GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A Grand Island flood control project that was scheduled for completion next year is four years behind schedule and $13 million over budget.

The Grand Island City Council and Hall County Board of Supervisors were briefed on the project last week.

The project was delayed in part because of the time required to clean up buried explosives from land that once housed an ordinance plant and an insufficient drainage map. The project originally relied on watershed data from the 1980s.

Officials say the project is over budget because of an abnormal jump in construction prices over the project’s 10-year development. The price of earth-moving equipment rose in part because of China buying up American construction material and equipment, and diesel prices also went up.

DENVER (AP) — A man captured after authorities say he tried to flee a bank robbery in Denver doesn’t seem too upset about his arrest.

The mug shot taken after 45-year-old Michael Whitington’s Sept. 23 arrest shows him with a broad, toothy smile and his eyes open wide.

Police say he robbed a bank on Denver’s 16th Street pedestrian mall and then tried to get away on a light-rail train. Officers stopped the train a few blocks away and arrested him.

He has been charged with one count of robbery and is due to appear in court on Tuesday to be advised of the charge.

He’s being held in jail, and it’s not clear whether he has a lawyer yet.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln police are investigating a knife attack at a football tailgate after the Nebraska Cornhuskers game over the weekend.

A 28-year-old man was slashed on Saturday at a tailgate behind the Lincoln Journal Star production building. Police Capt. David Beggs tells the newspaper the attack happened after the man saw his girlfriend talking to another man. They say he went to confront her when the suspect intervened and cut him.

The victim suffered a 3¼-inch cut to his forearm. Police haven’t found the suspect and are investigating.

The Cornhuskers beat Illinois 45-14.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha jewelry store that was the scene of a fatal shooting last week has reopened for business.

JR’s Jewelry re-opened its doors on Saturday.

On Sept. 17, 71-year-old James Minshall was shot and killed in what police say was a botched robbery.

An 18-year-old Omaha man, Milton Dortch, has been charged with first-degree murder and a weapons county in Minshall’s shooting death. Prosecutors say Dortch also robbed a bank in west Omaha on Sept. 13.

On Saturday, yellow sticky notes holding written condolences and memories of Minshall covered part of the storefront window.

Tracey Bland, Minshall’s daughter says her father would have wanted the business to get back to normal sooner.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Prosecutors may file additional charges because a western Iowa teen died two days after suffering a head injury during a fight at school.

The Pottawattamie County Attorney will review the circumstances of 17-year-old Dakota Escritt’s death on Monday.

Authorities said Escritt was knocked unconscious during the fight when his head hit the tile floor. Escritt died Saturday evening at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha.

Authorities charged a 16-year-old with assault after the fight Thursday morning at Abraham Lincoln High School. More charges could be added.

Escritt’s friends say he enjoyed hanging out and looking at Japanese animation and comics, but some students teased him because of his hobbies. Authorities have not said what led to Thursday’s fight.

NELIGH, Neb. (AP) — Roughly 8,000 people filled a northeast Nebraska farm Saturday to hear Willie Nelson and Neil Young perform at a concert organized by opponents of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.

Politicians and activists spoke to the crowd on Art and Helen Tanderup’s farm about the pipeline project between performances.

Young said before the concert that he thinks it’s important for America to use more renewable energy, and he supports people who are trying to offer solutions.

The proposed TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline would carry oil from Canada south to the Gulf Coast.

Pipeline critics worry it could contribute to pollution and contaminate groundwater.

TransCanada says the pipeline would have advanced safety features. The southern leg of the pipeline between Oklahoma and Texas is already operational.

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis County police say a Ferguson officer was shot after encountering two suspects at a community center who fired at him during a foot chase.

County Police Chief Jon Belmar says the officer was shot in the arm and is expected to survive. Belmar did not identify the officer or give further details about his condition.

He says that the officer fired shots in return but that police have no indication that either suspect was shot.

A search was underway for the suspects early Sunday.

Belmar says he does not think the shooting was related to two separate protests that were going on Saturday night around the same time.

The city has been the scene of unrest since the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed, black 18-year-old, by a white police officer.