(AP) — Authorities have released the name of a man who was shot to death outside a beauty supply store in north-central Omaha.

Omaha police identified him as 29-year-old Darnell Haynes.

Haynes was sitting alone in his sport utility vehicle when he was shot about 3:20 p.m. Sunday outside Mid-K Beauty Supply. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

No arrest has been reported.

(AP) — Legal experts say it won’t be easy for the Justice Department to mount a federal civil rights case against George Zimmerman after a Florida jury acquitted him of state charges in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

One observer, former U.S. Attorney Alan Vinegrad, says the department would have to show, among other things, that the attack was unjustified and racially motivated.

Those are some of the same challenges that complicated the unsuccessful state case.

The Justice Department says it’s reviewing evidence to determine whether criminal civil rights charges are warranted. It had opened an investigation into Martin’s death last year but stepped aside to allow the state prosecution to proceed.

The NAACP and other groups have called on the Justice Department to open a civil rights case against Zimmerman.

 

(AP) — Authorities say two drivers have been killed in a head-on collision near Murray in eastern Nebraska.

The Cass County Sheriff’s Office says the accident occurred around 5:30 a.m. Sunday on U.S. Highway 75. The office says a southbound car driven by 21-year-old Efrain Soto, of Omaha, crossed into oncoming traffic and struck a vehicle driven by 43-yaer-old Dion Higgins, of Nebraska City.

Both men were pronounced at the scene.

The accident and subsequent investigation forced the shutdown of the highway for seven hours.

(AP) — Authorities are investigating the shooting death of a 69-year-old Gretna man as a homicide, and a suspect is in custody.

The Sarpy County Sheriff’s department says William H. Braesch was found dead from gunshot wounds inside his home around 8 p.m. Saturday.

Authorities say they won’t identify the suspect until after they finish interviewing witnesses.

An autopsy on Braesch’s body is planned to be done on Monday.

(AP) — Omaha police are busy investigating two different homicides.

One death was reported in southeast Omaha on Sunday morning. The other occurred Sunday afternoon in northeast Omaha.

Omaha Police Officer James Shade says officers were called to the Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club building in southeast Omaha around 10:45 a.m.

Shade says a dead man was found inside the club, and the circumstances were suspicious but few details were released.

In the other homicide, someone sitting in an SUV was shot and killed outside a beauty supply store.

(AP) — Officials say a Florida motorcycle racer trying to top 300 mph died after losing control and crashing at an annual speed trial event in northern Maine.

The Loring Timing Association says 44-year-old Bill Warner of Wimauma, Fla., crashed Sunday during The Maine Event, a race being held on a runway at the former Loring Air Force Base.

Race Director Tim Kelly says Warner was clocked at 285 mph before he lost control. He says Warner was conscious and talking as he was taken from the scene but died later at a hospital.

Warner rode a modified turbocharged Suzuki Hayabusa. He previously hit 311 mph on the same course in 2011, using 1.5 miles of pavement. This time he was trying to hit 300 mph using just a mile of pavement.

(AP) — The Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant has missed another target date for restarting, so the Omaha Public Power District might have to endure another summer of buying electricity to meet peak demand.

OPPD officials say they’ve addressed most of what regulators want them to do at the idle nuclear plant, but the Nuclear Regulatory Commission says more work remains.

The plant, which sits across from Iowa on the Missouri River about 20 miles north of Omaha, has been closed since April 2011. It initially shut down for routine maintenance, but significant flooding in 2011 and a series of safety violations forced it to remain closed.

OPPD spokesman Jeff Hanson says repairs and inspections at Fort Calhoun are taking longer than expected. But so far the work remains within budget.

(AP) — Authorities are investigating a two-vehicle crash in northeast Nebraska that killed an Omaha man and injured two baseball coaches from Seward.

The Cuming County Sheriff’s office says 60-year-old John Bobier was killed in the Saturday afternoon crash on U.S. Highway 275.

Bobier’s SUV veered into oncoming northbound traffic on the highway before colliding with the pickup truck 42-year-old Randy Rolenc was driving.

Bobier died at the scene of the accident about four miles south of West Point. He was not wearing a seat belt.

Rolenc and his passenger, 33-year-old Brock Anderson, were treated at the West Point hospital and released later. They were wearing seat belts.

Rolenc and Anderson both coach Seward’s American Legion baseball team. The teams’ Saturday games in Pender were cancelled.

(AP) — Police have identified two people killed when their speeding car slammed into a southeastern Omaha thrift store, destroying much of the building.

Police say 24-year-old Dustin Hollenbeck and 20-year-old Dylan Thompson, both of Omaha, died in the Friday night crash. Emergency workers found their bodies in the rubble, but could not immediately recover them for fear that the building’s roof would collapse.

Police say the store was unoccupied at the time of the crash. Investigators believe speed and a lack of seat belt use contributed to the men’s deaths.

On Saturday, crews brought in heavy machinery to try to remove damaged portions of the building.

Witnesses told police that the car was heading north at a high rate of speed when the crash occurred.

 

(AP) — After a year and a half of living as a hermit, George Zimmerman emerged from a Florida courthouse a free man, cleared of all charges in the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

A jury found Zimmerman not guilty of second-degree murder late Saturday night and declined to convict him on a lesser charge of manslaughter.

His brother, Robert Zimmerman Jr., says the former neighborhood watch volunteer was still processing the reality that he wouldn’t serve prison time for the killing, which Zimmerman has maintained was an act of self-defense. However, with many critics angry over his acquittal, his freedom will likely be limited.

Defense attorney Mark O’Mara suggested Zimmerman’s safety would be an ongoing concern. He says a fringe element of society still wants revenge for Martin’s killing.