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Five years ago this month, a group of University Place residents banded together and convinced Hy-Vee to keep a store at 48th Street and Leigh…

After a bicycle crash last summer left Jim Unger's body broken, doctor after doctor told him he would not walk again. But Nebraska's first All…

Lincoln’s gentleman cowboy made it to the Tack Room for his birthday again this year, and they had a party for him as always.

A year after reuniting with the mother she lost 20 years ago, Angeline Wleh smiles and laughs about how she once feared America was a place fu…

In 2003, the program now known as Health 360 helped about 300 people get free prescriptions. Last year, it served more than 3,000 people with …

Students, faculty and a legion of Internet fans know Tom Winter as the skateboarding professor. He has taught classics and religious studies a…

Paul surprised Barb with a 50th birthday party. So on April 12, 2003, Barb surprised Paul with a wedding — their wedding, in their backyard.

Kathryn Slattery made news then as the first patient in Nebraska to undergo the dual transplant, and her doctors said the surgery went amazing…

Frank Neumayer tells his story from a blue recliner at the Dialysis Center of Lincoln, where he comes three times a week for life, tubes runni…

In 2008, reporter Lori Pilger and photojournalists Eric Gregory and Heidi Hoffman followed Lincoln Fire & Rescue recruits during their 14 …

Trash bins can be treasure troves, Jim Null discovered while visiting his wife, Elaine, in the Lincoln law office of former Gov. Charles Thone.

Nebraska voters approved a constitutional amendment in 1992 authorizing the lottery. It opened for business Sept. 11, 1993, with scratch-ticke…

Of all the days he worked construction last summer, Nicholas Schreiner is still surprised July 12 was the day a car hit him.

He played soccer at recess, in the backyard, in the church parking lot with boys from the neighborhood, at night, on weekends, whenever he could.

The details are blurry, but Isaac Durr remembers staring down the barrel of a semi-automatic handgun that hot July day last year.

It was nearly five years ago that executives from the Big Three automakers flew private jets to a congressional hearing on a possible governme…

The Arbor Day Foundation was planted at the celebration of the Arbor Day centennial four decades ago. It now has 800,000 members: bigger than …

The person known as Ev Evnen is well-spoken/complex/Midwestern/East Coast/genuine/upbeat/ activist/Jewish/compassionate/single/well-educated/f…

At age 5, Tu Tran seemed an unlikely candidate to become a police officer in a Midwestern college town.

Alex and Charlie, the youngest of your four. The mother who lost you in 1998 — you kept running, so many times before and after — has adopted …

On Saturday, 13 clients of the mission who died this year were remembered by friends for their humor, kindness and their dreams beyond the fringes.

Twenty years ago, reporter Nancy Hicks wrote about Dan Cuda while he was on the "waiting list of a lifetime," awaiting a kidney transplant.

The family gathered for a July 4 celebration heard the explosion first. And then they heard the yelling. Lauren Campbell, 14, had been hit wit…

In the 1960s and '70s, schoolteacher and pilot Evelyn Sedivy soared through Nebraska skies as one of the few Lincoln women with a private, com…

The charred rubble of the Syracuse United Methodist Church hasn't been hauled away yet, bit the congregation isn't waiting.

Not much remains of the former Tastee Inn & Out on North 48th Street: A closed sign in the window, tables and chairs in the dining room an…

Her father didn’t talk much about his war experiences. “That’s hard to recover from," Paige Namuth says. But he took pictures. Black and white…

Juan Du Goracke became an American citizen last June, joining about 58 others in a ceremony at the Homestead National Monument of America near…

Mya Jocelyn Sears squeezed onto the scene at the turn of the century — a 3:07 a.m., Jan. 1, 2000, delivery.  

51����Ƶ first wrote about Logan Lueking in 2003, when the then-East High School junior was named a recipient of the newspaper…

Duane Acklie and Bob Duncan took a nod from up the road in 1984, founding Leadership Lincoln based on a similar group in Omaha.

In 1961, a pair of B-47 bombers flying training missions out of Kansas crashed in the woods of northern Wisconsin. Decades later, a group of v…

A few months ago, Margaret Buckendorf, then 97, told her daughters she wanted to learn to swim.

This is what she remembers about Rex:

BRUNO -- Mike Ostry misses rising before the sun to get a head start on the day’s work. He misses riding his 1970s-era International Harvester…

In her 35 years working at Open Harvest Co-Op Grocery, Margot Conrad has never seen a time more important to educate consumers in Lincoln abou…

Adam Hintz wants to care for Wilderness Park like a grandson would take care of his grandmother.

The headline was wrong, but it’s not too late to set straight a long-ago Journal Star story -- “Snow tot will always have a story to tell.”