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Every Monday, Epilogue follows up on stories published in the Journal Star a month ago, a year ago, 100 years ago.
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In a Brazilian forest, where rain pelted her face and boulders threatened her every step along a two-mile path, Bethany Schmidt learned to com…
On Jan. 16, 2003, an unknown arsonist started a fire in the basement of Green鈥檚 Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electrical caused more than $…
Nearly three years after Nebraska lawmakers made it illegal to text while driving, Fred Zwonechek knows it still happens.
Susan Seacrest has found a smaller pond, one that suits her lifetime passion for education, fits in with her core values and allows her to mee…
Five years ago this month, a group of University Place residents banded together and convinced Hy-Vee to keep a store at 48th Street and Leigh…
After a bicycle crash last summer left Jim Unger's body broken, doctor after doctor told him he would not walk again. But Nebraska's first All…
Lincoln鈥檚 gentleman cowboy made it to the Tack Room for his birthday again this year, and they had a party for him as always.
A year after reuniting with the mother she lost 20 years ago,聽Angeline Wleh smiles and laughs about how she once feared America was a place fu…
In 2003, the program now known as Health 360 helped about 300 people get free prescriptions. Last year, it served more than 3,000 people with …
Students, faculty and a legion of Internet fans know Tom Winter as the skateboarding professor. He has taught classics and religious studies a…
Paul surprised Barb with a 50th birthday party. So on April 12, 2003, Barb surprised Paul with a wedding 鈥 their wedding, in their backyard.
Kathryn Slattery聽made news then聽as the first patient in Nebraska to undergo the dual transplant, and her doctors said the surgery went amazing…
Almost nine years ago, Doug Bereuter left Congress after a record 26-year career in the U.S. House of Representatives.聽
Lincoln firefighters spent the past year seeing whether they could save money by taking a tricked-out pickup on low-level calls instead of rol…
Frank Neumayer聽tells his story from a blue recliner at the Dialysis Center of Lincoln, where he comes three times a week for life, tubes runni…
In 2008, reporter Lori Pilger and photojournalists Eric Gregory and Heidi Hoffman followed Lincoln Fire & Rescue recruits during their 14 …
Trash bins can be treasure troves, Jim Null discovered while visiting his wife, Elaine, in the Lincoln law office of former Gov. Charles Thone.
Nebraska voters approved a constitutional amendment in 1992 authorizing the lottery. It opened for business Sept. 11, 1993, with scratch-ticke…
Of all the days he worked construction last summer, Nicholas Schreiner is still surprised July 12 was the day a car hit him.
He played soccer at recess, in the backyard, in the church parking lot with boys from the neighborhood, at night, on weekends, whenever he could.
The details are blurry, but Isaac Durr remembers staring down the barrel of a semi-automatic handgun that hot July day last year.
The last of the wildflowers are tucked between buildings.
It was nearly five years ago that executives from the Big Three automakers flew private jets to a congressional hearing on a possible governme…
Five miles from Lincoln Public Schools' district headquarters, eight machines named after Peanuts characters zip out thousands of sheets of pa…
The Arbor Day Foundation was聽planted聽at the celebration of the Arbor Day centennial four decades ago. It聽now聽has 800,000 members:聽bigger than …
The person known as Ev Evnen is well-spoken/complex/Midwestern/East Coast/genuine/upbeat/ activist/Jewish/compassionate/single/well-educated/f…
At age 5, Tu Tran seemed an unlikely candidate to become a police officer in a Midwestern college town.
The white frame house is long gone from the grassy lot in Sutherland, the聽violent deaths of six people inside its walls 38 years ago聽a part of…
The scandal led to the ouster of state Banking Director Paul Amen, the impeachment and resignation of then-Attorney General Paul L. Douglas an…
Tyler Keup served 10 years and nine months in prison after shooting a friend in North Platte when he was a teenager. Now he's back in jail.
Fifteen years after helping beat her 22-month-old son to death, officials say,聽Francisca Campbell's unwillingness to take responsibility for h…
The idea was simple: Help schools across the country, especially in rural areas, put up small wind turbines to give students and teachers hand…
Laura Pinon and Virginia Calderon pour flour into a bowl to begin preparing nearly 400 pumpkin-, apple- and ground beef-filled empanadas.
