(AP) — Nebraska transportation officials have restricted lanes on a part of Interstate 80 in Omaha because a chunk of protruding metal was damaging moving vehicles.

The Nebraska Department of Roads says the piece of metal was covering a seam between a bridge and road on the westbound lanes of Interstate 80 near 42nd Street on Monday. Officials say moving vehicles forced the metal to pop up and out of the seam.

The metal damaged about a dozen cars, including flattened tires. No major injuries have been reported.

Transportation crews are using a temporary patch with asphalt to cover the hole.

Billionaire Warren Buffett’s recent donations of Berkshire Hathaway stock reduced his voting power in the company to about 34 percent.

Buffett said Monday that he had given nearly 23 million Class B shares of Berkshire stock to five charities as part of his plan to gradually give away his fortune.

After making those gifts, Buffett held 336,000 Class A shares of Berkshire stock and 1,567,907 Class B shares.

That translates into about 34 percent of the voting power, so Buffett remains the biggest Berkshire shareholder. Before the latest donations, he controlled nearly 35 percent of the voting power.

Buffett’s stock was worth $58.1 billion at Monday’s prices, so his fortune has grown even though he began making annual stock donations in 2006. Buffett is Berkshire’s chairman and CEO.

(AP) — Authorities say a grain elevator explosion in Nuckolls County over the weekend was an accident.

The state Fire Marshal’s office on Monday declined to provide more details about what caused the Friday explosion in the unincorporated community of Sedan, about five miles southeast of Edgar.

An employee for Aurora Co-Op, which owns the elevator, and a farmer were injured in the explosion. Additional information about their conditions was not available.

A traffic stop on Interstate 80 in York County over the weekend led to the seizure of 40 pounds of marijuana and the arrest of a South Dakota man.

Just after 10:00 a.m., Saturday, July 6, a trooper stopped a 2008 Chevy Impala near the Bradshaw Interchange for improper turn and failure to signal. A canine indicated the odor of drugs coming from the vehicle.  A search led to the seizure of 40 lbs. of marijuana from the trunk of the car.

The driver of the vehicle, Kevin Lee, 44, Sioux Falls, S.D., was lodged in the York County Jail on a charge of possession of marijuana with intent to deliver.

(AP) — Firefighters have controlled a stubborn blaze at the Sarpy County landfill southwest of Omaha.

The fire took nearly nine hours to control by 1:30 a.m. Monday. Firefighters from at least five departments battled the blaze.

No injuries have been reported. The cause is being investigated.

The landfill sits about a mile northwest of Springfield in southern Sarpy County.

(AP) — A 31-year-old Lincoln man is scheduled to be sentenced next month in a case involving checks stolen years ago.

Joshua Fehlman changed his plea to no contest after York County prosecutors lowered the theft charge to a lesser felony.

Court documents say that in October 2011 a local bank discovered three false deposits of checks made out to Fehlman. The checks totaled $1,700 and had been written on an account that had been closed for seven years.

The man who had opened the account told investigators that he’d been burglarized several years ago and had closed the account.

Fehlman’s sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 19.

(AP) — Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and heir to a ketchup company fortune, is in critical condition at a Boston hospital.

A spokesman for John Kerry says the 74-year-old Heinz Kerry was flown to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston Sunday night after doctors at a hospital on Massachusetts’ Nantucket Island stabilized her. The secretary of state was with his wife as an ambulance transported her to the island hospital, and also during her transfer to the Boston facility.

A spokesman for Nantucket Cottage Hospital says Heinz Kerry arrived in critical condition, but doctors were able to stabilize her. Neither the family nor hospital officials released any more details about her condition Sunday night.

In late 2009, doctors treated Heinz Kerry for breast cancer.

(AP) — A 27-year-old man who was found injured on June 29 has died after being taken off life support.

Lincoln Police Capt. Jim Davidsaver says David Mueller, of Lincoln, died at 2 p.m. Sunday.

It’s unclear what caused Mueller’s head injury. Davidsaver says an autopsy is scheduled for Monday.

A passer-by spotted Mueller on a sidewalk near 14th and Benton streets around 3:30 a.m. on June 29. Mueller’s cellphone and wallet were missing, but Davidsaver says it’s not certain that Mueller was robbed.

Doctors told police they believe Mueller’s injuries were more severe than what would have resulted from a fall.

(AP) — A woman accused of firing a gun during a struggle inside an Omaha ambulance has been released from the hospital to face several charges.

Omaha Police Officer Michael Pecha said Sunday that 24-year-old Justine Dubois is now in the Douglas County jail.

Dubois was arrested last Monday because she was driving a stolen car, but then she appeared to have a seizure in the police car.

While paramedics were taking Dubois to a hospital, she pulled a gun and started making threats. Both Dubois and an Omaha firefighter were wounded in a struggle.

Dubois faces charges including assault, terroristic threats, using a gun to commit a crime and stealing a car.

(AP) — Douglas Dayton, who founded big-box retailer Target Corp. has died. He was 88.

Dayton’s wife, Wendy Dayton, confirmed his death Sunday. She says the resident of Wayzata (why-ZED’-ah) died Friday after a long battle with cancer.

Douglas Dayton’s father founded the Minneapolis department store Dayton’s in the 1940s.Douglas was the youngest of five brothers to take over the business, and was charged with leading the effort to expand into a discount retailer chain.

The first four Target stores opened in Twin Cities suburbs in the early 1960s and since expanded nationally and into Canada.

The Dayton family is no longer involved in the company’s leadership.

Douglas Dayton is the uncle of Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton, who called his uncle “an extraordinary businessman, philanthropist and leader of our family.”