Alex Gordon drives in two runs and Zach Kroenke is solid in six-plus innings this afternoon as Nebraska opens Big 12 play with a 3-2 victory over Kansas.

A woman who tied yellow ribbons around utility poles in West Branch, Iowa, to welcome a soldier returning home from Iraq is upset with the National Park Service, which declared the ribbons a political statement and had them taken down.

Workers prepare to remove the old railcar that has been outside the Spaghetti Works restaurant since the mid-'70s. Spaghetti Works President Shelly Stokes said the car was purchased by Virgil Anderson of Anderson Excavating Co. of Omaha.

When the greatest compliment you can pay a film is that its actors are exactly like cartoon characters, you're not talking about great cinema. Still, "Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed" is exactly what you'd expect. (You can take that as a rave review or a vicious slam.) Director Raja Gosnell and screenwriter James Gunn have taken the first live-action Scooby-Doo film and essentially replicated it.

		The Senate voted Thursday to make it a separate crime to harm a fetus during the commission of a violent federal crime, a victory for those seeking to expand the legal rights of the unborn. Do you agree with the vote?
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