ASHLAND, Neb. (AP) — A state park in eastern Nebraska is celebrating its 25th year of producing family-friendly melodramas.

Mahoney State Park’s melodrama season this year includes 60 performances of three funny and family-friendly shows. Five young actors are performing the shows “Alone on the Range,” ”Showdown at Sundown,” and “The Silent Treatment.”

Rachel Robbins is directing the 2017 season, and Julie Eschliman is providing the background music on piano.

In the summer of 1992, Nebraska Game and Parks invited John Burkhart to tour the park and the new theater that was under construction. The idea was to have Burkhart produce melodramas for park visitors.

The details and the contract were worked out, and the first show, “He Ain’t Done Right by Nell,” opened on May 27, 1993.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police have arrested the driver in a fiery fatal crash on suspicion of drunken driving.

The crash that killed 58-year-old Silvano Torres and forced the closure of Interstate 680 for several hours happened on Wednesday.

After the 32-year-old driver was released from the hospital Saturday, he was arrested on suspicion of motor vehicle homicide, reckless driving and not having an operator’s license.

Police say the van was speeding when it left the roadway, hit a guardrail and a bridge support. Then the van caught fire.

Torres had been riding in the cargo area of the van without restraints.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A new $100,000 grant will help support the Bemis Center’s longstanding artist-in-residence program that offers space for an artist to create new work.

The Bemis Center says it received the grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

The Bemis Center has been bringing artists to Omaha as part of this program for more than 30 years.

The Bemis Center plans to use some of the grant money to upgrade the equipment in the contemporary art center’s sculpture facility.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man has recovered his prosthetic arm after his family paid a $200 reward for its return.

Terry Fishell’s arm was stolen from his truck Saturday night. It was returned Wednesday after the reward was offered on several websites targeting central Nebraska communities.

Fishell says he’s grateful to have his prosthetic limb back. He lost his arm 21 years ago while working at a meat processing plant.

Now he works two jobs as a diesel mechanic at Grand Island Express and at a Pump and Pantry truck stop to provide for his family.

Fishell’s neice, Elizabeth Logue, says she paid the reward without asking questions to get the arm back. Logue says her uncle couldn’t work without it.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police say a crash that saw a van burst into flames has left one man dead and another critically injured.

The crash happened Wednesday afternoon where northbound I-680 and I-80 split. Investigators say the van was speeding when it left the roadway, struck and vaulted over a metal guardrail, and then hit a concrete bridge support and burst into flames.

One man was declared dead at the scene, and another man was taken to a hospital with severe burns to his lower legs.

Authorities closed northbound I-680 from the area where the crash occurred for hours.

Officials have not yet released the names of the victims.

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — Police and wildlife officials are keeping a lookout in the south-central Nebraska city of Hastings after a family there reported a coyote bit and tried to drag away a 1-year-old child.

Hastings Police Sgt. Brian Hessler says the attack happened around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday while the family was watching July Fourth fireworks. The incident follows weeks of reported sightings of coyotes in the city.

A police report says the coyote left marks on the boy’s back but quickly ran off. Officers searched but did not find a coyote in the area.

Police say the family, which has hunted coyotes, is certain it was not a dog.

The boy’s mother, Katrina Clodfelter, tells station KSNB that the boy was given a tetanus shot and will undergo a series of rabies shots.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha high school has reported the theft of more than $5,000 worth of landscaping equipment, including a riding lawn mower valued at $4,000.

A school maintenance manager told police Wednesday that he discovered the riding mower and two push mowers missing from a detached garage at Mercy High School. The push mowers were valued at $600 and $100. The manager said an earlier theft in mid- to late June saw a sledgehammer, a weed trimmer and a backpack blower valued at $400 stolen.

Police found pry marks on the walk-in door of the garage. The school will review surveillance video in an attempt to identify the thieves.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 69-year-old Columbus man has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for having child pornography.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Nebraska says Michael Kruse was sentenced Thursday in Lincoln’s federal court. In addition to his prison term, Kruse will be required to serve 5 years of supervised release and register as a sex offender.

Prosecutors say a tip, subsequent investigation and a search warrant turned up more than 600 videos and images of child pornography on Kruse’s computers and storage media.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An autopsy report says an Oklahoma man who was beaten and shocked a dozen times with a stun gun in an altercation with Omaha police suffered “sudden death associated with excited delirium.”

The report, released Thursday, says the death of 29-year-old Zachary Bearheels was also associated with physical struggle, restraint and use of a stun gun.

Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine says that report stops short of determining those actions caused Bearheels’ death.

Police have said Bearheels, who has a history of mental illness, was acting erratically and fought officers’ efforts to take him into custody on June 5. He died after being taken to a hospital.

Omaha’s police chief has recommended two officers, Scotty Payne and Ryan McClarty, be fired for violated department policy in their treatment of Bearheels.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police in Lincoln cited a man after they say he set off a homemade firework that sent a 5-pound chunk of metal into a neighboring home.

Police say the 21-year-old man and a friend set off the explosive Monday night, sending the metal piece hundreds of feet into the air. It crashed through the roof and first floor of a home two doors down, landing in the home’s basement.

Police say an occupant of the home had just left the basement when the metal chunk crashed into it. No one was injured.

Police say the home suffered about $2,000 in damage.

The man was cited for felony for possession of an explosive device.