Bayley Bischof
Senior Reporter
Lincoln, Nebraska
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Bayley was born and raised in Waverly, Nebraska where she developed a love of the small town and the people in it.
Bayley knew she wanted to tell stories from a young age - she was constantly writing short stories; English class was always her favorite subject. When she joined the school newspaper at Waverly High, her fate was sealed.
She graduated from Doane University with a degree in Journalism and a minor in sociology in 2017. At Doane she was editor-in-chief of the school’s newspaper and feature magazine.
Since graduation, Bayley’s been doing what she loves most - meeting Nebraskans and sharing their stories. She strongly believes each person has a story to tell, and strives to find the “human” in every story she writes.
In her free time, Bayley spends time with her family and her 17-year-old cat Ruby. She loves to experiment in the kitchen; if she had a second career, it’d definitely be as a pastry chef.
Bayley is 10/11's Senior Reporter and specializes in investigative content. If you have a concern you'd like Bayley to investigate, email TURNTO1011@1011NOW.COM
Education
Updated: May. 19, 2023 at 10:37 PM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof, Mikel Lauber and John Grinvalds
Legislative Bill 574, which tightens restrictions on abortion and on gender-affirming care for minors in Nebraska, passed its final vote, 33-15, on the way to Governor Pillen’s desk for signature Friday afternoon.
Updated: May. 18, 2023 at 9:57 AM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
The bill is now one step away from the governor’s desk. It will go through one more round of debate.
Updated: May. 1, 2023 at 6:30 PM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
Nebraska currently tests for 35 primary conditions and 31 secondary conditions. The federal government’s Recommended Uniform Screening Panel has 37 on the list. 10/11′s national investigative team found no state in the country tests for all 37.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 10:58 AM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof and John Grinvalds
Democratic senators took turns pleading with supporters to change their minds, at times getting extremely emotional and sharing personal stories.
Updated: Mar. 22, 2023 at 4:26 PM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
It was an emotional day in a Lancaster County courtroom, as family of 22-month-old Rudy Jr. watched his mother face charges related to his death.
Updated: Mar. 15, 2023 at 7:06 PM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
A small state agency is hoping the Nebraska Unicameral will have an answer to their financial crisis this session.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2023 at 1:05 PM CST
|By Bayley Bischof
The Nebraska Unicameral adjourned for the day Thursday after a filibuster by Omaha senator Machaela Cavanaugh didn’t allow any of the bills on the agenda to move forward.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 at 7:20 PM CST
|By Bayley Bischof
Whether the Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy can charge the Flatwater Free Press $44,000 for a public records request is now in the hands of a judge.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2023 at 5:01 PM CST
|By Bayley Bischof
Thursday, a coalition of journalists and their supporters will take the records manager for the Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy before a judge in a fight over a public records request with a $44,103 price tag.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 11:30 AM CST
|By Bayley Bischof
Nebraska senators adopted permanent rules for the 108th legislative session Thursday morning after a nine hour committee hearing last week sorting through more than 50 proposed changes.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2023 at 4:12 PM CST
|By Bayley Bischof
In less than two days, Nebraska will have a new governor, with Pete Rickett’s tenure ending and Jim Pillen’s just beginning. Though as rickets tells 10/11 NOW, he hopes to keep serving Nebraska.
Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 12:58 PM CST
|By Bayley Bischof
An arrest affidavit alleges 37-year-old Diamond Helmstadter used a Texas woman’s I.D. to get inside the casino, then used a Lincoln man’s check to get cash advances from the casino multiple times.
Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 12:29 PM CST
|By Bayley Bischof and The Associated Press
Samuel Bateman, 46, is accused of moving minors across state lines to engage in illegal sexual conduct between May 2020 and November 2021 in Arizona, Utah, Nevada and Nebraska.
Updated: Nov. 27, 2022 at 3:57 PM CST
|By Bayley Bischof
Hundreds of millions of dollars are estimated to be lost to scams this year, and a big driver is holiday shopping. The Better Business Bureau calls the next few months ‘open season’ for scammers targeting victims and they said the data shows the most susceptible victim aren’t who you’d think.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2022 at 2:50 PM CST
|By Bayley Bischof
In under a month, Nebraskans will have a choice that will impact elections moving forward: whether or not voters will have to show a photo ID at their polling places before getting their ballot.
Updated: Nov. 3, 2022 at 4:51 PM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
10/11 NOW sat down with Carol Blood, Democratic candidate for Governor ahead of the election.
Updated: Nov. 3, 2022 at 4:48 PM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
10/11 NOW sat down with Scott Zimmerman to discuss his candidacy for Nebraska Governor ahead of the election.
Updated: Nov. 3, 2022 at 4:48 PM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
The Republican candidate is running against Democrat Carol Blood and Libertarian Scott Zimmerman.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2022 at 5:44 PM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof and Mark Baumert
The Nebraska State Patrol has identified remains found near Harvard as 25-year-old Jasmine Garnett, of Columbus. Garnett had been missing since September 16.
Updated: Sep. 2, 2022 at 11:24 AM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
Now that they’re closer to being back on their feet, the same community that brought them out to 'O' street that night, is coming together to help keep them moving forward. Car clubs, Midwest Rollers and Rebels Auto Club have started a GoFundMe, are planning a silent auction and most importantly a real cruise on Labor Day.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2022 at 7:25 PM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
There were holes in the walls, debris littering the floors, water damage and plastic cots sitting on hard ground. Those were the conditions at the Geneva Youth Treatment and Rehabilitation Center in August 2019 that prompted the facility to close and an investigation to open.
