LINCOLN, Nebraska, Dec. 24 (TNSPer) -- Gov. Pete Ricketts, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: Governor Pete Ricketts announced the appointment of Kirk Penner of Aurora to the Nebraska State Board of Education - District 5. Penner has 16 years of prior experience on the Aurora Public Schools Board of Education. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Nebraska Wesleyan University. Penner is President of Penner Patient Care, which distributes bathing systems to long-term care   more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, Dec. 21 (TNSPer) -- Gov. Pete Ricketts, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: Governor Pete Ricketts appointed Patrick Heng of North Platte as District Court Judge in the Eleventh Judicial District. The Eleventh District consists of Arthur, Chase, Dawson, Dundy, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper, Hayes, Hitchcock, Hooker, Keith, Lincoln, Logan, McPherson, Perkins, Red Willow, and Thomas counties. Heng, 63, has practiced law in North Platte for over a decade. He was a partner  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, Dec. 22 (TNSPer) -- Gov. Pete Ricketts, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: Governor Pete Ricketts appointed Tanya Roberts-Connick of North Platte as County Court Judge in the Eleventh Judicial District. The Eleventh District consists of Arthur, Chase, Dawson, Dundy, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper, Hayes, Hitchcock, Hooker, Keith, Lincoln, Logan, McPherson, Perkins, Red Willow, and Thomas counties. Roberts-Connick, 47, has worked in the Lincoln County Attorney's Office   more

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, Dec. 21 -- Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt issued the following news release: Earlier this afternoon, the Missouri Attorney General's Office obtained a preliminary injunction against the Biden Administration's vaccine mandate on federal contractors, which halts enforcement of the mandate in Missouri and the other states in Missouri's coalition that initially filed suit. "In October, I co-led a lawsuit with Nebraska, challenging the Biden Administration's vaccin  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, Dec. 22 -- Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson issued the following news release: Attorney General Peterson has joined a multi-state lawsuit against the Biden Administration's COVID mandates. The suit addresses the President's unlawful requirements of masks on toddlers and COVID-19 vaccines for staff and volunteers in Head Start Programs. Head Start provides much-needed resources to underserved children and their families. The program provides early childhood education a  more

PIERRE, South Dakota, Dec. 22 -- South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg issued the following news release on Dec. 21, 2021: South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg announced today that the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri has sustained the motion for a preliminary injunction on the Biden Administration's vaccine mandate for federal contractors and subcontractors in the plaintiff-states of South Dakota, Missouri, Nebraska, Arkansas, Kansas, Iowa, Wyo  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, Dec. 22 (TNSOps) -- Southeast Community College issued the following news: Joy Shultz of Wahoo and Dawn Thumser of Plattsmouth became the first students to graduate from Southeast Community College without ever setting foot on an SCC campus. Both utilized SCC's learning centers in their respective communities to earn degrees in December. Shultz earned an Associate of Applied Science degree in business. The 39-year-old had enrolled at SCC two previous times but never was able  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, Dec. 21 (TNSRes) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: Nebraska's leading economic indicator rose in November, according to the most recent report from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The indicator, designed to predict economic activity six months into the future, increased by 0.96%. "The indicator has risen for two consecutive months, suggesting that moderate economic growth will continue in Nebraska during the second quarter of  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, Dec. 21 (TNSJou) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release on Dec. 19, 2021: By confirming certain light-scattering dynamics first proposed a half-century ago, University of Nebraska-Lincoln physicists are casting fresh eyes on the universe-birthing fireworks ignited by the Big Bang nearly 14 billion years ago. With help from the ultra-intense lasers at Nebraska's Extreme Light Laboratory and the ingenuity of colleagues at Brigham Young U  more