Our best Omaha staff photos & videos of September 2022
Check out our best Omaha staff photos & videos of September 2022
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Amanda Fink wears Husker themed cowboy books she purchased in Nashville before a game at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln on Saturday.
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Nebraska's Anthony Grant fist bumps Walt (right) and Gus Rasmussen after scoring a touchdown during a game at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln on Saturday.
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Nebraska's Nate Boerkircher scores a touchdown early in the third quarter against North Dakota on Saturday.
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Doug Larson holds the certificate and flag he was given after he graduated from Veterans Treatment Court at the City-County Building on Thursday.
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Nebraska's Bekka Allick prepares to hit the ball at Creighton's Kendra Wait, top right, and Kiana Schmitt, bottom right, in the second set at CHI Health Center on Wednesday.
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A record crowd of 15,797 watch Nebraska take on Creighton at CHI Health Center on Wednesday.
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Creighton, left, celebrates wining the third set over Nebraska at CHI Health Center on Wednesday.
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Elkhorn South's Cole Ballard (5) rushes with Millard South's Bryson Zimmerman (51) on his tail in the Millard South vs. Elkhorn South football game at Elkhorn High School in Omaha on Friday.
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Nebraska's Casey Thompson (11) looks up at the replay after being sacked for the second time in the first quarter of the North Dakota vs. Nebraska football game in Lincoln on Saturday.
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Creighton's Sky McCune bumps the ball during their game against Nebraska at CHI Health Center on Wednesday.
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Creighton's Kendra Wait celebrates a point during their game against Nebraska at CHI Health Center on Wednesday.
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Creighton's Ellie Bolton (from left), Norah Sis, and Sky McCune watch the pregame video before their game against Nebraska at CHI Health Center on Wednesday.
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Nebraska's Bekka Allick (left) tries to block Creighton's Kendra Wait during their game at CHI Health Center on Wednesday.
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Nebraska’s Whitney Lauenstein (left) and Nicklin Hames celebrate a kill during their game against Creighton at CHI Health Center on Wednesday.
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Creighton’s Keeley Davis celebrates after scoring a point during their game against USC at Sokol Arena on Friday.
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Creighton’s Kendra Wait (left) and Kiana Schmitt try to block the ball during their game against USC at Sokol Arena on Friday.
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Creighton’s Kiara Reinhardt (center) and her teammates celebrate a point during their game against USC at Sokol Arena on Friday.
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Nebraska’s Anthony Grant tries to escape North Dakota’s defense during the 2nd half of their game at Memorial Field on Saturday.
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Nebraska players take the field after the Tunnel Walk during a 2022 game. Matt Rhule said his Memorial Stadium debut Saturday will be "amazing."
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Nebraska’s Marques Buford Jr. tries to bring down North Dakota’s Isaiah Smith during the 2nd half of their game at Memorial Field on Saturday.
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Nebraska’s Trey Palmer celebrates after catching a 31-yard pass during the 2nd half of their game against North Dakota at Memorial Field on Saturday.
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Aurora's Carlos Collazo (2) escapes a tackle by Ashland-Greenwood's Drake Zimmerman (11) during the game on Friday.
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Omaha Gross' fans celebrate a touchdown during the game against Elkhorn on Thursday.
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Nebraska Athletic Director Trev Alberts answers questions about the firing of Head Coach Scott Frost on Sunday.
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Nebraska's Casey Thompson looks for an open receiver before being sacked by Georgia Southern's Anthony Wilson, right, in the second quarter at Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
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Season ticket holders Laura Buchman, left, and her husband Ed Duncklee wait on the start of the Nebraska and Georgia Southern outside of Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
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Georgia Southern's Gerald Green (4) rushes in the Georgia Southern vs. Nebraska football game in Lincoln on Saturday.
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Nebraska's Marques Buford Jr. (1) makes a catch fo an interception in the Georgia Southern vs. Nebraska football game in Lincoln on Saturday.
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A giant American flag hanging between two ladders from Omaha firetrucks is reflected in the sunglasses of Omaha firefighter Bruno Caro during POW/MIA Day at Memorial Park on Friday.
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Dr Rudi Mitchell, left, and Pam WhiteBear participate in a wreath-laying ceremony during POW/MIA Day at Memorial Park on Friday.
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Jim Meier, bottom, watches as Heritage Nursery plants trees at Memorial Park on Friday.
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From left: Nebraska students Blake Johnson Skyler Schwaninger, Isaiah Pomajzl, dress as Teletubbies before the Nebraska and Oklahoma game on Saturday.
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Kurt Bruning stands in one of his fields of dryland corn near Meadow Grove, Nebraska on Thursday. Bruning said normally this time of year, the corn would be taller than him, but the drought has taken its toll.
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Nebraska's Quinton Newsome tackles Oklahoma'sMarvin Mims Jr. ona play in the first quarter on Saturday.
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Kurt Bruning holds two ears of corn from his farm. The one on the left is from irrigated land, the one on the right is from dryland corn. Bruning says because of the drought in Nebraska, his irrigated corn is the size of what would normally be his dryland corn.
