PILGER (AP) — As two giant tornadoes bore down on this tiny farming town in northeast Nebraska, Trey Wisniewski heard the storm sirens, glanced out at the blackening sky and rushed with his wife into ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - In just 81 seconds on the afternoon of June 16, 2014, residents of Pilger, Nebraska had their lives changed forever. During a massive storm that spawned several tornadoes in the ...

PILGER, Neb. — A former village clerk who was praised for her work in helping rebuild her northeast Nebraska community after a 2014 tornado strike has been accused of theft. Kimberly Neiman, 57, was ...

One year ago, Pilger, Nebraska, fell silent — the calm before the storm. The silence was interrupted when sirens sounded to warn the town of an impending tornado. Standing in the Midwest Bank building ...

PILGER | This is Deanna Meyer’s home. Forget that she lives in Omaha now, or that the house she grew up in is 6 miles south of here. This street, North Cuming, is where her father has lived since he ...

SIOUX CITY | Even after a decade of chasing storms, Brent Koops was surprised by the ferocity of tornadoes and severe thunderstorms that hammered the Midwest this week. Koops, of Orange City, Iowa, ...

Danika Alexander, a 9-year-old from Pilger, gets her face painted at the community carnival Saturday. A year later, and work remains. B M Construction workers from Norfolk, Nebraska, work on Alison ...

The June 16 tornadoes came with wind speeds of 166 to 200 mph and damaged 75 to 80 percent of the town. Two people were killed in the storm: a 5-year-old girl in Pilger and a 74-year-old man who was ...