GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Shortly after a vehicle was reported stolen in eastern Nebraska, it was involved in a fatal crash with two other vehicles

Grand Island Police Capt. Jim Deuring says officers believe the person who died in the crash was driving the stolen vehicle. At least one other person was taken to the hospital after the crash.

Police say the crash happened shortly before 7 a.m. Wednesday near U.S. Highway 281 and Old Potash Highway. The vehicle was reported stolen about half an hour earlier.

WYMORE, Neb. (AP) — The southeast Nebraska town of Wymore is looking for a new police chief.

Jay Welch resigned last week to take a job in a different department. Former Wymore Police Chief Mark Meints agreed to take the job in the interim.

Welch had been police chief for a little over three years.

Meints says he’s not interested in the job full time, but he is willing to help because he lives there.

At full strength, the department has a police chief and two officers, but one of the officer positions is also vacant.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police officers will soon be equipped with body cameras that will automatically be activated in certain situations.

The City Council on Tuesday will approve the purchase of 460 cameras, ensuring most officers have the technology.

The cameras have new features enabling them to automatically activate when an officers readies a stun gun, turns on a cruiser’s emergency lights or dashboard-mounted camera as well as when other nearby cameras are activated. The department will test a new feature that activates a camera when an officer draws a gun.

The Omaha Police Foundation will reimburse $1.4 million of the city’s cost for the cameras.

Besides paying for new cameras, the funding will pay for the automatic activation of 115 body cameras now in use.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — Sarpy County Sheriff’s officials have revealed more information on an incident in an Omaha suburb that left a woman with a gunshot wound to her head and her husband dead.

Chief Deputy Greg London said Thursday in a written release that deputies sent to the Lakewood Villages housing addition on a welfare check Wednesday found 68-year-old Karl Langill dead in the home’s garage. His 67-year-old wife, Cheri Langill, was found wounded in the basement.

Investigators say Karl Langill shot his wife once in the head with a .22 caliber pistol during a domestic dispute nearly a week earlier, on Dec. 7. Cheri Langill is currently in stable condition at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

An autopsy indicates Karl Langill died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police say a 19-year-old Lincoln man has died after being critically injured in a crash that involved a school bus and three other vehicles.

Malik Asaad died Thursday after being injured Wednesday afternoon in the north Lincoln crash.

Investigators say Asaad was driving south on a city street when his sedan collided with a northbound pickup truck. Police say another car behind Asaad’s swerved to avoid the crash and hit a school bus. The car’s driver suffered minor injuries; none of the 27 children on the school bus or its driver was injured.

Asaad was taken to a Lincoln hospital, where he later died.

The crash remains under investigation. No citations or charges have been issued.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 92-year-old Omaha woman has been hospitalized after an intruder broke into her home, knocked her down and tied her up before ransacking the house.

The break-in happened midday Wednesday in southeast Omaha. Neighbors say the woman’s husband came home to find her tied up on the floor.

The woman was listed in fair condition Thursday and was being visited by family.

Police are investigating. No arrests have been reported in the case.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police say a man suspected of intentionally hitting a man with his car in a Lincoln road rage incident that saw the victim’s leg amputated has been arrested in Detroit.

28-year-old Deaubre Gardner was arrested Tuesday in Michigan. He’s being held in the Wayne County Jail in Detroit, awaiting extradition to Lincoln on charges of first-degree assault, and use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony.

Police say Gardner was behind the wheel Aug. 31 when he hit 39-year-old Steven Collins.

Police say the incident began when both men got out of their vehicles following a crash, then Gardner got back into his car and intentionally hit Collins, severely injuring Collins’ leg. The leg had to be amputated at a hospital.

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) — After a year off, a hugely popular air show at Offutt Air Force Base south of Omaha is back on next summer.

A news release from the base says the Defenders of Freedom Open House and Air and Space Show is scheduled to return Aug. 10-12 and again June 1-2, 2019.

This year’s show, which had been set for July 1-2, was canceled. At the time, Col. Marty Reynolds, 55th Wing commander, cited increased demands for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions for the cancellation.

The 2018 show will be co-headlined by the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II demonstration teams.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Douglas County prosecutor has announced he’s turning over the criminal cases against two former Omaha police officers charged in connection with the death of a mentally ill man to the Nebraska attorney general.

County Attorney Don Kleine made the announcement in a written statement Friday, citing that it was the state attorney general’s office that oversaw a grand jury process last month. That grand jury concluded that assault charges are warranted against the former officers in the June stun gun-related death of 29-year-old Zachary Bearheels.

Police video shows then-Officer Scotty Payne using a stun gun repeatedly on Bearheels, and then-Officer Ryan McClarty punching Bearheels outside an Omaha convenience store after Bearheels was on the ground.

Kleine said Friday that because the attorney general’s case saw the grand jury recommend the same charges Kleine had previously filed, it would be more efficient for the attorney general’s office to prosecute the cases.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — Sarpy County has filed a second lawsuit challenging an annexation by Gretna that doubles the city’s land area.

The county on Thursday filed the lawsuit, which claims the annexation is illegal because it includes agricultural land. That would violate a state law allowing cities to annex only suburban or urban land.

The suit also notes that if the annexation of agricultural land isn’t allowed, that would mean Gretna violated a requirement that annexed land by contiguous or adjacent to the incorporated boundaries.

The county dropped its initial lawsuit filed in October after Gretna introduced amendments to its annexation ordinance, but county officials found the changes didn’t meet their concerns.

The annexed land is home to at least 2,800 people and businesses.