(AP) — A Denton man and his son are recovering after pellets from a shotgun blast struck them in the face while they were hunting doves.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission says 27-year-old Francisco Barbosa Almazan, and his 8-year-old son were hurt while hunting doves at around 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Yankee Hill Wildlife Management Area in Lancaster County.

The commission says in a statement 23-year-old Arturo Garcia of Omaha, who was hunting in the same area turned quickly to shoot at a dove when pellets from his shot struck Almazan and his son.

Almazan was treated and released from a hospital. His son was held overnight for observation. A third member of their hunting party was not injured.

Denton is 13 miles southwest of Lincoln.

(AP) — Nebraskans can have their well water screened for nitrates during Husker Harvest Days in Grand Island on Sept. 10, 11, and 12.

People can take a cup of water in a clean bottle to the Natural Resources Building on the southeast side of the Husker Harvest grounds, East Avenue and Second Street. Samples will be accepted Sept. 10 and 11 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., and on Sept. 12 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.

There is no charge for the screening. Results will be available within minutes.

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services recommends that well water be tested yearly for nitrate concentrations. Experts say nitrates pose health hazards, especially to infants.

Nitrates can occur naturally, but they also are byproducts of fertilizer and manure.

(AP) — Voters are deciding on whether to issue up to $33 million in bonds for a new high school and renovations at the elementary and middle schools in Crete.

The projects would help Crete Public Schools with its overcrowding problem. Steady enrollment growth during the past nine years brought 320 more students to the district. The district now has nearly 1,900 students.

Superintendent Kyle McGowan says passing a big bond issue now will let the district take advantage of a 4 percent interest rate for all of the district building needs rather than trying to take care of them piecemeal.

Ballots mailed out Friday for the all-mail election must be returned to the Saline County Clerk’s Office by Sept. 10.

(AP) — The tax fraud case against a prominent former Nebraska businessman has been dropped.

Prosecutors didn’t have enough evidence to prove Mark Pieloch intended to evade sales tax on a sport utility vehicle he bought in Nebraska.

Pieloch had denied wrongdoing and said he paid the taxes in South Dakota.

So Lancaster County Attorney Joe Kelly decided he drop the charge accusing Pieloch of failing to pay $2,900 in taxes on a 2009 Chevrolet Avalanche he bought in Lincoln.

Pieloch is president of Pharma Chemie and he donated $1.5 million to the Capital Humane Society to help build the adoption center that’s named in his honor.

Pieloch moved his business from Syracuse to Melbourne, Fla., in 2011.

(AP) — Authorities are searching for the mother of a newborn baby boy who was found in a pile of trash in Jersey City.

Hudson County prosecutors say the child was found Saturday afternoon near the city’s McGinley Square neighborhood. The boy was taken to Jersey City Medical Center, where a spokesman tells The Newark Star-Ledger the boy was breathing on his own.

Prosecutors did not disclose how long the child may have been outside.

Residents who live nearby say neighborhood children heard crying and saw movement in a pile of trash, then alerted the building superintendent, who called police.

Building superintendent Arturo Rivas tells The Jersey Journal he usually kicks kids out of the courtyard where the baby was found, but this time he’s glad the teens were there.

(AP) — Investigators are trying to determine why a Nebraska man lost control of his vehicle and collided with two semitrailer trucks on Interstate 80.

The Sarpy County Sheriff’s department says Benjamin Behlen of Columbus was killed in the crash near Gretna Saturday evening. A woman in one of the trucks was injured.

The sheriff’s department says Behlen was speeding eastbound before he lost control of his car, crossed the median and hit the trucks near a rest area. One of the trucks lost control and tipped over.

Authorities say neither truck driver was hurt, but a passenger in one truck sustained minor injuries.

(AP) — The son of University of Nebraska President J.B Milliken has been cited on suspicion of having marijuana on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus.

Authorities say 20-year-old freshman James Milliken Jr. was cited Friday morning.

UNL Police Sgt. Dave Dibelka says the younger Milliken was found with five grams of marijuana and a glass pipe on the top floor of a campus parking garage.

Police went to the garage around 3:15 a.m. for a report of suspicious activity.

The offense is an infraction, similar to a minor traffic offense, and Milliken was not arrested.

(AP) — A 24-year-old man accused of breaking into a home to rob and killing another man he found inside has been convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

Endre Turner was convicted Friday of first-degree murder and a weapons count in the 2011 death of 21-year-old Richard Harrison. Police say Harrison’s mother discovered his bloody body in a closet on Sept. 29.

Prosecutors said during Turner’s trial that he killed Harrison to keep Harrison from being able to identify him to police.

In an unusual move, Douglas County District Judge James Gleason immediately sentenced Turner to life following the verdict. Life without parole is mandatory for first-degree murder, if the death penalty is not imposed.

(AP) — An apartment fire in the eastern Nebraska city of Columbus this week sent one woman to the hospital.

The fire occurred Wednesday and extensively damaged the building.

Rescue workers took a woman who lived in one of the building’s eight apartments to Columbus Community Hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation.

The Nebraska State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating the cause of the fire.

(AP) — The case of a 16-year-old charged in the deaths of three other teens killed in a crash will be moved to juvenile court.

The Fremont teen is charged with willful reckless driving, racing on the highway and driving left of center.

Investigators say the teen was racing another car carrying four 16-year-old boys from Fremont in early June when the crash occurred.

Jackson Blick and Tyler Walling died at the scene. Trey Hansen died later at an Omaha hospital. Another 16-year-old was seriously injured and is recovering from his injuries.