OMAHA, Neb. — Authorities say three inmates who escaped last week from an Indiana prison have been caught in the Nebraska Panhandle. Nebraska State Patrol spokesman Mike Meyer said Thursday night that the men were taken into custody in Alliance. Law-enforcement agencies ...Read More
OMAHA, Neb.—The University of Nebraska's governing board was expected to vote Friday on a resolution that would limit stem-cell research at the university system's facilities to rules approved under former President George W. Bush. The vote by the Board of Regents ...Read More
OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific Railroad will have to defend itself from a lawsuit by a former employee who says the company should have done a better job protecting her against West Nile virus. The Nebraska Court of Appeals has revived ...Read More
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Union Pacific Railroad will have to defend itself from a lawsuit by a former employee who says the company should have done a better job protecting her against West Nile virus. The Nebraska Court of Appeals has ...Read More
STANDISH, Mich. - The city manager of Standish says he'sheard nothing to suggest his northeast Michigan town is out of therunning to host terrorism suspects from Guantanamo Bay. Michael Moran said Monday the situation remains on hold. He spoke as federal officials ...Read More
Complying with a Supreme Court ruling last year, 15 federal judges in the U.S. courthouse here are giving detainees their day in court after years behind bars half a world away from their homelands.
The judges have found the government's evidence ...Read More
The Tories said prisons were not being managed competently
The government has dismissed Tory claims that the number of inmates allowed to stay out of jail overnight has risen to help ease overcrowding.
Prisoners nearing the end of their sentence can ...Read More
CHICAGO (AP) -- Gov. Pat Quinn and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin on Sunday tried to build support and counter criticism of a proposal to sell a prison in rural northwestern Illinois to the federal government to house Guantanamo Bay detainees ...Read More
CHICAGO — Gov. Pat Quinn and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin on Sunday tried to build support and counter criticism of a proposal to sell a prison in rural northwestern Illinois to the federal government to house Guantanamo Bay detainees and ...Read More
The swine flu vaccine will be given to inmates in state correctional facilities who fall into target groups, according to the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, which received 1,900 doses of the vaccine. About 600 of the ...Read More
OMAHA, Neb.—Former Nebraska running back Thunder Collins has no remorse for the death of a suspected drug dealer. That's what Collins said Thursday before he was sentenced to life in prison for the September 2008 shooting that killed 38-year-old Timothy ...Read More
OMAHA, Neb. — An April trial date has been set for a Nebraska man accused of luring elderly investors under false pretenses and using some of their money to buy luxury items. An April 12 jury trial has been scheduled for ...Read More
Should those in prison and jails across the country receive priority status for getting the H1N1 vaccine? With vaccines in short supply, it's become a difficult issue for public health departments and correctional facilities across the country. Earlier this week, the White ...Read More
OMAHA, Neb. -- U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns said Thursday that his concern for Nebraska families is what's driving his opposition to legislation that would turn control of student loans over to the government - not lobbying from private student loan ...Read More
The convicted rapist whose Cleveland home was found littered with 10 bodies and a decomposed skull appeared in court this morning where a judge ordered him held without bond on five counts of aggravated murder. Anthony Sowell, 50, stared straight ahead ...Read More
OMAHA, Neb. -- Buying the Chicago Cubs doesn't mean the Ricketts family will become less engaged in the brokerage Joe Ricketts helped found, TD Ameritrade. The Ricketts family officially became the Cubs' new owners Tuesday in an $845 million deal. Ameritrade ...Read More
OMAHA, Neb.—Online brokerage TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. said Tuesday its fiscal fourth-quarter profit fell 9 percent as its expenses rose while low interest rates limited its revenue growth. The brokerage said its trading-based business was strong. It said it handled 35 ...Read More
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Finding medical professionals willing to advise Ohio on the best way to put condemned inmates to death is proving difficult because of ethical and professional rules, the state's top attorney said. The rules - which generally prohibit ...Read More
MADISON, Wis. -- The Associated Press filed a lawsuit Monday against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections seeking the release of a video that shows a powerful stinger grenade exploding after a guard dropped it inside a prisoner's cell. The lawsuit, filed ...Read More
OMAHA, Neb. -- In an Oct. 22 story about Union Pacific Corp.'s third-quarter earnings, The Associated Press incorrectly quoted Chairman and CEO Jim Young's statement about the outlook for the railroad's shipping volume in 2010. Young's correct quote was: "I think ...Read More
A federal court on Wednesday rejected Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to solve California's prison overcrowding crisis, giving the state three weeks to devise an alternative or risk an order that seizes control of how more than 40,000 inmates are released ...Read More
