Category Archives: Breaking News
One killed in fatal accident on Highway 281 south of Grand Island
GRAND ISLAND - On Sept. 17, 2025, at approximately 10:36 a.m., deputies responded to the area of Hwy 281 and Guenther Road in reference a two-vehicle accident with one injury. A preliminary investigat...
Sep 17, 2025 The scene of the accident on Highway 281, south of Grand Island, (Dallas Nau, Central Nebraska Today)
39-year-old man killed in two vehicle accident west of Lexington
LEXINGTON - On Sept. 15, 2025 at approximately 3:38 a.m. the Dawson County 911 dispatch center received multiple calls about a motor vehicle accident quarter of a mile east of the intersection of Road...
Sep 17, 2025 (Central Nebraska Today)
Two children killed in accident southeast of Hastings
HASTINGS - Two juvenile children were killed as the result of an accident on a country road intersection southeast of Hastings during the afternoon of Monday, Sept. 15. According to the Adams County S...
Sep 16, 2025 (Central Nebraska Today)
69-year-old Kearney man dies in Sunday night structure fire
KEARNEY - On Sunday, September 14, 2025, at approximately 11:00 p.m., Kearney Police Officers, members of the Kearney Volunteer Fire Department, and CHI Good Samaritan Hospital Paramedics responded to...
Sep 15, 2025
Kearney Police Department officer injured in accident while responding to emergency call
KEARNEY - This morning, Sept. 11, 2025, at approximately 7 a.m., Kearney Police Department (KPD) officers were dispatched to a serious medical emergency call in the northeast part of Kearney. While re...
Sep 11, 2025 Kearney Police Department cruiser, (Brian Neben, Central Nebraska Today)
Two Kearney residents killed after train strikes vehicle in Dawson County
DARR - On September 5, 2025 at approximately 8:23 a.m. Dawson County 911 Center received a call that a motor vehicle had been struck by a train at the intersection of Road 427 and Highway 30. Deputies...
Sep 05, 2025 (Central Nebraska Today)
35-year-old Axtell man facing three counts of motor vehicle homicide after fiery crash near Funk
HOLDREGE - Yesterday afternoon, the Phelps County Attorney's Office filed charges against Brock W. Schneider, age 35, of Axtell, in connection to the multi-vehicle accident, that occurred at the inter...
Aug 29, 2025 Local Court News, (Central Nebraska Today)
Victims of aircraft crash north of Kearney identified
KEARNEY - The two occupants of the plane have been identified as Dr. Mark H Meyer, 77, and Kent O. Magnuson, 72, both of rural Kearney. The Buffalo County Attorney's Office has ordered autopsies to be...
Aug 28, 2025 Law enforcement members on scene near the intersection of 145 Road and Sweetwater Road near the crash site, (Brian Neben, Central Nebraska Today)
Missing aircraft located northeast of Kearney, two occupants found deceased
KEARNEY - At approximately 10:07 a.m., on Thursday, August 28, 2025, first responders with the assistance of Buffalo County Sheriff's Office and Kearney Police Department drones, located the crash sit...
Aug 28, 2025 A roadblock at the intersection of 145 Road and Sweetwater Road, (Brian Neben, Central Nebraska Today)
Update: Aircraft goes missing north of Kearney after 9 p.m. on Wednesday evening
KEARNEY - An aircraft that was due into the Kearney airport around 9 p.m. went missing during the evening of Wednesday, Aug. 27. According to Lt. Derek Luke with the Kearney Police Department, around ...
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