LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Two students have been injured in a chemical explosion in a University of Nebraska-Lincoln laboratory.

Authorities say a container holding nitric acid and other chemicals burst inside the lab in Theodore Jorgensen Hall, which houses the school’s physics and astronomy department. The container explosion injured two male students, ages 19 and 22.

Officials say one student suffered facial injuries and the other suffered inhalation burns. Neither student is believed to have suffered life-threatening injuries.

Firefighters say the hall was evacuated, but that the danger was contained to the lab.

No other injuries were reported.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A grand jury has found no wrongdoing in the August death of an inmate who collapsed while playing basketball.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports that the grand jury report says 35-year-old Lucius Turner died last year at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln as a result of an abnormal heartbeat due to heart disease.

A criminal investigator with the Nebraska State Patrol testified that Turner had just made a jump shot, high-fived another inmate, and then collapsed as he went to sit down.

Staff called 911, began CPR and used a defibrillator before medics took over. Turner was later pronounced dead.

Turner was serving a sentence of 40-55 years for robberies in Gage and Lancaster counties.

State law requires a grand jury investigation whenever someone dies in custody.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A former Omaha youth pastor accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl has been sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to a reduced charge.

The Omaha World-Herald reports that 35-year-old Klint Bitter was sentenced Wednesday in Sarpy County District Court for a count of attempted first-degree sexual assault.

Authorities say Bitter found the girl in an online classified ad for an 18-year-old girl and had sex with her in 2017. Bitter has said he had asked the girl whether she was underage.

Officials say Bitter was youth pastor at Christ Community Church in Omaha but was fired after he was charged.

ELWOOD, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have released the names of a driver killed and another injured in a southern Nebraska collision.

The crash occurred around 9:20 a.m. Tuesday on Nebraska Highway 23, about 3 miles (5 kilometers) east of Elwood.

Gosper County Sheriff Dennis Ocken says a pickup truck driven by 73-year-old Marlow Anderson crossed into the path of an oncoming fuel truck being driven by 43-year-old Christopher Brink, of Holdrege.

Ocken says Anderson died at the scene, before he could be flown to a hospital. He lived in Lincoln. Brink suffered only minor injuries.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A contracting company has fired an Omaha school bus driver shown using his cellphone for more than two minutes while driving.

A Norris Middle School student recorded what she saw and then posted it Monday on Facebook. It shows him looking down at the phone screen, occasionally tapping it and then holding it to an ear. The video ran more than two minutes.

Omaha Public Schools spokeswoman Monique Farmer says Student Transportation of America immediately dismissed the driver once it learned of the video Tuesday.

Driver Niquet Belizere told station KETV he knew what he did was dangerous but necessary. He said he was scrolling through contacts to find his daughter a ride home from school because her usual ride didn’t show up.

He’d driven more than two years for the company.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A Bellevue woman convicted of animal cruelty after she left two dogs to die in a hot car has been sentenced to a year in prison.

Omaha television station KETV reports that 38-year-old Ashley Alberts-Roach was sentenced Wednesday in Sarpy County District Court. The judge rejected her attorney’s request for probation.

Alberts-Roach is also banned from owning or having a dog in her possession for the next 30 years.

Alberts-Roach was charged with two felony counts of animal cruelty after she left her boyfriend’s two dogs inside her car for four hours in August 2016. The dogs died from the heat.