Authorities say a 52-year-old woman who was pointing a flare gun has been shot by an Omaha officer.

A police news release says the incident occurred around 8:45 p.m. Thursday in north-central Omaha.

Officers had been dispatched to the home of Madonna Runco. Runco told them her daughter was playing music too loudly in the garage and said the woman, Paula Moen, had a mental illness.

The officers say Moen pulled a knife when they asked her to turn down the music. One of them fired an electronic stun gun at Moen, but it proved ineffective.

The officers say Moen then pointed a flare gun at one of them. One officer fired her handgun, hitting Moen in the chest.

Moen was reported in critical condition at an Omaha hospital.

Authorities say a man born in Kuwait has been convicted of marriage fraud in Nebraska.

A news release from the office of U.S. Attorney Deborah Gilg (gihlj) says 47-year-old Ibrahim Matari was sentenced to time served and was given 30 days to leave this country.

Prosecutors say Matari came to the United States in 2000 on a student visa and remained after it expired. He and his family lived in Oak Park, Ill.

Prosecutors say he obtained a marriage license with a U.S. citizen in Douglas County, Neb., in August 2009. They married and soon filed a petition to adjust Matari’s status.

Federal officers interviewed them and discovered the sham. The woman, Crystal Foster, has pleaded guilty to harboring an alien and is scheduled to be sentenced on June 7.

A 26-year-old Vermont man caught hauling more than 100 pounds of marijuana has been given Nebraska prison time.

Online court records say Nathaniel Miller was given four to six years at his sentencing Thursday in Lancaster County District Court. He’d pleaded no contest on March 26 to attempted possession of a firearm while possessing illicit drugs. Prosecutors had lowered the charge in return for Miller’s plea.

The Nebraska State Patrol says Miller, of Jericho, Vt., was driving a pickup east on Interstate 80 near Lincoln when he was pulled over on Sept. 3 last year. The patrol says more than 104 pounds of pot was found in packages hidden under the truck bed liner The patrol says a disassembled gun was found in the truck’s camper.

Someone who bought a Powerball ticket at a Seward store can claim his or her $2 million prize.

The Nebraska Lottery says the Powerball ticket with the Power Play option was sold at the Gas N Snaks store on Jackson Avenue in Seward.

Wednesday night’s Powerball numbers were 21, 22, 26, 30, 57 and Powerball 27. The lottery says no one won the jackpot, but the Seward ticket buyer matched the first five numbers.

The lottery says this is the second $2 million Power Play Powerball ticket sold in Nebraska since the game was upgraded in January 2012. Mark Davies, of Bennington, won a $2 million in August 2012.

Authorities in northwest Ohio say one of three teenage boys named in an Amber Alert has been located several counties away and has pointed them to the bodies of the other two.

Ottawa police say the Thursday morning alert about two missing 17-year-olds and a missing 14-year-old was issued after a mother returned to a Putnam County trailer home and found a crime scene. Police and the sheriff have released no details about that scene, the bodies or where they were found. Autopsies are planned.  However, the Toledo Blade identifies the bodies as those of Blaine Romes, 14 and Blake Aaron Romes, 17.

Investigators say one of the 17-year-olds and a missing car were found in Columbus, about 90 miles southeast of Ottawa. Authorities say the teen was detained and told them where the bodies were.

There has been no word on any possible charges.

Whole Foods Market Inc. says labels on a chicken salad and those on a vegan version of the salad were reversed at some of its cold food bars in the Northeast.

Whole Foods says the mislabeled salads — a curried chicken salad and a vegan curried “chick’n” salad — were sold in 15 stores in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York. They were sold on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Food and Drug Administration noted the vegan salad contains soy, and the curried chicken salad contains egg. It said people who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to soy or eggs run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they eat the salads.

The company, based in Austin, Texas, said no illnesses have been reported.

A team of smokejumpers parachuting into a fire in the mountains of Southern Oregon landed in an illegal marijuana garden being prepared for growing season.

The six smokejumpers from a base in Redmond found the site Monday evening, when there was a rash of lightning strikes.

Jackson County sheriff’s spokeswoman Andrea Carlson says the smokejumpers notified authorities, who hiked into the remote site in the Rogue River-Siskiyou (SIS’-kee-yoo) National Forest. They seized two guns and more than 1,000 little pot plants.

Carlson says the site near the community of Applegate was being cultivated by growers for Mexican drug gangs, and it’s been used before.

She says the smokejumpers saw some people but weren’t sure whether they were pot growers, so no one was arrested.

The smokejumpers extinguished the fire after it burned less than an acre.

The Nebraska Supreme Court will hear arguments in the appeal of an Omaha man given life in prison for the gang-related shooting death of a 20-year-old man.

Trevelle Taylor was 17 when prosecutors say he shot Justin Ganines to death in 2009. He was sentenced after turning 18 in 2010 to life in prison. While the words “life without parole” do not appear in his sentence, the sentencing judge set no discharge date for Taylor “until the Pardons Board of the State of Nebraska commutes the sentence or offers a specific term of years.”

The now 21-year-old Taylor’s attorney says that amounts to a life sentence without parole and cited a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year declaring mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juvenile killers unconstitutional.

The Union Pacific Railroad is updating information from a morning collision between two trains in central Iowa.

An eastbound coal train and westbound train carrying cargo containers collided Thursday morning derailing 13 coal cars and 22 cars of the intermodal cargo train —which carries ocean-going containers on flatbed cars. That’s more train cars than originally reported.

Union Pacific spokesman Mark Davis says there are no injuries.

The crash shut down a section of the company’s mainline track near Grand Junction about 60 miles northwest of Des Moines.

The cause of the 6:20 a.m. collision is not immediately clear.

Davis says the derailment has halted traffic on main tracks between Chicago and the company’s Iowa and Nebraska destinations. Trains are being detoured. Cleanup is expected to be finished late Friday.