(AP) — A 30-year-old man who hanged himself in a Beatrice jail cell has died in a Lincoln hospital.

The Gage County Attorney’s Office says Chad Gesin died Tuesday morning. An autopsy has been ordered, and a grand jury will be investigating. State law requires such investigations whenever someone dies in custody or while being arrested.

Gesin had been arrested on suspicion of domestic assault and assault around 5:15 p.m. on July 4. A court document says two officers had seen Gesin punch another man in downtown Beatrice. A woman who had been talking to Gesin told the officers that Gesin had earlier grabbed her neck when they were at a convenience store.

Authorities say Gesin hanged himself not long after he was put in a cell at the Gage County Jail.

(AP) — Former Nebraska State Treasurer Shane Osborn will be in Grand Island on Thursday to kick off his Republican candidacy for U.S. Senate and a campaign tour of the state.

Osborn is seeking to replace outgoing GOP Sen. Mike Johanns, who is not running for re-election in 2014.

Osborn will be introduced Thursday by his wife, Stacie. Speakers will include two crew members from Osborn’s 2001 surveillance mission, when a Chinese fighter jet collided with Osborn’s plane. Osborn successfully landed his crippled plane on a Chinese island, and he and his 23 crew members then spent 11 days in captivity before being released.

Following his Grand Island appearance, Osborn will travel to Columbus and Norfolk before touring other communities across the state in the coming days.

(AP) — The man in the gray T-shirt and blue ball cap sported a name tag that said “M. Damon” and created a stir as he toured the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus.

It was megastar movie actor Matt Damon, who first gained movie fame as a troubled math genius working as a janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Damon told well-wishers that he was in Lincoln on Wednesday to attend New Student Enrollment Day with his nephew, who’d enrolled as a freshman and will start classes there in the coming fall semester.

Damon and university officials declined to give the new student’s name.

Damon said he “basically bought out” the University Bookstore while stocking up on Nebraska Cornhusker gear for his children.

(AP) — A San Diego County judge has ruled that a man must face trial for the murder of his girlfriend with a cannon-like device.

Judge Evan Kirvin said Wednesday the prosecution had presented enough evidence for Richard Dale Fox to stand trial on charges of murder, exploding a destructive device causing death and child endangerment.

The 40-year-old faces life in prison if convicted.

Prosecutors say Fox was drinking with friends in the San Diego County town of Potrero when he set off the device, sending shrapnel into his trailer that killed 38-Jeanette Ogara. They say Ogara was Fox’s girlfriend and the mother of his 4-year-old daughter.

Defense attorney Thomas Slattery called the death a freak accident.

Fox has pleaded not guilty to all three charges.

(AP) — Boy Scouts officials say a 14-year-old boy from Cedar Hills who died at a camp in central Utah was run over by a trailer.

Boy Scouts officials say the teenager was out picking up trash around the camp Tuesday night when he slipped and fell underneath the tires of a trailer being pulled by a truck.

Utah National Parks Council Scout Executive David Pack says the trailer was carrying the garbage.

The teen’s name has not been released.

About 400 to 500 Boy Scouts are at the weeklong camp at Tifie Scout Camp at Mountain Dell Scout Ranch. The Boy Scouts’ Utah National Parks Council Scout Executive David Pack says the camp will continue despite the death.

Pack says the teen was a counselor-in-training.

Menifee police Chief John Hill said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon that a human body that matched the description of Terry Dewayne Smith Jr. was found partially exposed in a shallow grave on the family property.

Hill says the death was the result of a domestic issue at the house.

The body has not yet been positively identified.

Terry has been missing from his Menifee, Calif., home since Saturday, and hundreds of volunteers have helped search for him.

(AP) — Authorities say two people have been injured in a motorcycle crash on Interstate 80 near Omaha.

The Sarpy County Sheriff’s Office says the single-vehicle accident happened Wednesday afternoon on the westbound lanes of Interstate 80 near 144th Street. The Harley-Davidson motorcycle was carrying a male driver and a female passenger.

Witnesses reported that the motorcycle lost control and went on its side before it struck the median barricade in the far left lane.

The driver and passenger were taken to a local hospital in critical condition. They were both wearing helmets.

Authorities have not released their names.

(AP) — For the first time, lawyers for Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes say he killed 12 people and wounded dozens more at an Aurora movie theater last summer.

But Holmes’ lawyers say he was “in the throes of a psychotic episode” at the time.

The admission came in a motion filed Tuesday, but made public Wednesday. His lawyers were trying to argue that Holmes should be unrestrained during his upcoming trial.

Holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to more than 160 counts, including murder, stemming from the July 20 theater attack in Aurora. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

(AP) — A Wyoming man who was granted another trial by the Nebraska Supreme Court has been convicted again.

Online court records say 53-year-old Thomas Merchant, of Cheyenne, Wyo., was found guilty Tuesday by a Lancaster County District Court jury. The charge: Unlawful sale or purchase of a vehicle. Investigators say he posed as a dealer in June 2011 to buy 19 vehicles.

In March the state’s highest court said testimony by the director of Nebraska’s Motor Vehicle Industry Licensing Board effectively “instructed the jury on how to make its decision of Merchant’s guilt.” The high court said that power is restricted to the trial court judge.

Merchant, who was given 12 to 30 years in prison after his conviction last year, is scheduled to be sentenced again on Sept. 25.