OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say they have identified a man found dead in his north Omaha home and have arrested a suspect in the case.

The Omaha Police Department said in a news release Monday that they were called to the home Monday to check on the well-being of a person. Officers arrived and found 71-year-old Merlin Prinz dead.

Authorities say they arrested a 61-year-old man on suspicion of first-degree murder and use of a weapon by a prohibited person. Police say there are no other suspects in the case.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — State wildlife officials have found evidence that a female mountain lion is roaming southeast Nebraska.

The finding means there may be a breeding pair of mountain lions roaming far from the animal’s established territory in northwest Nebraska.

Sam Wilson with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission says genetic testing of blood he found in mountain lion tracks in January confirmed the animal was a female. Those tracks were found near the southeastern corner of the state.

In addition to the tracks, trail cameras have documented a mountain lion in Nemaha and Richardson counties for more than a year.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say one person is dead and another is injured after two shootings were reported around the same time in Omaha.

Police responded to an initial report of shots fired Monday afternoon in a neighborhood west of Fontenelle Park, where a woman was found dead.

Another shooting was reported just east of the park around the same time. WOWT reports that police found a male victim with a gunshot wound. He is expected to survive.

Officials are searching for a suspect in the area. Police say they believe the two shootings are connected.

The victims have not been identified.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Two 23-year-old men have been given a year of probation for providing booze to an 18-year-old member of a University of Nebraska-Lincoln fraternity who authorities say died of alcohol intoxication.

Online court records say Cory Foland and Ross Reynolds were sentenced Monday in Lancaster County District Court. They’d pleaded no contest to misdemeanor procuring alcohol for a minor after prosecutors lowered the charge from a felony. Two others charged in the case who made the same plea deal are scheduled to be sentenced later Monday: Thomas Trueblood and Vance Heyer.

Prosecutors say the four were involved in the death of Clayton Real after an off-campus party on Sept. 4, 2014. Real was found dead the next morning in his room at the FarmHouse Fraternity house.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police say a man returning from work found his 6-month-old child unconscious in a bathtub.

Officers were sent to Creighton University Medical Center around 11:45 p.m. Sunday to investigate because the child had been taken there in a private vehicle. Police say the infant later was taken to Children’s Hospital & Medical Center and is on life support there.

The father told officers that while he was at work the infant and a 2-year-old were under the care of a woman. Police say she was taken into custody on suspicion of child abuse or neglect.

BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — Students at a Bellevue high school are using chickens to help learn about agriculture.

Students enrolled in Bryan High School’s urban agriculture academy worked with a flock of seven chickens. Six moved out of the coop last week because a Bellevue ordinance bars roosters. The oldest is a 3-month-old Barred Plymouth Rock hen that hatched at the school.

During incubation, the students learned about the developing chicks. Now that the eggs have hatched, students conduct health checks on the birds.

Channing Reha and other teachers came up with the idea for studying chickens last year. Reha says “there’s no better way to learn than to do and touch and feel.”

Senior Lindsey Parks says “it’s like raising your own child.”

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say one person has been killed and two people have been treated at a hospital after a fire at a plumbing company building in Grand Island.

Grand Island Fire Chief Cory Schmidt says firetrucks were dispatched after several people reported hearing explosions around 10:45 p.m. Sunday. An estimated 40 firefighters battled the flames, and crews were still on the scene Monday morning to handle hot spots at the Winfrey Plumbing and Heating building and a nearby building where the fire had spread.

Fire Department shift commander Ed Carlin told station NTV that one body was recovered and that the two people injured were taken to a Grand Island hospital.

Schmidt says the state fire marshal’s office has been called to help determine what caused the explosions and fire.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 2-year-old was taken to a hospital after being bitten by an animal at Lincoln Children’s Zoo.

Lincoln fire medics were sent to the zoo around 3:30 p.m. Sunday, and they say the child’s injury was not life-threatening.

Zoo spokesman Ryan Gross said the child was bitten by a fossa, which the zoo website describes as a catlike species from Madagascar that’s related to the mongoose family.

Gross did not provide details about how the child got so close to the fossa but says the animal had not escaped its habitat and that the child was not inside the habitat when bitten.

NORTH BEND, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say the body of a man pulled from the Platte River near North Bend was that of a man reported missing in Rogers.

The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office says two kayakers spotted the body caught in some limbs about 12:45 p.m. Sunday at a spot about two miles west of North Bend. The body was recovered later in the afternoon.

The Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Monday that tattoos helped officials identify the man as 29-year-old Alex Orellana. An autopsy has been ordered to help investigators determine how he died.

SUPERIOR, Neb. (AP) — The National Weather Service says a tornado has touched down in south-central Nebraska, but there are no reports of injuries or serious damage.

Jeremy Wesely, lead forecaster in the weather service’s Hastings office, says the tornado touched down in Nuckolls County just after 6 p.m. Sunday. He says it traveled through mainly rural areas of the county.

He says no “substantial” damage was reported as of Sunday night.

Just over the border in northern Kansas, some structural damage was reported and at least two people were injured in the small town of Munden.

Parts of Nebraska and Iowa could see thunderstorms overnight, and the weather service is warning that parts of the southern and central Great Plains could see significant severe thunderstorms on Tuesday, with some strong tornadoes possible.