*Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. McCook, Nebraska, had a wide, brick-paved main street in November 1950. THE WORLD-HERALD Like anything you see? Email ...

Ken Oerter still remembers the day he fell ill with the mysterious sickness that was rampaging across the country, killing children and forcing families to isolate in their homes. Nurses at Douglas ...

After 68 years, the 1950 Tufts baseball team — participants in the College World Series (CWS) in Omaha, Neb. that June — will be immortalized. The team will be part of the inaugural class inducted ...

A woman who accompanied her older boyfriend during a string of killings in Nebraska and Wyoming more than 60 years ago is seeking an official pardon. Caril Anne Fugate was 14 years old at the time and ...

John Ewing Sr. and his wife, DeLores, grew up in 1940s and 1950s Omaha, at a time Black Omahans saw their economic opportunities restricted by redlining and job discrimination and when the Jim Crow ...