Posted: 4:32 PM So far so good in the city's battle against a flooding Missouri River. But it's not by chance that the city has remained relatively high and dry. A coalition of members from the private and public sector have daily plotted out the city's progress and needs.

Updated: 4:27 PM The Milton R. Abrahams Branch of the Omaha Public Library, south of 90th and Fort Street, will be closed for renovations August 1. The $1.2 million project is funded by the city’s capital improvement program.

Updated: 10:34 PM 19-year-old Ryan Elseman turned himself in as a suspect in the Kristopher Winters homicide case.

Updated: 1:28 PM Baby boomers say their biggest health fear is cancer. Memory loss comes in second. But heart disease and diabetes should be atop that list, too, given the size of boomers' waistlines.

Posted: 1:25 PM President Barack Obama is vowing to fight any efforts to block the work of a new consumer protection bureau as he introduces a former Ohio attorney general to run the agency.

Posted: 1:10 PM Stocks fell at the opening of trading as debt worries continue to hang over markets.

Posted: 1:04 PM One of Casey Anthony's lawyers said elaborate plans had to be made to keep the woman safe after her release from jail. Attorney Cheney Mason said the 25-year-old woman freed over the weekend will have a difficult life for a long time, partly because so many people have a "lynch mob mentality."

Updated: 4:23 PM Rapper and actor Ja Rule faces sentencing in federal court in for failing to file income tax returns. The platinum-selling rapper, whose real name is Jeffrey Atkins, faces up to three years in prison at his sentencing in New Jersey.

Posted: 12:58 PM A Nigerian-American man is scheduled to appear in a Los Angeles courtroom on charges he breached airport security in New York and got a free ride on an LA-bound flight.

Posted: 12:27 PM Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman says state economies will top his priority list as the new chairman of the National Governors Association.

Updated: 10:36 AM The annual Kearney Cruise Nite event held Saturday night provided the public with a pretty good classic car parade. But what followed was a parade of arrests of underage drinkers.

Updated: 10:29 AM A search warrant executed at one in the morning netted Lincoln police two suspects, cash, and some drugs Saturday. The Lincoln/Lancaster Narcotics Task Force found 133.2 grams of methamphetamine at $2,200 cash at 1929 SW 34th in Lincoln.

Posted: 4:42 AM Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle will present his 2012 budget proposal to the city council on Tuesday.

Posted: 9:22 PM Because of the heat, Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo will be offering half price admission on Monday, July 18th.

Updated: 1:14 AM A hot week ahead means several businesses are expecting larger crowds.

Updated: 7:56 PM Elizabeth Chadwick and Jessica Weinfurtner are both dead following at late night crash on Saturday north of Council Bluffs.

Posted: 4:23 PM "Deathly Hallows 2" brings in $475 million dollars worldwide.

Updated: 2:51 PM A Council Bluffs family is alive today because their dog alerted them to get out of their home when a fire broke out. Now their canine hero is fighting for his life.

Posted: 9:43 PM The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has ordered construction of a seepage berm along a levee protecting a wastewater treatment plant in Bellevue from the Missouri River.

Updated: 9:26 PM The heat is here. We are in an excessive heat warning with no relief in sight. So how are people in the metro coping with the high temperatures?

Updated: 3:35 PM It's been almost a year since four men died tragically on I-29, killed by a drunk driver whose blood alcohol level was more than four times the legal limit. And their families and friends are making sure they're never forgotten.

Updated: 11:06 AM The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission has scheduled training for hunter education instructors across the state.

Updated: 6:04 PM The stage is almost set for the Red Sky concerts at TD Ameritrade Park. One fan’s purchase of two tickets on line turned into an expensive journey.

Posted: 4:08 PM Lincoln's parachute club's annual Redemption Boogie event is at Plattsmouth Municipal Airport this weekend.

Posted: 4:06 PM A federal judge has sentenced a former senior spy agency official who leaked information to the media to a year of probation, a move that could spell trouble for the Obama Administration's crackdown on those who leak information to the media.