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The Daily Minute is the Journal Star's morning news briefing where you can get the latest news in about a minute each weekday. Previous Daily Minute videos are archived here . Good morning, Lincoln.
Here’s what you should know today. Measles fears As the ongoing measles outbreak continues to spread across the country, infecting hundreds of children, state officials say the dangerous disease will likely cross Nebraska state lines soon. The highly contagious virus most commonly seen in children has been spreading across the country in recent months, stemming from an outbreak in northwestern Texas and taking the lives of three people.
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Gov. Jim Pillen, along with officials from the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, emphasized on Friday the importance of making sure vaccinations are up to date. Regents remove DEI The University of Nebraska Board of Regents has removed references to race and diversity in its policies and bylaws in an effort to comply with a directive issued by the Trump administration earlier this year.
Regents approved the changes at their meeting on Friday over the objection of faculty and students, who urged the board to resist “over-complying” with the new federal guidelines, which they said did not carry the weight of law. Board members acknowledged they felt they had little choice but to comply. Journal Star Super-State The Journal Star's high school basketball players of the year are Molly Ladwig of Omaha Skutt and Bryson Bahl of Papillion-La Vista South.
Ladwig captains the first-team Super-State after leading the SkyHawks to their first-ever girls basketball championship last month. Ladwig averaged 18.8 points per game.
She will play at Buffalo next season. Bahl was at his best when it mattered most for the Titans , averaging 29 points in the team's three state tournament game wins. Bahl, who is also the Nebraska Gatorade boys player of the year, will play at Drake next year.
That’s it for Monday, April 14. Stay in the know with Lincoln’s longest-standing news source at JournalStar.com and we will see you back here on Monday.
Top Journal Star photos for April 2025 Cows graze in the fields below as Sandhill Cranes take flight at sunrise along the Platte River on Sunday, April 6, 2025, in Kearney. The Cranes eat corn from the grain fields and then sleep on the sandbars. The largest congregation of sandhill cranes occurs from February to early April along the Platte River in Nebraska.
Gretna East senior Sonora DeFini scores against Lincoln Southwest with a header during a high school soccer game on Monday, April 7, 2025, at Beechner Athletic Complex. Halsey, a Great Horned Owl, looks through a kaleidoscope of mirrors on display on Saturday, April 5, 2025, at Indian Center Inc in Lincoln. Lincoln Southwest's Sole Jones (center) competes against other athletes in heat one of the girls 400m during a track and field invitational at Union Bank Stadium on Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Lincoln.
A bee covered in pollen buzzes from flower to flower on Sunday, April 6, 2025, at the Sunken Gardens in Lincoln. Jarrek Renshaw, a lead mechanic, works on an engine in a testing area at Duncan Aviation on Wednesday. Duncan is expanding its engine overhaul facility, which will allow it to test engines for Canadian aerospace manufacturer Pratt & Whitney.
University of Kansas students Remi Ward (left) and Jess Judd test out their concrete canoe Friday at Holmes Lake. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering hosted a competition in which college students from across the region used their own concrete mixes to design and build canoes -- some more than 20 feet long and weighing more than 300 pounds. The canoes were tested for buoyancy and raced at Holmes Lakes.
The event was part of the American Society of Civil Engineers' Mid-America Student Symposium hosted by UNL from Thursday through Saturday. Rutgers’ Yomar Carreras (left) slides into home as Nebraska’s Will Jesske tags him out on Sunday at Haymarket Park. An early voter drops off her ballot at a drop box at the Lancaster County Election Commission Office, 601 N.
46th St., on Friday in Lincoln. The primary election is Tuesday.
Sandhill Cranes excitedly dance with one another as they begin to stir along the sandbars on the Platte River the morning of Sunday, April 6, 2025, in Kearney. Hundreds of thousands of Sandhill Cranes have been converging on the Platte Basin for their annual migration to their northern breeding grounds. Every spring, as sandhill cranes are migrating to their breeding grounds, cranes without partners will start pairing up.
During this time, the cranes perform dancing displays. Although the dancing is most common in the breeding season, the cranes can dance all year long. Sometimes the dance involves wing-flapping, bowing, and jumping.
Nebraska defensive line coach Terry Bradden talks to players during a team practice on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, at Hawks Championship Center. Jacob Huebert, president of the Liberty Justice Center, argues at the Nebraska Supreme Court in a case over the city's ban on guns in public places on Thursday, April 3, 2025, at the Capitol. Gov.
Jim Pillen (right) greets World War II veterans Clare Sward (from left) and Jay Cawley on Tuesday in Lincoln. Lincoln Pius X's Tatum Heimes (from left) and Ana Patera look on as Gretna East's Lily Frederick (far right) celebrates a goal with teammate Madi Shelburne during a high school soccer game on Monday, March 31, 2025, in Lincoln. Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox!.
