Bob Greene

Feel free to put down your ax now. It turns out there's no need to chop up your bookshelf for kindling wood. The highly touted "e-book revolution" isn't happening just...

Sometimes, just when you need it, the sun shines through the clouds. So it was the other day, when I heard from a woman named Jessica Rocco. The stories I...

I had told myself that I wasn't going to write any newspaper columns from Nebraska. That's not why I had gone there. My trip to Nebraska was to do reporting...

In Lincoln County, Neb., Sean Von Eric Marshall, 41, went before Judge Kent Turnbull and asked to be released without having to post any bail. Marshall, as we reported Tuesday,...

`He broke down," Lincoln County, Neb., sheriff's investigator Chuck Nichols said. "He's a very nice 7-year-old boy, and he did his best to keep his composure when we first started...

Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns used careful, measured words late last week as he explained why he is changing the state's rules about children sleeping in prisons -- and why the...

This is a great idea. It's not mine. The reason for the disclaimer is that the idea was given to me earlier in the summer by a reader of the...

Obits aren't supposed to make you smile. An obituary is the official notification that someone has left this world. And you're not supposed to smile about someone's passing. But for...

Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns says that one of his most important priorities is "protecting our families, with an added focus on initiatives which will help ensure the health, safety and...

In a Nebraska courtroom Monday, arguments are scheduled to be heard about whether a 6-year-old boy should be sent to prison. The child hasn't done anything wrong. His mother is...