OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Most of the fastest growing cities in Nebraska are located near the state’s biggest cities of Lincoln and Omaha.

U.S. Census estimates released Thursday show that the town of Hickman just south of Lincoln had the fastest growth rate between 2010 and 2016 at 29 percent. Hickman had 2,109 residents last July.

The next biggest population gain was recorded in the Omaha suburb of Ralston, which grew 23 percent to 7,329.

The state’s largest city of Omaha grew 9.3 percent to 446,970 between 2010 and 2016. Lincoln grew 8.5 percent to 280,364.

Kearney is the only fast-growing city in the state that isn’t near Lincoln or Omaha. Kearney grew 8.9 percent to 33,520.

Nebraska’s population grew 4.4 percent to top 1.9 million last year for the first time.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — Staff and residents from a Nebraska center for people with developmental disabilities have been visiting a local cemetery around Memorial Day for two decades to ensure former residents are remembered.

A dozen staff members and six residents from Beatrice State Developmental Center visited Evergreen Home Cemetery on Wednesday.

They planted wooden crosses in front of headstones in a section known as Block 47, where more than 200 of the center’s former residents have been buried over the past century.

Dr. Robert Schalock says the facility stopped imprinting patients’ names on their headstones in 1935, and he fears families will forget them.

The center’s active treatment program manager, Tammy Weichel, says decorating graves is a way to make sure nobody is forgotten.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Officials say a deadly uprising at a Nebraska prison began because inmates were angry that prison staffers had confiscated 150 pounds (68 kilograms) of homemade alcohol from them.

Corrections officials said Thursday that the inmates made the alcohol using bread, fruit and sugar from the prison’s kitchen and stored it in watertight footlockers under their beds.

Officials say inmates also were angry about what they perceived as a correctional officer’s assault on a prisoner at the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution. Warden Brad Hansen says security footage shows the officer bumped into the inmate unintentionally on a narrow walkway.

Hansen says both incidents contributed to the March 2 uprising that left two inmates dead.

Corrections director Scott Frakes says officials have made improvements in response to an outside consultant’s review.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska telecommunications regulator has resigned following criticism that he worked part-time for a telecommunications consulting firm.

Jeff Pursley will step down as the Nebraska Public Service Commission’s executive director. Pursley has drawn scrutiny for his position with Parrish, Blessing and Associates, but the Nebraska attorney general’s office has said he didn’t violate state law. The commission announced Pursley’s resignation in a statement Thursday.

Pursley has said the commission’s five elected members knew about his part-time work when they hired him two years ago. He says he kept the job because it offered health insurance vital to his family.

The commission regulates oil pipelines, telecommunications, natural gas utilities, grain dealers, taxies, manufactured homes and recreational vehicles.

Commission chairman Tim Schram says Pursley is a nationally recognized expert in his field.