ASHLAND, Neb. (AP) — One person has been injured in a train crash near Ashland.

A Burlington Northern Sante Fe spokesperson said a maintenance vehicle on the tracks collided with the train Tuesday afternoon. The train was traveling from Ashland to Lincoln. A maintenance crew was working on the tracks at the time of the crash.

The spokesperson described the injury as “very minor.”

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a man has been arrested in the fatal stabbing of a relative at a family birthday party in Lincoln.

Police spokeswoman Katie Flood says officers were dispatched to a southwest Lincoln home a little after 10:30 p.m. Tuesday. A wounded man found there was rushed to a local hospital. Flood says the man died at the hospital about 3 a.m. Wednesday.

Flood says a suspect was arrested at the scene of the party and jailed on suspicion of second-degree murder. She says officers also found a knife they think was used in the slaying.

Flood didn’t release the names of those involved or explain whether they are related.

ASHLAND, Neb. (AP) — Construction has begun on the final phase of a Platte River levee project near Ashland in eastern Nebraska.

In 1993 a massive ice jam forced floodwaters through Lincoln’s well fields near Ashland, exposing and damaging pipelines, closing Interstate 80 and U.S. Highway 6 and damaging homes and buildings along the river.

After the flooding, federal and local officials devised a plan to fix the levee system on both sides of the river. The project began in 2004 and has been completed in phases as federal and local funds became available.

Once complete, the levee project will protect homes and buildings, farmland, drinking water pipelines for Lincoln and Omaha, and the Nebraska Army National Guard’s training grounds at Camp Ashland.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police say a woman in the southeast part of the city was shot before her car was stolen.

Police say the woman met an acquaintance and drove him to a gas station Tuesday night. They say the woman got out of the car and the man shot her in the wrist before driving off.

Police say they found her Nissan Altima about one hour later. They say they’ve taken one person into custody.

The woman was taken to the Nebraska Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.

Police haven’t released the man’s name.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska officials say two women were seriously injured in a two-car vehicle collision that hospitalized six people.

Nebraska State Patrol Sgt. Timothy Salmen says a distracted driver lost control Tuesday night on Interstate 80 near Lincoln. He says the driver’s car crossed the median and was broad-sided by a truck.

Two women on the passenger side of the car were seriously injured and taken to the Bryan West Campus in Lincoln. Four other people were taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Their condition is unknown.

Salmen says all passengers were wearing seatbelts. He says the accident is under investigation.

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Authorities in Wyoming are pressing felony charges against a man and a woman alleging they kept a 7-year-old child in an outdoor cage.

The child’s mother and the man face one count each of child abuse and three counts each of felonious restraint.

The pair were arrested July 24 after Albany County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a tip that the child was caged outside a home on Fox Creek Road.

The man faces a circuit court hearing Thursday. The mother already has been bound over to district court.

Deputies said the child reported living in the cage on and off for three weeks, taking meals there and sleeping there overnight even during rainstorms.

Neither defense attorney was available for comment Tuesday.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha school board members have reviewed a pared-down list that still contains $683 million in capital projects being proposed for bond funding.

The board took no action on Monday night as members listened to consultants discuss the projects. The board has until Aug. 29 to place a bond issue on the November ballot.

Consultants from Jacobs Program Management Co. say the original list of repairs, renovations and new schools totaled a $1.1 billion. School officials have said the large price tag is driven by enrollment increases and building deficiencies that have become apparent since the $254 million bond issue 15 years ago.

Board members say they’re pursuing other funding sources to ease the tax hike that would be needed for the bonds

NIOBRARA, Neb. (AP) — The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska is hosting its annual powwow near Niobrara to celebrate culture, heritage and traditions.

The powwow will run from Friday through Sunday at the Ponca Community Grounds, about five miles southwest of Niobrara. It will include dancers, drum groups and vendors.

Admission to all events is free, and the powwow is open to the public. It’s a noncontest powwow, meant to serve as an annual gathering and celebration of family and friends.

The tribe’s diabetes program will host a “Color Me Healthy” run at 5 p.m. on Friday. Participants will run two miles while being sprayed with colors.

The Ponca Tribe has a 15-county service area that includes parts of Nebraska, South Dakota and Iowa.