(AP) — The Nebraska Roads Department and public transit agencies in Webster County, Franklin County and Guide Rock will hold public information meetings to discuss a pilot program for coordinating services to Kearney, Grand Island and Hastings.

Officials will describe the service changes for the pilot program and take comments.

All three 90-minute meetings will be held on Nov. 5.

The first begins at 9 a.m. at the Franklin County Senior Center in Franklin. The second begins at 12:30 p.m. at the Elm Street Center in Red Cloud and the last begins at 3 p.m. at the Village Meeting Room in Guide Rock.

(AP) — Authorities say two robbers broke into a Ralston apartment and fatally shot a woman.

Police say officers were dispatched to the Orleans Square Apartments just before 11:45 p.m. Monday. The apartments are about a block north of Ralston Middle School.

Ralston Police Chief Ron Murtaugh says 32-year-old Aimee Kearns and another person were in her apartment when the men broke in and demanded money. Murtaugh says Kearns was shot but the other person wasn’t. Murtaugh wouldn’t identify that person.

Police have a description of a car seen leaving the scene. No arrests have been reported.

(AP) — A 31-year-old Milford woman is scheduled for a November trial on two counts of felony perjury.

Betsy Smith has pleaded not guilty in York County District Court.

Prosecutors say Smith sought a protection order against a York man, saying he was going “to slit her throat.” She later acknowledged under oath that the man had never threatened to hurt her.

Prosecutors also say Smith lied in a deposition for a criminal case and provided police with false information so they’d start a criminal investigation.

Her trial is set to begin Nov. 13.

(AP) — Senate Republicans and Democrats are debating the merits of state stand your ground laws, with Democrats urging a review and Republicans saying the policy is a matter of self-defense.

Under the gaze of Trayvon Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, Sen. Dick Durbin opened the hearing by saying the laws have been abused and urging Congress to consider how the policy would affect other gun legislation. Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz said the laws make possible the right to self defense.

At least 22 states have some form of the law, which generally cancels a person’s duty to retreat in the face of a serious physical threat.

The 17-year-old Martin, who was unarmed, was shot in 2012. A jury acquitted George Zimmerman earlier this year, sparking racial tension and debate over the laws.

(AP) — At least two Lincoln retailers have provided lounges for their customers to sample varieties of e-cigarettes.

Co-owner Greg Kimble at Lincoln Vapor says the lounge has been a popular feature for the “vapers,” as e-cigarette smokers are known.

The devices deliver nicotine through water vapor, rather than through tobacco smoke. Users can buy different flavorings for the cigarettes and can vary the amount of nicotine delivered in each puff.

Big Red Vapor Pleasures owner, Chad Svoboda, said the vapers “just like to hang out in our lounge area, talk vape and watch TV.”

(AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers says it expects higher-than-usual runoff in the Missouri River basin next year, but the system of dams along the river will still have minimum flows to recover from drought last year.

The corps says wet soil conditions from abnormally high precipitation in the upper basin this fall are expected to cause monthly runoff records for the Oahe (oh-AW’-hee) and Fort Randall areas this October. Total runoff for this year above Sioux City, Iowa, is expected to rank among the top five wettest years.

But despite the wet conditions, reservoirs still are below desired levels due to the 2012 drought, and the system is still expected to support less than full-service navigation downstream next year.

(AP) — As the public face of President Barack Obama’s signature health care program, Kathleen Sebelius has become the target for attacks over its botched rollout. Republicans want her to resign and even some Democrats — while not mentioning Sebelius — say someone should be fired.

For months, Sebelius, the Health and Human Services secretary, projected confidence that the online health insurance markets would open on time Oct. 1 in all 50 states and that a website that’s the key to public enrollments would be ready. Instead, it’s been plagued by technical problems.

How much Sebelius knew about the website’s problems, and when, are key questions she’ll face Wednesday at a House hearing.

Sebelius has acknowledged that the website launch has been rocky. So far, she appears to have the president’s backing.

(AP) — A new, smaller version of NASA’s space shuttle is recuperating from a rough first landing.

The Dream Chaser space plane is being designed by Sierra Nevada Corp. It’s intended to one day carry space station astronauts.

The Nevada-based company tested a full-scale model at Edwards Air Force Base in California on Saturday. A helicopter dropped the unmanned craft from 12,500 feet. Everything worked well until the end, when the left landing gear deployed too late. The test vehicle skidded off the runway.

Company space systems chief Mark Sirangelo says damage was minor. He says the left gear was still attached and the tire wasn’t even shredded.

Sirangelo says the mishap is likely due to mechanical failure. He says it shouldn’t hold up plans for a piloted landing test next year.