Bayley Bischof
Assignment Manager & Senior Reporter
Lincoln, Nebraska
Bayley Bischof started at 10/11 in 2019, moving from full time reporter to investigative reporter and now has taken on managing the reporting staff as well.
She specializes in in-depth and investigative stories that hold the government accountable and shed light on issues not yet in the public eye.
Writing isn't new to Bayley. She grew up writing stories in school and for fun. Once she started writing for the Waverly High School newspaper, she never looked back. 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.
In her free time, Bayley spends time with her family, fosters stray and feral cats, crochets, reads and bakes.
She is always looking for the next big story - If you have a concern you'd like Bayley to investigate, email TURNTO1011@1011NOW.COM
A Lancaster County Court Judge is holding a Lincoln man on $1 million bond after he was accused of assaulting a pregnant woman.
Governor Jim Pillen avoids question about his hog farm by disregarding Nebraska reporter based on where she was born.
Non-profit newspaper asks Governor Pillen to ‘reflect’ following comments about reporter’s ethnicity
Governor Jim Pillen avoids question about his hog farm by disregarding Nebraska reporter based on where she was born.
A woman accused of running over and killing two Lincoln men plead not guilty on Friday.
A Lancaster County Judge has granted a Lancaster County woman a temporary protection order against Matt Innis, the current chair of the Lancaster County GOP.
The child was at a wedding in Nebraska when the officiant fired a blank shot from a revolver.
A 12-year-old Texas boy is in the hospital in Omaha recovering from injuries sustained from a blank shot from a revolver.
From the first few weeks to the very last day, the Nebraska Legislature was stalled for hours during filibusters on contentious issues. The slow down had many wondering how much senators could accomplish.
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.
The bill is now one step away from the governor’s desk. It will go through one more round of debate.
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.
Democratic senators took turns pleading with supporters to change their minds, at times getting extremely emotional and sharing personal stories.
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.
A small state agency is hoping the Nebraska Unicameral will have an answer to their financial crisis this session.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
10/11 NOW sat down with Carol Blood, Democratic candidate for Governor ahead of the election.
10/11 NOW sat down with Scott Zimmerman to discuss his candidacy for Nebraska Governor ahead of the election.
The Republican candidate is running against Democrat Carol Blood and Libertarian Scott Zimmerman.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A packed grandstand listened as former president Donald Trump and others in the Republican Party endorsed Herbster as the next governor of Nebraska.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The jury of 12 Californians won’t hear from Congressman Jeff Fortenberry before being left to decide the Republican Representative’s fate.
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.
On Tuesday, the jury watched one of the FBI's secret recordings with Jeff Fortenberry.
Jurors heard from the man who helped funnel illegal donations into Congressman Fortenberry's 2016 campaign.
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.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys are diving into the investigative strategies the FBI used in their investigation into illegal contributions to Fortenberry's 2016 campaign.
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.
The jury selection process was intense and extremely lengthy.
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.
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.
Seventy-three of Nebraska’s 93 counties have less nurses than the national average.
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.
