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The heartless heartland gets another close-up in Charlize Theron's latest film
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Democrats in four states are casting ballots this weekend, and the Illinois senator is likely to increase his delegate lead
A child killer received a reprieve Friday from the Nebraska Supreme Court, which ruled that electrocution, the state's only means of capital punishment, is unconstitutional.
New research shows that prairie grasses grown using only moderate amounts of fertilizer on marginal land can produce significant amounts of ethanol
With all the firing and hiring of college football coaches, there has been a lot of interest in the status of prospects already committed to certain schools. It's still early, but it appears as though the new coaches at Nebraska, Texas A&M and Ole Miss might be able to hold their classes together.
A 19-year-old gunman who killed eight people and then himself Wednesday at the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, left a suicide note, police said.
The troubled teen who killed eight people and himself at an Omaha, Nebraska, mall was placed in a mental health treatment center five years ago after making homicidal threats toward his stepmother, a state official said Thursday.
Dodging bullets was the last thing on their minds during a busy shopping day less than three weeks before Christmas.
A man with a rifle opened fire at a busy department store Wednesday filled with holiday shoppers, killing eight people before taking his own life
The heartless heartland gets another close-up in Charlize Theron's latest film
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Democrats in four states are casting ballots this weekend, and the Illinois senator is likely to increase his delegate lead
A child killer received a reprieve Friday from the Nebraska Supreme Court, which ruled that electrocution, the state's only means of capital punishment, is unconstitutional.
New research shows that prairie grasses grown using only moderate amounts of fertilizer on marginal land can produce significant amounts of ethanol
With all the firing and hiring of college football coaches, there has been a lot of interest in the status of prospects already committed to certain schools. It's still early, but it appears as though the new coaches at Nebraska, Texas A&M and Ole Miss might be able to hold their classes together.
A 19-year-old gunman who killed eight people and then himself Wednesday at the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, left a suicide note, police said.
The troubled teen who killed eight people and himself at an Omaha, Nebraska, mall was placed in a mental health treatment center five years ago after making homicidal threats toward his stepmother, a state official said Thursday.
Dodging bullets was the last thing on their minds during a busy shopping day less than three weeks before Christmas.
A man with a rifle opened fire at a busy department store Wednesday filled with holiday shoppers, killing eight people before taking his own life
Coaching changes are common in college football, and this year looks to be no different.
Over the past several years, the first Monday in November has become something of my own, personal Groundhog's Day.
If two embattled coaches face each other in a game that's not being televised ... will anyone notice? This time of year, you betcha.
Growing up in North Platte, Neb., Danny Woodhead was so taken with football that just watching the game on television and playing it in the yard with friends wasn't enough. When he was five, he scrawled numbers on the backs of his cowboys and Indians and then spent hours moving the plastic figures around the floor of his bedroom in make-believe games. Once when his mother suggested that he find a more creative outlet for his energies, he drew a football field on the living-room carpet with a green marker.
Republicans' tough task of taking back control of the Senate next year now looks even tougher.
Following last week's Power Rankings, which included the unfortunate flaw of having Louisville ahead of a Kentucky team it had just lost to, and my subsequent explanation in the Mailbag about how it happened, many of you suggested by e-mail that I was falling victim to the very syndrome I gripe about in Bowls, Polls, and Tattered Souls:Too strict an adherence to preseason perception at the expense of actual, on-field results.
It may not grab the headlines like the race for the White House, but the battle for the Senate is heating up.
President Bush announced Thursday that Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns will resign his post. Johanns is expected to seek an open seat in the U.S. Senate from his home state of Nebraska.
Sen. Chuck Hagel's announcement Monday that he won't seek another term makes the Republican Party's already tough task of trying to take back the Senate in 2008 even tougher.
