Bill Kelly
Senior Reporter/Producer
Bill Kelly oversees production of Nebraska Public Media's news documentaries and reports for radio. Most recently, Bill produced documentaries on rural law enforcement, Nebraska floods, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The Michigan native joined Nebraska Public Media in 1990 and has a special interest in covering the courts and criminal justice system. An Emmy award-winning journalist, Bill graduated from Purdue University. He worked at television stations in Lafayette, Ind., Wichita, Kan. and Omaha.
Recent News Stories
- School district settles Native American hair cutting lawsuit
- Winslow, NE begins to burn flood damaged homes
- Parents of teen allowed to take job at meatpacking plant guilty of child abuse
- Air Force discusses Nebraska land buys for missile site project
- Owners of North Platte gaming business charged with tax evasion
- Nebraska defends $44,000 cost for reporter's public records ask
- Boswell claims mass of crime photos led to unfair murder trial
- Senators propose funding $500k bounty on pheasant predators
- After 8 years as Attorney General, Peterson reflects on term
- Election officials tell judge vote fraud lawsuit is 'frivolous'
- Defeated legislature candidate asks judge for ballot recount
- Judge to decide if firefighter discrimination lawsuit advances
- All 93 Nebraska counties and Governor sued by election skeptic
- Fake blood. Real drama. Steelworkers practice for mass casualty
- New financing could quicken pace of NioCorp niobium mine project
- Burst pipe vacates dozens of Lincoln Penitentiary cells
- Court: Aubrey Trail death sentence justified, constitutional
- Flood holds onto his seat in the 1st Congressional District
- Did Cherry Co Board have conflict of interest in wind farm vote?
- Herbster drops defamation suit; Slama ends sexual battery case
- Bacon, Vargas talk of climate, nukes in final 2nd District debate
- Nebraska military members are now a key constituency in competitive 1st Congressional District race
- Expect only a few presidential marijuana pardons in Nebraska
- Chadron State College promised to honor a student after her suicide. Her family says ‘they’re hiding it’
- A Major Loss: Family Visits Home Destroyed in Carter Canyon Fire