Top Omaha Area Local News Stories
Source: KETV.com - Local News
Watch the fourth day of testimony in the trial of Douglas County's CSI chief.
Published: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:44:43 CDT
Omaha police are investigating five shootings that took place within an eight-hour period.
Published: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:27:15 CDT
Chuck McWilliams reports.
Published: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:40:04 CDT
Deputies seized $320,000 in cash from a tractor-trailer during a traffic stop Wednesday.
Published: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:03:15 CDT
A 14-year-old girl was killed in a rollover crash on Highway 191 near Neola, Iowa, as she and her three friends drove to Tri Center High School.
Published: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:32:54 CDT
Some Omaha paramedics are under investigation for letting a boy talk on an emergency radio.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:19:09 CDT
An Omaha woman tells police she was kidnapped, robbed and sexually assaulted during a 12-hour period.
Published: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:36:38 CDT
A taxpayer group that has scrutinized the city's fire union contract said Thursday that layoffs and demotions could save $6 million.
Published: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:23:39 CDT
The city of Grand Island is poisoning hundreds of starlings, hoping to reduce the health threat posed by the bird droppings.
Published: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:54:35 CDT
The party was just getting started Wednesday morning for St. Patrick's Day revelers. For local law enforcement, it was shaping up to be a busy night.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:22:41 CDT
KETV NewsWatch 7 has learned the city is prepared to pay up to $750,000 to hire private contractors to fill potholes around town.
Published: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:55:43 CDT
Harrah's Entertainment Inc. is offering to pay Iowa $7 million a year to stop subsidizing purses at the state's greyhound tracks -- in effect ending the racing but not the money.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:30:16 CDT
Eileen Rasnick has been serving lunches to the kids at OmahaÂ’s Holy Name School for the past 25 years. Now this lunch lady is getting national recognition.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:50:31 CDT
An investigator testifying in the trial of her supervisor who's charged with evidence tampering said she spent six hours scrutinizing a car linked to two murder suspects but found no blood evidence tying them to the crime.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:23:59 CDT
A man who was the subject of an Iowa amber alert that prompted a multi-state search for him and a 14-year-old girl has arrived in Pottawattamie County.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:20:56 CDT
Artistically created benches will soon replace old wooden benches in downtown Omaha's Gene Leahy Mall as part of an effort to target signs of the park's age.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:49:12 CDT
An Omaha man was hospitalized and in critical condition after a fire broke out in his apartment building Tuesday night.
Published: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:46:42 CDT
BlairNE.com
HOTELS • REAL ESTATE • JOBS