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Free legal help for flood victims available through Disaster Relief Project
Extreme flooding has devastated parts of Nebraska as heavy rains have mixed with melting snow. Multitudes of people have been ordered to evacuate their home and town. A third of the residents in Norfolk, a hospital and nursing home in Genoa, and residents along the...
read moreLegal Aid’s Lincoln office fire: One year later
Presidents’ Day 2018. The day that will live in infamy for the staff of Lincoln’s Legal Aid office. Most woke to the news that in the early hours of the morning, a fire had basically destroyed the eighth floor of the Terminal Building — Legal Aid’s office. Staff spent...
read moreLegal Aid files suit to stop loss of Scottsbluff home alleging unconstitutional tax sale
Scottsbluff, NE -- $588.21. That’s all it took for Kevin and Terry Fair to possibly lose their home of over twenty years. The elderly Scottsbluff couple couldn’t afford the $588.21 in back property taxes because Terry’s ongoing medical condition had caused her to lose...
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