MARKET SHOCK 2007: Wow! Talk about coming home to roost! This is the kind of 'dislocation' (love that euphemism!), um, BLOW UP that Warren Buffett et al have been warning about for years. Here's my question: Was this market implosion brought about by problems in the housing sector - specifically and initially in subprime - or was it brought about by rot in the credit derivatives markets? Of course the answer is yes, and yes! Mortgage market went sour and that hit the credit derivatives business like a ton of breaks which slammed into hedge funds and the like which held the paper, which scared the banks, who shut down the lending spigots, which spooked equity investors who first sold off financial stocks and soon enough sold everything. The big outstanding question - STILL - is how bad will this get? Will the capital markets implosion spill into the overall economy, and even cause a recession? No one knows the answer. The market is volatile, yes, but overall the trend for now, as Rik
Over the past few years, I've noticed few topics elicit more curiosity among college football fans than the possibility of a conference shakeup. Though it's now been four years since the last major realignment craze, I still get e-mails nearly every week asking me whether I think School A might one day join Conference B or whether Conference C might annex Schools D and E.
The top quarterbacks in the country are making some surprising college choices.
Well, I must have done a halfway decent job on the best and worst coaches rankings this year, seeing as the largest number of complaints involved a coach who was considered, but did not actually make, the five-worst list.
Pac-10 teams were hoping some key nonconference wins last year, particularly on the road, would earn the league a little respect.
You know the season is drawing closer when you find yourself poring over your favorite team's schedule figuring out which games are the gimmes, which ones are the lost causes and which ones will make or break the season. You can do the same thing from a national perspective, too.
Celebrate Dad with the latest high-end meats, cured and cut by small companies.
One maverick state devised its own education strategy that bucks the trend toward high-stakes tests and federal control
When you walk off the 18th green at the Ballyneal Golf and Hunt Club, the vistas of rambling sand dunes, yucca plants and tumbleweed pressed against a vivid, blue northeastern Colorado sky, recall lyrics from a recently released jazz tune.
The NFL began to covet super-sized receivers around the same time that Keyshawn Johnson wrote, Just Give Me the Damn Ball!
Joe Dailey left his New Jersey home for the Heartland four years ago in search of gridiron glory. Two schools, four head coaches and five offensive systems later, his only enduring legacy is likely to be that of a trivia answer to the question: Who was the quarterback when Nebraska's streak of 35 straight bowl appearances ended in 2004?
I was wondering if I was wise to buy a condo during this period where the market is falling? -Chima
Connie Yori expected to turn things around when she took over at Nebraska. But even she is a bit surprised by just how big the turnaround has been -- and how quickly it has come.
Sometimes, you just have to cherish the little victories.
What lengths would you go to for health or well-being? Would you get plastic surgery in Mexico? Or buy fertility drugs on the black market? Or get a potentially life-saving organ if you weren't certain of its origin?
The graphic details of a disputed abortion procedure filled the Supreme Court on Wednesday as justices voiced concern with a federal ban on that operation.
Issues like the war in Iraq and the debate over what to do with immigration have no doubt controlled the news media in recent months, but will those issues control how students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln vote November 7?
The death of an elderly Nebraska woman has been linked to an outbreak of E. coli from tainted spinach, state health officials said Friday.
High gas prices and general pocketbook angst will certainly be a factor when voters cast their ballots on Election Day, analysts predict.
At least 900 residents evacuated Chadron, Nebraska, after wildfires reached the town's border and caught several houses on fire Saturday, Nebraska Emergency Management Agency spokesman Jim Bunstock said.
As part of our Welcome to the Future special report, we recently asked for your thoughts on the future of business and finance.
We get so many great ideas from readers, we figured we'd pass along some of the best ones from our inbox.
These are the rankings and average scores for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia in the GMAC Insurance driving test.
These are the average scores on a 20-question driver's test administered to more than 5,000 licensed drivers in a survey commissioned by the GMAC Insurance.
[For the complete FORTUNE 500 list please visit www.fortune500.com]
Winston Churchill was fond of using the old saw that "democracy is the worst form of government ? except for everything else." Many would say the same for the Electoral College. Get ready for its quirks and foibles to dominate the airwaves Tuesday if the election stays as close as the polls indicate. Here's a look at how it works, whom it favors and how it could influence the presidential outcome:
A national poll of college undergraduates shows students favor Democratic Sen. John Kerry over President George W. Bush. But does it reflect campuses in a conservative state like Nebraska?
The six daily buses that brought a welcome stream of diners to the Branding Iron Cafe in tiny Toppenish, Wash., won't be stopping anymore. Neither will the buses at 268 other locations in 17 Wester...
