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1 month ago | 
journalstar.com | Destiny Herbers |Jeremy Turley
Balloons in his favorite colors — black, blue and white — drifted up from the courtyard at Underwood Tower. His family and a group of his neighbors gathered to release the balloons into a clear August sky. “Holla, holla!” they called out to each other. His birth certificate read Pedtro Chappell. Family called him Pete. Friends knew him as “Holla” — for his catchphrase “I’ll holla at ya later.”An older brother to six siblings, Pete grew up babysitting when his mom was at work.
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2 months ago | 
apnews.com | Destiny Herbers |Jeremy Turley
Balloons in his favorite colors — black, blue and white — drifted up from the courtyard at Underwood Tower. His family, wearing matching T-shirts made for the occasion, and a group of his old neighbors gathered in the scorching heat to release the balloons into a clear August sky. “Holla, holla!” they called out to each other. His birth certificate read Pedtro Chappell, but nobody called him that. Family knew him as Pete.
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2 months ago | 
plaindealerin.com | Destiny Herbers |Jeremy Turley
Balloons in his favorite colors — black, blue and white — drifted up from the courtyard at Underwood Tower. His family, wearing matching T-shirts made for the occasion, and a group of his old neighbors gathered in the scorching heat to release the balloons into a clear August sky.
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2 months ago | 
standard-journal.com | Destiny Herbers |Jeremy Turley
Balloons in his favorite colors — black, blue and white — drifted up from the courtyard at Underwood Tower. His family, wearing matching T-shirts made for the occasion, and a group of his old neighbors gathered in the scorching heat to release the balloons into a clear August sky.
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2 months ago | 
nebraskapublicmedia.org | Destiny Herbers |Jeremy Turley
But those disparities in autopsy rate also reflect the differing philosophies county attorneys bring to their coroner duties. Lancaster County Attorney Patrick Condon said his autopsy ordering decisions often hinge on whether criminal charges could be involved, letting his intuition as a longtime prosecutor and the perspective of first responders guide him.
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2 months ago | 
northeast.newschannelnebraska.com | Destiny Herbers |Jeremy Turley
Balloons in his favorite colors — black, blue and white — drifted up from the courtyard at Underwood Tower. His family, wearing matching T-shirts made for the occasion, and a group of his old neighbors gathered in the scorching heat to release the balloons into a clear August sky. “Holla, holla!” they called out to each other. His birth certificate read Pedtro Chappell, but nobody called him that. Family knew him as Pete.
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2 months ago | 
flatwaterfreepress.org | Destiny Herbers |Jeremy Turley
Balloons in his favorite colors — black, blue and white — drifted up from the courtyard at Underwood Tower. His family, wearing matching T-shirts made for the occasion, and a group of his old neighbors gathered in the scorching heat to release the balloons into a clear August sky. “Holla, holla!” they called out to each other. His birth certificate read Pedtro Chappell, but nobody called him that. Family knew him as Pete.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
flatwaterfreepress.org | Destiny Herbers
On Jeff Kutash’s first day as executive director of the Peter Kiewit Foundation, a board member invited him to an event at Lauritzen Gardens, saying he would meet everyone that mattered in Omaha. As he mingled, Kutash sensed something was off. Then he realized why: Every person he met appeared to be white, except for the people serving food. Where he had previously worked in Oakland, California, Kutash felt like the leaders he rubbed elbows with generally resembled the city’s residents.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
journalstar.com | Destiny Herbers
Alonzo Denney sets his phone on the conference table, pulls up a family photo and starts counting. There are 11 living relatives, including him, now sharing ownership of 80 acres along the Bazile Creek in Knox County, land originally allotted to their ancestor by the federal government. Then Denney does some quick math. He might, he says, be paid around $25,000 if this land, now mostly flooded and unusable, was placed into a flowage easement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Destiny Herbers
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There’s a map tacked up on the wall in Kameron Runnels’ office showing who owns what pieces of the Santee Sioux reservation. Six of the squares, big chunks of land, are labeled “school land.” Runnels, the tribe’s vice chairman, said he always wondered what exactly that meant. The tribe pays the state almost $65,500 per year to rent and farm two of those squares, even though they’re within reservation boundaries.
