Kusi Taki to return for First Night 2010 event

• Goodfellows: Mother seeks to help blind son

  A child’s disability prevents a young mother from working. The 19-year-old woman has two children, ages 2 and 1. The oldest is blind with additional medical complications.

• Push for more students with degrees

  University of Nebraska at Omaha Chancellor John Christensen said two years ago that he wanted UNO to attract more students from Pottawattamie, Harrison and Mills counties.

History awaits Falcons in title game

• Reivers bumped from title hunt

  Three of the top four seeds made it through the opening day of the NJCAA Volleyball Championship unscathed. The one that didn’t was the host team.

• Harlan graduate brings fifth team to national tournament in six seasons

  A return trip to the NJCAA National Tournament meant a homecoming, of sorts, for one of the most successful coaches at the junior college level.

Omaha woman used a forged document to get about $13,000 from OHA

• Warrant issued for the 13-year-old involved in a robbery earlier this year

  The now 13-year-old boy involved in the robbery of the California Bar earlier this year has run away from the court-ordered group home in Lincoln where he was placed.

• Omaha man released from prison Thursday morning helps police apprehend a robbery suspect by Thursday night

  It was about 5:47 p.m. Thursday. Travis Hodge was fresh out of jail and eager for his first cigarette in more than two dozen days.

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• Friday's Your Views: Readers take issue with Grassley

  I’ve been suspicious of Senator Grassley’s alliances during this health care reform debate, worrying that he has been representing the insurance companies and not his constituents. Now there’s an amendment in the health care reform bill that is definitively anti-women, in which reproductive rights are jeopardized. Where will Grassley align himself on this one? I will be watching.