions. (AP Photo/Nicholas Ingram)

Residents begin going through the rubble after tornadoes hammer parts of Nebraska and Iowa

By Nick Ingram and Jeff Martin and Heather Hollingsworth - Associated Press

Gopala Penmetsa walks past his house after it was leveled by a tornado near Omaha, Neb., on Friday, April 26, 2024. (Chris Machian/Omaha World-Herald via AP)

Residents begin going through the rubble after tornadoes hammer parts of Nebraska and Iowa

By Josh Funk, Margery A. Beck and Heather Hollingsworth - Associated Press

Then Nebraska Governor-elect Jim Pillen answers a question while taking part in a panel discussion during a Republican Governors Association conference, Nov. 16, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. Nebraska governor Pillen is standing firm on his plans to reject $18 million in federal funding to help feed children who might otherwise go hungry while school is out. Pillen issued a statement Friday, Dec. 29, 2023, defending his decision not to allow the state to participate in the 2024 Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children, or Summer EBT, program. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen stands firm on rejection of federal money to feed food-insecure children

By Margery A. Beck - Associated Press

Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird, center, speaks with supporters as she makes her rounds around an election night party for Democrats, Tuesday, May 2, 2023, at the DelRay Ballroom in Lincoln, Nev. Two lawsuits allege that Nebraska’s two largest cities are violating a new state gun law by prohibiting them from public places such as parks. The Liberty Justice Center filed lawsuits on Dec. 18 challenging executive orders issued by the mayors of Omaha and Lincoln. (Kenneth Ferriera/Lincoln Journal Star via AP, File)

Restriction on carrying guns in Omaha and Lincoln violate Nebraska law, lawsuits say

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The front door of the rectory where the Rev. Stephen Gutgsell's was fatally stabbed on Dec. 10 in tiny Fort Calhoun, Neb., remained wrapped in crime scene tape on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. A cornerstone next to the door the suspect broke into identifies the home as being the one St. John the Baptist Catholic Church's priest lived at. Gutgsell's killing was the second one in the small town in the last four months. (AP Photo/Josh Funk)

A woman shot with a crossbow and a priest stabbed in a rectory shake a small Nebraska town

By Josh Funk and Margery A. Beck - Associated Press