BOYS TOWN, Neb. (AP) — Boys Town has a new statue that shows hardship isn’t exclusive to one race or gender.

The Omaha home for troubled boys and girls unveiled the 7-foot-tall statue Tuesday. The work by sculptor Matthew Placzek depicts an older boy carrying a smaller girl on his back. She is white, he is black. Its title: “The Work Continues.”

Boys Town was founded by Father Edward Flanagan in 1917 as a boys orphanage. It has grown into a nonprofit organization with about a dozen facilities around the U.S.

The iconic “Two Brothers” statue is displayed elsewhere at Boys Town. The Rev. Steven Boes (bayz) is Boys Town’s executive director, and he says the new statue “beautifully illustrates the diversity of the children and families that Boys Town serves.”

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday for the trial of a Nebraska man accused of killing his estranged wife in northwestern Iowa.

Court records say 29-year-old Rogelio Morales, of Hubbard, Nebraska, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of first-degree murder. Prosecutors say he killed 21-year-old Margarita Morales on April 19, 2015, in his car near a Sioux City residence. The case has been delayed several times as defense attorneys have repeatedly withdrawn from representing Morales.

Court documents say Morales told investigators a fight broke out when his wife told him she no longer wanted to be in a relationship and that she was seeing another man.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A 22-year-old man has been sentenced for the crash death of a 20-year-old woman in eastern Nebraska.

Colin Larsen was given two years of probation. He was sentenced Monday in Sarpy County District Court in Papillion. Court records say he pleaded no contest to misdemeanor vehicular homicide and to careless driving. Prosecutors dropped several other charges in exchange for Larsen’s pleas.

The records say Larsen lost control of his pickup truck on Dec. 20, 2015, while driving along U.S. Highway 31 in Springfield. It rolled and landed on its roof, fatally injuring Larsen’s passenger, Tiffany Hofmeister. She lived in Lincoln.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska school district has a new program to help refugee students deal with the trauma that made them flee their home countries.

Lincoln Public Schools officials stepped in after the 2014 massacre by the Islamic State group in Sinjar, Iraq, devastated members of Lincoln’s Yazidi community.

Oscar Rios Pohirieth is a cultural specialist and coordinator for the district’s bilingual liaison program. He says immigrant and refugee students in Lincoln increased by more than 50 percent over the past three years.

Last school year, therapists served nearly 50 refugees from 14 different schools through the program. Another 24 students are on a waiting list.

The district has interpreters work with therapists to get past language and cultural barriers, including any stigma about mental health.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police say a man died while in custody and after being shocked by a stun gun.

Police say officers were called about 12:30 a.m. Monday to a Bucky’s convenience store, where a man was refusing to leave.

Officers arrested 29-year-old Zachary N. Bearheels, of Murdo, South Dakota.

Police say Bearheels began acting erratically, and officers used a stun gun.

Officers called for medics about 1:30 a.m., and Bearheels was then taken to Nebraska Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

As required by state law, a grand jury will be convened to investigate the officers’ actions.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha authorities have identified the body of a man found floating down the Missouri River.

Boaters spotted the body around 2:15 p.m. Sunday. An Omaha Fire Department river rescue team recovered it near Eppley Airfield on the northeast corner of the city.

Omaha police say investigators have identified the man but declined to release his name.

Police say no foul play is suspected in the death.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Police say a 3-year-old Colorado boy has accidentally shot and seriously wounded his 2-year-old brother, and a 30-year-old woman has been arrested.

Colorado Springs Police Department spokesman Howard Black says the older boy found a weapon and was playing with it when the gun discharged on Saturday.

The younger child’s condition was first listed as critical and later upgraded to serious. Neither boy’s name was released.

Police said Sunday that Monica Abeyta of Colorado Springs was arrested on suspicion of felony child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury. Authorities haven’t described her relationship to the young brothers.

No phone listing could be found for Abeyta, and it wasn’t clear if she had an attorney who could speak on her behalf. She was not immediately listed in online jail records.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert has selected the attorney who oversaw city labor relations as Omaha’s new human resources director.

Tim Young will replace Mikki Frost, who retired Friday.

Frost had led human resources through Stothert’s first term after also working as personnel director when Hal Daub was Omaha mayor, from 1995 until 2001.

Stothert cited Young’s ‘legal, investigative and negotiating experience” in announcing the hire Friday.

Young has been the city’s labor relations director since August 2015.

Before that, he worked for the Nebraska Department of Administrative Services, as assistant general counsel for the Nebraska State Patrol, as an assistant state’s attorney in McHenry, Illinois, and as a police investigator in Illinois.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A truck driver has been given 90 days in jail for colliding with a motorcycle in western Douglas County as he was talking on a hands-free wireless device.

Court records say 48-year-old Michael Green was sentenced Thursday. He’d pleaded no contest to misdemeanor vehicular homicide.

The accident occurred Aug. 9. Authorities say 18-year-old Madeline Fitzpatrick was a passenger on the motorcycle being driven by Jason Matthews when it collided with Green’s semitrailer at an intersection. She was pronounced dead at the scene, and Matthews was hospitalized.

MADISON, Neb. (AP) — An August sentencing hearing is scheduled for a former Norfolk student teacher accused of changing a student’s grade after she sent him explicit photos of herself.

Court records say 24-year-old Sean Neal, who lives in Wayne, pleaded no contest to attempted contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Prosecutors had lowered the charge in exchange for Neal’s plea. Sentencing is set for Aug. 3 in Madison County Court.

Prosecutors say Neal had raised the grade the same day the 14-year-old Norfolk High School freshman sent the photos. She reported the incident to school officials within a day or two.