Новости за 31.05.2023

Regents did not discuss the proposed amendment to their bylaws at a special meeting on Wednesday. The board will take it up for consideration at the June 22 meeting.

Administrators will propose raising tuition rates by 3.5% in the coming school year at the regents' June 22 meeting as they begin planning how to close the remaining budget deficit.

During their high school days, Bahl led Papillion-La Vista to state titles in Class A while Meylan did the same for Omaha Skutt in B.

Nebraska football has learned the kickoff times for some of its rivalry games, including: Minnesota, Colorado, Iowa and more.

Summer visitors to the Arnolds Park attraction can expect to see ride improvements, a new performance venue, a beer garden and plenty more.

NONFICTION: A biography of perhaps the most famous war correspondent of all time. "The Soldier's Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II" by David Chrisinger; Penguin Press (400 pages, $30) ——— My father lived through World War…

Seven books — fiction, nonfiction and a graphic novel — that cue the waterworks. It's easy for a book to produce a tear or two from me, but I can only recall a couple that led to full-on heaving and…

CHICAGO — In the first nine days that Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah was on tour this month for his novel, “Chain-Gang All-Stars,” 23 mass shootings occurred in this country. More than 30 people were killed. Many more were injured. That’s according…

NONFICTION: Tracing the events that culminated in a 60-year-old murder. "Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night" by Lisa Belkin; W.W. Norton (402 pages, $29.95) ——— A doctor, a convict and a cop. Even though a…

Books in brief "Master Slave Husband Wife" by Ilyon Woo; Simon & Schuster (416 pages, $29.99) ——— If anything, Ilyon Woo's subtitle, "An Epic Journey From Slavery to Freedom," undersells her spellbinding book of nonfiction. It's the story of Ellen…

Don't Miss "We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death and Child Removal in America" by Roxanna Asgarian; Farrar, Straus and Giroux (297 pages, $28) ——— Roxanna Asgarian's shattering book is classified as "true crime" but it's less…

Earlier this year, legendary costumer Ruth E. Carter made history as the first Black woman to take home two Academy Awards. Her win for 2018's "Black Panther" was the first in costuming for a Black person and the first Oscar…

FICTION: In Ore Agbaje-Williams' bitterly funny novel, a friend disrupts a volatile marriage. "The Three of Us" by Ore Agbaje-Williams; G.P. Putnam's Sons (192 pages, $26) ——— As a teenager, few works hit me like Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of…

FICTION: Luis Alberto Urrea's captivating novel dives into adventures of female volunteers in World War II. "Good Night, Irene" by Luis Alberto Urrea; Little, Brown (416 pages, $29) ——— In the musical "Hamilton," George Washington croons to aide-de-camp Alexander Hamilton,…

Well, yes, you could go do outdoorsy things this summer. Or you could read. Here are six new books that are good summer reads. Wishing you a season full of good books! "The Guest" By Emma Cline (Random House, $28)…

FICTION: Emma Törzs' "Ink Blood Sister Scribe" is "enthralling." "Ink Blood Sister Scribe" by Emma Törzs; William Morrow (416 pages, $30) ——— If Olivie Blake's "The Atlas Six" seduced you with its library of ancient secrets, if you swooned over…

The Plot Thickens John Banville, the Booker Prize-winning author of "The Sea" and numerous other acclaimed novels, has a pretty great side hustle: He writes crime fiction, presumably in his spare time, set in 1950s Dublin and featuring a troubled,…

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