Nebraska Politics News

What does every one think of what happened at Fort Hood? I was watching it on the news and listening to the reports. I was wondering what people were thinking about it. Like, what do you make of the military's...

When Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe took her seat on the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday morning, she had only an inkling of how she’d vote on health care reform. She wanted the budget experts to weigh in before making up her...

Elia Betancourt, 20, shot in the back near Belmont Avenue, was released Sunday from Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, her family said...An 18-year-old man, allegedly a Latin Kings gang member, also was shot on Belmont and was taken in serious...

Logan County Sheriff Steve Nichols confirmed Thursday evening that 22-year-old Jason Harris has been charged with five counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. Identical charges were filed Oct. 2 against Jason Harris' 30-year-old brother, Christopher Harris.

After a rash of Craigslist customers were robbed on the South Side, Chicago police scoured the popular Web site's ads for similar posts and posed as buyers. When the purported seller of plasma TVs at bargain-basement prices lured undercover detectives...

A man was found fatally shot Sunday morning in an alley near his home in the West Side Humboldt Park community. About 5 a.m., police responding to reports of shots fired in the 1400 block of North Washtenaw Avenue discovered...

The mass transit funding deal that Gov. Pat Quinn announced Wednesday to aid the Chicago Transit Authority and the disabled won't benefit commuter train riders, a fact that upsets at least one Metra board member. "We got not one thin...

Metra board members are meeting Friday morning to consider a number of fare increases. Among the possible changes: the cost of one way tickets will increase by 6 percent, weekend pass rates will rise from $5 per pass to $7...