John Chapman
Reporter
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John Chapman is a veteran member of the WOWT 6 News team. The award-winning news and sports reporter has worked for close to three decades in the Omaha area.
John has covered everything from presidential visits to Husker football.
John likes to spend his spare time with his family and listening to music.
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Earlier this month Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts made it clear that he is interested in calling a special session of the legislature if Roe is overturned, and if he can see a path forward to change Nebraska’s abortion rules.
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A substitute bus driver is no longer transporting students for OPS after a 7-year-old student says the driver put him out at the wrong stop.
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An Omaha mother says a police officer stomped on her adult daughter’s leg while arresting her over the weekend.
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The death of an Omaha-area woman is helping bring two families together four years later.
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More than 58,000 American troops died in the Vietnam War. One of the first casualties was a special forces staff sergeant from Plattsmouth.
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An 18-year-old Millard West High School student was released from jail after being charged with manslaughter.
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The mom who gave birth on an Omaha sidewalk then walked away from the baby is still in jail facing child abuse charges, but the courts are working to determine how other issues might factor in and what to do about them.
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Drivers who handle the big rigs are held to a higher standard. The goal of the federal requirements is to ensure safety on the highways.
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Investigators with the Nebraska Fire Marshal Agency say Thursday’s deadly fire at a horse barn was accidental. The fire’s cause remains under investigation.
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Gov. Pete Ricketts issued a directed health measure Friday morning ordering Nebraska Medicine not to perform any pre-scheduled, non-emergency surgeries at its Omaha hospital for a month.
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Nebraska Medicine enacted its Crisis Standards of Care plan, effective at 9 a.m. Thursday.
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Dr. Lindsay Huse on Tuesday issued a temporary indoor mask mandate for the City of Omaha, effective at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.
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A top health security expert and UNMC doctor on Monday said he urges boosters and supports vaccination mandates as the omicron variant ramps up in the U.S.
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Former Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman revealed Tuesday morning on Facebook that he nearly said yes to running for office again — but that his family became his priority, and he will not run.
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Husker football legend Johnny "The Jet" Rodgers set himself a new goal for the end of the week as he recovers from his COVID-19 battle in the hospital.
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Attorney General Doug Peterson on Thursday morning released a report on clergy sexual assault involving all three dioceses in the state, noting that only one of 258 cases was able to be criminally prosecuted due to the statute of limitations.
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The community said its final goodbye Friday to fallen Omaha Marine Cpl. Daegan Page.
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The tragic news of 13 American troops dying last month in Afghanistan at the hands of terrorist bombers caused the nation to mourn, but those feelings ran even deeper here in the Metro area after discovering one of those soldiers lost was one of our own.
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FBI officials in the Omaha area say that, in the past few years, our region of Iowa and Nebraska — and across the country — reports of hate crimes are increasing.
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Local and state government and health department officials were at the Douglas County Health Department on Monday to encourage high school students to vaccinate against COVID-19 as they graduate.
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It might be a long weekend for people who have yet to file their 2020 income taxes.
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Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, is scheduled to visit a local hospital Tuesday.
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Legislative bill 236 is a bill in committee in the Nebraska legislature that would allow counties to authorize carrying a concealed weapon without a permit.
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Nebraska state labor organizations are seeking legislation to protect frontline workers in the meatpacking industry.