| November 14, 2008 | - Officials in Nebraska were scrambling to change a “safe haven” law, whereby children can be legally abandoned at hospitals, because it failed to specify an age limit for the children. “Please don't bring your teenager to Nebraska,” said Governor Dave Heineman, responding to a spate of abandoned out-of-state teens. “Think of what you are saying. You are saying you no longer support them. You no longer love them.”
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CNN
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| October 2, 2008 | - Parents were taking advantage of Nebraska's new safe-haven law—enacted in July to prevent “Dumpster babies” but also protecting children as old as eighteen—to get rid of unruly teenagers. “The appropriate response is to reach out to family, friends, and community resources,” said Todd Landry, the state director of children and family services. “What is not appropriate is just to say, 'I’m tired of dealing with this,' and drop the child off at a hospital.”
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New York Times
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| December 7, 2007 | - A 19-year-old man recently fired from McDonald's visited a mall in Omaha, where he shot and killed eight people then himself. Dr. Joseph Stothert, director of the trauma ward that reconstructed one survivor's arm, noted that bullets from an assault rifle move two to three times as fast as bullets fired from handguns. “Velocity,” he explained, “is transmitted to the tissue as energy.”
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NYT
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Des Moines Register
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| May 23, 2007 | - It was revealed that in 2001 in Omaha, Nebraska, a virgin shark gave birth.
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CNN
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| May 26, 2006 | - A Nebraska judge sentenced a man convicted of sexually assaulting a child to probation because the man is too short for prison.
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NBC4.com
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| November 18, 2005 | - Eight possibly pregnant South African Boer goats were missing in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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KIROTV.com
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| September 29, 2005 | - Two goats, strangled and drained of blood, were found in Nebraska.
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NBC4.TV
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| July 26, 2005 | - A Nebraska man was charged with having sex with the thirteen-year-old girl whom he had wed legally in Kansas.
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AP
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| June 27, 2005 | - “The reality,” said Senator Chuck Hagel (R., Nebraska), “is that we are losing in Iraq.”
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U.S. News and World Report
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| March 2, 2005 | - A toddler in Nebraska strangled himself with an automatic car window as his mother's boyfriend played soccer nearby.
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The Omaha Channel
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| March 19, 2004 | - A 17-year-old boy in Nebraska was caught outside his high school with a rifle and 20 homemade bombs.
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