Berkshire Hathaway is buying back shares for the first time in nearly two years, and new CEO Greg Abel said he has no immediate plans to sell off Kraft Heinz shares now that the packaged food giant has shelved its plan to split the company into two.
The disappearance of the spring transfer portal window offers the opportunity for a reappearance of spring football games in campuses across the country.
UCLA coach Mick Cronin warns the transfer portal is pushing college players to change schools too often and miss out on graduating.
No. 3-ranked Michigan Wolverines head coach Dusty May reflected on his team’s hard-fought victory over No. 5 Nebraska Cornhuskers inside Crisler Arena.
Trey McKenney made a tiebreaking layup with 1:07 left and No. 3 Michigan rallied past No. 5 Nebraska 75-72 to hand the Cornhuskers their first loss this season.
No. 3-ranked Michigan Wolverines men’s basketball coach Dusty May called the upcoming game against No. 5-ranked Nebraska “the biggest game of the year” because it is the next game on the schedule.
The race for the regular season Big Ten title is shaping up to be a photo finish as Nebraska leads with Michigan, Michigan State, Illinois and Purdue trailing only a half game behind.
Arizona is the unanimous No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 men's college basketball poll for the first time.
The passenger who attempted to open an exit door mid-flight while heading to Detroit Metro Airport from Omaha, Nebraska, has been sentenced.
Michigan interim football coach Biff Poggi had a Zoom call with the program’s signees and their parents just hours after Sherrone Moore was fired last week.
No. 1 Arizona and No. 2 Michigan remain atop The Associated Press men's college basketball poll for a second straight week.
Nebraska has announced a two-year contract extension with coach Matt Rhule, adding bonuses for College Football Playoff appearances.
A 23-year-old from Metro Detroit has entered a guilty plea after being charged in connection with trying to open an exit door on a flight headed to Detroit.
Two U.S. senators have visited Taiwan, drawing criticism from China, which claims Taiwan as its own and opposes official contact between the two sides.
Dylan Raiola throws for 243 yards and two touchdowns, leading Nebraska to a 20-17 victory over Cincinnati on Thursday night.
Cincinnati has agreed to play a home game against Nebraska in Kansas City, Missouri, mainly for financial reasons.
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A Metro Detroit man is facing federal charges after he attempted to open an exit door while on a flight headed to Detroit Metro Airport from Omaha, Nebraska.
Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are in merger talks to create the largest railroad in North America that would connect the East and West Coasts.
Former labor union leader and independent candidate Dan Osborn has announced his bid for a Nebraska U.S. Senate seat, challenging Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts.
Summer will make a dramatic entrance in the U.S. this week with a heat dome that will bring stifling heat and uncomfortable humidity to millions.
A Midwestern affiliate of Planned Parenthood says it will close four of its six clinics in Iowa and four in Minnesota within a year.
The men who were placed on a deportation flight headed for the chaotic nation of South Sudan were originally from countries as far away as Vietnam.
Nebraska is the first state to receive a federal waiver to ban the purchase of soda and energy drinks under the food benefit program for low-income Americans long known as food stamps.
Campgrounds, boat ramps and other facilities in at least 30 locations at federal lakes and reservoirs in six states will be closed or have their hours curtailed as of mid-May.
Tajianna Roberts scored 16 points while Jayda Curry made two free throws and drew a charging foul in the final minute as seventh-seeded Louisville beat 10th-seeded Nebraska 63-58 in the first round of the women’s NCAA Tournament.
Another storm system is affecting millions of people in the middle of the U.S. Parts of the Midwest and Great Plains faced blizzard conditions Wednesday and a broad swath of neighboring states are at risk of high winds and wildfires.
A group backed by Trump adviser Elon Musk is running ads targeting Republican lawmakers in several states over their support of a federal drug pricing program.
The proposed increases are significant, with an average increase in water system charges of 7.73% and an increase in sewer system charges of 5.39%.
Roddy Gayle Jr. scored 12 points and Tre Donaldson made two free throws with four seconds left to give No. 15 Michigan a 49-46 win over Nebraska.
The Agriculture Department is scrambling to rehire several workers it fired as part of President Donald Trump’s broad cuts because they were involved in the government’s response to the ongoing bird flu outbreak that has devastated egg and poultry farms over the past three years.
Jack Hoffman, the cancer patient who captured the hearts of Nebraska football fans and inspired the nation as a 7-year-old with his touchdown run during the 2013 spring game, has died at the age of 19.
Tennessee picked up four more first-place votes and remains at No. 1 for the fifth consecutive week in the AP Top 25 college basketball poll.
Jess Mruzik had 26 kills, Caroline Jurevicius had 20 and Penn State rallied from an 0-2 semifinal hole for a five-set victory over Nebraska to reach the NCAA championship.
Inclement weather has plagued areas of the U.S. in the first half of the weekend, with dangerous conditions including heavy snow, a major ice storm and unusual tornado activity.
North Dakota regulators have approved permits for underground carbon dioxide storage for a massive pipeline proposed for the Midwest.
Utility regulators in North Dakota have approved part of a carbon dioxide pipeline that would span five Midwestern states.
Republican Don Bacon has been elected to a fifth House term representing Nebraska’s Omaha-based 2nd District, nearly three days after the polls closed.
