TALLAHASSEE, Florida, June 21 (TNSper) -- Florida State University issued the following news: Jeff Culhane has been hired as Director of Broadcasting for LEARFIELD's Seminole Sports Properties and will serve as the voice for Florida State football and men's basketball. Culhane brings 20 years of multimedia experience to the Seminoles, including roles building radio affiliate networks in addition to broadcasting duties for Nebraska, West Virginia and North Dakota State. He has extensive experie  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, June 25 -- Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson issued the following news release: Attorney General Peterson is joining a multistate coalition demanding that President Joe Biden stop plans to undermine protections for women contained in federal law. Biden is proposing sweeping changes to Title IX of the Education Amendments that would dramatically diminish provisions intended to protect women by expanding the law to include gender identity. The damaging ramifications of a  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, June 22 -- Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson issued the following news release and letter on June 21, 2022: In a letter sent today to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Attorney General Peterson and his counterparts in 18 other states urged Garland to take swift action in response to recent terrorist acts against pro-life organizations, calling the lack of action intolerable. Since the early May leak of a U.S. Supreme Court draft decision overturning Roe v. Wade, t  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, June 23 -- Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson issued the following news release: Attorney General Peterson announced that Nebraska, along with 45 other attorneys general, has obtained a $1.25 million multistate settlement with Florida-based Carnival Cruise Line stemming from a 2019 data breach that involved the personal information of approximately 180,000 Carnival employees and customers nationwide. Nebraska will receive $10,923.50 from the settlement. In March 2020, C  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, June 18 (TNSper) -- Gov. Pete Ricketts, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: Governor Pete Ricketts appointed Katie Benson of Omaha as District Court Judge in the Fourth Judicial District (Douglas County). Benson, 42, has been a Deputy County Attorney in the Douglas County Attorney's Office since 2008. Since that time, she has worked in the office's Felony Division where she has handled all collateral attacks, which include defending challenges to convictions. She'  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, June 23 -- Gov. Pete Ricketts, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: Governor Pete Ricketts spoke out against federal energy policies that have led to rampant inflation and record-high gas prices during a media availability at a Bellevue convenience store. "President Biden has put the agenda of radical environmentalists before the needs of the American people," said Gov. Ricketts. "His disastrous energy policies have caused historic inflation and record-high gas pri  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, June 21 (TNSres) -- The University of Nebraska Medical Center issued the following news release: The University of Nebraska Medical Center is part of an $450 million, four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study up to 20,000 adults and children to better understand the full scope of post-COVID symptoms with the goal of improving treatment and health outcomes. Some of the questions to be asked by NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute RECOVER r  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, June 24 (TNSjou) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: A surge in research projects on the human microbiome -- the complex ecosystem of microorganisms in the human gastrointestinal tract -- is bolstering scientific understanding of health, disease and environment. Much of the research has focused on gut bacteria and viruses, leaving a third factor -- fungi -- little studied. An international consortium of scientists has conducted the  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, June 21 (TNSres) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: As a teenager decades ago on his family's swine farm in Vietnam, Hiep Vu saw firsthand the benefits of vaccinating livestock. His parents had gradually increased the size of their operation, and when they inoculated their animals, the positive results struck Vu. "It amazed me at that time how vaccines work," said Vu, now an assistant professor of animal science at the University   more