Many in Nebraska and western Iowa spent Saturday cleaning the damage from Friday's tornadoes and storms. “It’s an extraordinary miracle that we had a cell like this come through, and no loss of life."
After none got picked in the 2024 NFL Draft, several former Huskers signed free agent contracts with professional teams Saturday evening.
Animal organizations across the Omaha area are stepping up to help pets in need. Veterinary clinics and rescue groups are offering free checkups and short-term care. Others are helping find lost pets.
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“As quick as it came, it went. I figured, ‘Well, it should be all right,’" Dan Lehan, who lives south of Blair, said. “I opened the door and saw I had no roof.”
Needing a play-making bucket-getter out of the transfer portal, Creighton found one Saturday afternoon. Former Texas Tech guard Richard “Pop” Isaacs has committed to the Bluejays.
The speedy sophomore wideout from Omaha Westside said Nebraska wide receivers have been performing like they did Saturday all spring long, leaving loud reminders their group will be fun to watch too.
The son of a Husker, Dylan Raiola heard a different kind of “Sirius" in the tunnel on Saturday. Shortly thereafter, he tore up the Husker defense in the spring game.
Tristan Alvano dragged Jacory Barney down after a 78-yard return, who thought the Nebraska kicker was running to celebrate with him. But a pair of missed kicks followed. Here's more Husker notes.
“The whole back of the house was gone.” While tornadoes tore through Nebraska and Iowa and caused significant damage, there are no immediate reports of deaths or serious injuries in the Omaha metro area.
The 6-foot-2, 215-pounder Oregon transfer Dowdell finished with 11 total touches for 87 yards including a pair of touchdown runs to pace the winning White team.
Sports can’t solve life’s fears or rebuild a house. But they can serve as a welcome distraction which is exactly what happened on another spring Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
As soon as bottles of water make it through the doors of First Lutheran Church-ELCA in Blair, they get shipped right out to disaster sites. Volunteers have been capably handing the “managed chaos."
While offensive players basked in the glow of a Red-White Shootout well shot Saturday afternoon, Nebraska defenders left Memorial Stadium with straighter faces.
Two Nebraska football players — expected to contribute for the 2024 season — suffered major knee injuries in Saturday’s spring game.
“I’ll go work with Pat and Bobby,” Dylan Raiola said after his Huskers public debut. “I’m just trying to up my game and be around great people.”
After a Nebraska spring game in which his quarterbacks completed 67% of their passes and threw for 566 collective yards, NU coach Matt Rhule is confident he has the right players at the position.
Check out Sam McKewon's breakdown of the Nebraska football spring game after White defeated Red at Memorial Stadium.
Here are three things we learned and three things we still don't know after Nebraska football's spring game.
As of Saturday afternoon, OPPD was working to return power to approximately 4,100 households in Douglas and Washington Counties.
Nebraska's spring game ended with a win for the White team over the Red squad Saturday. True freshman quarterback Dylan Raiola led three touchdown drives.
Hours after tornadoes tore through parts of Nebraska, former Husker Will Compton wanted to help. Barstool Sports now has “Husker Strong” shirts available where all sales dollars will go to a tornado relief fund.
Here are a collection of videos from Omaha World-Herald staff members that provides a look at Friday afternoon's tornado outbreak in Nebraska.
More tornadoes are possible in southern and eastern Nebraska today along with large hail, damaging wind, and flooding. The threat decreases for Sunday, but is not zero. Get the latest on the timing and hazards for both days in our updated forecast.
Toccara Steele and work colleagues were in a plane sitting at Omaha's Eppley Airfield when they looked outside their windows and saw a tornado touch down a short distance away.
Matt Rhule gave it a name: “The Red-White Shootout.” The record for total passes and passing yards were set in 2017. It’s possible those figures are in play as Dylan Raiola and Daniel Kaelin make their spring game debuts.
The majority of readers I heard will be thrilled, writes Tom Shatel. They want football out of their Nebraska spring game. No ferris wheels. No carnival acts. Football, plain and simple. That's also what Matt Rhule wants.
Gov. Jim Pillen and U.S. Rep. Don Bacon both spoke on the aftermath of the tornadoes in the Omaha and Lincoln metro areas. "Nebraskans will help Nebraskans to rebuild."
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More than 400 shoppers were forced to shelter for nearly two hours at the Spring Affair Plant Sale on Friday by the outbreak of tornadoes in the Waverly area.
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