Alex and Charlie, the youngest of your four. The mother who lost you in 1998 鈥斅爕ou kept running, so many times before and after 鈥斅爃as adopted …
A Grand Island man who served more than a decade in prison for an accidental, fatal shooting when he was just 16 is headed back to prison, thi…
On Saturday, 13 clients of the mission who died this year were remembered by friends for their humor, kindness and their dreams beyond the fringes.
Twenty years ago, reporter Nancy Hicks wrote about Dan Cuda while he was on the "waiting list of a lifetime," awaiting a kidney transplant.
The family gathered for a July 4 celebration heard the explosion first. And then they heard the yelling. Lauren Campbell, 14, had been hit wit…
Jackie Gaughan is as much of a Wild West legend as you will find these days.
Izzy Iwanski went to Southeast Community College because of a Learn to Dream Scholarship.
In the 1960s and '70s, schoolteacher and pilot Evelyn Sedivy soared through Nebraska skies as one of the few Lincoln women with a private, com…
An off-duty Lincoln firefighter sprang from his poolside chair three weeks ago and into paramedic mode to resuscitate a little girl.
The charred rubble of the Syracuse United Methodist Church hasn't been hauled away yet,聽bit the congregation isn't waiting.
Not much remains of the former Tastee Inn & Out on North 48th Street: A closed sign in the window, tables and chairs in the dining room an…
When the water froze around eight duck hunters last winter, a state helicopter delivered them from danger. But what they were forced to leave …
The founders of Fuse Coworking said when they started their business in January 2013 their goal was "to bring entrepreneurs, creatives and oth…
Her聽father didn鈥檛 talk much about his war experiences.聽鈥淭hat鈥檚 hard to recover from," Paige Namuth says.聽But he took pictures.聽Black and white…
Juan Du Goracke became an American citizen last June, joining about 58 others in a ceremony at the Homestead National Monument of America near…
Two weeks after a tornado ripped apart their home in Beaver Crossing, the Nisly family has a new one.
Mya Jocelyn Sears squeezed onto the scene at the turn of the century 鈥 a 3:07 a.m., Jan. 1, 2000, delivery. 聽
东京热app first wrote about Logan Lueking in 2003, when the then-East High School junior was named a recipient of the newspaper…
Duane Acklie and聽Bob Duncan took a nod from up the road in 1984, founding Leadership Lincoln based on a similar group in Omaha.
Treneyce Thompson still hopes to walk again, but a year after a bullet tore into her back and paralyzed her, she's less certain and more accep…
In 1961, a pair of B-47 bombers flying training missions out of Kansas crashed in the woods of northern Wisconsin. Decades later, a group of v…
A few months ago, Margaret Buckendorf, then 97, told her daughters she wanted to learn to swim.
When John Wood took over as executive director at the Lincoln Airport in September 1996, he already had an inkling about one event that would …
As he prepared to step onto a stage and give his retirement speech Jan. 3, Tom Brewer鈥檚 phone rang.
This is what she remembers about Rex:
When Grisanti's closed more than two months ago, owner Demetris Kotsalis said he hoped to have the restaurant reopened soon.
BRUNO -- Mike Ostry misses rising before the sun to get a head start on the day鈥檚 work. He misses riding his 1970s-era International Harvester…
Carol Lespreance doesn鈥檛 trust the funeral industry.
In her 35 years working at Open Harvest Co-Op Grocery, Margot Conrad has never seen a time more important to educate consumers in Lincoln abou…
As Nebraska prepares to shine a new spotlight on its history with a statehood sesquicentennial celebration in 2017, this week marks the annive…
Adam Hintz wants to care for Wilderness Park like a grandson would take care of his grandmother.
The headline was wrong, but it鈥檚 not too late to set straight a long-ago Journal Star story -- 鈥淪now tot will always have a story to tell.鈥
The two Cornhusker hotels that have stood at the corner of 13th and L represent almost a century of Lincoln history and hold a special place i…
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