(AP) — Authorities say a man found the severed head of a dog at a park in a small town in Colorado and are looking into what led to the decapitation.

The head was found in El Jebel, south of Glenwood Springs and about 175 miles west of Denver.

Authorities say the rest of the animal’s body has not been found, and there is no evidence another animal was responsible.

The remains have been turned over to Eagle County Animal Services, which is handling the investigation.

The man says he found the carcass lying on the grass east of the tennis courts at Crown Mountain Park. He was not identified.

(AP) — Authorities say a 28-year-old man has died after being shot outside an apartment building in northeast Omaha.

Omaha police identified the victim as Kevin McIntyre.

Officers who were sent to the area about 6:45 p.m. Sunday found McIntyre near a porch outside the building. Police say he died later at Nebraska Medical Center.

No arrests have been reported.

(AP) — A jogger who was struck by a car in northwest Lincoln has died.

Lincoln Police Capt. David Beggs said Monday that 30-year-old Jesse Meints (meynetz) died after 7 p.m. Sunday. Meints was taken to a Lincoln hospital after he was hit around 11 p.m. Thursday in the Air Park neighborhood.

Police say the Lincoln man was on a late-night run when he was struck by the car driven by 25-year-old Joshua Kelso. Kelso told officers he didn’t see Meints until it was too late to stop in time.

Police said no citations have been issued.

(AP) — A man is being treated at an Omaha hospital after being shot in a confrontation with Council Bluffs police.

Few details were immediately released about the Sunday afternoon confrontation on the north side of Council Bluffs.

Officials said the man was armed with a knife and suffered several gunshot wounds to his chest.

The man may have also had self-inflicted wounds to his wrists.

(AP) — A cemetery where residents of a Nebraska home for the mentally ill were buried anonymously is being renovated as part of a Lincoln teen’s Eagle Scout project.

15-year-old Ethan Cecava organized Saturday’s excavations at the Calvert Street Cemetery to uncover forgotten grave markers.

Cecava also put together a map and built a kiosk to help family members find where loved ones were buried from 1872 to 1927.

Cecava picked the Calvert Street Cemetery after reading news stories about how 467 people had been buried there anonymously.

It wasn’t until a 2009 Nebraska Supreme Court ruling that the state’s mental hospitals were allowed to release the names of people buried in their cemeteries.

(AP) — Police are trying to determine how a man who was found outside in the eastern Nebraska city of Hastings died.

Police Sgt. Jim Baldwin said someone reported seeing the man’s body in the 800 block of West H Street around 5:30 a.m. Sunday.

The man has not been identified, and police aren’t yet sure how he died.

Baldwin says investigators will look at whether the death was suspicious or natural.

An autopsy will be conducted sometime this week.

(AP) — A Nebraska man is getting another chance to challenge ATM fees that two banks charged without providing proper notice.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that Jarek Charvat’s lawsuits against First National Bank of Wahoo and Mutual First Federal Credit Union should be reinstated.

Charvat says both banks violated the law because they didn’t have notices about the fees their charge displayed on their ATMs even though they did warm about the fees on screen. The law requires both notices.

The banks denied any wrongdoing in court filings.

The appeals court ruled that a lower court was wrong to throw out Charvat’s lawsuits, which were filed in January.

 

(AP) — Firefighters say 11 people, including nine children, escaped an Omaha house fire unharmed.

The fire was reported Friday afternoon.

Officials say the house in north Omaha sustained heavy smoke and water damage. The American Red Cross is assisting the family until they can get back into their home.

Officials have not said how the fire started.

(AP) — Authorities are searching for a man who did not return to jail from a work release facility in Council Bluffs.

The U.S. Marshal’s Office and Iowa State Patrol say 52-year-old Michael Hannum was last seen at a work release facility around 5:40 a.m. Saturday. Authorities say they discovered he was missing during an inmate count at 7 a.m. Saturday.

Hannum is believed to be driving a silver car with the Iowa license plate number SIS-613. Authorities believe he may be across the Missouri River in Omaha, Neb.

(AP) — A new Omaha public middle school opening later this month will bear the name a Tuskegee Airman who died during World War II.

Omaha Public Schools formally dedicated Alfonza W. Davis Middle School in northwest Omaha on Friday night. Classes start Aug. 14.

Davis was born in Pensacola, Fla., in August 1919 before his family moved to Omaha when he was a baby. He attended Omaha public schools and graduated valedictorian from the now-closed Omaha Technical High School in March 1937.

Davis later attended Omaha University, now the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and Creighton University.

He was 25 when his plane disappeared over Italy on Oct. 29, 1944. He received the Purple Heart, the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Distinguished Unit Citation.