Abortion rights advocates lost on Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota ballot measures but prevailed in seven other states, including Missouri, where an amendment clears the way to undo one of the nation's strictest bans.
Conservatives could win majorities on the Kansas and Nebraska school boards this year, which would make it easier for them to shape what’s taught in classrooms.
Voters in Arizona and Nebraska will see competing measures on their ballots this November.
Indiana quarterback Kurtis Rourke missed the second half of the 16th-ranked Hoosiers game against Nebraska on with an injury to his right hand.
A Republican effort to lock down all of Nebraska’s electoral votes for former President Donald Trump appears doomed because one state lawmaker won't give backers his crucial support.
A new report says former University of Florida president Ben Sasse spent over $1.3 million on private catering for lavish dinners, football tailgates and extravagant social functions.
Nebraska's top election official says organizers have collected enough signatures to ask voters to repeal a new law that uses taxpayer money to fund private school tuition.
Voters in at least nine states will decide in November whether they want to enshrine abortion rights in their state constitutions.
PGA Tour journeyman Scott Gutschewski always wanted his kids to have fun while they played golf, so when they were little he'd strap fishing poles to the top of the cart and stop at course ponds so they could drop a line.
Tradition-rich college football programs Nebraska, Ohio State and Alabama are capitalizing on the passion of their fans to generate funds for their NIL collectives.
Arizona and Nebraska organizers have turned in enough signatures to get abortion-related questions before their states' voters in November.
A house that was teetering on the edge of an eroding riverbank near a Minnesota dam has collapsed into the river as extreme weather and flooding continue to grip the upper Midwest.
Iowa regulators have approved a controversial carbon dioxide pipeline for transporting emissions of the climate-warming greenhouse gas for storage underground.
Severe storms with tornado warnings brought hail and heavy rain to parts of the Midwest as floodwaters breached levees in Iowa, creating dangerous conditions that prompted evacuations.
Former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry has been charged with lying to federal authorities about a foreign billionaire’s illegal $30,000 contribution to his campaign.
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk is calling on Nebraska Republicans to put pressure on state lawmakers to adopt a “winner-take-all” system of awarding Electoral College votes.
A Nebraska bill to limit transgender students’ access to bathrooms and sports teams has advanced out of committee with just days to go until the end of the session.
Caitlin Clark’s audacious logo 3-pointers and record-breaking accomplishments have driven sports fans who previously wouldn’t walk across the street to watch women’s basketball to set their DVRs for Iowa games.
Terrence Shannon Jr. scored a career-high 40 points for a Big Ten Tournament record to lead a second-half surge by 13th-ranked Illinois in a 98-87 victory over Nebraska in the semifinals.
Southern California has moved up to No. 3 in The Associated Press Top 25 women's basketball poll, its best ranking in 38 years.
Caitlin Clark overcame a cold start to score 30 of her 34 points after halftime in third-ranked Iowa's rally past Nebraska 94-89 in overtime to win a third straight Big Ten Tournament.
The Justice Department says a civilian U.S. Air Force employee has been charged in federal court in Nebraska with transmitting classified information about Russia’s war with Ukraine on a foreign online dating platform.
Jaz Shelley’s 3-pointer with 30 seconds left gave Nebraska its first lead and the Cornhuskers rallied from a 14-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat No. 2 Iowa 82-79.
Caitlin Clark’s pursuit of the NCAA women’s career scoring record will continue for at least four more days after her 31-point performance in No. 2 Iowa’s 82-79 loss to Nebraska.
Nebraska state Sen_ Loren Lippincott is touting a bill that would give the Nebraska State Patrol $200,000 to hire “an ethical hacker.”.
Preliminary tests by a University of Nebraska road safety research facility and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers point to concerns that the nation’s roadside guardrails are no match for new heavy electric vehicles.
The visual of one of the nation’s most popular athletes knocked to the floor after a fan who was staring at her phone collided with her while storming the court was a stark reminder of the dangers athletes face when crowds get out of control.
A Nebraska judge has agreed that the fact that the suspect was found lying on top of a badly wounded priest covered in blood stains last month inside the home where the priest lived next door to his small-town church suggests Kierre Williams was responsible for the killing.
Madisen Skinner had 16 kills and Ella Swindle became the fourth true freshman setter to lead her team to a national championship as Texas defended its NCAA Volleyball title by dominating No. 1 overall seed Nebraska 3-0.
Less than an hour after Iowa recorded win No. 10 with a dramatic 13-10 victory over Nebraska, Hawkeyes coach Kirk Ferentz suggested his team actually should have had a chance to win 11 games in the regular season.
Katin Houser and Sam Leavitt each threw touchdown passes and Noah Kim kicked two field goals to help Michigan State snap a six-game losing streak with a 20-17 victory over Nebraska.
The Big Ten revealed Thursday that the NCAA is looking into “sign stealing allegations” that have been made against Michigan football this season.
One of the two biggest proposed carbon dioxide pipeline projects in the Midwest is being put on hold so the company can reevaluate the route.
The No. 2 ranked Michigan Wolverines imposed their will during their first road matchup of the season against the Nebraska Cornhuskers in a 45-7 victory to remain undefeated.
Investigators say a blast that prompted evacuations near Union Pacific's massive railyard in western Nebraska last week appears to be accidental.