PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say two people have been killed in a Sarpy County collision.

The collision occurred just before 4 p.m. Monday on Nebraska Highway 50, a few miles west of Papillion (puh-PIHL’-yuhn). The Sarpy County Sheriff’s Office says a northbound minivan crossed a median and ran into a southbound pickup truck. Two other vehicles sustained only minor damage after their drivers took evasive action.

The minivan driver and his female adult passenger were pronounced dead at the scene. A 5-year-old girl with them was taken to Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

The pickup driver was taken to another Omaha hospital. The Sheriff’s Office says the people in the two other vehicles weren’t injured.

The names of those involved haven’t been released.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A jury has convicted a former Lincoln High School girls basketball coach of child abuse but acquitted him of sexually assaulting a student in a classroom.

Lancaster County District Court records say the verdicts were rendered Friday for 34-year-old Marcus Perry. His sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 2.

Police say a 17-year-old student told school officials and officers that Perry touched her genitals in an in-school suspension room on Dec. 7. She testified that she didn’t consent to the contact but also testified that she didn’t get up and leave or tell him to stop.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have begun a homicide investigation in northeast Omaha.

Police say in a news release that officers sent around 8:10 a.m. Monday on a call described only as “nature unknown” found a body inside a residence.

Homicide investigators have been called in.

Later Monday, the victim was identified as 37-year-old Wesley Brayman.

No other details about the case have been released, and no arrests have been reported.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A macaw that flew away from Omaha’s zoo after apparently being spooked by the Goodyear blimp has been found in a nearby neighborhood.

The macaw, named Cayenne, was out during the zoo’s Birds of Flight show Sunday morning when it was startled by the blimp drifting past. The bird flew out of an amphitheater and past the zoo’s boundaries.

Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium staff sought the public’s help, and on Monday morning a nearby resident tipped them off about the bird’s whereabouts.

Staffers spotted the bird, and after flying to another tree it came down when called.

The red, green and blue bird, which is a member of the parrot family, was returned to the zoo and quickly joined her sister in eating treats.

One person was killed in a crash between a motorcycle and a deer on Highway 6 near Ashland on Sunday afternoon.

The crash occurred at approximately 2:30 p.m. when a deer ran out of the north ditch in front of a westbound 2013 Harley Davidson motorcycle. The rider, Aaron Roth, 31, of Omaha, attempted to avoid the deer, but there was a collision. The motorcycle then lost control, caught fire, and hit a guardrail.

Roth was pronounced deceased at the scene.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln doctor has been accused of using patients and employees to obtain prescription drugs for his own use.

Federal court records say Dr. Jeffrey Fraser has been indicted on a weapons charge and a charge of obtaining controlled substances by fraud. He’s due in U.S. District Court for a hearing on July 11.

A phone listed for him rang busy during several calls Friday. The court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for him.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld a Lincoln man’s first-degree murder and other convictions and his life sentence for the 2016 shooting death of another man.

Anthony Wells was convicted in January 2017 for the shooting death of 25-year-old Joshua Hartwig. Police found Hartwig dead outside an apartment building north of downtown Lincoln. Investigators say Wells fired 13 rounds into a crowd outside the building following an argument with a woman, hitting Hartwig in the neck.

In his appeal, Wells argued the trial court made several errors, including a faulty jury instruction, and that his lawyer was so ineffective that it cost him a fair trial.

On Friday, the high court dismissed those arguments in affirming Wells’ convictions and sentences.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln’s fire and rescue department is looking into equipping its emergency crews with body armor.

Fire Chief Micheal Despain told the Lincoln Journal Star that the department is researching ballistic protection to potentially acquire vests and helmets to protect firefighters in an active shooter response. Lincoln Fire and Rescue has already purchased bulletproof medical bags and trained with local law enforcement agencies to prepare for active shooter situations.

“You never thought ambulance teams or medic teams would even need to wear body armor,” said Shawn Mayfield of Point Blank Enterprises at a recent vest demonstration in Lincoln. “But I guess that’s the way things are going.”

