Officers arrested 19-year-old Joseph Neumeister of Plattsmouth on Saturday.

Addiction experts from throughout the nation will be in suburban St. Louis this week for the sixth annual Midwest Conference on Problem Gambling and Substance Abuse.

The Nebraska Corn Board says nearly 5,000 farmers sent postcards urging the Environmental Protection Agency to approve blending more ethanol with gasoline.

Two people in a minivan lead Council Bluffs Police on a chase that ends with serious property damage.

Severe, wet weather pelted the Omaha Metro area Friday morning leaving a messy start to the weekend in its wake.

StarTran will once again be providing shuttle service for all home Husker football games this year.

The University of Iowa is ticketing smokers who light up on campus.

The Iowa Board of Regents has approved a nearly $4 billion budget for Iowa's three public universities with expected layoffs and bigger classes.

National sports giant ESPN will broadcast Aplington-Parkerburg High School's opening home football game while it pays tribute to the team's coach, who was shot and killed in June.

CNN founder and philanthropist Ted Turner will speak at Midland Lutheran College's convocation ceremony later this month.

The Des Moines airport board doesn't want to change the airport's name.

The chancellor says the University of Nebraska at Kearney will have to eliminate at least 10 jobs to balance its budget.

A move is under way to ban bicyclists on county roads in Iowa. A group called Citizens for Safety Coalition of Iowa is circulating a petition and urging the Legislature to support a move to ban bikes on so-called farm-to market roads.

A new Nebraska Web site offers a quick way for parents, students and others to find out more about their nearby education options including K-12 schools and colleges.

Honda Motors is recalling thousands of vehicles due to a potentially deadly airbag defect.

Why is Buske leaving-and who will be Omaha's next Chief of Police?

Omaha Police Friday morning released the name of a man who was shot in the leg around midnight at 24th and Sprague.

By the time Omaha Police arrived the safe had been unlocked and the cash was gone. Whoever is burglarizing Subway Restaurants in Omaha isn't afraid of returning to the scene of the crime.

Iowa's annual sales tax holiday is scheduled for Aug. 7 and 8, giving Iowans a chance do some back-to-school shopping without paying state and local sales taxes.

The Agriculture Department is helping struggling dairy farmers by raising the price paid for milk and cheddar cheese through a dairy price support program.

An Omaha man is expected to be okay after being shot in the leg.

An attorney for a Kansas woman accused of violating Nebraska's flag-desecration law has asked that her client's appeal be heard by the Nebraska Supreme Court.

A 911 call leads Nebraska State Troopers to stop an erratic driver on I-80 in Hamilton County.

Nebraska football legend Tom Osborne has been named one of the 50 greatest coaches of all time.

Authorities suspect anhydrous ammonia killed thousands of fish in a stretch of southeast Nebraska's Little Blue River.