FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say the death of an 8-year-old girl who was injured before being involved in a Fremont collision does not appear to be suspicious.

The Fremont Police Department said in a news release Thursday that officers were dispatched a little after 7:15 p.m. Wednesday to handle a report of a vehicle collision. The officers were told after they arrived that someone involved already had been taken to Fremont Health Medical Center.

The officers learned at the hospital that Eva Imus had died. Police say the girl sustained a head injury in an accident at a Fremont residence prior to the traffic accident.

An autopsy has been planned and the case remains under investigation, but police say Eva’s death appears accidental.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha-Council Bluffs metro area is edging closer to having a population of 1 million after eclipsing 900,000 people for the first time last year.

U.S. Census Bureau data places the metro area’s population at an estimated 904,421 people. The Omaha metro area includes Douglas, Sarpy, Cass, Washington and Saunders counties in Nebraska; and Pottawattamie, Mills and Harrison counties in Iowa.

David Drozd of the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Center for Public Affairs Research and chamber of commerce officials say there are benefits to hitting the one million mark. According to them, some larger businesses and high-end retailers will only consider locating to cities with more than a million residents.

According to Drozd, Omaha, which is the 60th-largest metro in the United States, should reach 1 million by 2023.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The American aid workers brought to Nebraska who were exposed to Ebola in Sierra Leone continue to show no symptoms of the deadly virus.

Nebraska Medical Center spokesman Taylor Wilson said Thursday that all five of the individuals who were brought to Omaha earlier this month for monitoring continue to do well.

Wilson said local health officials will determine when the individuals can be released from monitoring. Ebola has a 21-day incubation period.

The health care workers were exposed to Ebola in Sierra Leone when one of their colleagues became ill with the deadly virus. They are all staying on the Nebraska Medical Center’s campus while they are being monitored.

The Omaha hospital treated three patients with Ebola last fall in its specialized biocontainment unit.

COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — A 31-year-old man finally has faced the music in court for possessing alcohol when he was a 19-year-old.

John Stokes was stopped for speeding Tuesday night and held because a bench warrant was issued in August 2003 after Stokes missed a court date. He was 19 on July 5, 2003, when he was given two liquor citations.

On Wednesday Judge Frank Skorupa asked Stokes, “Did you think we’d forget about you?” Stokes, who was appearing via a video link from the Platte County jail, told the judge he was unaware of the missed court date more than 11 years ago.

Skorupa fined Stokes a total of $400 after prosecutors dropped one of the liquor charges and Stokes pleaded guilty.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A judge is deciding what to do about a 66-year-old man who in 1992 tried to shoot up a college classroom in Lincoln but his rifle jammed.

A psychiatrist told Judge Paul Merritt Jr. at a review hearing on Wednesday that Arthur McElroy is still mentally ill but also so afflicted with physical ills that he doesn’t pose a threat to anyone. McElroy was charged and tried for attempted second-degree murder, but a judge ruled that McElroy was insane and not responsible for his actions.

McElroy’s attorney says that if Merritt doesn’t release McElroy outright, the judge should have him placed in a nursing home. But prosecutors say McElroy is still mentally ill and dangerous.

Merritt says he’ll make his ruling next month.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police say a woman reported that she was gang-raped after a man she met on a smartphone dating app showed up to their date with his friends.

Police say the 22-year-old woman met the man on Tinder and invited him to her apartment on March 14. They say the man arrived at her residence with several other men and they all sexually assaulted her.

No arrests have been announced as of Wednesday.

An Omaha police spokesman said the incident is an important safety reminder for people who use online dating websites. He urges those who use the sites to meet people in a public place and recommends they tell a friend or relative the location of the meeting.

NELIGH, Neb. (AP) — A county supervisor in northeast Nebraska has been convicted of theft.

Sixty-three-year-old Harlan Brandt, of Oakdale, had been charged with felony theft. Prosecutors say a State Patrol investigation found that Brandt had used a county credit card to buy gas for his personal use over an almost three-year period.

Court records say he pleaded no contest and was convicted of misdemeanor theft after a prosecutor lowered the charge. He’s agreed to pay back about $2,600 to the county.

Brandt is scheduled to be sentenced on May 27.

WOOD RIVER, Neb. (AP) — Farmers from the Wood River area are claiming that waterfowl conservation efforts along the Platte River are damaging Hall County roads and cropland.

Four farming families, who have land along the recently flooded Shoemaker Island Road, spoke with county supervisors Tuesday about their concerns. The families said that flood damage that occurred in February will happen again because of raised nesting islands that have been placed in the river by the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program.

The landowners say the program calls for increased river water flows and increased nesting grounds for water fowl. According to the farmers, the land has flooded twice since the nesting islands were placed in the river.

Platte River Recovery Executive Director Jerry Kenny said that analysis indicates that the flooding was not caused by the nesting islands.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators have approved a proposed ban on a common second-trimester procedure described by abortion opponents as dismembering a fetus.

Activists on both sides said Kansas is the first in the nation to have legislators pass such a ban, which was model legislation written by the National Right to Life Committee.

The House voted 98-26 to outlaw the dilation and evacuation procedure. The procedure is used in about 8 percent of all abortions in Kansas.

The Senate approved the measure last month, so it goes to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. He has promised to sign it.

Abortion foes call the procedure gruesome. Abortion rights supporters say it’s often the safest way for a woman terminating a pregnancy.