Auditor blocked in expenses probe LINCOLN - When it comes to providing health insurance for its employees, the State of Nebraska might be one of the most generous states in the country.

Stem cell work targets eye disease Scientists at the University of Nebraska Medical Center hope they are homing in on a strategy to use adult stem cells to treat certain diseases that cause blindness.

Study finds people with drink or drug addictions have similar rates of violent crimes whether or not they have a mental illness A report says that substance abuse, not mental illness, causes violent crimes.

An imam who has become the public face of a proposed Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero has returned to the United States following a taxpayer-funded tour of the Middle East, his wife said Monday.Daisy Khan said her husband, Feisal Abdul Rauf, planned to comment later this week on plans for a $100 million center that has led to an ...

WHEN historians look back on this era, they may describe it as a time when extreme voices dominated the national conversation, and those with more-moderate views offered a collective shrug.

When Karl Fendelander, 27, got one of his first real jobs as a warehouse worker for a manufacturing company in Reno, NV, a lot of people were giving him dirty looks at work.