Category Archives: KGFW News
Four Arrested Following Incident in Lincoln
LINCOLN, NEB. (NSP) - Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol, with assistance from the Lincoln Police Department, have arrested four people following a foot pursuit in Lincoln Saturday evening . At a...
Jan 25, 2022 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
Troopers Arrest One Following Pursuit Near Aurora
GRAND ISLAND, NEB. (NSP) - Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol have arrested a Minnesota man following a pursuit on Interstate 80 near Aurora. At approximately 10:20 a.m. Friday January 21, a troo...
Jan 25, 2022
UNK classes increase interest in sports officiating, address statewide need
By TYLER ELLYSON UNK Communications KEARNEY - You may not agree with all their calls, but there's one thing that can't be debated. Officials are an essential part of athletics at all levels. Without t...
Jan 21, 2022
Downtown Rehabilitation Grant Funding Available
The City of Kearney is opening the annual Downtown Rehabilitation Grant program. This program has been developed to assist building owners and developers whom wish to reinvest into their properties in...
Jan 21, 2022 Mike Petrucci / Unsplash
Troopers Highlight Traffic Safety at Midlands Auto Show
OMAHA, NEB. (NSP) - The latest and greatest in the automotive industry will be on display this weekend at the Midlands International Auto Show and Nebraska State Troopers will be on hand to promote tr...
Jan 21, 2022
CHI Health announces new CEO E.J. Kuiper
NEBRASKA & SOUTHEAST IOWA-CHI Health is pleased to announce that E.J. Kuiper is the new CEO of CHI Health and President of CommonSpirit Health's Midwest Division. Monday, Jan. 17, Kuiper began pro...
Jan 21, 2022
Fully Vaccinated Nebraskans 11 Times Less Likely to be Hospitalized and Those with Booster 46 Times Less Likely says DHHS
Lincoln, Neb. - Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) State Epidemiologist Dr. Matthew Donahue and his team completed an in-depth analysis of vaccination rates correlated to hospital...
Jan 21, 2022 Diana Polekhina / Unsplash
New Landfill Scale Installation
Recently the Kearney Area Solid Waste Agency Landfill began installation of a new scale. The project will take approximately 5 weeks and during that time we are asking that visitors be patient and all...
Jan 21, 2022 Gary Chan / Unsplash
Grand Island meatpacking plant worker dies after being injured on the job
Grand Island, Ne - Friday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. Grand Island police and paramedics were called to meat packing plant JBS after a worker was injured on the job. The injured worker was identified as 48...
Jan 17, 2022
Omaha Man Sentenced to 37 Months for Possessing Destructive Devices
(DOJ) - United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Willis Parker, age 31, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha for possessing destructive devices. United States Distr...
Jan 14, 2022