(AP) — Authorities have found empty alcohol containers amid the wreckage of a car in an accident that killed five cast and crew members of the musical drama “Texas.”

Department of Public Safety spokesman Christopher Ray said Wednesday he didn’t know if the containers were beer cans or liquor bottles or where specifically they were located.

DPS has said alcohol is suspected as a factor in Monday night’s crash when a car carrying six people ran a stop sign and collided with an 18-wheeler near Dumas.

A spokesman for an Amarillo hospital said Wednesday that Timothy Johnson of Houston, the only survivor from the car, remained in critical condition. The truck driver was stable.

Organizers canceled Wednesday performance. The show continues Thursday through Sunday to end the season.

(AP) — The famed piano maker Steinway is being sold for $499 million.

The company terminated an existing sales agreement with Kohlberg & Co. after it was outbid by another investment firm, Paulson & Co.

Paulson topped Kohlberg’s offer by $3 per share.

Steinway, which is being taken private, will have to pay a termination fee of about $6.7 million.

Paulson will ultimately pay $40 per share for the Waltham, Mass., company. Steinway valued the sale at about $512 million.

Paulson will open a tender offer for shares of Steinway Musical Instruments Inc. within the next five days.

(AP) — A Utah beauty pageant winner charged with tossing homemade bombs from a vehicle has relinquished her crown.

Kendra McKenzie Gill said she and her friends feel terrible about the incident, but she insists they were just playing a practical joke and never threw the explosives at people.

Gill and three friends were charged last week with four felony counts of possession of an explosive device.

Prosecutors say the 18-year-olds drove around town Aug. 2 and tossed plastic bottles of toilet bowl cleaner and shrapnel at people and property.

Nobody was injured.

Gill topped a slate of nine beauty contestants earlier this summer to become Miss Riverton.

She said knew she’d probably have the title revoked, and wanted to step down before it was taken from her.

(AP) — A man has been jailed on charges that he tried to rob an 8-year-old girl who was on her way to buy vegetables at an eastern Pennsylvania market with $5 from her grandmother.

Reading police say the girl was sent to buy carrots for some beef stew when Jackenzy Pierre confronted her at about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. Police say he had a six-inch kitchen knife and said, “Give me all your money.” Instead, the girl ran home and later identified Pierre as her attacker.

Online court records don’t list an attorney for Pierre, who is 18. He faces a preliminary hearing Aug. 23 on charges including threat of robbery, terroristic threats and harassment. Reading police say recently moved to the city from Haiti.

(AP) — Authorities say an eastern Nebraska man has died after crashing his motorcycle in Omaha.

Police say the accident occurred around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday at an entrance to Elmwood Park. The westbound motorcycle failed to negotiate a curve and ran off the road, hitting a metal utility pole.

Police say he died later at Nebraska Medical Center.

He was identified as 22-year-old Fredrick Getzschman IV, of Herman. An autopsy is scheduled for later Wednesday.

(AP) — Authorities say a two-vehicle collision in eastern Nebraska has injured the driver of a motorcycle.

Police say 65-year-old James Garrett, of Papillion, was taken via medical helicopter Wednesday morning to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Authorities say an SUV driven by 25-year-old Jacob Molko turned in front of Garrett’s motorcycle as it traveled in Sarpy County. Molko was not injured.

No citations have been issued at this time. The investigation is ongoing.

(AP) — A former doctor accused of killing four people with ties to an Omaha medical school will stand trial on four counts of first-degree murder.

Douglas County Judge Darryl Lowe ruled Wednesday that there is enough evidence for Anthony Garcia’s case to go to trial.

Garcia, of Terra Haute, Ind., is charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the 2008 deaths of the 11-year-old son of Creighton University pathologist William Hunter and the family’s housekeeper, as well as the deaths in May of Creighton pathologist Roger Brumback and his wife.

Brumback and Hunter had fired Garcia from the Creighton pathology program in 2001.

(AP) — The new chief of police in Aurora rose from the ranks.

Paul Graham assumed the post after Tuesday night’s City Council meeting.

He takes over for Chief Godfrey Brokenrope, who died July 27. His motorcycle crashed two days earlier on Interstate 80 near Seward.

Graham has been the acting chief since Brokenrope’s death and has been on the Aurora force since November 1993.

(AP) — A 22-year-old Lincoln man accused of fleeing police has been given four to six years in prison for stealing a truck.

Online court records say Shawn Brooks was sentenced on Tuesday. He’d pleaded guilty to theft after prosecutors dropped a felony charge that he fled in a vehicle to avoid arrest.

Authorities say Brooks stole a pickup on Feb. 10 when the owner left it running near a drive-thru restaurant. Police say Brooks was captured when he ran following the truck’s crash into a utility pole.

(AP) — Imagine the first day of school, when you don’t even know the language on the wall signs that could guide you to your classroom.

That’s what faced scores of new students who began their classes Tuesday in Lincoln.

More than 2,100 English Language Learners attended Lincoln Public Schools last year. The designation is given students from other countries who can’t speak English proficiently. There were 53 different languages among those 2,100-plus students.

At Park Middle School, 101 English Language Learner students from 15 different countries were bused in on Tuesday. The newest students were helped by others who speak the same native language.