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Former Miami baseball coach Ron Fraser dies
Ron Fraser coached the national teams from two different countries, is a member of 10 different Halls of Fame, won two NCAA baseball championships and ...
No. 8 Gonzaga, No. 13 Butler ready to square off
Gonzaga served as the model program for college basketball's non-power conference schools for more than decade. Butler took that blueprint, revised ...
Creighton's Josh Jones: Giving up basketball hurts
As hard as it is for Creighton's Josh Jones to give up basketball, he says it's not worth risking his life to keep playing. Doctors advised Jones to ...
ConAgra buying Ralcorp for about $5 billion
ConAgra Foods is buying the private-label food maker Ralcorp for about $5 billion, which will make it North America's biggest manufacturer of cereals, ...
Trial in 1977 killing asks: Were suspects framed?
Two black men wrongly convicted in the 1977 murder of a white Iowa police officer hope to prove something they couldn't during trials that sent them ...
Kerrey struggling in Nebraska Senate race
Democrats hoped Nebraska's Senate race would be the story of Bob Kerrey's political revival. Instead, the emergence of Republican Deb Fischer, a ...
Buffett says US economy still inching ahead
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Wednesday that the global economy is definitely slowing because of continued problems in Europe and the ...
Union Pacific 3Q profit up 15 pct. on price hikes
Union Pacific said Thursday that its third-quarter profit climbed 15 percent because price increases and more automotive and chemical shipments helped ...
Buffett's kids use dad's ideas to invest in giving
As they work to give away part of Warren Buffett's roughly $47 billion fortune, his three children have adopted an approach that looks remarkably ...
To anxious Huskers fans, it's championship or bust
Eric Otte was killing time shelling corn in the back of his red pickup during a break from work on a warm afternoon this week when a buddy who owns ...
'Rancher' has pros, cons for Fischer's Senate run
With roughly 35 million head of cattle grazing on nearly half the state's land, ranching retains an iconic status in Nebraska. So it's no surprise ...
Neb., SD wildfires grow with help of strong wind
Wildfires in northwestern Nebraska tripled in size in less than 24 hours, as strong winds pushed flames through the rugged, rural terrain. More than ...
Buffett's firm relying less on insurance units
Warren Buffett's birthday this week was good news for Berkshire Hathaway investors who could celebrate another year of the Oracle of Omaha's ...
Buffett ups remaining gift to his kids' charities
Warren Buffett is celebrating his 82nd birthday by giving each of his three children a big present: about $600 million worth of his company's stock ...
Buffett, near 82, reflects on staying in Nebraska
Omaha won't throw a bash for Warren Buffett's 82nd birthday on Thursday, and that's just fine with the billionaire investor. The decidedly low-key ...