LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say an inmate has died at a hospital after suffering some sort of medical problem at the Lancaster County Jail in Lincoln.

First responders were called to the jail a little before 2 a.m. Thursday.

Lincoln Police Chief Jeff Bliemeister says the man was alone in his cell when he experienced a “medical crisis.” Bliemeister says the inmate died after being taken to a Lincoln hospital.

The chief says there’s no indication a crime was involved in the man’s death and says the man had a “complex medical history.”

The man’s name and other information about him haven’t been released. State law requires a grand jury investigation any time a person dies in custody or while being arrested.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — A memorial dedicated to Vietnam veterans will soon be unveiled in northeast Nebraska.

An engraved stone and the engraved benches surrounding it will be revealed to the public and dedicated to the veterans on Sunday at the Norfolk Veterans’ Home.

The idea behind the memorial and its design came from Bruce Bounds, who served as a U.S. Navy corpsman in Vietnam. Bounds says the image on the 9-foot-tall, 17,000-pound granite stone is a man who is half young soldier and half older civilian. He says the image represents the turmoil of the young veteran and the older veteran who feels like they left part of themselves in Vietnam.

Speakers at the unveiling include Retired Col. Jon Beckenhauer and Nebraska Lt. Gov. Mike Foley.

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A new Omaha initiative is urging people in five of the city’s neighborhoods to try alternative transportation so residents can improve their health and the environment.

Midtown on the Move wants residents in the selected neighborhoods to experiment one day a week from Friday through June by traveling on buses, bikes, on foot or by shared car rides.

Daniel Lawse, one of the organizers behind the initiative, hopes that at least 1,000 of the 12,000 people living in the neighborhoods will participate. He says almost 300 people have signed up in advance of a launch party that will be held Thursday.

According to Lawse, Midtown on the Move chose the Midtown area because of the population’s diversity in age and income.

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — A 76-year-old Hastings woman has been fined $1,000 for vehicular homicide.

Court records say Marylin Gish was sentenced Monday in Adams County Court. She’d pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor count.

Police say Gish was driving a pickup truck Sept. 7 when she turned onto the street Joyce Schiffler was crossing and struck the 72-year-old woman. Schiffler died later at a Lincoln hospital. Gish told police she didn’t see Schiffler.

SYRACUSE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say six students have been cited for possessing LSD at a high school in southeast Nebraska.

The Otoe County Sheriff’s Office says deputies confiscated LSD found Monday inside Syracuse High School and cited the students.

One of the teenagers also was cited for delivery of narcotics and delivery of drugs within 1,000 feet of a school and another was cited for aiding and abetting the sale of drugs.

None of the students was taken into custody. School officials had reported to the Sheriff’s Office their suspicions about the drug activity.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A crash involving a school bus and car in north Omaha has left a school aide on the bus injured. It was the second crash involving an Omaha school bus in the area in as many days.

The crash happened Wednesday afternoon at 48th Street and Northwest Radial Highway. Omaha police say an adult — the school aide — on the bus was taken to a hospital with injuries. A child on the bus was not injured.

Officers said driver of the car was not injured.

Omaha Public Schools spokeswoman Monique Farmer says the bus was transporting a student from Bryan Middle School.

On Tuesday, five people — including a student — were injured in another north Omaha crash involving a school bus.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An Iraqi national has been sentenced to six to 10 years in prison for sexually abusing two girls in Lincoln.

44-year-old Tarik Mohammed denied charges that he sexually touched the two sisters at his house. Prosecutors say one girl was 10 or 11 when she was abused; the other says Mohammed touched her inappropriately on her 14th birthday.

A Lancaster County jury found him guilty in February of two counts of third-degree sexual assault of a child.

At trial, jurors heard from two other girls who said Mohammed had raped them — one in Iraq, the other in Syria.

Because it happened outside Nebraska, he couldn’t be charged on those allegations.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A popular Omaha restaurant in the Florence community has been heavily damaged by fire.

Officials say Mouth of the South restaurant caught fire around 7 a.m. Wednesday, and the historic building burned for two hours.

Fire Chief Dan Olsen says the building’s age, multi-layered ceiling and gusty winds made the fire hard to fight. He says brick fire walls kept the fire from spreading to other buildings.

The restaurant, which serves Southern cuisine, was closed at the time of the fire, and no injuries were reported.

DAKOTA CITY, Neb. (AP) — One of two men accused of killing another man in northeast Nebraska’s Dakota County has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial.judge on Wednesday ruled that Andres Surber will not stand trial, based on a state psychiatrist’s report.

A judge on Wednesday ruled that Andres Surber will not stand trial, based on a state psychiatrist’s report.

Authorities say Surber and Brayan Galvan-Hernandez, both of Wakefield, shot to death 41-year-old Kraig Kubik, of Emerson.

Parts of Kubik’s body were found in a car and in a creek. Authorities say Surber and Galvan-Hernandez had gone to Kubik’s home Nov. 1 and demanded that he give them a car that once belonged to Surber.

Galvan-Hernandez has pleaded not guilty to murder and related charges.

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The director of the Douglas County Jail says officials will be looking at the jail’s policies and procedures following the death of a 61-year-old inmate with health problems who had been combative with corrections officers.

Director Mark Foxall said Wednesday at a news conference that officials will try to determine how best to identify risk in people booked into the Omaha facility.

Douglas County officials say Steven Claycamp died Tuesday evening at a hospital after a struggle with jail staffers when he tried to leave his cell. Staffers eventually placed him in restraint chair and gave him a sedative, then took him to a hospital when he became ill.

State law requires a grand jury investigation any time a person is dies in custody or while being arrested.