From stolen lottery tickets to a chance encounter with an Omaha Police officer, 6 News is learning more about how investigators caught a suspected armed robber.

An investigation by News Channel Nebraska is raising questions about the 2017 election of Omaha City Councilman Vinny Palermo.

The University of Nebraska Board of Regents has unanimously approved Ted Carter as the eighth president of the University of Nebraska system.

Fire damaged several garages at a metro apartment complex Thursday morning.

A Michigan man told a Lancaster County Sheriff's Deputy he was bringing drugs from Michigan to sell in Colorado when he was pulled over in Nebraska.

Authorities are searching for an inmate that has gone missing from the Community Corrections Center-Omaha.

The victim in a shots fired incident in Omaha's Little Italy neighborhood Wednesday has died in the hospital.

Omaha Police Homicide Investigators made four arrests in connection to a suspicious death that happened near 45th and Decatur in August.

Omaha Public Schools confirmed that the principal at Beveridge Magnet Middle School is on leave.

A southeastern Nebraska man has been charged under a new law that makes it a crime to post pornographic images of others without their permission or to use the images for blackmail.

Omaha Police were called to the area of 5th and William streets for a shots fired call Wednesday at 2:30 p.m.

There’s a new round in the fight over lower property taxes and it ups the ante surrounding the so-called 35 per cent solution: A petition drive to in effect cut property taxes by that’s right 35 per cent.

Amigos in downtown Lincoln is set to close after 37 years.

A 28-year-old man is facing charges of sexual assault of a child after reportedly assaulting a 10-year-old in rural Lancaster County.

Leaders of the Omaha suburb of Bellevue have voted down a measure that would have allowed the firing of elected officials for engaging in misconduct or leaking information from closed-door meetings.

Omaha Police have announced three people had been arrested in connection with a man found dead Monday morning in Millard.

A 40-year-old woman already on parole for fraud in Colorado has been arrested on suspicion of embezzling from a Lincoln chiropractic business where she worked.

The Papillion City Council unanimously approved authorizing a lawsuit Tuesday against the city of Gretna.

A convicted sex offender is now charged in a cold case.

A North Carolina man has been sentenced for enticement of a minor in Lincoln.

Omaha Police are searching for a suspect in an attempted bank robbery on Tuesday.

Kara Eastman insists it’s a complete coincidence that she is making her second run for Congress official, filing papers with the Secretary of State, the day before the House Judiciary Committee is expected to launch its push to impeach the president.

Nebraska Medicine has released a statement Tuesday regarding a data breach that was discovered in early October.

The Nebraska Army National Guard held a departure ceremony for its Cyber Protection Team.

There are mounting concerns that still-high river levels, saturated soil, and a potentially wet winter will create repeat conditions in 2020.

Nearly 800 Nebraska State Penitentiary inmates — more than half the Lincoln prison’s population — have signed a petition sent to state officials and various news outlets decrying conditions at the prison.

Lincoln Police arrested a man after he delivered 24 grams of cocaine to an undercover officer.

A man has been arrested for robbing First State Bank & Trust in Fremont Thursday, Nov. 21, according to police.

The city of Papillion is using signs to try to slow traffic at a downtown intersection where a 10-year-old girl was fatally hit by a car earlier this year.

The Christmas tree is at the Capitol!

Lincoln Animal Control rescued a cat that had its head stuck in a jar on Monday.

Omaha Police have released more information on what they are now calling a homicide investigation in a Millard neighborhood.

Lincoln Police have released a surveillance image of a man trying to break into vehicles in southeast Lincoln.

Omaha Police are investigating a suspicious death in west Omaha.

Lawyers for the Metropolitan Omaha Property Owner's Association wants a judge to order a temporary injunction against the city's new landlord registry ordinance. It takes effect Jan. 1.

The Seward County Sheriff's Office is searching for a man with a warrant who fled from them Sunday night.

A new course at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will focus on the world’s religions and will ask students to use their new-found knowledge to propose a common worship space on campus.

A man facing charges of motor vehicle homicide in connection to a crash that killed a UNL band member pled no contest to the charges on Monday.

It’s day three of Joe Biden’s eight day “No Malarkey” Iowa bus tour.

Union Pacific wants a court to invalidate an 1872 pact requiring it to keep a certain number of railroad jobs in the Texas town of Palestine indefinitely.

A Lincoln man accused of possessing and sharing child pornography has been imprisoned.

Authorities say a man was fatally injured when he was knocked off the top of a viaduct in eastern Nebraska.

One of Omaha’s top tourist attractions is kicking off the city’s Holiday Lights Festival.

Officials in Madison County urged residents to stay off the roads.

An Omaha man whose 4-month-old son died of a brain injury has been accused of child abuse resulting in death.

As winter weather steps up in and around Omaha, so do confirmed cases of the flu.

An Omaha woman who contracted hepatitis A after eating blackberries she bought at a Fresh Thyme grocery store has sued the company.

Lincoln Police have arrested a man for assault after the victim showed up to a police station with a cut on his neck.

Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium has announced the birth of an Eastern mountain bongo calf.

Two inmates who assaulted a prison captain at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln have been given more time behind bars.

Preliminary work on the Lincoln South Beltway project will begin soon, according to the Nebraska Department of Transportation.

A man accused of fatally shooting a Lincoln resident wants to take back pleas he entered.

Thanksgiving travel got off to a slippery start in Nebraska.

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) -- Drivers should use extra caution during the Wednesday morning commute. Twenty city crews remain on patrol, applying salt pre-wet with anti-ice brine as needed to arterial streets, emergency snow routes and bus routes. Main roads in

As expected the Mayor of Omaha and City Council are getting pay raises.

Iowa farmers are set to receive the most government payments to offset damage from the U.S.’s ongoing trade war with China.

Council Bluffs Police have arrested a man for first-degree murder in connection with a body found wrapped in a sheet.

A community corrections inmate has been returned to the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services.

Authorities have dropped a child abuse charge that was leveled against a city councilman in the Omaha suburb of Papillion.

A popular question this week has been how the weather would impact the State Football Championships.

The Lancaster County Sheriff's Office has identified a Seward man as the victim of a fatal accident in a crash at Highway 34 and Northwest 48th Street on Monday afternoon.

It wasn't fire marshall, no-more-allowed-in, material but a good sized crowd listened and cheered as Democratic Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg made his anti-Trump case in Council Bluffs Monday night.

Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert announced today that the city is appealing an arbitrator's ruling giving fired firefighter Steve LeClair, his job back.

Authorities say a woman died at a hospital after she was struck by a car while crossing a northwest Omaha street.

Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol have arrested three people and seized more than 200 pounds of pot during a traffic stop on Interstate 80 in Seward County.

A Lincoln man was arrested for enticement after pressuring a 14-year-old into meeting to have sex.