Top Journal Star photos for December

“The Alden proposal grossly undervalues Lee and fails to recognize the strength of our business today, as the fastest-growing digital subscription platform in local media, and our compelling future prospects,” Lee Chairman Mary Junck said.

“Dewitty is a story about what’s possible here,” said Mikal Eckstrom, a professor at UNL’s Great Plains Studies who has studied the settlement.

The homesteaders had it rough, Nebraska historians say, and their experience leads us to one question they must have asked themselves a thousand times: What am I doing here?

The hedge fund's suit accuses Lee’s board of improperly denying shareholders the chance to have a say on the offer.

When the Chiefs were up at the end of the fourth quarter and Dak Prescott threw the interception, Springfield's Nate Colgrove realized that he had won big. “I grabbed my son, he's 9 and about 120 pounds, but I threw him up in the air.” 

Nebraska experts say that new regulations allowing people to text as well as call a new "988" number for the suicide prevention hotline will benefit many different groups.

The Alvo Village Board voted earlier this month to certify that a sufficient number of signatures had been gathered to force a recall election of two of its members.

Using a plant-based and biodegradable form of plastic is as much about improving the environment as it is making marketable products, including sunglasses, bowls, guitar picks and more.

Highlights of the contract include a clear path to regular full-time employment, no permanent two-tiered system, maintenance of cost of living raises and no cereal production plant shutdowns through October 2026.

Gering graduate Paul Ruff, who is deaf, says he didn't have a "fair opportunity to win" because officials failed to accommodate his disability at the state wrestling championship in February.

A float paying homage to Mutual of Omaha’s “Wild Kingdom” received some recognition Saturday in Pasadena, California. 

Linda Garey's grandson thought it would be fun to include a scratch ticket in the gifts at the family's holiday celebration, but that Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer scratch ticket was no laughing matter.