After years of studying past results, South Carolina man scores $2M Powerball win

Years of studying Powerball results paid off with a $2 million win for one South Carolina man.
Warm with increasing clouds Saturday for Omaha area

Clouds increase with warm temperatures to start your weekend for eastern Nebraska and western Iowa. Outside chance for a stray shower or sprinkle Saturday afternoon. Meteorologist Caitlin Harvey has the forecast you trust from Omaha’s Weather Leader.
Trump is lifting restrictions on hunting in national parks, refuges

The Trump administration is pushing national park, refuge and wilderness area managers to dramatically scale back hunting restrictions.
On the cruise ship hit by hantavirus, some fear what awaits them at home

Some passengers on the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship are afraid of how they will be received back home.
Pope prays for end to ‘fratricidal hatred’

Pope Leo XIV traveled by helicopter to Pompeii, near Naples, for a daylong visit to mark the May 8 feast of Our Lady of Pompeii.
Omaha weather: Warmer temperatures moving forward in Omaha

Warmer temperatures ahead
Former Atlantic school counselor charged with sexual exploitation

A Greenfield man is facing a sexual exploitation charge dating back to his time working at the West Central Valley Community School District.
VIDEO: Texas mom shares daughter’s hantavirus story as cruise ship outbreak draws attention

A Texas mom is sharing how her healthy 27-year-old daughter died in 2018 after contracting hantavirus. She hopes her daughter’s story will raise awareness and that it encourages more research into hantavirus.
State leaders tout world-class care for cruise ship passengers exposed to hantavirus

Nebraska leaders say the state is “ready to step up and help the nation” as Americans exposed to the deadly hantavirus outbreak will be quarantined at Nebraska Medicine and UNMC.
Nebraska Medicine, UNMC detail plans to monitor cruise ship passengers exposed to hantavirus

A cruise ship linked to a hantavirus outbreak is expected to send 17 Americans to Omaha for quarantine monitoring, but officials say all are currently healthy.