(AP) — The University of Nebraska is teaching interior design strategies that could benefit the elderly.

The university is offering a new, online graduate certificate in gerontology with a concentration in interior design. The online program is taught by faculty through from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. It’s available through the university’s Online Worldwide website.

Professor Julie Masters, the chairwoman of UNO’s Department of Gerontology, says the program will help designers create comforting and supportive environments for older populations. Design changes geared toward older populations could include lower shelves, stair railings and additional support bars.

(AP) — Officials are awaiting results of toxicology tests to determine what killed an 18-year-old whose body was found at a friend’s house in the eastern Nebraska town of Waverly.

Lancaster County Sheriff Terry Wagner said Monday that an autopsy didn’t find any signs of trauma on the body of William “Billy” Tucker.

Tucker and three friends had gone to a Lincoln party on Saturday night and fell asleep there. Wagner says that around 8:30 a.m. Sunday the four went to the Waverly home of one of them. Wagner says Tucker was unresponsive when a 20-year-old woman tried to wake him around 1:45 p.m. Sunday. Waverly rescue workers who responded to a 911 call said Tucker had died.

Tucker graduated from Ashland-Greenwood High School this past spring.

(AP) — An 18-year-old man has pleaded guilty in the slayings of two teen brothers in northwest Ohio.

Michael Fay pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated murder Tuesday morning in Putnam County.

He faces up to life in prison in the May 9 slayings of 14-year-old Blaine Romes and his 17-year-old brother, Blake Romes. Fay is due to be sentenced next month.

Prosecutors say Fay killed the brothers at the Ottawa mobile home he and his mother were sharing with the brothers and their mother.

The brothers were found dead after Fay was arrested in Columbus and pointed officers to them.

(AP) — A therapy pool at an Omaha medical center aims to help rehabilitation patients.

The 55-by-44-foot pool at Alegent Creighton Immanuel Medical Center has a floor that adjusts the water depth. The buoyancy of the 90- to 93-degree water also helps patients increase strength and muscle tone, as well as range of motion.

Outpatient classes help with conditions like arthritis, back pain, orthopaedic injuries, sports injuries and neurological or muscle deficit. Officials say the pool also benefits patients who use wheelchairs since the bottom of the pool can be raised and lowered.

The pool is open to the public.

(AP) — Earlier this year, Warren Buffett congratulated a group of three Kentucky kids for developing kits to help their peers set up businesses.

Now Buffett is teaching the young entrepreneurs how tough business can be by backing a competing product that will be sold exclusively in Toys R Us stores.

Both the new “Business in a Box” kits and the contest the Kentucky kids won in May are tied to “The Secret Millionaire’s Club” cartoon that features advice from an animated Buffett.

A spokeswoman for A Squared Entertainment says the company behind the cartoon started developing the “Business in a Box” kits more than three years ago, so there’s no link to the contest-winning idea.

The kids will likely have a hard time competing but their kits are $5 cheaper.

(AP) — In the oil fields of Texas and North Dakota, communities that are enjoying the most prosperous economic boom in a generation are increasingly thinking about the days after the surge in drilling is over.

Cities like Midland, Texas, are mindful that the runaway riches will eventually run out. So they are taking steps to ensure their towns make a soft landing.

Midland Mayor Wes Perry warns his neighbors not to “go overboard” because the good times can’t last forever.

When the energy market eventually declines, the town wants to avoid being burdened with crushing debt or too many employees. So sales tax revenue is used only for one-time projects, such as street repairs. Police officers are hired piecemeal, two or three a year, as the population increases.

(AP) — Council Bluffs police say a woman shot during a domestic disturbance has died.

Police Sgt. Chad Meyers said Tuesday that 44-year-old Millisa Cox was pronounced dead at a Council Bluffs hospital.

A neighbor, Jennie Rolli, says Millisa Cox came outside around 8 a.m. Tuesday, sat by a tree and yelled for help. She was soon taken to the hospital.

Officers say a man inside the home refused to come out, and a negotiator and a SWAT unit were called in. The officers rushed into the house about 9:45 a.m. to end the standoff. They found the woman’s husband, 55-year-old Darwin Cox.

Meyers says Darwin Cox had shot himself in the head but the wound appeared to be superficial. He was taken to a hospital in nearby Omaha, Neb.

(AP) — The city of Council Bluffs will pay $6 million to settle a lawsuit with two Omaha, Neb., men who sued after the courts concluded they were wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 25 years.

Terry Harrington and Curtis McGhee will be paid $2.3 million immediately and the remainder in six annual payments of more than $528,500. A final payment of just over $728,500 will be made in July 2020.

The agreement splits the money evenly between the two men in exchange for dismissal of the lawsuit.

The agreement specifies no admission of fault or liability by any party or implies wrongdoing.

Details, initially sealed on Friday, were ordered unsealed Tuesday after The Associated Press filed a freedom of information request under Iowa’s open records law.

(AP) — The 17-year-old victim of an attack at a Lincoln high school has been warmly greeted as she returned to classes.

Ellen Kopetzky got a standing ovation Tuesday morning when she entered the gym at Pius X High School.

In brief remarks to teachers, administrators and fellow students, Kopetzky said it was “great to be back.”

She was attacked Oct. 7 in a school bathroom by another student. Kopetzky was released from a hospital the next day, after facial surgery.

The 16-year-old suspect fled the school and was found on Oct. 8 in southeast Kansas. She’s since returned and is charged as an adult. The Associated Press is not using the girl’s name because the AP generally doesn’t identify juveniles accused of crimes.

(AP) — Lincoln police are investigating the theft of $135,000 from an aircraft sales company.

The Lincoln Police Department says Duncan Aviation reported the theft Thursday after a shareholder said someone hacked into his email account and moved money within several bank transactions in late September and early October.

Police did not explain why $135,000 of company money was in the shareholder’s account. Company officials declined to comment.

Police are working with fraud investigators at the banks where the money was transferred. Officer Katie Flood declined to say whether authorities had a suspect.