DETROIT (AP) — Takata is adding 2.7 million vehicles from Ford, Nissan and Mazda to the long list of those recalled to replace potentially dangerous air bag inflators.

The inflators are a new type that previously was thought to be safe. Vehicles affected are from the 2005 through 2012 model years.

Takata inflators can explode with too much force and spew shrapnel into drivers and passengers. At least 17 people have died and more than 180 injured due to the problem.

Takata uses the chemical ammonium nitrate to inflate air bags. But it can deteriorate when exposed to humidity and high temperatures. Previously the company thought inflators with a drying agent were safe. But the government says new tests show that some inflators with the drying agent pose a safety risk.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s occupational licensing requirements will continue to face scrutiny from advocates and lawmakers who view some as unnecessary barriers to creating more jobs.

The Platte Institute for Economic Development said Tuesday it will keep pursuing the issue along with lawmakers who are researching different licensing requirements before next year’s session.

The group cited a report, the 50-State Small Business Regulation Index, which ranked Nebraska among the 10 most regulated states when it comes to occupational licensing rules.

Lawmakers this year approved job-licensing changes for real estate agents, dental hygienists, bank loan officers and car salespeople, among other professions. Other proposals stalled in committee, including a bill to relax training requirements for cosmetologists to bring them more in line with the national average.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts is kicking off a tour of businesses throughout the state in the build up to a state economic development summit later this week.

Ricketts said Tuesday that the summit will focus on issues such as affordable housing and ways to address the state’s workforce shortage.

His comments came following a tour of LI-COR Biosciences in Lincoln, one of several companies that helped Nebraska win a national economic development award. Nebraska now has the most economic development projects per capita in the nation.

Ricketts toured an energy company in Adams earlier Tuesday, and later this week he’s expected to visit companies in Snyder, West Point, Falls City, Endicott, Kearney and McCook.

The Governor’s Summit on Economic Development is scheduled for Thursday in Lincoln.

Update 7.12.17

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A young man is dead and a woman was treated for a gunshot wound to the hand following a disturbance in Hershey on Tuesday afternoon.

According to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the report of a shooting on East Second Street, in Hershey, at around 1:56 p.m.

Deputies arrived and found a female with a gunshot wound to her hand.  It was reported that a male subject was also shot and may be deceased.

Deputies entered the residence and found the “young man” deceased from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

A preliminary investigation revealed that a young couple had gotten into an argument at an earlier time.

Chief Deputy Roland Kramer says the female went to her mother’s house in Hershey. At around 1:55 p.m., the male subject arrived at the residence armed with a handgun.  He stated that he wanted to talk to his girlfriend.

Kramer says a struggle occurred between the male subject, the mother, and the mother’s boyfriend.

At some point, the mother was reportedly shot in the hand. Kramer says all subjects then fled the home and the young male turned the gun on himself.  He was pronounced dead at the scene.  The mother was taken to Great Plains Health for treatment. Her injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.

Kramer says the investigation is ongoing and the names of those involved are being withheld at this time.