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Our best Omaha staff photos & videos of April 2024
Students at Hillside Elementary School uses glasses to view the partial eclipse in Omaha on Monday, April 8, 2024.
Raindrops collect on a tulip that is about to bloom at the Dundee Community Garden near 49th and Underwood Avenue in Omaha on Monday, April 1, 2024.
Omaha police on the scene of a fatal crash on the I80 westbound ramp from I480 south in Omaha on early Wednesday, April 3, 2024. The crash is being investigated as an in-custody death since police were trying to pull the vehicle over.
Malachi Coleman (15) makes a catch during a Nebraska football spring practice at the Hawks Championship Center in Lincoln on Tuesday, April 9, 2024.
Nidhi Agarwal, of Omaha, watches the moon pass between the sun and Earth with her children Aarohi, 9, and Taksh, 7, during a solar eclipse viewing party outside the Kiewit Luminarium in Omaha on Monday, April 8. Omaha experienced about 80% totality.
Nebraska's Rhett Stokes (9) avoids a tag by Creighton's Will MacLean (17) at first base on Tuesday at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha.
Nebraska's Garrett Anglim (18) and other Husker warm up ahead of the Nebraska vs. Creighton baseball game at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha on Tuesday, April 2, 2024.
Nebraska's Dylan Rogers (52) runs a drill during practice at the Hawks Center in Lincoln on Tuesday, April 16, 2024.
From left: Nebraska's Daniel Kaelin (12), Luke Longval (19), Jack Woche (17) watch Dylan Raiola (15) throw a pass to Barret Liebentritt (34) during practice at the Hawks Center in Lincoln on Tuesday, April 16, 2024.
Nebraska wide receivers coach Garret McGuire, left, watches as Isaiah Neyor (18) runs a drill during practice at the Hawks Center in Lincoln on Tuesday, April 16, 2024.
Nebraska's Joshua Overbeek (4) looks to an official as he tags Maryland's Sam Hojnar (9) out at third base in the fourth inning of the Maryland vs. Nebraska college baseball game at Haymarket Park in Lincoln on Friday, April 19, 2024.
Drew Clemons, 23, of Omaha, skateboards at the Gene Leahy Mall in Omaha on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Temperatures were in the mid-60s Wednesday evening, with rain showers expected overnight.
Siblings Luca, 2, and Ezi Sanchez, 4, of Sioux City, Iowa, roll down a turf grass hill at the Gene Leahy Mall in Omaha on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Temperatures were in the mid-60s Wednesday evening, with rain showers expected overnight.
Abbey Schwarz, a junior marketing and entrepreneurship major, pets a goat during a 'Floats and Goats' fundraiser hosted by the FarmHouse Fraternity on the campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Thursday, April 11, 2024. The second-annual event featuring baby goats and root beer floats was to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Linda Kolhof, 66, looks over severe storm damage outside her home near 32nd Street and Avenue K in Council Bluffs on Friday, April 26, 2024.
Justin and Amanda Putnam's bedroom is blown out after a severe storm damaged their neighborhood near 32nd Street and Avenue K in Council Bluffs on Friday, April 26, 2024.
A tornado is seen on the ground near north of Waverly, Neb. on Friday, April 26, 2024.
A tornado damaged houses near 212th Street and Fowler Ave in Omaha on Friday, April 26, 2024.
Jon Alexander, bottom left, walks back to his house at Sycamore Farms in Waterloo on Saturday, April 27, 2024. A tornado damaged the roof and trees on the property.
A Friday tornado damaged the Uleman near 216th and Maple Streets in Omaha, photographed on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Aubrey Attanasio, 12, bottle feeds a calf as her dad, Tony Attanasio, of Persia, Iowa, clears a broken cattle fence as they and other friends, family and coworkers help clean up the damage on Jared and Tory Crozier's property after a tornado ripped through Minden, Iowa on Friday evening. Photographed about a mile south of Minden on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
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