OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Staff members say progress is slowly happening at an Omaha middle school dealing with unruly student behavior that has sometimes been violent this school year.

Nathan Hale Magnet Middle School held its second meeting Monday to update parents about steps being taken to address the behavioral issues. Omaha Public Schools Superintendent Mark Evans told parents that additional staff members would be sent to the school, including a social worker, a new dean of students and a special education supervisor.

Parents were also informed of new mentoring opportunities for students.

Overwhelmed teachers had asked the school district to provide help, saying students were roaming the halls, being disrespectful and starting fights. Teachers have received additional training on classroom management and using technology to raise student engagement.

MADISON, Neb. (AP) — A Norfolk resident has been given 50 to 70 years in prison for the crash deaths of two men.

Online court records say 23-year-old Brandon Plante was sentenced Monday in Madison County District Court in Madison. He’d pleaded guilty to two felony counts of vehicular homicide after prosecutors dropped a drunken driving charge and another misdemeanor charge.

Authorities say Plante was driving north in a southbound lane of U.S. Highway 81 on June 26 when he struck an oncoming vehicle driven by 32-year-old Tar Eh. Eh and a passenger in the vehicle, 32-year-old Yeh Htoo, were fatally injured. Both lived in Norfolk.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a man who was killed in a fiery car crash on the northwest side of Omaha.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office identified the man as 32-year-old Gary McGaha, who lived in Omaha.

The Sheriff’s Office says McGaha lost control of his car around 6:15 p.m. Friday. It ran off the slippery roadway, rammed into a tree and burst into flames.

LINDSAY, Neb. (AP) — A 30-year-old Nebraska man died when the tractor he was working on exploded inside a machine shed on his family’s farm.

The Platte County Sheriff’s office says the incident happened around 9:30 a.m. Monday on a farm outside Lindsay, Nebraska.

The sheriff’s office says the man was working on a tractor when it experienced mechanical issues that caused an explosion.

The man was severely injured and could not be revived. His name wasn’t immediately released Monday.

The accident remains under investigation by the Platte County Sheriff’s Office.

Anyone with additional information regarding this accident is asked to contact the Platte County Sheriff’s Office at 402-564-3229 or Platte County Area Crime Stoppers at 402-563-4000.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — A Tilden man has been imprisoned for the crash death of another driver in northeast Nebraska.

Court records say 30-year-old Ryan Tripp was sentenced Friday in Madison County District Court to eight to 10 years. He’d pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide.

Authorities say Tripp had been drinking the night of Nov. 20, 2015, when his eastbound pickup crossed into oncoming traffic on U.S. Highway 275 near Battle Creek and rammed into a westbound pickup. Authorities say 19-year-old Wyatt Andersen, of Ashland, died in the collision. Tripp was treated at a Norfolk hospital.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha’s public bicycle-sharing system is set to nearly double in size by 2019.

Heartland B-cycle has partnered with Omaha to increase the system’s size. B-cycle will add 36 stations and 150 bikes. Executive director says they hope to have the first round of new equipment, including 20 bikes, installed next year.

New stations will be placed near existing bus stops and well-populated areas.

City transportation planner Derek Miller says the bike-sharing program will help meet many goals related to Omaha’s plan to provide multiple modes of transportation.

Federal and state grants have provided $1.2 million for the program.

MONROE, Neb. (AP) — A Columbus man has died in a highway traffic accident in Platte County.

Authorities say the accident occurred around 2:30 p.m. Friday about four miles east of Monroe along Nebraska Highway 22. The Platte County Sheriff’s Office says an eastbound pickup went out of control while passing another vehicle. The pickup rolled several times and came to rest in a field.

A passenger in the pickup died at the scene. The Sheriff’s Office identified him as 27-year-old Eric Guzman. The pickup driver was taken to a Columbus hospital. He was identified as 28-year-old Ever Gudiel-Hernandez, also of Columbus.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — President Barack Obama has signed into law a measure that will allow for a public-private partnership to build a $136 million veterans medical facility in Omaha.

Democratic Congressman Brad Ashford, of Omaha, said in a news release Friday the measure was signed Friday. Ashford pushed the bill through the House. U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer, a Nebraska Republican, sponsoring it in the Senate.

Under the measure, the Department of Veterans Affairs will provide $56 million to build 157,000 square feet of new medical space next to the current aging and outdated VA hospital in Omaha. Private donors will put up the remaining $80 million.

Ashford said officials hope the facility will be completed in 2018.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld without comment a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit against the city of Lincoln by a jogger who fell on an uneven city sidewalk.

The high court’s ruling Friday noted only that “an equally divided court” affirmed Lancaster County District Judge Andrew Jacobsen’s dismissal last year of Dawn Amory’s lawsuit.

Amory had been seeking more than $19,000 for medical expenses she incurred after falling and breaking her pelvis five years ago. She argued the city should have found and fixed the sidewalk tile that was raised about an inch.

Jacobsen had said Amory didn’t show the city was neglecting the more than 1,500 miles of sidewalk it maintains, and that no one had complained about the problem beforehand.