WESTERN, Neb. (AP) – Authorities say two people were fatally injured when two pickup trucks collided on a state highway in southeast Nebraska.

The collision occurred a little after 4 p.m. Sunday on Nebraska Highway 15, about 5 miles (8 kilometers) north of Western. The Saline County Sheriff’s Office says a northbound pickup was pulling a trailer when it collided with the southbound pickup.

One person in each truck died – one at the scene and one later after a hospital. Two other people in the southbound pickup and one in the northbound pickup were injured.

The names of those involved haven’t been released. The collision is being investigated.

CORDOVA, Neb. (AP) — Four people are dead after fire at a home in southeastern Nebraska.

The fire broke out after 7 a.m. Saturday in Cordova. The home was engulfed in flames by the time firefighters arrived.

The Nebraska State Fire Marshal Agency says two people were able to get out without injuries, but four others died. The names and ages of the victims have not been released.

The cause of the fire is under investigation. Authorities say foul play is not suspected. Autopsies are planned for all four victims.

Cordova is a village of fewer than 150 people that’s about 30 miles (48 kilometers) west of the state capital of Lincoln.

CORDOVA, Neb. (AP) – Authorities in southeastern Nebraska say multiple people have been found dead in a burning house.

The Lincoln Journal Star cites the Seward County Sheriff’s Office in reporting that several people died in the Saturday morning house fire in Cordova.

Cordova is a village of fewer than 150 people that lies about 30 miles west of Lincoln.

Officials report that firefighters were called to the house for a fire around 7:30 a.m. Saturday and found the home engulfed in flames. No details about the deaths or the identity of the victims had been released by early Saturday afternoon.

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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – A 17-year-old Lincoln boy accused of two armed robberies has been sent to prison.

Lancaster County District Court records say Job Teburso was sentenced Thursday to eight to 12 years in prison. He’d pleaded no contest to a robbery charge after prosecutors dropped two related charges.

The judge had refused a defense request to move the case to juvenile court.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports that Teburso was 16 when he committed the crimes last August.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – An Oklahoma man has been given 15 to 25 years in prison for paying his sister $200 and meth to cut off his wife’s hair and scar her face in a 2016 Nebraska stabbing.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports that Eddy Stabler was sentenced Wednesday for the attack on Jacinda Stabler.

Deputy Lancaster County Public Defender Shawn Elliott had argued for probation. He says Eddy Stabler’s sister, Athea Stabler, was more responsible because she carried out the attack.

Deputy Lancaster County Attorney Chris Reid alleged that Eddy Stabler was culpable because he’d planned the attack a month before.

Athea Stabler pleaded guilty to assault. An arrest affidavit says Athea Stabler told police that her brother was upset about a pending divorce. She’ll be sentenced in April and faces up to 20 years

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The state has agreed to pay a Lincoln man $225,000 for injuries and damages he received in 2016 when a Nebraska Game and Parks employee crashed into his car in Lincoln.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports that a lawyer for Josephus Pickett says Pickett was left with a traumatic brain and other injuries when Lyle Huston ran his state-owned pickup truck into Pickett’s car at a Lincoln intersection.

The crash totaled Pickett’s car and damaged another car in an adjacent parking lot.

Police ticketed Huston for failure to yield. He pleaded guilty and was fined $25.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Forecasters say major flooding is likely in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa over the next couple days and some rural roads already had to be closed after being covered with water.

The National Weather Service says this week’s significant rain is especially problematic because much of the region is still covered by a blanket of snow and the ground is still frozen, so the rail flows right into streams and rivers.

The potential for flooding grows in places where chunks of ice often block the flow in ice jams.

In northeast Nebraska, the Madison County Sheriff’s office says it ran out of barricades after closing more than a half dozen roads, including U.S. Highway 275 near West Point.