Chris Dunker
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Lincoln, NE, United States
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County rules will mandate masks at Husker volleyball matches
There appear to be no capacity restrictions included in the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department directed health measure requiring the use of masks. → Read More
Nebraska state Sen. Sue Crawford continues push for more campaign ad transparency
As the 2018 election cycle approaches, saturating airwaves and stuffing mailboxes with campaign advertisements, a Nebraska state senator is pushing for greater transparency and accountability for candidate-specific materials. → Read More
Student housing figures balloon to 5,000 beds in downtown Lincoln
By the middle of this month, two more towering student apartment complexes will open their doors, adding more than 1,200 beds in downtown Lincoln. → Read More
Gage County files first objections to $1.8M court costs
Gage County remains on the hook for a $28.1 million judgment awarded to six people by a federal jury that found their civil rights were violated in an investigation into → Read More
Yazidi genocide survivor recalls fleeing the Islamic State
Fleeing ahead of Islamic militants, Jamal Aldakhi escaped the Yazidi enclave of Khana Sor with nothing but the clothes he was wearing. → Read More
UNMC, UNL break records in research money
Both the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln reported record hauls in sponsored research funding last year. → Read More
Dean of Doane's Lincoln campus dies
Janice Hadfield saw potential in her students and in the faculty and staff who worked for her in adult and nontraditional education programs at Doane University. → Read More
UNL named an emerging leader in research
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln this week was named a rising star in research by natural science research publisher Springer Nature. → Read More
Beatrice native with the big voice now the voice of Memorial Stadium
Behind the microphone overlooking Athletic Park, a crumbling bowl of a stadium built a century ago in downtown Beatrice, Nate Rohr -- the booming voice over the loudspeaker – could → Read More
$5.5M grant will help train rural emergency responders
OMAHA -- Wave a hand in the face of one of the patient simulators that will soon hit the road to train first responders, and it will blink. → Read More
UNK trying different approach to University Village development
The 104 acres to the south of U.S. 30, across from the University of Nebraska at Kearney’s Health Science Education Complex, are poised to become University Village. → Read More
Regents ask state for 4.4 percent hike in aid
The University of Nebraska Board of Regents approved a two-year state aid request Friday morning that would increase the amount of tax dollars the university receives by 4 percent annually. → Read More
UNO will rename campus for Walter Scott Jr.
The University of Nebraska at Omaha plans to rename one of its campuses for a benefactor who has given hundreds of millions of dollars in support of the university. → Read More
Kirkland's career a culmination of experience
Even after four decades in Nebraska, Jake Kirkland’s Brooklyn accent is still there. → Read More
NU seeking 4.4% state aid increase
The University of Nebraska is seeking a 4.4 percent increase in state aid in the first year of the next two-year budget cycle to give employees raises as well as → Read More
Judge dismisses lawsuit seeking to ban balloons from NU games
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by an Omaha man to stop the release of balloons by Husker fans in Memorial Stadium. → Read More
Attorneys for Beatrice 6 offered twice to settle out of court
BEATRICE -- More than three years ago, attorneys for six people wrongly convicted of killing a Beatrice woman offered to settle a federal civil rights suit against Gage County for → Read More
One-room schools the focus of Peru conference
At 16, Dorothy Rieke enrolled in the Teacher’s College in Peru, passed the exams and went back to teach at the one-room Center School north of Union in Cass County. → Read More
Taxpayers, not insurance, to pay for Gage County mistake
Sometime between the wrongful arrests and convictions of six people for the 1985 murder of Helen Wilson and the six suing Gage County officials for putting them in prison, the → Read More
Ebola patients' blood provides insight into virus
Little has been uncovered about how the Ebola virus works inside the human body since it was discovered in Africa four decades ago, but the 2014 outbreak gave researchers a → Read More