LINCOLN , Neb., Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The Nebraska Legislature voted 43-5 Friday to alter the state's Safe Haven law to cover only infants no older than 30 days.
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- An Indiana woman says she was overwhelmed by her son's problems and trying to get help for him when she left the 8-year-old at a Nebraska hospital.
LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. 14 (UPI) -- The Nebraska Legislature began a special session Friday to consider an age limit for the "safe haven law" to prevent parents from dumping older children.
LINCOLN , Neb., Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Police in Lincoln, Neb., say a mother has abandoned her teenage daughter under the state's safe haven law.
OMAHA, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Nebraska's safe haven law has been taken into a new direction when a teen left at a hospital already was a state ward, Nebraska officials said.
LINCOLN , Neb., Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman said Wednesday he will call lawmakers back into session to amend the state's safe haven law to cover only newborn children.
OMAHA, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- An Atlanta mother has left her 12-year-old son at a hospital in Lincoln, Neb., as part of the state's safe haven law, police say.
OMAHA, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- A Nebraska teenager who claims she is being abused by her mother showed up at a hospital with her baby son, claiming sanctuary under the state's Safe Haven law.
OMAHA, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- A 13-year-old Michigan boy was abandoned Monday in Omaha under Nebraska's safe-haven law, said state health and human service officials.
OMAHA, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Nebraska's controversial child abandonment "safe haven" law came under renewed fire Thursday after another "unmanageable" teenager was dropped off.
LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- The legislator who sponsored Nebraska's Safe Haven law wants to change it following a spate of older children dumped at hospitals and police stations.
OMAHA, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- A judge in Nebraska ordered seven of the nine children abandoned by their widowed father last week to be transferred to another home Wednesday.
KENDALL, Fla., Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Police in Kendall, Fla., say a newborn baby found in a trash bin behind a hospital is in good condition.
OMAHA, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- The mother of nine children who were left at a Nebraska hospital by their father, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 2007, authorities have determined.
OMAHA, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- A man who left all nine of his children, ages 1 to 17, at a Nebraska hospital will not be charged due to the state's "safe haven" law, officials said Thursday.
