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As the chief crime scene investigator for Nebraska's busiest county, David Kofoed spent more than a decade helping put away hundreds of criminals using cold, hard science. He developed a reputation as a man who could find things others couldn't.
A judge on Tuesday convicted a top crime scene investigator of evidence tampering, after prosecutors argued that the investigator planted blood from a slaying victim in a car linked to two innocent suspects to bolster the case against them.
A significant number of immigrant children in Nebraska are growing up in poverty and face barriers to developing into productive adults, according to a report released Wednesday by a children's advocacy group.
A Nebraska state senator is reviving an old idea Friday that he says may gain new traction as lawmakers focus on saving tax money in tough economic times.
Nebraska lawmakers are set to again consider repealing a law that offers tuition breaks to some illegal immigrants, and the looming debate is already drawing support.
Asians and Latinos in Nebraska had a buying power of nearly $3.8 billion in 2008 and data continue to show immigrants are among those making significant contributions to the state's economy, according to a report issued Monday by a national immigration policy group.
A Nebraska appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a lawsuit from a former Union Pacific Railroad worker who claims the company should have better protected her from West Nile virus.
Three women who once worked at a Nebraska meatpacking company have sued their former employer, saying it violated a federal law aimed at protecting workers during mass layoffs or plant closings.
The story of the 18-year-old Ukrainian mother sold to work in a brothel in Turkey after she answered an ad to work abroad was just the start of it for Ron Hampton.
A Florida woman is suing an Omaha-area based brokerage and its parent company, alleging they failed to warn her and others about investing in what she says turned out to be a $2 billion Ponzi scheme.
A federal jury has acquitted a Nebraska crime-scene investigator accused of falsifying records in a 2006 double-murder case and depriving two men initially charged in the slayings of their rights.
Muslim advocates said Friday that federal officials determined a Nebraska meatpacking plant wasn't doing enough to accommodate the religious needs of its Muslim workers but stopped short of laying out specific recommendations.
A Nebraska man who claimed he led investigators to his daughter's body only after they promised not to file felony charges may avoid a trial in her death after three court rulings left little, if any, evidence for prosecutors.
A church in Nebraska and a former employee who alleged she was fired for getting pregnant out of wedlock have apparently resolved their differences.
As federal agents step up immigration enforcement efforts nationwide, Shelley Schrader isn't wondering if another major immigration raid will happen nearby — but when.
Nebraska zookeepers are seeing double and they're thrilled about it, with the births of twins to a rare species of tree kangaroo.
President-elect Barack Obama won one of Nebraska's electoral votes, the first time in history that the state has split its votes and the first time in 44 years that it had given a vote to a Democrat.
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal involving a case in which a Nebraska judge banned anyone from saying "rape" in a sexual assault trial.
Muslim leaders say they want to compromise with a Nebraska meatpacking plant, but they still demand a break for prayer.
Two boys ages 15 and 11 were left at Nebraska hospitals over the weekend, the first youngsters surrendered under the state's new safe-haven law that allows caregivers to abandon children and teens as well as infants, officials said.
Nebraska's new "safe-haven" law allowing parents to abandon unwanted children at hospitals with no questions asked is unique in a significant way: It goes beyond babies and potentially permits the abandonment of anyone under 19.
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