NEOLA, Iowa (AP) — A Nebraska man has died after the motorcycle he was driving hit a livestock trailer in western Iowa.

26-year-old Adam Blake, of Omaha, Nebraska, died following the crash Thursday night on a county road near Neola.

The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office says Blake was traveling southbound on the road behind a pickup truck pulling the empty trailer. Investigators say Blake hit the trailer when the truck slowed to turn left.

Officials say Blake died at the scene.

The crash remains under investigation.

YORK, Neb. (AP) — Officials say a southeastern Nebraska fencing and building materials manufacturer has lost one of its buildings following an explosion.

York Fire Chief Michael Lloyd said that firefighters were called to a building across the street from Ply Gem in York just before 2 a.m. Saturday by workers who reported an explosion. Arriving firefighters found the building fully engulfed in flames. Lloyd says it took crews five hours to extinguish the flames. No one was injured.

The Nebraska Fire Marshal’s office is investigating what caused the explosion.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say an 18-year-old died after his sport utility vehicle collided with a pickup truck just south of Beatrice in southeast Nebraska.

The Gage County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday that Shawn Vraspir, of Beatrice, was driving west on a county road when he didn’t halt at a stop sign and collided with the northbound pickup on U.S. Highway 77. He was pronounced dead at the scene Wednesday afternoon.

The office says the pickup driver was taken to a hospital for treatment of injuries thought to be non-life-threatening. She was identified as 47-year-old Sadie Saunders, of Topeka, Kansas.

LYONS, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a man killed himself and a woman was shot several times at her home in northeast Nebraska.

Deputies were sent Wednesday night to a residence about 4 miles (7 kilometers) northeast of Lyons after a woman called 911, saying she needed help because someone was there with a gun. A Burt County news release says they found 34-year-old Megan Cameron in the doorway of her home, suffering from several gunshot wounds. Inside they found the body of 36-year-old Judd Bogseth. The release says it appears he shot himself.

Cameron was flown to a Sioux City, Iowa, hospital.

Sheriff Robert Pickell also in the release that Bogseth had forcibly entered Cameron’s home. The sheriff didn’t say, however, whether the case is being investigated as an attempted murder followed by a suicide. The sheriff didn’t immediately return a call Friday from The Associated Press.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — County officials say an eastern Nebraska jail needs to be replaced immediately due to rapid overcrowding.

Sarpy County officials are already working on a plan to build a new jail, the Omaha World-Herald reported. The county jail has regularly exceeded its capacity since the 1990s.

Corrections officials oftentimes have to house inmates as far as halfway across the state as nearby jails also fill up, said Stu De La Castro, director of the county’s administrative services. Transportation costs can be hefty considering inmates must return to the county for court appearances.

There is $1.5 million in this year’s budget for housing inmates outside of the county. The county estimates it will cost about $2.9 million annually to house inmates elsewhere by 2025.

Housing and transporting inmates outside of the county can also be dangerous and time-consuming for county sheriff’s deputies, said Chief Deputy Gregg London.

“It’s not, ‘Do we build it?’ or ‘Do we not build it?'” said Jim Warren, a member of the Sarpy County Board. “It’s a matter of ‘What do we build?'”

The county plans to acquire land for a new facility by the end of the year, De La Castro said.

The county has approved a contract with real estate consultant Midwest Right of Way Services to help acquire a site, though one hasn’t been selected yet. A new jail could be operating within three years, he said.

County officials want to ensure that the new jail will have an accompanying mental health facility and space for programs like GED certificate classes and anger management training.

“We’d do this broad spectrum of things to help people … be able to successfully re-enter society when they leave,” De La Castro said. “So we don’t have this big revolving door.”

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A jury in Texas has issued a nearly $90 million verdict against Omaha trucking company Werner Enterprises.

The award was handed down Thursday in a lawsuit brought by the family of a Houston boy who died in a 2014 crash with a Werner truck on Interstate 20 in Texas.

Werner says it will appeal the $89.6 million verdict.

Seven-year-old Zack Blake died in the crash, and his 12-year-old sister suffered a traumatic brain injury that left her a quadriplegic. The children’s mother, Jennifer Blake, and an older son were seriously injured.

The lawsuit says Werner disregarded safety policies during a winter storm that produced freezing rain.

But Werner says it was the Blake family pickup truck that went out of control, crossed a median and hit the Werner truck. Werner says the semitrailer was traveling well below the posted speed limit at the time of the crash.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man who played football for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and for the University of Nebraska at Omaha has been shot outside a bar in Omaha.

Randy Stella was taken to Creighton University Medical Center-Bergan Mercy after the shooting late Wednesday night in the parking lot of the IceHouse Sports Bar. Police say he was shot in a side of his face. No arrests have been reported.

His mother told the Omaha World-Herald that he’s expected to recover.

Stella played linebacker on the Lincoln squad in the 1999 and 2000 seasons. He was dismissed in August 2001 for violating team policies. He finished his college career on the Omaha squad in 2004.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Six young squirrels whose tails were stuck together by tree sap are recovering after a Nebraska wildlife expert untangled them.

A Nebraska Humane Society worker rescued the squirrels from a pine tree in Omaha last week. Nebraska Wildlife Rehab executive director Laura Stastny that the sap-covered tails became knotted as the youngsters wrestled in their nest. Stastny says they are about 8 weeks old.

Resident Craig Luttman spotted the rodents’ predicament, describing it Thursday as “kind of like a tug of war, going in completely opposite directions.”

Stastny gave the squirrels a mild painkiller before removing the sticky fur and untangling them. She says some of them suffered injuries to their tails, but that she expects all six to be released in a few weeks.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say one person died and another was injured in a collision just south of Beatrice in southeast Nebraska.

Firefighters, medics and deputies were sent to the intersection of U.S. Highway 77 and West Lilac Road a little before 2 p.m. Wednesday. Deputies say it’s unclear what happened, other than a northbound pickup truck on the highway collided with a sport utility vehicle that had been westbound on Lilac.

Authorities say the SUV driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The pickup driver was injured. Their names haven’t been released.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A man suspected of twice robbing a south Lincoln bank branch has been given seven years in federal prison.

38-year-old Jason McCain, of Omaha, was sentenced last week. He’d pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery.

Police say McCain wore a black mask but didn’t show a weapon on April 22 last year when robbing the U.S. Bank branch. Investigators eventually concluded that he’d also robbed the bank on Feb. 24 last year.

McCain already has served federal prison time for bank robberies in Omaha.