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Nebraska lawmakers are proposing an age limit of 30 days for children who may be legally abandoned under the state’s safe haven law.
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Legislators were gearing up for a public hearing Monday on adding an age limit to a safe-haven law that has allowed nearly three dozen children _ some close to...
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A Nebraska legislative committee is gearing up for a public hearing on bills that would block parents from using the state’s safe-haven law to abandon teenage...
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A Nebraska lawmaker with an important role in changing the state’s safe-haven statute says the Legislature might be asked to do more than put an age limit in the...
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Nebraska lawmakers got to work Friday in a rare special legislative session designed to repair a unique “safe haven” law that has unintentionally allowed...
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Nebraska officials geared up Friday for a special legislative session designed to deal with a unique “safe haven” law whose unintendend consequences have...
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Nebraska officials geared up Friday for a special legislative session designed to deal with a unique “safe haven” law whose unintendend consequences have...
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Nebraska officials are dealing with three more children abandoned under the state’s unique safe-haven law, even as lawmakers gather to overhaul the statute. A...
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A 5-year-old boy has been dropped off at an Omaha, Neb., hospital only a day before the state Legislature begins a meeting to change the state’s safe-haven law.
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The mother was running out of more than patience when she abandoned her 18-year-old daughter at a hospital over the weekend under Nebraska’s safe-haven law. She...
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Nebraska’s safe-haven law, which doesn’t have a specified age limit, lets parents abandon their children at a hospital without fear of prosecution.
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The mother was running out of more than patience when she abandoned her 18-year-old daughter at a hospital over the weekend under Nebraska’s safe-haven law.
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An 11-year-old Florida boy was abandoned at a Nebraska hospital Wednesday, just days before lawmakers meet to change the much-criticized “safe haven” law.
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An 11-year-old Florida boy has been abandoned in Nebraska just days before lawmakers meet to change the much-criticized “safe haven” law.
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Nebraska authorities say a 17-year-old boy dropped off by his mother at an Omaha hospital is the 30th child left under Nebraska’s safe-haven law.
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Police say a woman has abandoned her 18-year-old daughter at a hospital, saying she can’t control the girl, in what may be the latest use of Nebraska’s...
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Nebraska authorities say an 11-year-old girl has become the 29th child to be left at a hospital under the state’s much-criticized safe haven law.
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An 8-year-old Indiana boy was left Thursday at an Omaha hospital, bringing to 28 the number of children left under Nebraska’s unique safe-haven law.
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An 8-year-old Indiana boy has been left at an Omaha hospital, bringing to 28 the number of children left under Nebraska’s unique safe-haven law.
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Nebraska officials say a 15-year-old girl dropped off at a hospital is the 27th child left under Nebraska’s unique safe-haven law.
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The Creighton Medical Center is seen in Omaha, Neb., in this photo from Sept. 25, 2008. A teen from Michigan has been dropped off at the Creighton Medical Center by at least one of his parents early Monday morning. It is the second out-of-state teenager...
