OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha, Nebraska, and Council Bluffs, Iowa, are separated by the Missouri River, but officials say a recent food festival suggests that the water isn’t a barrier to collaboration between them for events.

The Council Bluffs parks director says the river “can pull us together.” The two cities are tied by a pedestrian bridge.

The Taste of Omaha this past weekend spilled over into Iowa for the first time, and an event organizer says attendance might have reached more than 125,000 during the three-day festival.

The Loessfest last month in Council Bluffs had sponsorships from Omaha, enabling the festival to stage free concerts, movies and other entertainment.

A consulting team last year suggested cooperation on the riverfront could benefit both communities.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Officials with the University of Nebraska have started the process of looking for the next chancellor of its Lincoln campus.

University officials say a search firm and a university-appointed committee will be used to help find a replacement for Chancellor Harvey Perlman. Perlman says he plans to leave the chancellor’s office next summer to return to the law school faculty.

A school spokeswoman says administrators already have asked search firms to submit proposals for conducting the search. It likely will be several weeks until a search firm is named.

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — A psychiatrist who examined Colorado theater shooter James Holmes says Holmes expressed sadness when he learned a child died in the attack.

Dr. William Reid testified Monday that Holmes had a point system for victims but that children were “morally different.”

Holmes pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the July 2012 attack that killed 12 people, including 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan.

Reid conducted one of two state-ordered evaluations of Holmes. The psychiatrist concluded Holmes was sane at the time of the shooting.

Defense lawyers say Holmes had severe schizophrenia, which distorted his sense of right and wrong.

Prosecutors are showing jurors videotapes of Reid’s interviews with Holmes. At one point on the video, Holmes says he believes he gets the economic value of anything his victims would have accomplished.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A giant paper airplane soon will grace a major intersection near the Lincoln Airport.

The sculpture is called “Pitch, Roll & Yaw” and was designed by Lincoln artist Shannon Hansen. It looks like a paper plane but is made out of metal. It is 32½ feet long, 20 feet wide and 5½ feet tall. It’s being painted now and is expected to be installed later this month.

The sculpture was commissioned by the city of Lincoln and will be owned by the city, with funding provided by Duncan Aviation, a Lincoln-based maintenance, repair and overhaul facility.

RISING CITY, Neb. (AP) — Firefighters have responded to a blaze that broke out at Butler County Dairy in Rising City, Nebraska.

Nebraska media outlets report firefighters were called to the dairy farm Sunday afternoon when a stack of 450 1-ton hay bales caught fire. Mark Doehling, assistant chief of the Rising City Volunteer Fire Department, said firefighters from four departments were called in.

Doehling said wind blew the fire away from about a dozen other storage buildings with hay for the facility’s 6,000 cows.

Dairy management determined that the fire could not be stopped, so firefighters remained at the scene through the night to monitor the blaze as the hay burned to a manageable level. Doehling says hay that has been contaminated with smoke will not be consumed by livestock.

Doehling said the cause of the fire was under investigation.

CENTER, Neb. (AP) — A 66-year-old man has been given 40 to 60 years in prison for killing his wife in northeast Nebraska.

Phillip Privett, of Verdigre (VUR’-dih-gree), had pleaded no contest and was convicted of second-degree murder and a weapons charge after prosecutors lowered the murder charge. He was sentenced last week in Knox County District Court.

Prosecutors say Privett shot to death his wife, 66-year-old Linda Privett, at their home in Verdigre on Oct. 20.

(Lincoln, Neb.)- A 29-year old Grand Island woman is jailed in Cass County after a crash that claimed the life of another driver.

Just before 6:30 p.m. Sunday, May 31, troopers responded to reports of a hit and run crash on westbound Interstate 80 at MM 419 near the Greenwood Exit in Cass County.  Witnesses reported a black Chrysler 200 was westbound on I-80 driving erratically when it entered the median, came out of the median and collided with a westbound 1999 Nissan Pathfinder. The collision caused the Pathfinder to roll in the north ditch.

The driver of the Pathfinder, Kristine J. Olson, 50, of Grand Island was killed in the crash. Olson, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was ejected from the vehicle.

The driver of the Chrysler, Mandy M. MacDonald, 29, Grand Island, continued on before being stopped by a trooper near the 56^th Street Exit (MM 405) in Lancaster County.

MacDonald was arrested and lodged in the Cass County Jail on charges to include Leaving the Scene of an Accident and Motor Vehicle Homicide.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police are investigating the death of a 50-year-old man after his body was found over the weekend.

Police said Charles Keathley’s body was found Saturday evening in a central Omaha home.

Few details about the death were released immediately, but police said the circumstances were suspicious.

Investigators are treating the case as a homicide. Anyone with information about the death is encouraged to contact police.