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The funds will be used to install fiber connecting about 600 unserved tribal households, 40 businesses and 16 community anchor institutions.
Susanne Shore doesn't share her husband's Republican affiliation.
For almost three decades, she helped bring Cornhusker State prairies and skies to the silver screen in movies such as "Nebraska."
Niccole Wetherell died from from cervical cancer in 2o21.
The car was made in the Lincoln plant of Kawasaki Motors.
The U.S. senator from Nebraska is the sole presidential finalist at the university.
However, he said major challenges lay ahead in hiring adequate mental health and medical staff to treat the state’s 5,500 prison inmates.
The new program is described as a way to help low- to moderate-income families and individuals build wealth and stability.
will receive the award Monday night at a sold-out banquet at Lincoln’s Lied Center to celebrate the award and Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
No one was ever held accountable for the 20-year-old Black man's murder at the hands of a white mob.
Ricketts issued a statement Friday afternoon after speculation that he might appoint himself to the Senate post.
Some Nebraska Republicans, on background, predicted Ricketts would not appoint himself, though they felt he should consider it.
Travis Ford will serve 18 months for making threatening posts on an Instagram page concerning Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold.
He will return to the war-torn country on Oct. 14, after undergoing another chemotherapy treatment for an ongoing bout with leukemia.
Total sponsored program awards reached $251.9 million, an increase of 10%, this past fiscal year.
The UTV was on a designated trail in the hand-planted forest.
The University of Florida on Thursday afternoon listed the Nebraska Republican as the only finalist for its presidency.
The former University of Nebraska football player has been endorsed by his former coach, Tom Osborne.
Together, this past year, the organizations have resettled nearly 600 newcomers.
The human-caused wildfire scored more than 18,000 acres.
