NEWARK AIRPORT. 50 YEARS AGO TODAY, OMAHA EXPERIENCED ONE OF THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE STORMS. IT WAS THE 1975 TORNADO. AT ONE TIME, IT WAS THE COSTLIEST IN OUR COUNTRY’S HISTORY. KETV NEWSWATCH SEVEN’S ...
The Westgate neighborhood will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the May 6, 1975, Omaha tornado with a program at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Pipal Park. Westgate Elementary School was among the many ...
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - 50 years ago on this day, a devastating tornado hit Omaha. At the time, it was the most destructive twister in U.S. history. The E-F four tornado killed three people, injured 130 ...
It’s Omaha’s touchstone moment. Like Pearl Harbor or 9/11, Omahans of certain age remember where they were when an EF-4 tornado struck the heart of the city in 1975. It traveled nine miles south to ...
One person was hospitalized after a shooting near 69th and Dodge Streets early Saturday, according to authorities. Omaha police were contacted after a child brought a loaded handgun to daycare for ...
Authorities served nine warrants Thursday in South Omaha and Bellevue as part of a joint investigation into labor trafficking in the area. In an open letter to two Douglas County commissioners, ...
May 6, 1975, was before modern radar, before television stations had the capability to show radar, before those stations had cameras placed around the city to be able to live-track a storm as they did ...