OMAHA, Nebraska, Aug. 30 -- The U.S. Justice Department's Drug Enforcement Administration's Omaha Division issued the following news release: Five members of a Houston-based organization known for targeting rural pharmacies in Western Iowa and Western Nebraska face federal charges after breaking in and stealing pharmaceuticals in May and June of 2022 and 2023. These five people are part of a larger conspiracy being prosecuted out of the Eastern District of Arkansas in which 42 individuals haili  more

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Nebraska, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Strategic Command issued the following news: By Staff Sgt. Whitney Erhart, 131st Bomb Wing Public Affairs DIEGO GARCIA, British Indian Ocean Territory - U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 110th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron completed a hot pit event with the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber during a Bomber Task Force mission, Aug. 21, 2024. Hot pitting is the act of having an aircraft land, refuel and take off without shutting its engines down.   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: LENEXA, KAN. (AUG. 26, 2024) - On Aug. 8, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7 ordered three grocery distributors to stop the sale and distribution of certain Fabuloso household disinfectant products. EPA says that Estancia La Bodega Inc. of St. Louis, Missouri, Pan-Y-Mas of Kansas City, Kansas, and Promex Ltd. of Omaha, Nebraska, distributed cleaning products that were illega  more

OFFUTT AFB, Nebraska, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Air Force Offutt Air Force Base (55th Air Wing) issued the following news: By Capt. Barrett Schroeder, Air Combat Command JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. -- Air Combat Command received its first EA-37B Compass Call, aircraft 19-5591, for pilot training Aug. 23, at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. The EA-37B, a wide-area airborne electromagnetic attack weapon system using a heavily modified version of the Gulfstream G550 airframe, was delivered by  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, Aug. 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Nebraska issued the following news release: United States Attorney Susan Lehr announced that Aaron Cardinale, age 48, of Omaha, Nebraska was sentenced August 22, 2024, in federal court in Omaha after having pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Chief United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Cardinale to 120 months' imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal s  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Omaha District issued the following news release: RIVERDALE, N.D. -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will conduct vegetation management activities during August and September on sandbars in the Missouri River between Garrison Dam and Huff, N.D. The Bismarck-Mandan river reach (river miles 1325 to 1310) will not be sprayed. This work is being done to keep the sandbars free of vegetation and usable by the threatened piping plover for n  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Omaha District issued the following news release: YANKTON, S.D. -- During September, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will conduct vegetation management activities on sandbars in the Missouri River between Yankton and Vermillion, S.D., the upper portion of Lewis and Clark Lake near Springfield S.D. and Niobrara, N.E., and as far upstream as Pickstown, S.D. This work is being done to keep the sandbars free of vegetation and usable by t  more