Nebraska
Conservative Nebraska lawmakers push bills that would intertwine religion with public education
By Margery A. Beck — February 6, 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — These bills are part of a broader Republican push nationwide to target a variety of culture issues in education, including diversity, equity and inclusion programs and the type of books allowed in school libraries.
A woman shot with a crossbow and a priest stabbed in a rectory shake a small Nebraska town
By Josh Funk and Margery A. Beck — December 21, 2023
FORT CALHOUN, Neb. (AP) — The brutal killings have shaken residents who have grown accustomed to a certain peacefulness in Fort Calhoun, a single-stoplight town of 1,100 nestled in rolling hills along the Missouri River.
Suspect in stabbing death of eastern Nebraska priest had no connection to priest, prosecutor says
By Josh Funk — December 15, 2023
FORT CALHOUN, Neb. (AP) — The 65-year-old priest called 911 before dawn Sunday to report that a man had broken into the rectory and was in his kitchen holding a knife.
Activists prepare for yearlong battle over Nebraska private school funding law
By Margery A. Beck — September 1, 2023
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — If the law is repealed, Nebraska would join North Dakota as the only states not offering some type of public payment for private school tuition.
‘Only God can do that’: How Nebraskans are reconciling faith and flooding
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 8, 2019
LINCOLN, Neb. (RNS) — Here’s a look at how a few Nebraska communities — Christian, Yazidi and Ponca — are reconciling their faiths with the devastating floods that have swept across the Midwest.
Churches and other faith-based groups lend a hand after historic Nebraska floods
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 29, 2019
OMAHA, Neb. (RNS) — Local churches and national faith-based disaster relief groups — along with state and federal officials — are stepping in to lend a hand with recovery after floodwaters raged across the Midwest earlier this month.
Seven states launch investigations in wake of Pennsylvania clergy sex abuse report
By Jack Jenkins — September 6, 2018
(RNS) — Law enforcement officials in at least seven states appear to be launching their own inquiries of their Catholic dioceses, focusing on church files thought to contain decades of allegations of child sex abuse by priests.
Nebraska Catholic diocese rocked by old abuse allegations
By Grant Schulte — September 2, 2018
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Critics say the Diocese of Lincoln is now paying the price for its unwillingness to participate in key reforms enacted in the wake of the 2002 Boston clergy abuse scandal.
Nebraska lawmakers vote to abolish death penalty
By Doug Stanglin — May 21, 2015
The measure passed by a wide enough margin to override a threatened veto by Gov. Pete Ricketts.
What happens next in the 20 states that still ban gay marriage?
By Brad Heath — October 7, 2014
(RNS) The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Monday leaves unchanged 20 state laws blocking same-sex unions. Each is already under legal attack, and some judges in those cases had been waiting to see what the high court would do. The court's instruction Monday: Proceed.
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