Check out Mike Patterson's latest rankings for Nebraska high school girls basketball. * * * 1. Millard West, 9-1, 2 2. Bellevue East, 6-2, 3 3. Lincoln Pius X, 10-1, 4 4. Omaha Skutt, 11-1, 1 5.

Winning the Metro Conference holiday tournament hasn't necessarily led to a Class A championship. But Millard West did complete that sweep last season, and coach Marc Kruger's team wants to ...

Cult folk musician Ed Askew died on Saturday, Jan. 4. News of his death was confirmed on Instagram by his collaborator Jay Pluck, and no cause of death was revealed.

The world's oldest person is now 116-year-old Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, who was born 16 days after Tomiko Itooka.