PONCA, Neb. (AP) — Two people have been injured in a two-vehicle collision in northeast Nebraska.

The Dixon County Sheriff’s Office says an SUV was traveling eastbound Monday on Nebraska Highway 12 near Ponca when it lost control and slid into the path of a westbound truck.

The driver of the SUV was airlifted to a Sioux City hospital. A passenger in the SUV was driven to the same hospital.

The driver of the truck was not hurt. Authorities say the SUV lost control due to icy road conditions.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska cities along the Missouri River are still waiting for nearly $7.2 million to be reimbursed from state and federal agencies, more than 3 years after a 2011 flood.

Five cities haven’t yet received payments between $275,000 and nearly $4 million. Omaha is owed the most at $3.6 million.

Grants from the Nebraska and Federal Emergency Management Agencies have helped pay for flood damage and recovery, but Nebraska still owes 43 percent of the nearly $17 million owed in flood claims. A NEMA official says processing claims takes a lot of time and work.

Meanwhile, the Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management has paid all but 5 percent of its $38.6 million in claims.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska inmate Michael Ellington calls prison one of his biggest accomplishments.

The 32-year-old from Clarksdale, Mississippi, is in prison for robberies he committed in June 2007. But now he has two work release jobs and talks about taking positive steps.

Ellington has been at the Community Corrections Center for a year, and he credits it with helping to prepare him for society. He has a parole hearing on New Year’s Eve.

Ellington said prison provided him a foundation to get his life back together.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A Nebraska woman is still hoping to find out what happened to her son, two months after he was reported to have driven a stolen pickup into the Missouri River north of Council Bluffs.

Kim Allmon, of Omaha, said her son, 23-year-old Michael Ogborn, has been missing since Oct 29. Allmon says she was told he drove the truck into the river north-northwest of Crescent. Two people in the truck with him swam to safety, but he hasn’t been found.

Chief Deputy John Reynolds with the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office says authorities searched the river on Oct. 29 and for several days afterward.

Allmon says she wants answers and closure. She says she lost Ogborn’s father in a drowning.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man has been hospitalized after he escaped from a house fire in southwest Omaha.

Firetrucks were sent to the scene a little after 10 a.m. Sunday. Neighbors report finding the man in his backyard, suffering from burns. Officials say the man had escaped from the house basement, where the fire started.

The fire cause is being investigated. The man’s name hasn’t been released.