New stadium name: TD Ameritrade Park Omaha

TD Ameritrade's $20 million interest in local baseball gives it the right to call Omaha's new downtown ballpark by its name: TD Ameritrade Park Omaha.

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Is Obama-Terry the winning ticket in Omaha?

OMAHA, Nebraska - It’s 10 o’clock the Saturday morning before Election Day. At the Obama field office in a strip mall in Omaha, Neb., Obama regional field director Charlie Ellsworth is teaching 16 Obama supporters how to do door-to-door canvassing.

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NCAA's CWS in Omaha extended 25 years

The NCAA will keep the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., through 2035 under an unprecedented 25-year contract extension.

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Phelps swims world's fastest 100 butterfly of year

Michael Phelps swam the world's fastest 100-meter butterfly of the year Friday night, and he thought he could have done even better.

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Nebraska, Maine electoral vote split creates opening

WASHINGTON - On election night in the last two presidential elections political junkies have been obsessed with Wisconsin, Iowa, New Mexico, Ohio, and Florida.

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Deal will keep College World Series in Omaha past 2010

The city of Omaha and the NCAA have agreed in principle to a new contract that keeps the College World Series in Omaha past 2010.

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Meet the New Fab Five, K-State Edition

Michael Beasley vs. O.J. Mayo? Hardly. The expected showdown between the two super freshmen was a mere sideshow in Kansas State's upset of USC to start the NCAA tournament. Sure, Beasley had his usual big game for the Wildcats with 23 points and 11 rebounds, while Mayo managed 20 points for the Trojans.

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Lawmakers Votes to Divide Omaha Schools

The Legislature voted Thursday to divide the Omaha Public Schools into three districts, a move that detractors said amounted to state-supported segregation.

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OMAHA, Neb. -- The city of Omaha said a radio station's plans to hang bras over the city's busiest street to raise awareness for breast cancer might cause mass distraction and crashes.

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A west Omaha couple says their 8-year-old son has asked for years to wear dresses and change his name, so they're enrolling him in a new school where he can live openly as a girl.

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Losing $1.53B is most likely tied to quantum physics or Kevin Bacon's Six Degrees of Separation. How you lose that much money? By letting other people with no scruples manage it. I had a newspaper route as a kid, too. The difference is that I both managed AND collected.

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Excerpt: It's been a hair-raising year for Eric Hahn.

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A server error at an online poker room folded one player´s cards during a hand with $200,000 as prize money.

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...Shanae Starks said she's been under attack for weeks. "I thought, 'Oh, this could cost me my life,'" ... She said someone created a phony MySpace page that appears to be hers. "It's not my page, but that's my face," she said.

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For the first time ever, a blue circle will appear in Nebraska on national electoral maps. Democrat Barack Obama won the Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District on Friday, scooping up one of the state's five electoral votes.

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In my ongoing quest to cover the unmitigated train wreck that is the Nebraska safe haven law, a 15 year-old Omaha girl has been left at an Omaha hospital following a "big argument." If any good is going to come out of this whole experience, hopefully it will teach lawmakers that …

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Lately, we've seen a lot of press about Obama making inroads in traditionally Republican areas, perhaps none more intriguingly than Nebraska's second congressional district, comprised of Omaha and its suburbs.

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"Frustrated parents are dumping their teenagers at Nebraska hospitals -- even crossing state lines to do it -- and the state Legislature has scheduled a special hearing to try to stem the tide.

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McCain is slipping and seems unable to recapture the initiative. So what does he do? He starts flicking old switches, using tactics and strategies that once worked, but are now worn out.

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'Obamaha' Why is Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin expected to campaign in Omaha, Nebraska, Sunday night?

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Voters march to Douglas County Election Commission to vote for Obama.

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A jury in Omaha, Nebraska, ruled in favour of Keith Andrew, a police officer in the small town of Sidney in the west of the state.

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A single mother said she is at her wits' end with her children's behavior, so she's making them hold signs at a busy intersection as punishment, reported television station KETV in Omaha.

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A 55-year-old Omaha man performed a tracheatomy on himself with a steak knife, not once...but TWICE. Next, he may be applying to a Nebraska medical school, claiming he is self-taught, anyway. That last bit was satire, but the article is not.

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Acting greats Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda have Omaha streets named in their honor. So does slain civil rights leader Malcolm X. Commemorative street signs also bear the names of more than a few neighborhood activists.

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'American Idol' Found 19 Golden Auditions in Omaha

For years I've heard that you've got to watch the audition phase of American Idol, that it was the best part of the show. Either I've been misled or Idol is losing its touch.

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Anti-gaming crusader Jack Thompson is at it again.

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Here we go again. Someone tell me why, with nearly 3,000 articles written worldwide within 48 hours following the tragic slaughter at the Omaha, Neb.

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Bellevue, Neb., police arrested a friend of the man who killed eight people at a mall after the man allegedly threatened someone who spoke ill of the shooter.

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A 3-year-old Lincoln boy wandered away from his home in the middle of the night and was rescued by a Level 3 sex offender...

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A less-than-subtle (he rang the doorbell) would-be thief at the Buffetts' house in Omaha is foiled by the security guard, hits the guard over the head, and runs away.

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