LINCOLN, Nebraska, Jan. 31 -- Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers issued the following news release on Jan. 30, 2024: Today, Attorney General Mike Hilgers announced that his office has reached a settlement with Hilton Hotels regarding the disclosure of hidden mandatory fees. The settlement is the latest in a series of Nebraska settlements with major hotel chains, including Marriott, Omni, and Choice, which have all agreed to alter their business practices. Over the years, travelers have bee  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, Jan. 30 -- Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers issued the following news release on Jan. 29, 2024: Today, Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers joined 26 other states in an Iowa and Utah-led letter to the Biden Administration, supporting Texas's border defense. Since President Biden took office, more than six million illegal aliens have crossed the southern border--roughly three times the population of Nebraska. But even worse than disregarding the unprecedented invasion  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, Jan. 27 -- The University of Nebraska Medical Center issued the following news release: Monica Bertagnolli, MD, the 17th director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) joins UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, Jan. 29 at 5 p.m. CST on a live broadcast of "Rural Health Matters" on RFD-TV. Dr. Bertagnolli is the latest headliner to appear with Dr. Gold on the weekly television broadcast which delivers high-level yet accessible expertise on science, health, agriculture, the  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee issued the following news release: Today, the DCCC announced that Tony Vargas has been added to the first round of its highly competitive 'Red to Blue' program, signaling that the DCCC is invested in providing Vargas, a top-tier candidate, with the support needed to continue building a winning campaign as he runs for Nebraska's 2nd congressional district. "Nebraskans are ready for a leader who's focused on delivering for th  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, Jan. 31 -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: The University of Nebraska College of Law will begin operating an Innocence Clinic this fall. In Nebraska, more than 5,500 people are incarcerated in 10 state prisons and another 1,000 are in the custody of private prisons and local jails. Per data from the Prison Policy Initiative and U.S. Department of Justice, the state's incarceration rate is among the highest in the nation. Two studi  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, Jan. 31 (TNSres) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: A research team led by Nebraska scientists has built the largest-ever metabolic model of corn to study how temperature stress affects the plant and how a certain fungus can help alleviate the problem. The research is an expansion of earlier work with a metabolic model of corn roots that the same team used to study the plant's nitrogen-use efficiency under nitrogen stress conditio  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, Jan. 31 -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: A small team of students, led by doctoral student Rachael Wagner of Lincoln, was instrumental in prepping a miniaturized surgical robot for its first spaceflight. MIRA, short for "miniaturized in vivo robotic assistant," is under development by Virtual Incision, a startup company co-founded in 2006 by Shane Farritor, a Nebraska engineering professor. The spacefaring version of the robot,  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, Jan. 31 (TNSres) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: A surgeon's hands could stretch 250 miles above Earth, should an upcoming test of a miniaturized surgical robot aboard the International Space Station prove successful. Invented by Nebraska's Shane Farritor and others, the robot blasted off Jan. 30 from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station aboard a Northrup Grumman Cygnus spacecraft bound for the orbital laboratory. The C  more