More fire departments around the county are buying bulletproof vests, according to manufacturers.

Despain doesn’t know of any recent stabbings or shootings involving the city’s emergency crews but he said there have been some close calls. Several paramedics have been assaulted, he said.

“We’re seeing more and more weapons out there,” he said.

Ballistic vests are covered under warranty for a certain number of years. The city will assume all liability after that if one fails to work or someone is injured or killed, Despain said.

The department estimates the vests would cost more than $200,000 total for the 250 firefighters.

The vests aren’t a top priority since the department is working to replace aging fire engines, Despain said. New fire engines are estimated to cost upward of $450,000 each.

“We need 11 fire engines yesterday,” he said. “We won’t be able to go to the (active shooter) incident if we don’t get that solved over time.”

AUBURN, Neb. (AP) — A 36-year-old man charged with first-degree murder in the case of a missing Peru State College coed has pleaded not guilty.

Joshua Keadle entered the written plea Thursday in Nemaha County District Court. He’s charged in the disappearance and presumed death of 19-year-old Peru State College student Tyler “Ty” Thomas.

Keadle’s arraignment had been set for July 2, but his written plea waives that appearance. A trial date has not yet been set.

Thomas disappeared Dec. 3, 2010, after leaving a party near the Peru State campus. Authorities say Keadle, a fellow student, told them he and Thomas had sex in his vehicle that night, and that Thomas threatened to report he had raped her.

The state issued a death certificate for Thomas in 2013, even though her body has never been found.

Keadle is already serving prison sentence for the 2008 rape of a 15-year-old girl.

DOON, Iowa (AP) — An estimated 230,000 gallons (870,619 liters) of crude oil spilled into floodwaters in the northwestern corner of Iowa following a train derailment, a railroad official said Saturday.

BNSF spokesman Andy Williams said 14 of 32 oil tanker cars just south of Doon in Lyon County leaked oil into surrounding floodwaters from the swollen Little Rock River. Williams had earlier said 33 oil cars had derailed.

Nearly half the spill — an estimated 100,000 gallons (378,530 liters) — had been contained with booms near the derailment site and an additional boom placed approximately 5 miles (8.05 kilometers) downstream, Williams said. Skimmers and vacuum trucks were being used to remove the oil. Crews will then use equipment to separate the oil from the water.

“In addition to focusing on the environmental recovery, ongoing monitoring is occurring for any potential conditions that could impact workers and the community and so far have found no levels of concern,” Williams said.

Officials still hadn’t determined the cause of Friday morning’s derailment, but a disaster proclamation issued by Gov. Kim Reynolds for Lyon and three other counties placed the blame on rain-fueled flooding. Reynolds visited the derailment site Saturday afternoon as part of a tour of areas hit by recent flooding.

Some officials have speculated that floodwaters eroded soil beneath the train track. The nearby Little Rock River rose rapidly after heavy rain Wednesday and Thursday.

A major part of the cleanup work includes building a temporary road parallel to the tracks to allow in cranes that can remove the derailed and partially-submerged oil cars. Williams said officials hoped to reach the cars Saturday.

The train was carrying tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to Stroud, Oklahoma, for ConocoPhillips. ConocoPhillips spokesman Daren Beaudo said each tanker can hold more than 25,000 gallons (20,817 imperial gallons) of oil.

Beaudo said Saturday that the derailed oil cars were a model known as DOT117Rs, indicating they were newer or had been retrofitted to be safer and help prevent leaks in the event of an accident.

The derailment also caused concern downstream, including as far south as Omaha, Nebraska, about 150 miles (240 kilometers) from the derailment site. The spill reached the Rock River, which joins the Big Sioux River before merging into the Missouri River at Sioux City.

Omaha’s public water utility — Metropolitan Utilities District — said it was monitoring pumps it uses to pull drinking water from the Missouri River.

Rock Valley, Iowa, just southwest of the derailment, shut off its water wells within hours of the accident. It plans to drain and clean its wells and use a rural water system until testing shows its water is safe.