Despite announcing 10 percent layoffs and a weak financial outlook earlier this week, Yahoo plans to build a new data center and open a customer care center in Nebraska, according to an announcement Friday by Nebraska’s governor.
The project will entail building a 150,000 square-foot data center in La Vista, a suburb of Omaha. And the [...]

OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska Beef Ltd. is expanding a recall announced earlier this week to include all 5.3 million pounds of meat it produced for ground beef between May 16 and June 26.
Federal investigators have linked Nebraska Beef’s products to an outbreak of E. coli illnesses affecting 41 people in Michigan and Ohio.
The USDA’s Food [...]

AURORA, Neb.  —  A storm system that brought rain, hail and strong winds to several Midwestern states spawned tornadoes Thursday night in parts of Nebraska.
A few businesses sustained severe damage and at least one house was partially destroyed when a tornado struck the southern outskirts of Aurora.
Tornadoes were also reported in Kearney, where about 90 [...]

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — All but a few of the betting windows at Fonner Park are shuttered. The patrons, mostly older, study Daily Racing Forms and programs at folding tables. Some mill about the drab concourse. Some sit in the enclosed grandstand.
Outside, about a half-dozen fans watch along the track apron as the horses head [...]

NEW YORK – The electric chair is cruel and unusual punishment, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The decision effectively suspended executions there because Nebraska is the only state that still relies solely on electrocution, which was once the dominant form of execution in the United States.
"The evidence here shows that electrocution inflicts intense pain [...]

WASHINGTON – Sen. Barack Obama swept the Louisiana primary and caucuses in Nebraska and Washington state Saturday night, slicing into Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s slender delegate lead in their historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The Illinois senator also won caucuses in the Virgin Islands, completing his best night of the campaign.
His winning margins were [...]