Mark Baumert
News Director
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Mark is a native Nebraskan and has lived in Central Nebraska more than 30 years.
Mark's track record includes the development of successful news programs, extended live coverage of community events, and internal development and training of broadcast journalists with whom he has worked.
Mark believes that every community, regardless of size, deserves top-notch news coverage from its local TV station. That principle guides the decisions he makes in daily news coverage. Mark is grateful for the many professional relationships he holds with community leaders in Central Nebraska. More than that, he appreciates the friendships he's built along the way with Central Nebraska TV viewers.
Enthusiastic....but mediocre...golfer.
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A Kearney man connected to two domestic violence cases is charged with Attempted Second Degree Murder.
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A North Platte man is going to prison for his part in a shooting incident last summer in south Kearney.
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A man wanted for a 2016 child abuse death case in Grand Island was arrested last week in Guatemala.
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A Lincoln man stands convicted of four felony crimes in connection with an April 2020 shoot-out with law enforcement officers in Clay County.
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A homeless man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges related to a burglary at the Shirt Shack.
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A McCook woman who said she suffered physical abuse for 30 years will be sentenced next month for killing her husband.
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Buffalo County workers will benefit from the newly declared federal holiday.
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Superintendent Kent Edwards said Wednesday that Kearney Public Schools will conduct its own review of the district’s health curriculum standards and prepare its own draft for school board approval.
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Country singer Riley Green will perform at the Adams County Fair Friday night July 16.
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A Grand Island man accused of drugging and beating women he sold for sex has been convicted on two felony charges.
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A Grand Island man charged with attempted murder, assault and weapons charges is now going to trial court.
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The city of Hastings is moving it’s city council meetings out of city hall. It may move it’s staff out as well.
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At least for the time being, Dr. Tawana Grover will remain the Grand Island Public Schools superintendent.
A Hastings man is headed to trial court on two felony charges related to a burglary case in late March.
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Prosecutors charged a man with vehicular homicide in connection with a March incident that killed a Kearney woman.
A Grand Island man who was already charged with attempted murder is now also charged with felony assault and false imprisonment in a separate incident.
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A judge has granted a prosecutor's request that a Holdrege man accused of two murders be examined before trial.
The superintendent of Grand Island Public schools is a finalist for a similar position in Kentucky.
Prosecutors Tuesday charged a man with attempted murder in connection with a stabbing Monday afternoon in central Grand Island.
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Third District Representative Adrian Smith Wednesday voted against creating a commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
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After a six-day trial, a Grand Island jury found a Lincoln man guilty on seven of eight charges related to a May 2020 shooting in Grand Island.
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JBS USA says nearly 70% of its Grand Island work force is fully vaccinated.
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Local4 reached out to each of Nebraska’s three Republican congressmen to ask how they voted.
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Tejani Abdalla is going to prison for shooting at a Grand Island police officer.
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A Phillips man is charged with felony theft and a weapons charge after a bizarre series of events Monday and Tuesday in Kearney and Grand Island.
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A Minden woman may be kicked off the school board over her refusal to wear a mask during a recent board meeting.
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Mario Chavez pleaded no contest to two felony charges on Wednesday.
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World War II veteran Jack Wilson will be able to stay in his apartment at Regency Retirement Homes until at least the end of June.
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Grand Island Public Schools officials are expected to reveal a strategic plan called “On Track to Thrive in 2025″ at tonight’s school board meeting.
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A Grand Island man convicted of drugging and beating women he sold for sex is facing a lengthy prison term.
Grand Island health officials hope to vaccinate 70% of the work force at the JBS meat-packing plant by the end of this week.
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A Hastings man faces four felony charges in connection with offenses which court documents indicate were committed Saturday.
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The Sherman County courthouse in Loup City was closed for a time Friday morning as law enforcement officers investigated a threat.
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David Driver lost an appeal on his kidnapping conviction and sentence for 2019 stand-off.
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There are two new developments in the case against a Grand Island man accused of sending a suspicious package to the Hall County Election Commissioner.
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The Grand Island firefighters union honored a Local4 reporter for an award-winning story about firefighter safety.
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A historic and prolonged cold snap Monday put great pressure on the power grid and prompted central Nebraska utilities to ask their customers to save electricity.
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Jaimee Williams appeared in Buffalo County District Court on Friday where he learned his sentence.
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Jack Bowe, former News Director of KHAS-TV, passed away Tuesday at age 78.
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A man from the Dominican Republic is getting 13 years in federal prison after a trooper found a record-breaking amount of the synthetic opioid fentanyl during a drug bust on Interstate 80.
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The man accused of burning down the Zion Lutheran Church in rural Buffalo County just before Christmas 2019 was ruled not responsible by reason of insanity.
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A murder plot gone wrong has led to prison for a St. Paul man.
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Custer County authorities have charged a Broken Bow woman with felony theft accusing her of stealing more than $45,000 from the Broken Bow Booster Club.
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The Kearney Area Community Foundation (KACF) touted the huge success of the 2020 “Give Where You Live” campaign.
JBS USA says it will pay each of its workers $100 if they get a COVID-19 vaccination.
A man who claims he was insane at the time he burned down a rural Buffalo County church goes on trial next month.
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Firefighters from at least five volunteer departments Thursday were trying to stop a fire driven by 50 mile an hour winds in south central Nebraska.
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Two years ago, 200 cattle were found dead on an Exeter man’s feedlot. Now he’s going to prison for trying to sell cattle he didn’t own and for cruelty to animals.
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Grand Island airport and city officials have to choose an airline to provide federally subsidized Essential Air Service (EAS) to the Central Nebraska Regional Airport.
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The Nebraska Court of Appeals Tuesday denied an appeal from a Hastings man who was sentenced for robbery in connection with the September 2017 shooting death of Jose Hansen.