Lori Pilger

A 30-year-old man who prosecutors say essentially held a woman hostage and brutally assaulted her until a passerby was able to stop the attack was sentenced to prison time Tuesday.

An LES customer has filed a lawsuit asking a judge to order the city not to enter into a contract with any private, for-profit company for the storage of electricity.

A federal indictment alleges former Nebraska Liquor Control Commission Director Hobert Rupe worked to insulate two strip clubs from law enforcement in exchange for money and sexual favors.

Lincoln Police have identified the 37-year-old man struck by a pickup and killed Sunday morning while out for a run in south Lincoln as Anthony Miller of Omaha.

Nebraska high court: Challenge to Lincoln gun ban on city property can go forward

Brian Podwinski and his Roca business, ISW Custom Builders, are facing a string of lawsuits, and a filing in one suggests a criminal investigation is underway.

A former professor at Union Adventist University caught getting ecstasy shipped to Lincoln from the United Kingdom in November has been sentenced to five years of probation.

"Nothing about them was materially different than the average American interstate traveler," their attorney said.

"This is not a Nebraska-specific argument. They're the same recycled arguments that happen time after time after time in (states where medical cannabis has been approved)," attorney Daniel Gutman said.

A Lincoln man charged in connection with the death of a Ceresco police officer had been texting at the time, according to testimony at his preliminary hearing Wednesday.