A 19-year-old Lincoln man was shot in the chest during a confrontation at [...]
Omaha Sen. Mike Friend resigned from the Legislature Wednesday and took a job as the first director of the state's Office of Violence Prevention.
His resignation will be effective Sunday and he will report for his new job on Monday.
The office, created in the Legislature's [...]
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After numerous attempts to attack shopping malls in the United Kingdom, Britain's National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO) trains shopping centers and other similar public venues on how to prepare for a terrorist attack, according to the Telegraph.
Security correspondent Duncan Gardham reports shopping' [...]

Police are investigating a possible homicide at 2857 Ida St. in Omaha.
They would not confirm the circumstances of the death. Neighbors said a woman and her son, about 12-years-old, lived at the house. They also said police had been on the scene since early Sunday afternoon.
One neighbor [...]
No charges will be filed against the Carter Lake police chief who accidentally shot a police sergeant Wednesday at the police station, the Pottawattamie County attorney said today.
About 2:45 p.m. [...]
CARTER LAKE — A Carter Lake police sergeant was wounded Wednesday by his chief.
Authorities [...]
A Carter Lake police officer reportedly was injured at the police station this afternoon after accidentally firing his weapon.
The officer reportedly shot himself in the thigh.
He was taken to Creighton University Medical Center with a non-life-threatening injury.
The accident occurred shortly after 3 p.m., [...]Although Benjamin Franklin helped create the American rattlesnake symbol, his name isn't' [...]
Had she not been a police officer, who knows what might have happened?
Maybe nothing.
But on Tuesday, police found a stun gun in the front seat of an SUV driven by a 47-year-old Omaha man who had been following [...]