U.S. District Judge Brian Buescher allowed the case to go forward, finding that Amanda Benson had raised enough questions of fact for her claims to go before a jury.
A 43-year-old Lincoln man has been sentenced to 18 to 28 years in prison for threatening a woman with a gun in her basement in July 2021.
The director of Lancaster County Youth Services resigned abruptly late Thursday, less than two years after he was hired.
Lancaster County deputies who stopped an Omaha man's car in a random stop Thursday morning found a woman being held against her will in the passenger seat, the sheriff alleged.
Two Lincoln residents were arrested early Friday morning after narcotics investigators found pounds of drugs and eight handguns in their Belmont home, police alleged.
At the end of a trial this week, the jury deliberated for 15 minutes before finding 50-year-old Alvaro Monterroso guilty as charged.
A 33-year-old Lincoln man was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly sold nearly a half-pound of methamphetamine to undercover narcotics investigators across four transactions in March, police said.
"It very, very easily could've been a death case," Deputy Lancaster County Attorney Jim Rocke said at Crystal Demers' sentencing on felony assault and child abuse charges.
A Nebraska electrician was taken by helicopter to a Lincoln hospital after he touched a live transformer Wednesday afternoon in Hickman, shocking him with an electrical current at 7,200 volts.
Rick Hill's lawsuit sought $44.7 billion and contained rambling allegations of rigged elections, sought to decertify the 2020 and 2022 elections and challenged passage of the gambling referendum.
A Lincoln man chased down a cyclist in his truck last month and, with the help of an unidentified accomplice, beat and robbed the cyclist of his bike, police alleged.
A 24-year-old Lincoln man is facing four felony charges for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman after threatening her at gunpoint and repeatedly strangling her in May, police said.
Two Lincoln teens are in custody after they allegedly carried out an armed carjacking late Monday night before crashing the Ford they stole while fleeing police, authorities alleged.
Police are investigating after a 46-year-old Lincoln man was found dead in his home near Northwest 56th and West Aurora streets Tuesday afternoon. His cause of death is unknown.
Prosecutors made it clear they believed the No Name Demons gang was responsible for Edward Varejcka's death in March 2020. And Felipe Vazquez was near the top.
In a letter to the Journal Star last month, Aubrey Trail said: "My message to whoever is listening is simple: 'You gave me the death penalty so now use it.'"
The "brush rig" is a Ford F550 that is designed to get firefighters to situations that are off-road or blocked by heavy water or snow.
At 11 a.m. Monday, fire crews were called to a facility at 3320 S. Sixth St., where a fire had started in a garage at an industrial building.
A Las Vegas man was arrested on I-80 in Lincoln last week after deputies found 88 pounds of cocaine and $84,352 in his truck amid a traffic stop, authorities alleged.
A 56-year-old motorcyclist was hospitalized Friday night with life-threatening injuries after a crash in northeast Lincoln.
What was initially reported as a random knife attack near Lincoln's airport in early June was actually self-inflicted, police said in new court filings.
A 34-year-old man is in jail and faces numerous felony charges for allegedly barricading himself in a Lincoln apartment early Friday morning after threatening to kill five residents.
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The Guatemala teen found in Lancaster County told investigators she was made to do housework for all the residents in the house — not just her alleged abuser.
The 44-year-old corporal is accused of dating a parolee in a relationship that began months before she started working for the corrections department, according to court filings.
A 60-year-old man is in critical condition after he drove his pickup truck into an embankment near 14th Street and Fletcher Avenue early Wednesday morning, police said.
Alvaro Gomez-Lopez was arrested Tuesday after Lancaster County Sheriff's deputies were sent to his residence following a report of physical and sexual abuse at the address.
A Nebraska State Patrol trooper and another person were injured following a crash Tuesday near Fremont.
The criminal case against a 17-year-old accused of helping his girlfriend kill her father last year in Lincoln will stay in adult court.
A 30-year-old Lincoln man was arrested Monday night minutes after he fled from an attempted traffic stop and crashed into an SUV, police alleged.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Molsen told Senior U.S. District Judge John Gerrard that Buongkhoy Wal was the most culpable of the five defendants charged for what happened that day.