The East Husker Conference Track and Field meet was held on Saturday in Oakland. North Bend Central was the overall team champion for the girls, with Pender finishing as the team runner-up and Clarkson/Leigh third. West Point-Beemer was the boys overall team champion, with Oakland-Craig finishing as the team runner-up…
ROSEMONT, Ill. – A checkoff-led pilot in Cincinnati schools that offered lactose-free chocolate milk increased consumption and reached students who weren’t drinking milk because of real or perceived lactose intolerance. National Dairy Council (NDC) and American Dairy Association Mideast worked with Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) to offer the country’s first single-serve…
OMAHA, Neb. – Senior Cayla Nielsen broke the all-time career runs scored record, surpassing Stacey Rybar with 133 career runs scored as the Creighton softball team rolled to a series sweep of DePaul on Sunday with an 8-1 victory. Creighton improved to 31-19 on the season with their sixth consecutive victory, while climbing back…
Omaha, Neb. -- Battling through several delays caused by weather, Creighton Baseball dropped a 4-3 decision to Georgetown on Sunday, April 28 in the second game of the series. The third game was canceled. Creighton fell to 30-11 on the season and 4-7 in BIG EAST action with the loss, while…
OMAHA, Neb. -- After waiting out a two-hour rain delay, Viterbo University defeated the No. 15 Bellevue University baseball team 6-1 in the regular-season finale for both squads. Bellevue wraps up the regular season with a 36-12 overall record and 21-2 mark in NSAA play. Viterbo closes out the regular season…
Wisner-Pilger senior high jumper Dylan Kneifl tied his school record clearing 7 1/4" Friday afternoon at the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa to finish second in the high jump. An NCAA provisional qualifying mark, Kneifl's top mark of 7 1/4" now leads the NSIC and is tied for sixth…
Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., a first-generation college student, heart surgeon and longtime college administrator who for the last decade has led the University of Nebraska Medical Center through a period of record growth, was confirmed Friday as NU’s ninth president by the Board of Regents. Dr. Gold, who also serves as the…
OMAHA — Gov. Jim Pillen joined leaders from the Omaha, Bennington, Elkhorn and Waterloo areas in thanking Nebraskans for listening to weather forecasts that warned them to take shelter during Friday’s storms. “It is an extraordinary miracle that we’ve had this kind of a cell come through, and no categories…
College is a life-changing experience for many people, but Jaiden Boomsma’s life changed well before she arrived on the campus of South Dakota State University (SDSU). Seven years ago this month, when Jaiden was 15, she lost her little brother Jaxon in a tractor runover on their grandparents’ farm. Soon…
Nebraska won the weekend series but couldn’t complete the sweep, as the Huskers fell 4-1 in the series finale against Iowa on Sunday at Hawks Field at Haymarket Park. Nebraska (27-14, 10-5 Big Ten) scored a run on two hits and an error, while Iowa (24-17, 10-8 Big Ten) recorded…
