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Updated: May. 19, 2023 at 1:10 PM CDT
|By Kevin Westhues
The timeline gets complicated.
Updated: May. 17, 2023 at 1:57 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak and Kevin Westhues
The Council Bluffs man who turned himself in following a four-day manhunt exchanged gunfire with the man killed in the shooting, according to details shared in Washington County Court on Wednesday.
Updated: May. 11, 2023 at 3:26 PM CDT
|By Kevin Westhues
The initiative comes from someone who has overcome challenges during her own young life
Updated: May. 4, 2023 at 6:43 PM CDT
|By Kevin Westhues and Gina Dvorak
Authorities in Council Bluffs are asking for the public’s help tracking down two vehicles they believe were involved in an ATM robbery last week.
Updated: May. 1, 2023 at 9:07 AM CDT
|By Kevin Westhues
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. May 5th
Updated: Apr. 13, 2023 at 3:18 PM CDT
|By Bella Caracta, Kevin Westhues and Gina Dvorak
As firefighters from around the Omaha-metro were working to contain a brush fire that had spread near NP Dodge Park on Thursday afternoon, the governor declared an emergency for the state and issued a ban on open burns for the next few days.
Updated: Apr. 13, 2023 at 11:03 AM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak and Kevin Westhues
Three people involved in a head-on crash in Missouri Valley over the weekend were transported from the scene with serious injuries.
Updated: Apr. 6, 2023 at 3:49 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak and Kevin Westhues
A Plattsmouth couple is facing federal charges after an 80-year-old Kentucky woman was convinced to send them money in order to obtain lottery winnings.
Updated: Mar. 9, 2023 at 8:18 PM CST
|By Kevin Westhues and Gina Dvorak
A man with a previous DUI conviction is facing charges after the motorcycle he was driving crashed into a pick-up last May.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 12:24 PM CST
|By Gina Dvorak and Kevin Westhues
More details have come to light about the Auburn plane crash that killed two people including a former UNK baseball player.
Updated: Dec. 9, 2022 at 7:38 PM CST
|By Kevin Westhues
The investigation looked into a series of events in which seven male inmates and three women on the outside conspired to convince the victim into writing the checks.
Updated: Dec. 1, 2022 at 1:09 PM CST
|By Taylor Johnson, Kevin Westhues and Gina Dvorak
An anonymous donor who saw a Giving Tuesday story on 6 News about the Down Syndrome Alliance of the Midlands pledged $15,000 to the organization and called on the community to match that gift.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2022 at 1:50 PM CST
|By Kevin Westhues and Gina Dvorak
An issue with equipment at a specific OPPD substation left thousands without power Thursday morning.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2022 at 2:27 PM CST
|By Brian Mastre and Kevin Westhues
Trail appealed his sentence arguing that the court messed up by not giving him a new trial after his own outburst.
Updated: Nov. 3, 2022 at 7:46 AM CDT
|By John Chapman and Kevin Westhues
The mayor assured the public that the projects meet the federal criteria for ARPA spending.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2022 at 11:23 AM CDT
|By Kevin Westhues
An Iowa State Patrol pursuit that started Wednesday morning on I-80 ended with a crash and a foot chase in Council Bluffs.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2022 at 8:19 AM CDT
|By Kevin Westhues
Records show Marco Lopez, 29 of San Antonio, Texas, was booked in the Douglas County Jail on Wednesday evening
Updated: Aug. 29, 2022 at 9:49 PM CDT
|By Kevin Westhues and Gina Dvorak
The U.S. Marshals Metro Fugitive Task Force in Omaha is turning to the public for help in finding a man suspected of murder in Kearney and robbery in Omaha.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2022 at 7:46 PM CDT
|By Kevin Westhues
An Omaha man was arrested Tuesday after allegedly causing panic in the city three months ago.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2022 at 4:21 PM CDT
|By Kevin Westhues and Gina Dvorak
An off-duty Wahoo Police officer was involved in an altercation Wednesday with a bank customer in Omaha.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2022 at 1:42 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak and Kevin Westhues
The Omaha City Council has reviewed the 24 amendments proposed by the city’s Charter Study Convention, allowing 10 of them to move forward.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2022 at 8:57 AM CDT
|By Kevin Westhues
Tech giant Meta — better known as the company behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other apps — announced Thursday that it will make its Sarpy County data center even bigger.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2022 at 8:07 AM CDT
|By Kevin Westhues
Omaha-based Werner Enterprises on Thursday announced a $150 million settlement of a motor-vehicle crash lawsuit in Texas.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2022 at 8:10 AM CDT
|By Kevin Westhues
The U.S. Department of Justice says during the trial, the foster care victim said Cody forced her to have sex with men for money “for Cody’s financial gain”.
Updated: Jul. 26, 2022 at 5:26 PM CDT
|By Kevin Westhues
The murder of an Iowa State Trooper last year was brought before a U.S. Senate committee Tuesday in an emotional presentation.