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Kurt Bruning stands in one of his fields of dryland corn near Meadow Grove, Nebraska on Thursday. Bruning said normally this time of year, the corn would be taller than him, but the drought has taken its toll.
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Oklahoma's Eric Gray escapes Nebraska's Isaac Gifford to score a touchdown during the first half of their game against Nebraska at Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
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Nebraska’s Madi Kubik celebrates a point during their game against Stanford at Devaney Sports Center on Tuesday.
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Nebraska’s Lindsay Krause blocks the ball during their game against Stanford at Devaney Sports Center on Tuesday.
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Nebraska's Anthony Grant (center) is tackled by Oklahoma's Billy Bowman Jr. (left) and Justin Broiles during the first half of their game at Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
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Nebraska's Anthony Grant jumps over Oklahoma defense during the first half of their game at Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
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Nebraska's Interim Head Coach Mickey Joseph walks out with the team during their game at Oklahoma at Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
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Nebraska's Quinton Newsome (left) commits pass interference on Oklahoma's Theo Wease Jr. during the first half of their game against Nebraska at Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
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Nebraska’s Madi Kubik tips the ball during their game against Stanford at Devaney Sports Center on Tuesday.
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Nebraska's Trey Palmer (3) makes a catch for a touchdown in the Oklahoma vs. Nebraska football game in Lincoln on Saturday.
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Midland University, left, and College of St Mary shake hands before playing on Wednesday.
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The sunrise bathes the morning commute looking east on Dodge Street from 19th Street on Wednesday, September 21, 2022.
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College of St Mary's Jasa Weidel serves the ball against Midland University on Wednesday.
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The sunrise bathes the morning commute looking east on Douglas Street from 19th Street on Wednesday, September 21, 2022.
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People line up alongside a 1931 DeSoto during a preview of Dressing the Abbey, an exhibit with costumes from the TV show 'Downton Abbey', at the Durham Museum on Thursday. The exhibit runs September 24 - January 8.
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Bicyclists ride during a protest of the closing of the Harney Street protected bike lane at Dewey Park in Omaha on Thursday.
The Smokey Fire started about 16 miles southeast of Gering on Tuesday, according to the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency.Â
The 144-year-old university said it had secured $99,775,175 in fundraising commitments during fiscal year 2022.
The city will charge participating fleets and drivers that use curbside loading zones monitored by Automotus' cameras — areas referred to as "smart loading zones." Most of the zones are downtown.
The money Nebraska will receive will fund electric charging stations along the length of I-80 within the state.
Lake Ogallala will be lowered beginning in late September, with re-filling scheduled to start a few weeks later.Â
The Sunday evening get-togethers continue at the Bryant Center until Oct. 9. This coming Sunday, Togolese musician Kusher Snazzy will perform. The Sunday events are free and run from 4Â to 7 p.m.
Spring wildfires. A June frost/freeze. Successive hail storms. Hurricane-strength winds. Unrelenting heat. Weeks and weeks with virtually no rain. All have conspired to set back or decimate crops.
The developer who proposed building an RV park along the Platte River near Valley, Nebraska, has withdrawn his plan.
The Archdiocese of Omaha's gender-identity policies, which sparked blowback and have been paused, adhered to church teachings. A national LGBTQ advocate says it's time for those teachings to change.
Roughly 200 people filled an Omaha conference center Thursday to take in and pitch ideas for $335 million worth of recovery dollars earmarked for underserved areas of the state.
Experts in Nebraska say over-the-counter hearing aids, while they stand to benefit a lot of people, also pose some questions and concerns.
Since expanding Medicaid coverage, the number of Nebraskans without health coverage has plunged, hospitals are feeling less stress on their bottom lines and fewer people are filing for bankruptcy.Â
When Debra McKnight showed up to a Planned Parenthood rally last October wearing a pastor collar, people thought she was wearing a Halloween costume. She wasn't.
Gov. Pete Ricketts celebrated Nebraska's child welfare workers Tuesday while acknowledging that 6 in 10 case workers in the Omaha area have caseloads exceeding state standards.
The Rotella family has purchased the tract of land along the Platte River where a developer had proposed building an RV park.
Officials are investigating a fire that destroyed a well-known gazebo in Omaha's Hanscom Park.
A 69-year-old man died Sunday while in custody at the Douglas County Jail.
A man was pronounced dead at the scene following a shooting early Sunday in downtown Lincoln.
Nebraska's Education Committee launched a study Friday examining the possible creation of a statewide process to award college credit for military education and training.
The Nebraska Soybean Board paid for a soy-based product to be applied on gravel road surrounding the Husker Harvest Days site near Grand Island to keep dust down.
Depending on the outcome of November's elections, there could be enough support in the Nebraska Legislature to do away with the process of electing leadership via secret ballot.Â
A recent survey measuring passengers’ satisfaction with North American airports found Eppley Airfield ranked fifth from the bottom among 18 medium-sized airports.
From mood check-ins to mentorship to new curriculum, Nebraska schools are implementing more social emotional learning this year using the latest round of federal COVID relief money.
Rep. Don Bacon and state Sen. Tony Vargas don't agree on much when it comes to abortion rights. The two men even disagreed on the topic's importance for voters.Â
