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The lawyer for a Nebraska teacher accused of having birthday sex with a 16-year-old claims her client’s behavior stemmed from mental illness.

A Nebraska Democratic official was fired Thursday after he was apparently recorded saying he wished Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) was dead, that he was glad he was shot, and called him a “motherfucker.”

Drivers across the country are racing to their local Department of Motor Vehicles to claim “covfefe” vanity license plates just days following President Trump’s tweet where he meant to type “negative press coverage” and instead wrote “covfefe.”

A man who killed four people in a shooting rampage in Nebraska just 11 days after he was released from jail was sentenced to the death penalty Tuesday.

The August 21 total solar eclipse will be the first visible across all of the continental United States since March 7, 1970.

President Donald Trump kept the threat of voter fraud on the front pages both before and after the 2016 Election. Although ballots have long since been counted, cases of illegal voting and other election law violations continue to surface in the aftermath.

A state lawmaker is demanding “corrective action” after the Nebraska Democratic Party admittedly planted voter registration forms in gift baskets intended for newly-arrived refugees.

A Guatemalan national accused of raping a minor has disappeared after being allowed to post bail.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials added a Honduran national wanted for vehicular homicide to their #MostWantedWednesday list.

President Donald Trump’s promise to halt all refugee resettlement from nations that have been compromised by Islamic terrorism may be coming sooner than expected.

About 150 residents of Nebraska gathered near the state’s capitol to demand the influx in refugees and migrants during the Obama administration’s years continue during President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.

President Barack Obama’s deputies have dropped 502 additional refugees into Nebraska during the first three months of FY 2017, according to the Department of State.

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services has not responded to a Breitbart News request for the number of Benson Magnet High School students who arrived in the country as refugees and completed an initial domestic medical screening, tested positive for latent TB infection (LTBI), and successfully completed medical treatment for that condition.

Seven of 172 students, faculty, and staff at Benson Magnet High School in Omaha, Nebraska, who were given blood tests during the past two weeks have tested positive for latent tuberculosis (TB) infection.

A high school home economics teacher in Nebraska was fed semen when she taste-tested the frosting on some baked turnovers.

Two hundred thirty seven of Benson Magnet High School’s 1,273 students, or 18.6 percent, are refugees, according to Omaha Public School’s District English Language Learner/Refugee Report, 2015-16.

Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence will campaign in four states over three days starting on Monday, a campaign source has revealed to Breitbart News.

A student at Omaha-area Gretna High School in Nebraska says that she has been discriminated against as a result of administrators denying her the right to form a school-sponsored Students for Life club at the school.

The Republican governor of Maine told Breitbart News that he is confident that GOP nominee for president Donald J. Trump wins at least three of the state’s four electoral votes.

Twenty-one refugees resettled in Nebraska were diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) between 2011 and 2015, the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services tells Breitbart News.

The number of U.S. born cases of active TB in the state actually declined from 8 in 2013 to 7 in 2014. But the number of foreign-born cases of active TB in Nebraska more than doubled in one year, from 13 in 2013, to 31 in 2014. According to the Centers for Disease Control, only 61.9 percent of the active TB cases in 2013, or 13 out of 21, were foreign-born.

Delegates to the State Republican Convention in Nebraska dealt a near unanimous reprimand to Sen. Ben Sasse on Saturday for his outspoken support for the “Never Trump” effort designed to deny presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump the presidency in November.

Sen. Ted Cruz says he would consider re-entering the GOP presidential nominating contest if, against his assumptions, he wins Nebraska’s primary today.

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump spoke to a crowd of roughly 1,000 in Omaha, Nebraska, where Gov. Pete Ricketts put his support behind the presumptive Republican nominee.

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts, whose family funded anti-Trump efforts, is now expected to endorse the presumed Republican nominee at a campaign rally in Omaha, Nebraska on Friday.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) can add Nebraska to his list of states where he’s out organized GOP frontrunner Donald Trump in collecting delegates.

On March 23 Nebraska state senator Ernie Chambers (I-Dist. 11) said he would grab “a semiautomatic weapon” and “mow everybody down” if he were a white guy.

The Alaska state Senate has approved a bill by a vote of 11-7 that would bar abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, from teaching sex education in public schools.

More information has emerged on just how an illegal immigrant, who killed a Nebraska woman in a drunk driving incident, was allowed to get out of jail and skip town and future punishment.

TEL AVIV – After a ban that lasted more than a decade, Israel reopens its doors to American beef with the first shipment coming from Nebraska.  The ban was implemented in 2003 after a case of mad cow disease, or

President Obama traveled to Nebraska after his State of the Union speech, where he spoke to an enthusiastic group of supporters – some even wanted him to serve as president for a third term.

A Creighton University literature professor reportedly gave his students a final exam with a question that attacked GOP frontrunner Donald Trump as – among other things – the “Anti-Christ.”

Facing an anticipated denial from the Obama administration, TransCanada has asked to suspend any further action on its permit for its cross-border Keystone XL pipeline.

According to a report by KETV, a Nebraska woman had an eventful Halloween night that resulted in a hospital trip and a citation for criminal trespassing. Jacqueline Eide, 33, is in the hospital after suffering a severe injury to her left

Down 28-27 on Saturday and with only one second left on the clock, BYU backup quarterback Tanner Magnum threw up a hail mary of 42-yards to receiver Mitch Matthews for the game-winning touchdown to win 33-28 to spoil new Nebraska head

On Sunday, after Iowa administered a good-old-fashioned butt-kicking to Nebraska in the Cornhuskers’s home arena, 74-46, Nebraska coach Tim Miles gave a butt-kicking of his own to his team, banning them from the locker room indefinitely and barring any player interviews.