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Vice President Mike Pence traveled on behalf of President Trump to flooding disaster areas in Nebraska on Tuesday.

Silicon Valley giant Google reportedly plans to spend $13 billion on real estate in 2019 as part of the company’s rapid expansion.

An American doctor who was reportedly exposed to the Ebola virus while working with patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo arrived in the U.S. Saturday and was taken to a Nebraska hospital.

The principal of an elementary school in Elkhorn, Nebraska banned teachers from using candy canes in the classroom because they are in the shape of a “J,” which she believes stands for Jesus. She has been since placed on leave by the school district.

Land O’ Lakes announced on Thursday that they created America’s first Association Health Plan (AHP), which offers plans nearly 50 percent less expensive than Obamacare, thanks to President Donald Trump’s executive actions on health care.

Sen. Ben Sasse revealed Saturday that he repeatedly thinks about leaving the Republican Party to become an Independent.

Parkland school shooting survivor and Second Amendment advocate Kyle Kashuv flew to Nebraska to take Fidan Ibrahimova to the prom after she reached out to him on Twitter.

A Nebraska man accused of filing a false police report found himself in more hot water after surveillance video caught him trying to stash cocaine in the interrogation room ceiling at the police station, authorities said.

A sex offender convicted in the United Kingdom after attempting to kill and eat a teenager has moved to Nebraska after completing his sentence, angering residents.

Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts has proposed a budget to Nebraska citizens that would end family planning taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood and other clinics that perform abortions.

Two foreign nationals operating a motel in Kimball, Nebraska pleaded guilty to harboring and exploiting an illegal alien from India who they forced to work for them without pay.

Stakeholders are weighing in on the Nebraska Public Service Commission’s announcement on Monday that it will permit the completion of the Keystone XL pipeline in the state.

State and local public health officials are offering few details about the mysterious tuberculosis (TB) death of a patient first diagnosed last month at a hospital in Fremont, Nebraska.

A judge sentenced a Nebraska man to four years behind bars after he was found guilty of sending prostitutes to his neighbor’s door multiple times over three years and watching them strip.

A man wearing a costume that consisted of a black robe and a toy rifle in a crowded mall sparked panic because some people thought the get-up was inspired by the Islamic State (ISIS).

A jury found an Omaha, Nebraska, man guilty on Friday afternoon of killing a developmentally disabled man in a shooting that witnesses described as “target practice.”

The lawyer for a Nebraska teacher accused of having birthday sex with a 16-year-old claims her client’s behavior stemmed from mental illness.

A Nebraska man is accused of making death threats against Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA).

A Nebraska Democratic official was fired Thursday after he was apparently recorded saying he wished Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) was dead, that he was glad he was shot, and called him a “motherfucker.”

Drivers across the country are racing to their local Department of Motor Vehicles to claim “covfefe” vanity license plates just days following President Trump’s tweet where he meant to type “negative press coverage” and instead wrote “covfefe.”

A man who killed four people in a shooting rampage in Nebraska just 11 days after he was released from jail was sentenced to the death penalty Tuesday.

An active case of tuberculosis (TB) has been confirmed at a public middle school in San Antonio, Texas.

The August 21 total solar eclipse will be the first visible across all of the continental United States since March 7, 1970.

President Donald Trump kept the threat of voter fraud on the front pages both before and after the 2016 Election. Although ballots have long since been counted, cases of illegal voting and other election law violations continue to surface in the aftermath.

A state lawmaker is demanding “corrective action” after the Nebraska Democratic Party admittedly planted voter registration forms in gift baskets intended for newly-arrived refugees.

A 16-year-old from Nebraska who pleaded guilty to throwing her newborn out a window was sentenced on Friday to probation and ordered to live in a group home.

A Guatemalan national accused of raping a minor has disappeared after being allowed to post bail.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials added a Honduran national wanted for vehicular homicide to their #MostWantedWednesday list.

President Donald Trump’s promise to halt all refugee resettlement from nations that have been compromised by Islamic terrorism may be coming sooner than expected.

About 150 residents of Nebraska gathered near the state’s capitol to demand the influx in refugees and migrants during the Obama administration’s years continue during President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.

President Barack Obama’s deputies have dropped 502 additional refugees into Nebraska during the first three months of FY 2017, according to the Department of State.

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services has not responded to a Breitbart News request for the number of Benson Magnet High School students who arrived in the country as refugees and completed an initial domestic medical screening, tested positive for latent TB infection (LTBI), and successfully completed medical treatment for that condition.

Seven of 172 students, faculty, and staff at Benson Magnet High School in Omaha, Nebraska, who were given blood tests during the past two weeks have tested positive for latent tuberculosis (TB) infection.

A high school home economics teacher in Nebraska was fed semen when she taste-tested the frosting on some baked turnovers.

Two hundred thirty seven of Benson Magnet High School’s 1,273 students, or 18.6 percent, are refugees, according to Omaha Public School’s District English Language Learner/Refugee Report, 2015-16.