Adam Heupl became interested in politics while sitting at home, watching the 2000 presidential debates with his father.
Cindy Asrir says it's important to have variety in politics.
This week, in "The Inside Edge," the question of redefining U.S. goals in Iraq -- perhaps by both President Bush and by John Kerry -- plus the shifting ground of election-year debate on economic issues.
In connection with his defense of the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (or PBABA), Attorney General John Ashcroft recently sought to procure the medical records of 45 patients at a Chicago, Illinois, hospital. He contended that because he sought the records without patient identification, privacy concerns were not implicated.
A challenge to a federal law banning a certain type of late-term abortion begins Monday in three states, including one where the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a similar state ban four years ago.
Editor's note: Campus Vibe is a feature that provides student perspectives on the 2004 election from selected colleges across the United States. This week's contributor is Amber Brozek, a reporter at the Daily Nebraskan, the student newspaper at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The views expressed in this article are not necessarily those of CNN, its affiliates or the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
What sets the Winnebago tribe of Nebraska apart from other Native Americans isn't the millions it has made from blackjack tables and slot machines--it's how the tribe has used the dough. By investi...
Badlands: A Tribute To Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska Sub Pop
Tom Hicks was beside himself. He couldn't sit in one place. And he couldn't stand. He couldn't even bear to watch at times, but the buoyant CEO and chairman of Hicks Muse Tate & Furst, the giant bu...
If the financial markets have been crazy over the past couple of months, college football has been sheer lunacy. For much of the season, Ohio State looked like a solid No. 1--then the Buckeyes chok...
As a travel columnist, I tend to spend lots of time looking at maps, and this often turns out to be very educational. While recently scanning a map of Nebraska, for example, I noticed that there's ...
The spring primaries are over, and the survivors are staggering amid the rubble. Though bowed and bloodied, they have learned some lessons: Don't carp about an economy that's roaring. Don't critici...
If you tried to rent office space or hire a worker in a major U.S. city recently, you have some idea of just how hot this economy really is. Cities are booming across the U.S., and that means risin...
For the third year in a row the Empire State reigns supreme, with 61 of America's 500 largest companies calling it home. But that margin of victory is eroding: Sunny California, this year's runner-...
History, to paraphrase the 19th-century thinker Thomas Carlyle, is nothing more than the biography of great men and women. That's worth keeping in mind as you plot your 1997 investment moves. For n...
AFFIRMATIVE INACTION
YOUR MARCH ARTICLE "THE BEST JOBS in America" did not mention the rapidly growing profession of physician assistant (P.A.). The Department of Labor projects that the P.A. profession will experience...
Firefighting practice, caring for animals, a stroll through a tree-shaded neighborhood -- and summer classes -- fill the hours for these kids, residents of Boys Town near Omaha, Nebraska. Few of th...
-- Bet on the heartland to weather the recession better than the rest of the country by buying a mutual fund that invests in firms based in the Dakotas, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Wisconsin. IAI...
IS THERE NO END to the list of victims trapped in the collapse of Executive Life? Last month regulators seized the failing California insurer as well as its New York subsidiary, and the iron bell o...
The Supreme Court's recent first-ever decision in a right-to-die case makes the most convincing argument yet for writing a living will. That's the document stating the circumstances under which you...
Government regulators are at last dealing with the disaster area known as the savings and loan industry. The enactment in August of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act, ...
Short of cash on Sunday mornings? That's no excuse. Just pull out your plastic. Last month, parishioners at St. Marks United Methodist Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, became one of the first congregat...
MONEY FLASH
LATELY business investment has been flatter than Kansas, as they say in Nebraska. But interest rates are down, profits are stronger, and employment -- based on October numbers -- is up. Order books...
CURIOSITY SEEKERS have been checking out a strange, 45-foot trailer at shopping malls around the U.S. The truck features colorful posters, stacks of brochures, and two benches where audiences watch...
NEARLY 100,000 U.S. farmers, many of them among the most efficient in the world, are about to go broke. Many are in their 30s and 40s, men who just a few years ago saw rich, prosperous lives ahead....
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