Updated: Jul. 19, 2022 at 2:27 PM CDT
|By Kevin Westhues
More help is coming to restaurants in Douglas County to get through the pandemic, but not all of them.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2022 at 6:17 PM CDT
|By Kevin Westhues and Gina Dvorak
While the U.S. celebrated its independence, a Nebraska State Senator was getting a closer look at a country fighting to retain that status.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 at 3:15 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak and Kevin Westhues
The Nebraska Department of Labor said Tuesday afternoon that the NEworks online vendor had experienced a cyberattack, forcing access to online unemployment claims systems to be taken offline.
Updated: Jun. 14, 2022 at 10:39 AM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak and Kevin Westhues
Omaha Police said Tuesday that they had arrested a man they believe is responsible for two bank robberies and an attempted robbery at a third bank.
Updated: May. 26, 2022 at 2:25 PM CDT
|By Kevin Westhues
Kwik Shop is alerting customers that they may have bought some water along with gasoline at a certain store Thursday.
Updated: May. 19, 2022 at 6:04 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak and Kevin Westhues
A 50-year-old Omaha man was sentenced on animal cruelty charges Thursday — nine days after investigators found dozens of sickly cats living in deplorable conditions.
Updated: May. 19, 2022 at 9:10 AM CDT
|By Kevin Westhues
Anderson was with NASA for three decades. He took part in four space missions and spent 167 days in space
Updated: May. 12, 2022 at 11:14 AM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak and Kevin Westhues
Central High School sent a note out to families after reports of a student with a gun were investigated by Omaha Police.
Updated: Apr. 25, 2022 at 12:15 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak and Kevin Westhues
State Sen. Julie Slama of Sterling has filed a countersuit against Charles Herbster, a Republican candidate for Nebraska governor who filed a lawsuit Friday against her.
Updated: Apr. 14, 2022 at 2:21 PM CDT
|By Gina Dvorak, Kevin Westhues, Cassie Crowe and Brian Mastre
Nebraska Republican gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster and his campaign issued statements Thursday “unequivocally” denying the sexual misconduct claims made against him calling them “Rickett’s [sic] political hit piece.”
Updated: Apr. 8, 2022 at 6:57 PM CDT
|By Jacob Comer and Kevin Westhues
A man who allegedly took police on a chase appears in court.
Updated: Apr. 7, 2022 at 4:28 PM CDT
|By Kevin Westhues
Nebraska state senators on Thursday voted to override Gov. Pete Ricketts’ line-item vetoes on three budget bills.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2022 at 5:20 PM CDT
|By Kevin Westhues and Gina Dvorak
The man Omaha Police arrested following a city bus crash Thursday evening was in court Monday afternoon, where more details were revealed about the events leading up to the crash.
Updated: Mar. 11, 2022 at 10:21 AM CST
|By Kevin Westhues and Gina Dvorak
A Grand Jury found no indication of crimes committed in 17 in-custody deaths that occurred in Douglas County.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2022 at 3:50 PM CST
|By Kevin Westhues
A 43-year-old man has been accused of arson after he allegedly set fire to a boat outside of a used-car dealership last month.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2022 at 8:57 AM CST
|By Kevin Westhues
Four suspects from a string of robberies and attempted robberies in cities were scheduled to make their initial appearance in federal court Monday.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2022 at 4:05 PM CST
|By Gina Dvorak and Kevin Westhues
The Lincoln man convicted of the first-degree murder of a 27-year-old man in the Capitol District in June 2020 was sentenced this week in Douglas County Court.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2022 at 2:38 PM CST
|By Kevin Westhues and Gina Dvorak
An Iowa man was sentenced in federal court this week for the sexual assault of two teens he kidnapped in Omaha more than 18 years ago.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2022 at 2:18 PM CST
|By Jacob Comer and Kevin Westhues
A new bill in the Nebraska Legislature would require the teaching of the Holocaust in all public schools.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2022 at 11:22 AM CST
|By Jacob Comer and Kevin Westhues
An Omaha man was charged Tuesday with two counts of child enticement after allegedly walking up to two 12-year-olds and trying to convince them to come with him.
Updated: Feb. 17, 2022 at 2:39 PM CST
|By Kevin Westhues
A Carter Lake man was sentenced in federal court this week to eight years in federal prison for accessing child pornography.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2022 at 1:08 PM CST
|By Kevin Westhues
Police noted that the incident was still under investigation.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2022 at 3:59 PM CST
|By John Chapman, Lauren Melendez and Kevin Westhues
Investigators with the Nebraska Fire Marshal Agency say Thursday’s deadly fire at a horse barn was accidental. The fire’s cause remains under investigation.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2022 at 3:54 PM CST
|By Kevin Westhues
The Douglas County Attorney has determined that the state is unable to charge a man with motor vehicle homicide in the Dec. 4 death of a pedestrian in the Blackstone District.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2022 at 1:25 PM CST
|By Kevin Westhues
The interviews will take place in a public session on Thursday, Feb. 10.
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