Proposals to help Omaha pay off the Qwest Center Omaha debt and possibly build a new baseball stadium won first-round votes Wednesday - partly on a promise that some sales taxes generated by the facilities would be used to improve impoverished areas in north Omaha.

Omaha police records have linked two men with the triple homicide of three out-of-town men last May. The arrests Tuesday of Dale Giles and Charmar Brown are listed under the same report number as the homicides of Benigno J. Dominguez, 27, of Mesa, Ariz.; Frank J. Wilkinson, 22, of Mesa; and Faustino Garcia, 33, of Denver. All three were found dead May 4 in burning brush near 60th and State Streets. Their death certificates indicate they had been shot.

As the number of suspected mumps cases soared to 300 in Iowa, one health official predicted that Nebraska might see similar waves of illness in the coming months.

Kenny Chesney isn't a one-night-stand kind of guy - not when it comes to concerts, anyway. The 38-year-old country superstar kicked off the first of a two-night stand at Qwest Center Omaha in front of a multigenerational, near-capacity crowd Wednesday night.

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