LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have released the names of two drivers involved in a fatal collision in south Lincoln.

The accident occurred around 3 p.m. Monday at the intersection of Old Cheney Road and Nebraska Highway 2. Police say a car was struck by another westbound vehicle.

The car driver was pronounced dead at a Lincoln hospital. On Tuesday police identified him as 81-year-old Monty McMahon, of Lincoln. The woman driving the other vehicle was treated for non-life-threatening injuries. She was identified as 50-year-old Laurie Clemons.

Officers are still investigating the accident.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska appeals court has rejected an appeal from an Omaha man serving up to 90 years in prison for robbing a store at gunpoint, then arranging from jail to have a witness shot.

Prosecutors say Gatdet Chuol and another man robbed an Omaha clothing store at gunpoint in June 2011. After Chuol was arrested and jailed, authorities say he recruited his younger brother to kill store manager Matthew Kim to keep him from testifying.

Kim was shot up to nine times, but survived.

On Tuesday, the Nebraska Court of Appeals upheld a judge’s rejection of Chuol’s motion for post-conviction relief, saying there was no merit to his arguments that prosecutors breached the terms of a plea agreement and that his lawyer was ineffective.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Innovation Campus has repurposed trees from the former State Fair Park for furniture at the research campus.

The 250-acre research campus facilitates partnerships between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the private sector.

Last week, a boardroom table crafted from green ash trees was installed in the Innovation Commons to be used by various groups, according to developer Josh Berger. It took over 300 man-hours for Jay Ryan of Jay’s Woods in Bennet to create the template for the 22-foot-long table, and glue strips of green ash together. The table’s base was constructed by TMCO of Lincoln.

Another table that will be built from wood from the fairgrounds this spring will be installed in the campus’ Food Innovation Center, which will open later this year.

TOBIAS, Neb. (AP) — A 49-year-old woman has been killed in a vehicle crash in western Saline County.

The accident occurred a little after 11 p.m. Sunday on County Road 600, about six miles northeast of Tobias. Sheriff Alan Moore says Cynthia Crabtree was driving south when she lost control of her vehicle. It went into a ditch and struck a utility pole. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

The crash is being investigated.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln authorities say a woman broke a basement window to escape a house fire with her four-month-old baby.

Fire investigator Chuck Schweitzer says an improperly discarded cigarette sparked the Monday afternoon blaze, which started on the home’s front porch. The mother and child were sleeping downstairs when the mother smelled smoke and went upstairs.

Schweitzer says the woman saw heavy smoke and flames on the first floor before returning to the basement. She broke a window, escaped from the home with her child and called 911.

Schweitzer says he found heavy damage inside the home from smoke and flames as well as water damage.