Omaha hotels that are the focus of a major police investigation were site of prostitution, exploitation of minors and labor abuses, according to court documents.
Rangers at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado said Tuesday they had begun a search for 23-year-old Blake Kieckhafer of Omaha, who family members reported missing Monday.
A 36-year-old man arrested Tuesday by federal officers in connection with a human trafficking operation in Omaha had satisfactorily completed a sentence of one-year probation for orchestrating a robbery of his own business.
A sex and labor trafficking investigation by the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and numerous other law enforcement agencies led to a sweeping search of multiple hotels and salons across the Omaha metro Tuesday morning.
Investigators from the FBI and Homeland Security are among several law enforcement agencies who conducted operations Tuesday morning at multiple Omaha-area sites as part of a sex and labor trafficking investigation.
Federal and local law enforcement were seen at several motels in the Omaha area on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025.
An 18-year-old man pleaded no contest Monday in Douglas County District Court to leaving the scene of a collision that caused the death of pedestrian on Omaha's Riverfront Drive.
A 33-year-old woman will be sentenced in September after reaching a plea agreement with Douglas County prosecutors in connection with the shotgun slaying of an Omaha man.
The death of a man who was arrested after allegedly attempting to break into a Bellevue home on Sunday is being investigated as an in-custody death.
A charge of being an accessory to a felony has been dismissed against a 19-year-old man who recently helped the Douglas County Attorney's Office obtain a conviction in an Omaha homicide.
Omaha police are requesting the public's help while investigating why a 68-year-old man was hit by a bullet Friday while in his home near 124th and V Streets.
Michael Brown was found Friday after a manhunt that involved hundreds of officers, according to reports and officials familiar with the situation.
Pacific Street between South 114th and 105th Streets will be shut down for an unknown amount of time while crash investigators are on the scene.
A Douglas County judge set bail at $750,000 for a 25-year-old man charged in connection with a fatal shooting in June near 30th Street and Sorensen Parkway in North Omaha.
Amy Jacobsen will go up against incumbent Don Kleine, who is running for a sixth term as Douglas County Attorney in the 2026 election cycle.
A man died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot after fleeing a Nebraska State Patrol traffic stop in Omaha early Thursday.
Elizabeth O’Connor, the University of Nebraska regent charged with driving under the influence, confirmed in a statement she resigned from her position as a Douglas County prosecutor.
Another Omaha teen involved in a crime spree last year that took the life of a 64-year-old Uber driver will not face murder charges after taking a plea deal.
Michael Paul Brown was apprehended outside Anaconda on Aug. 8 after a weeklong manhunt. Officials say he shot and killed four people in the Owl Bar on Aug. 1.
A University of Nebraska regent who also served as a prosecutor is no longer employed by the Douglas County Attorney's Office after being charged with driving under the influence.
A Douglas County judge set bail at $500,000 for a 31-year-old man charged in connection with a shooting that injured seven people, including himself, early Saturday morning in North Omaha.
Two men have been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting in June near 30th Street and Sorensen Parkway in North Omaha.
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A University of Nebraska regent, who is also a Douglas County deputy attorney, has been charged with driving under the influence after she allegedly caused a crash in central Omaha that seriously injured one person.
A 31-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a shooting that injured seven people, including himself, early Saturday morning in North Omaha.
A shooting early Monday left a 22-year-old man dead and two other people in critical condition following a Native Omaha Days Festival event.
A former Central High music teacher pleaded no contest and was found guilty Friday to three counts of posting nude photos of an ex-girlfriend without her consent.
Seven people were injured in a shooting at the Kelly's Liquor parking lot in North Omaha Saturday morning, police said. The injuries are not considered to be life threatening.
More than 100 local, state and federal law enforcement officers were involved in a manhunt in the mountains west of Anaconda Saturday morning searching for a man who walked into a local bar 22 hours earlier and fatally shot four people.
PHOTOS: Law enforcement responded to reports of a shooting and people injured at a bar in Anaconda on Friday.
The Tuesday explosion of a wood pellet manufacturing plant in Fremont that killed a worker and two young girls was caused by a dust fire, an official said Thursday.