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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Members of The Associated Press have voted the Legislature's abolition of the state's death penalty as the top Nebraska news story for 2015.
Finishing second in the voting was President Barack Obama's decision in November to deny a federal permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline. A federal court decision to strike down Nebraska's ban on gay marriage and civil unions as unconstitutional finished third.
In order, the rest of the stories were the Tecumseh prison riot, the slaying of an Omaha police officer, the Husker football team's disappointing 5-7 regular season, ConAgra Foods' big changes, the approval of an oil and natural gas wastewater disposal well in the Panhandle, the state fuel tax increase and, finally, the bird flu that ravaged chicken and turkey flocks.
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