OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Recent discoveries at biblical sites will be discussed at a conference at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

The annual Batchelder Conference for Biblical Archaeology will be held Nov. 13-15.

The focus of this year’s event will be on the biblical city of Bethsaida and other recent discoveries. Bethsaida is one of the most frequently mentioned cities in the New Testament.

One of the speakers at the conference will be Jon Seligman, who oversees excavation for the Israel Antiquities Authority.

Attending the conference costs $10, and UNO students can attend free with their student identification.

The conference’s full schedule is available online at: https://world.unomaha.edu/Bethsaida.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church says an Omaha man has reported he was molested as a child 30 years ago by a religious order priest.

The archdiocese said in a written release Friday that the priest, who died in 2012, was an associate pastor in the Holy Ghost Parish in Omaha in the mid-1980s.

The Order of Augustinian Recollects — based in New Jersey — founded Holy Ghost in 1918. It provided the parish with a pastor from its ranks until leaving Omaha and transferring Holy Ghost to the Omaha Archdiocese in 1986.

Deacon Tim McNeil with the Omaha Archdiocese says because the priest belonged to the Augustinian Recollects, the order is carrying out the investigation.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Two of three men arrested in connection to the August shooting death of a man have been charged with first-degree murder.

Prosecutors charged the 19-year-old Joshua Nootenboom-Carr and 23-year-old Derick Lewis on Friday in the death of 21-year-old Maurice Lamont Williams. Nootenboom-Carr is also charged with attempted robbery and three weapons counts. Lewis also faces an attempted robbery charge.

A third man, 23-year-old Jason Holmes, is set to be arraigned next week. He is accused of arranging the botched robbery and driving the getaway car.

All three men are being held on $50,000 cash bond each.

Police say Williams was shot in the chest during the Aug. 30 home invasion. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.

SUTTON, Neb. (AP) — Fire officials in southeastern Nebraska say an electrical fire in downtown Sutton gutted an office building and caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage.

The fire was reported just before 7 p.m. Friday. Sutton Fire Chief Chris Moore says he was handing out candy to trick-or-treaters at the fire station when someone came running in, saying there was a fire downtown.

About 30 firefighters from Sutton, Hastings, Clay Center and Grafton battled the fire that ravaged the two-story building owned by Abat Lerew, a construction contracting company.

No one was injured. Officials estimate damage at between $100,000 and $200,000.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — State Fire Marshal’s gear worth $11,000 that was stolen last year has turned up in a tree grove east of Lincoln.

A 41-year-old rural Lincoln man found the equipment on his property Monday morning. A Lancaster County Sheriff’s deputy report says that among the equipment found was a scuba tank, hoses, tubes and detectors used to pick up harmful gases.

State Fire Marshal Jim Heine went to the grove and confirmed the equipment was from his office.

Heine says he’s not sure if any of the equipment still works. He said it looks like it had been outside a long time, noting that it was extreme dirty and muddy.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 26-year-old Lincoln man who was behind the wheel when he hit a homeless man, then fled the scene, has been sentenced to prison.

Grant Siggins was sentenced Thursday in Lancaster County District Court to three years in prison and had his driver’s license revoked for two years.

Police say Siggins was driving last November when he hit 63-year-old Marvin Archer, who was crossing a Lincoln street. Police say Siggins sped from the scene, leaving Archer with critical injuries.

Siggins, who pleaded no contest, was soon arrested and refused to submit to a test to determine whether he had been drinking.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is hosting a panel discussion on the local food movement and its future.

The panel will include community leaders, restaurant owners and farmers. They’re scheduled to speak on Nov. 12 at 3:30 p.m. at the Great Plains Art Museum.

Local farmers will showcase their food in the museum’s lobby after the panel discussion. The Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society is sponsoring the local farmers. They’ll be available until 5:30 p.m.

The seminar is presented by the University of Nebraska’s Center for Great Plains Studies. It’s free and open to the public. Audio from the event will be posted online at https://www.unl.edu/plains on Nov. 13.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities are investigating a reported hunting accident in southeast Nebraska near Auburn.

A Nebraska Game and Parks Commission spokesman says the agency’s officers and the Nemaha County Sheriff’s Office are looking into the incident reported at 6 a.m. Friday.

Three brothers were reportedly hunting turkeys when the accident happened on private property about 6 miles west and 5½ miles south of Auburn.

A 48-year-old Auburn man was injured and transported via helicopter to Bryan LGH West Hospital in Lincoln.

The man’s name and condition were not immediately released.