Updated: Jul. 7, 2022 at 6:48 PM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
Congressman-elect Mike Flood (R-NE-01) will take his oath of office and be seated as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2022 at 11:29 AM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
The U.S. Attorneys Office is asking a judge to sentence former Congressman Jeff Fortenberry to six months in prison for lying to the FBI about illegal campaign contributions, while Fortenberry’s team is asking for no prison time at all.
Updated: May. 3, 2022 at 5:43 PM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
As of now, abortions up to 22 weeks gestation are legal in Nebraska, but if Roe v. Wade is overruled, as a draft of a Supreme Court opinion suggests, some Nebraska State Senators will make another attempt at changing that.
Updated: May. 2, 2022 at 9:37 AM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
A packed grandstand listened as former president Donald Trump and others in the Republican Party endorsed Herbster as the next governor of Nebraska.
Updated: Apr. 28, 2022 at 6:44 PM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
The race for Congressional District 1, former Congressman Jeff Fortenberry’s seat, has primarily narrowed down to the two candidates who will face off in the special election in June, State Senators Patty Pansing Brooks and Mike Flood.
Updated: Apr. 26, 2022 at 8:48 AM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
Recent polling numbers show the three front-runners for the race for Nebraska’s Governor are in a near tie, but campaign documents tell a different story.
Updated: Apr. 14, 2022 at 6:36 PM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
In the legislature there are time limits for how long debate can go on set by the speaker each session. When that limit is hit, a 1990 rule change calls for a cloture vote where a bill has to get 33 votes, eight more than a traditional vote, to move the bill forward or the bill dies.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2022 at 9:10 AM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
2022 is going to be an expensive year for the Lancaster County Election Commission, footing the bill for three elections, including the special election to fill Congressman Jeff Fortenberry’s District 1 seat, which will be vacant starting April 1.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2022 at 5:52 PM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
The jury of 12 Californians won’t hear from Congressman Jeff Fortenberry before being left to decide the Republican Representative’s fate.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2022 at 10:16 AM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
The defense now has the case, but before they took over, lead defense attorney John Littrell asked the judge to acquit Fortenberry on all charges.
Updated: Mar. 22, 2022 at 2:55 PM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
On Tuesday, the jury watched one of the FBI's secret recordings with Jeff Fortenberry.
Updated: Mar. 21, 2022 at 5:33 PM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
Jurors heard from the man who helped funnel illegal donations into Congressman Fortenberry's 2016 campaign.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2022 at 9:32 PM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
But a representative for Fortenberry’s campaign released a statement Friday afternoon saying the testimony heard so far, is a demonstration that Fortenberry shouldn’t be in this courtroom facing three felony charges.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2022 at 1:27 PM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
Prosecutors and defense attorneys are diving into the investigative strategies the FBI used in their investigation into illegal contributions to Fortenberry's 2016 campaign.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2022 at 10:03 AM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry’s federal trial centers around a 10-minute phone call — and whether or not the congressman heard it clearly and remembered it.
Updated: Mar. 16, 2022 at 9:05 PM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
The jury selection process was intense and extremely lengthy.
Updated: Mar. 16, 2022 at 11:20 AM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
Jury selection is underway.
Updated: Feb. 4, 2022 at 11:57 AM CST
|By Bayley Bischof
This legislative session, lawmakers are weighing prison reform and infrastructure as the state is in an overcrowding emergency and the Nebraska State Penitentiary has been recommended for demolition.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2022 at 12:00 PM CST
|By Bayley Bischof
The public had a chance to weigh in on prison reform legislature for the first time this legislative session, as the judiciary committee grapples with solving overcrowding problems.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2022 at 6:25 PM CST
|By Bayley Bischof
Seventy-three of Nebraska’s 93 counties have less nurses than the national average.
Updated: Dec. 31, 2021 at 3:40 PM CST
|By Bayley Bischof
Lincoln nonprofit Josh the Otter is ringing in the new year with new Josh the Otter license plates that will raise awareness for water safety across the state.
Updated: Dec. 30, 2021 at 4:55 PM CST
|By Bayley Bischof
Hundreds of job applications have flooded into the Nebraska Department of Corrections in the two months since their new union contract earned workers an $8 raise.
Updated: Nov. 11, 2021 at 9:53 AM CST
|By Bayley Bischof
Nebraska’s 11th annual Hero game is kicking off against the Iowa Hawkeyes November 26 and Scheels, the new sponsor, is looking for those heroes.
Updated: Nov. 11, 2021 at 9:43 AM CST
|By Bayley Bischof
The coalition of attorneys aims to address the under-reporting and under-prosecuting of sexual assaults in the military. Right now, the military’s chain of command decides whether or not cases move forward to trial. The act would leave that decision up to independent, trained professional military prosecutors.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2021 at 1:41 PM CST
|By Bayley Bischof
After weeks of negotiating with the Governor’s office, the union representing Nebraska corrections workers has made a deal.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2021 at 1:34 PM CST
|By Bayley Bischof
The Nebraska Department of Justice filed a third lawsuit challenging federal vaccine mandates. A press release from the Attorney General’s office said the mandate focuses specifically on the mandate for healthcare workers.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2021 at 10:00 AM CST
|By Bayley Bischof
The Nebraska State Patrol is holding a press conference Wednesday afternoon providing updates on a shooting in Superior last month.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2021 at 9:43 AM CST
|By Bayley Bischof
Bailey Boswell, convicted killer of 24-year-old Sydney Loofe, will serve life in prison and will not receive the death penalty.
Updated: Oct. 28, 2021 at 3:17 PM CDT
|By Bayley Bischof
Water service has been restored to the Nebraska State Penitentiary following repairs to several pipes on the campus.
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