Nebraska Prep Results: (Updated 9:47 p.m.) Baseball
Soccer: Boys Class B: Skutt 3, Lincoln Pius X 2 (SO)
Prep Sports: Creighton Prep to start random drug testing for athletes

 


Who is winning the key races?

President: Clinton - 46%, Obama - 50%, with 94% of the precincts reporting.
U.S. Senate:
Scott Kleeb wins Democratic primary (Kleeb - 68%, Raimondo 25%, with 94% reporting)
Republicans: Johanns - 78%, Flynn - 22% , with 93% of the precincts reporting.
U.S. House: 2nd District Democrats: Carter concedes to Esch (Carter - 19%, Esch - 81%, with 95% of the precincts reporting)
Amendment 1: Voters approve Amendment 1 (Yes - 58%, No - 42%, with 90% of the precincts reporting)
All the statewide results for President, Senate, House, State Legislature, state offices

Metro Community College (all precincts reporting)
District 1: Larsen - 14%, Leahy - 42%, Russell - 43%
District 2: Conley - 52%, Humphries - 25%, Lemek - 22%
District 3: Anderson - 29%, Corrigan - 29%, Sorrentino - 42%
Westside school board: Baker - 45%, Gray - 19%, Woodke - 35%, all 352 precincts reporting.
Other Douglas County race results

Bellevue City Council: (88 of 89 precincts reporting)
Ward 1: Houghtaling 51%, McCann 18%, Thompson 31%
Ward 2: Cascio 17%, Hatcher 20%, Wiltsey 21%, Woodle 17%, Saniuk 25%
Ward 3: Sanborn 55%, Van Vynck 20%, Caulfield 13%, Zukowski 11%
Ward 4: Ott 36%, Keith 15%, Erickson 16%, Lane 12%, Knutson 20%
At-Large: Trinkle 24%, Wagner 5%, Blood 23%, Semin 7%, Friedenbach 9%, Fredrick 11%, Brown 20%
Other Sarpy County race results

 


May Primary: Complete election night coverage

In the widely watched Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, Scott Kleeb handily defeated Tony Raimondo. Kleeb will face Republican Mike Johanns, the state's former governor and the former U.S. agriculture secretary, in the fall. In Nebraska's U.S. House primaries, Republicans Jeff Fortenberry, Lee Terry and Adrian Smith all won renomination. Democrat Jim Esch of Omaha won the right to challenge Terry in the fall, a rematch of their 2006 contest.

Statewide results for President, Senate, House, State Legislature, state offices
County-by-county results for statewide races
Nebraska Secretary of state primary election results
Douglas County results
Sarpy County results
Other Nebraska counties
Photo gallery: Election day

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Clinton wins W.Va., Obama still nomination leader

Hillary Rodham Clinton coasted to a large but largely symbolic victory in working-class West Virginia on Tuesday, handing Barack Obama one of the worst defeats of the campaign yet scarcely slowing his march toward the Democratic presidential nomination.



Videos:
What Clinton's win means
Obama says Americans can't wait for change

Also:
More national election news from The Associated Press

 


Which song transports you back to that magic decade?

With the Police in town tonight, we got to thinking that their hit "Every Breath You Take" might just be the iconic song of the '80s. So our staffers compiled a list of 15 tunes for each of the last six decades and asked readers to vote online: Which are the signature songs?



Voting totals, by song

 


Nebraska State Baseball: Grand Island stays in winners' bracket

Grand Island remained in the winners' bracket of the Class A state baseball tournament today with a 2-1 win over Omaha Westside at Haymarket Park. The Islanders will play Wednesday at 4 p.m. while the Warriors dropped into the losers' bracket and play Wednesday night at Sherman Field.



Photo gallery: State Baseball Tournament

Also:
Nebraska State Baseball: Results, schedule
Class A: Millard North blanks rival

 


Students from UNL in China as quake hit

Two days after arriving in Xi'an, China, for a four-week study program, 30 University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering and business students felt tremors from the earthquake that killed more than 12,000 people elsewhere in the country. Only later did the study group begin to grasp the magnitude of the earthquake, which struck some 500 miles away.



Video: China earthquake video from UNL student Kent Campbell

 


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Tom Shatel: First downs and second guesses.
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World-Herald Editorials: McCain's observations on Supreme Court, reaching out to soldiers and more.

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