OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha City Council president says he wants the Legislature to disband the Nebraska Tax Equalization and Review Commission or add oversight by elected officials.

The full council is scheduled to vote Tuesday on Council president Ben Gray’s proposal. The proposal is in response to a commission order earlier this year for Douglas County to adjust tax valuation in two areas of the county.

On the council, Gray represents northeast Omaha, where values decreased on about 20,000 properties. Officials have said they are concerned that the decreases will depress home values, discourage renovations by homeowners and cause people to panic sell their homes for less than what they’re worth.

The commission has increased values for about 78,000 residential properties in central and west Omaha.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 19-year-old woman on probation for stabbing a classmate in a Lincoln high school bathroom in 2013 is accused of starting a fire in a Metropolitan Community College bathroom.

Sarah Piccolo was arrested Saturday on suspicion of arson. She hasn’t made an initial court appearance, and online court records don’t list the case yet so it’s not clear if she has a lawyer.

Firefighters determined that the fire in the bathroom Saturday morning was set intentionally.

Piccolo was sentenced to five years of probation for using a hunting knife and a claw hammer to attack a 17-year-old girl at Lincoln Pius X High School in October 2013. The girl was hospitalized.

Piccolo was 16 in 2013 but was being prosecuted as an adult.

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HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — A home in Hastings has sustained significant fire damage after a man used a butane torch to light a cigarette.

The fire happened Saturday afternoon.

Hastings Fire and Rescue Chief Kent Gilbert says the home was engulfed in flames by the time firefighters arrived. The home was gutted by the blaze.

Gilbert said the man who started the fire escaped the house safely, but then was hurt trying to re-enter the home through a window. He says the injuries were likely caused by broken glass.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police are investigating a north Omaha homicide.

Police say in a brief news release that officers were called to a north Omaha address around 4:30 a.m. Saturday for a report of shots fired. Upon arrival, officers found 34-year-old Terrell Loyd suffering from injuries. Police say Loyd was taken to an Omaha hospital, where he died.

No other details about the death have been released, and no arrests have been reported.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Officials say a teenager had been drinking and ran a red light when her car slammed into a pickup just north of Omaha, killing another teen who was in the car’s back seat.

The crash happened Friday night just blocks north of Northwest High School.

The Douglass County Sheriff’s Office says an 18-year-old man died in the crash. Deputies say a man in the front passenger seat of the car was flown to an Omaha hospital in critical condition. The 18-year-old driver was also taken to a hospital in serious condition.

The driver of the pickup and a 12-year-old passenger in the truck were not injured.

The names of those involved had not been released by midday Saturday.

DAKOTA CITY, Neb. (AP) — Two men have been charged with first-degree murder for the death of an Emerson man whose severed arm and leg were found in the trunk of a car in northeastern Nebraska.

25-year-old Andres Surber and 18-year-old Misael Galvan-Hernandez were charged Friday in the death of 41-year-old Kraig Kubik.

Authorities believe Surber and Galvan-Hernandez went to Kubik’s trailer home on Tuesday demanding he turn over a car that had once belonged to Surber. The next day, officials said they found a large amount of blood in Kubik’s yard.

Investigators say they found bloody clothing and a key to a Chevrolet Impala at Galvan-Hernandez’s home in Wakefield. Officials later found the Impala on property owned by Suber’s family in Dixon County, and Kubik’s remains in its trunk.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A jury has acquitted a Haitian immigrant of kidnapping and sex abuse of an underage girl.

Fednol St. Cyr was found not guilty of the count Friday evening. It took the jury less than two hours to acquit him of the charges.

St. Cyr had faced life in prison on the kidnapping charge alone. Prosecutors had said St. Cyr ordered the girl into his truck on April 5, refused to let her get out and sexually assaulted her.

St. Cyr’s defense attorney, James Martin Davis of Omaha, Nebraska, had said Cyr sought to help the girl when he picked her up because he thought she was in distress. Davis painted the girl as a troubled teen whose testimony was inconsistent and unreliable.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska at Omaha has named its royal homecoming pair, but don’t call them king and queen.

The school has joined a growing number of other schools around the country that are moving to gender-neutral homecoming courts to be more inclusive of transgender students.

UNO administrators supported the change to dub homecoming winners as “royals.”

UNO Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Enrollment Dan Shipp says it’s vital UNO demonstrate that it is inclusive and safe for all students. Shipp says the homecoming initiative shows prospective and current students that the university genuinely cares about people of all kinds.

This year’s royals, named Friday night, are Sapphire Andersen, a senior from Aurora, and Nick Rieschl, a senior from Omaha.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man accused of statutory rape had won joint custody of the child that resulted from having sex with her underage mother.

Court records say the woman was 15 in 2012 when she willingly had sex with Zachary Zysset, who was 20 then. Under Nebraska law, people 19 and over cannot have sexual contact with people under 16.

Zysset’s been charged with sexual assault of a minor. His attorney didn’t immediately return a call Friday from The Associated Press.

The woman reported the 2012 incidents to Buffalo County authorities earlier this year, although she said most of the sexual encounters occurred in Adams County. An arrest warrant affidavit says an Adams County sheriff’s investigator learned that Zysset later established paternity and won joint custody of the little girl.