Nebraska was home or business for a number of notorious thieves and scalawags in the years from territorial days through the Great Depression.…
A howling blizzard 134 years ago today killed an estimated 230 people, many of them children — and 40 to 100 of those deaths occurred in Nebraska.
The Pathfinder Hotel explosion in Fremont happened Jan. 10, 1976, killing 20 people, and the Schoolchildren's Blizzard of 1888, which killed a…
These 25 homes are among those that have made the National Register of Historic Places for being historically and architecturally significant.…
The 1948-49 blizzard left over 75,000 people marooned and close to 34,000 miles of roads impassable. See photos of how Nebraska weathered the storm.
The first in a series of major storms pounded Nebraska 73 years ago today. At the time, the storm was widely regarded as part of the state's w…
What will Lincoln look like tomorrow? Hopefully not this bad.
What will Lincoln look like tomorrow? Hopefully not this bad.
He didn’t hear the shot, but he felt it. And then he saw it, blood beginning to escape from his upper right arm.
Miss Rae Wilson’s dream of a canteen to bring happiness and good will to soldier boys passing thru North Platte began to take on reality last …
“Organization of a canteen to bring good will and cheer to soldiers passing thru North Platte will be discussed at a meeting at the chamber of…
Editor, The Bulletin:
Following the visit of the troop train here yesterday afternoon Miss Rae Wilson, sister of North Platte’s Captain Denver Wilson, suggested tha…
In honor of the 80th anniversary of North Platte’s World War II Canteen, The Telegraph is reprinting key stories from Dec. 17-25, 1941, on the…
Kin Of 134th Make Boys Happy On Troop Train
Randy Stratton, the son of a Nebraska-born sailor who barely survived the Arizona attack, has started a lobbying effort to disinter and identi…
Politeness was in his game. He’d use the King’s English while conversing with those in the house. “Good night,” he’d say after yet another hau…
The date that lives in infamy: December 7, 1941. It was the brilliant, surprise attack by naval air forces of the Empire of Japan on the U.S. …
The news of the attack on Pearl Harbor, 80 years ago this week, shocked the nation, but it hit Boys Town especially hard. At least 35 former r…
On the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, the second Sunday of Advent, many North Platte churchgoers would have heard about John the Baptist paving the …
“There’s no one experience of what it was to describe boarding school,” said Judi gaiashkibos of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs. “E…
The two-story jail, which sits next to the county courthouse in Nelson, has a few tales to tell. One reflects a violent period in Nebraska's h…
Some of the names might be duplicates, but the true death toll is likely much higher, said Margaret Jacobs, a history professor at UNL and co-…
The 134th landed in Normandy, France, on July 5, 1944, and was the first unit of the 35th Division to arrive at Omaha Beach on D-Day plus 30.
It all began on the evening of Oct. 18, 1975, in Sutherland when five Kellie family members were found dead in their modest home. A sixth fami…
Other states have public power districts, but Nebraska has long been the only state where private power has no place. In North Platte, as in a…
Believe it or not, these are the places in Lincoln with the most lore for being haunted.
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