LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A civil liberties group is asking a judge to order Nebraska to recognize same-sex marriages while the group's legal challenge to the state's gay marriage ban is pending.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The ACLU of Nebraska wants a judge to bar a prison inmate and his transgender fiancee from joining the ACLU's legal challenge to the state ban on same-sex marriage.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ Citing recent rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court, a civil liberties group will again challenge Nebraska's ban on same-sex marriage.

OMAHA, Neb. — A federal appeals court on Thursday allowed Nebraska's ban on gay marriage to stay in place, blocking a federal judge's order for the state to begin recognizing gay marriages and civil unions.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The attorney for an Omaha man accused of stealing a gay pride flag and burning it says his client's actions don't add up to a hate crime.

OMAHA (AP) — Attorneys on both sides of the legal fight over Nebraska's gay marriage ban have submitted their final written arguments on a motion requesting that the ban be immediately lifted.

The Food and Drug Administration is banning imports of some fresh cilantro from Puebla, Mexico, after a government investigation found human feces and toilet paper in growing fields there.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday blocked Nebraska's gay marriage ban, but the decision will not take effect for a week and the state plans to appeal.

A federal judge won't delay a lawsuit challenging Nebraska's gay marriage ban while the U.S. Supreme Court is considering the issue for the country.

The police shot an LGBT protester in California, and a Nebraska high school shut down its newspaper for publishing LGBT stories.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A federal judge will be asked Thursday to tell the state of Nebraska that it immediately must recognize same-sex marriages while a lawsuit challenging the state's gay marriage ban proceeds.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis has lost her latest effort to stall issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, one of a fast-growing collection of rejected appeals.

LINCOLN (AP) — Investigators are working to determine what caused a fire that heavily damaged a Lincoln bar and knocked out power in the surrounding area.

A deejay has been charged with a hate crime after police say he assaulted a transgender woman at an Omaha bar.

Michele Bachmann has made it clear. Same-sex marriage will bring on mass destruction and the rapture, while US foreign policy in the Middle East will merely bring on catastrophic floods.

LINCOLN, Neb. - A Nebraska senator is seeking legal protections for faith-based welfare agencies that refuse to provide services to same-sex couples.

Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh, of Nebraska, promised to make her colleagues’ job painful this year if they insisted on moving forward on an anti-trans bill that would outlaw gender-affirming therapies for those under the age of 19. 

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- The Nebraska attorney general's office is objecting to a new effort by a civil liberties group to have both same-sex spouses listed as parents on their children's birth certificates.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers introduced three bills Wednesday that would ban discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents, but even supporters noted they face a tough fight in gaining approval for the proposals.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Seven same-sex Nebraska couples have filed a lawsuit to have their marriages recognized.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A bill that would bar Nebraska employers from discriminating based on sexual orientation and gender identity has stalled in the Legislature.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A bill to ban workplace discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered Nebraskans will move to the full Legislature as initially planned.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Three same sex couples can go ahead with their lawsuit challenging a Nebraska policy preventing them and all unmarried couples from serving as foster parents, a judge ruled.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ As state bans on same-sex marriages fall across the country, some Nebraska officials are holding strong to that state's status of having one of the nation's most restrictive laws, which affects some of the most basic aspects of gay couples' lives _ from driver's licenses to parenting rights.

(LA Blade) For 54 years the Northwest High School student-run newspaper, the Saga, had kept the generations of students who attended informed, entertained, and engaged in their school and its activities.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska's defunct same-sex marriage ban could once again go before voters under a measure in the Legislature that seeks to remove it from the state constitution.

The same sex-couples challenging Nebraska's ban on gay marriage hope a federal judge will block it, but that won't be the end of the fight because the state has promised to appeal.

The South Florida AIDS Network (SFAN) functions as the networking/advisory body for the Ryan White Care (RWC), Part B grant in Broward County. Its monthly meetings are open to the public.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska welfare officials have been placing foster children in the homes of gay, lesbian and unmarried couples since before Gov. Pete Ricketts took office in January, despite a 1995 policy barring the state from doing so, the governor's spokesman said Monday.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services says it will begin listing the names of both same-sex spouses on their children's birth certificates.