Oct 4, 2018
LORI PILGER Lincoln Journal Star | Oct 2, 2018 Updated Oct 2, 2018 The Department of Justice has awarded Nebraska more than $1.3 million in grant money to combat the opioid crisis. It comes as part of $320 million the Justice Department awarded nationally to help...
Sep 17, 2018
LAUREN WAGNER For the Lincoln Journal Star, Sep 16, 2018 When Megan Johnson escaped sex trafficking 10 years ago, there was hardly anyone who could help her. “I remember thinking to myself, ‘I don’t have that much money,’” said Johnson, who is now...
Sep 9, 2018
Omaha World Herald Editorial September 9, 2018 The American legal system has an all-important obligation to deliver justice. When a defendant is found guilty of a heinous crime and of inflicting terrible suffering, for example, society needs to mete out serious...
Sep 9, 2018
By Todd Cooper / World-Herald staff writer Sept 6, 2018 By noon Wednesday, State Sen. Justin Wayne had received a handful of phone calls from constituents disheartened by the dismissal of murder charges against the man accused of killing decorated Army Sgt. Kyle...
Sep 8, 2018
By Joe Duggan / World-Herald Bureau The 56-year-old registered sex offender spent the past 18 months in the Red Cloud jail, staring at a possible life sentence on charges that he violently raped a 15-year-old girl. On Friday, he walked out a free man. Webster County...
Jul 23, 2018
RILEY JOHNSON Lincoln Journal Star Posing as a young woman on Facebook, a 26-year-old man from Lincoln duped five teenage boys from Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa into sharing explicit photos and videos of themselves. In another recent case, after meeting a 12-year-old...
Jul 20, 2018
Most young people who land in Lancaster County’s juvenile detention center do so because they violated probation or conditions of their release during court proceedings — not for suspected felonies or violent crimes, according to a recent study. The study, conducted...
Jul 15, 2018
By Joe Duggan / World-Herald staff writer HASTINGS, Neb. — The young woman told a story of a rape so brutal it would motivate any criminal investigator to act. Visiting family in Red Cloud, Nebraska, five years ago when she was 15, the Colorado woman said an older...
Jun 27, 2018
A proposal for a new Douglas County Juvenile Court, office and youth detention complex received a warm welcome from the Douglas County Board on Tuesday in its debut appearance in public. Six County Board members spoke favorably about the $120 million proposal, though...
Jun 26, 2018
WASHINGTON — In a victory for privacy in the digital era, the Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Constitution protects tracking data from a cellphone, requiring police to have a search warrant to obtain cell tower records that show a person’s movement for days or...
