Already in custody on charges related to an earlier drug case, authorities say a Nebraska man ran a multimillion-dollar marijuana operation from the Douglas County jail last year, with the…
Admittedly making a sidebar remark about a “bund meeting” after a plaintiffs lawyer requested time off during trial to attend a Passover seder has put a New Jersey judge in…
Lawyer Lyle Koenig says his letter threatening to reveal a prosecutor’s alleged car registration violation was intended as a joke, but Gage County Attorney Randy Ritnour didn’t take it that…
A longtime Nebraska judge is maintaining his characteristic quirky influence from beyond the grave, as his will serves as the focal point not only for a legal battle between his…
A Nebraska lawmaker has failed in his attempt to hold God accountable for worldwide natural disasters and alleged terroristic threats made in his name.
A man who abandoned his nine children at a hospital this week, as permitted under an unusual new Nebraska law, says he “fell apart” after his wife died and sought…
In recent years, many states have adopted new laws allowing parents to abandon infants in safe places such as hospitals and fire stations. The idea was to protect babies and…
A hearing-impaired Nebraska woman who can’t hear what is being said through a speaker has filed a discrimination suit against a McDonald’s in Lincoln, contending that the fast-food restaurant wouldn’t…
In a 6-1 decision today, the Nebraska Supreme Court held that the use of the electric chair is unconstitutional under state law, effectively imposing a death penalty moratorium since this…
A federal judge has published a tongue-in-cheek Top 10 list of things he learned from the U.S. Supreme Court’s sentencing decisions that makes clear his frustrations.
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