(AP) — A 23-year-old Madison man has been accused of threatening three students at Northeast Community College in Norfolk.

The Madison County sheriff’s office says John Ertzner was arrested last week. Madison County Jail records said Ertzner remained in custody on Monday. Court records don’t list the name of his attorney.

Officials say an armed man approached three students at the school on Monday. A court affidavit says the students reported that the man followed them on a campus road and stopped next to them when they stopped and pointed a gun at two of them.

Ertzner told an investigator he mistook the three for other men who’d chased him earlier Monday in Norfolk. He said he’d put his BB pistol on his car console but didn’t point it at the students.

(AP) — Firefighters are working to extinguish several brush fires in eastern Nebraska.

Fires broke out as temperatures climbed into the low 70s Sunday, but winds gusting 30-to-40 mph made it difficult to contain the fires.

No evacuations or serious injuries were reported Sunday afternoon, but at least one firefighter had to be treated for smoke inhalation near Branched Oak Lake.

Some roads had to be shut down at Branched Oak as crews battled a grass fire northeast of the lake.

Otoe County officials say firefighters were battling fires near Dunbar and Palmyra.

The Saunders County Sheriff’s office says a grass fire northwest of Ashland was contained Sunday.

Another brush fire was reported near Springfield, Neb. Sunday afternoon. That blaze forced a road closure nearby, but no injuries were reported.

(AP) — A missing eastern Nebraska teenager has returned to the Omaha area, but didn’t immediately return home to her family.

Police in the Omaha suburb of Bellevue say 16-year-old Michaela Wells was flown back to the area on Friday — a day after she was found safe in Indianapolis at the home of a teen boy.

Bellevue Police Chief Mark Elbert says Wells will be held in the Sarpy County Juvenile Justice Center until investigators can talk with her and evaluate the situation.

Elbert says this interview procedure is used in any case of missing or runaway teens his department investigates.

Wells disappeared March 2 when she went outside to take out the trash.

(AP) — Omaha police are investigating a fatal shooting that began with a home invasion this weekend.

Police say the incident happened shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday at a home in the 5100 block of North 49th Avenue.

Officers arrived and found 19-year-old Ramon Matlock, of Omaha, lying outside the home with gunshot wounds. Paramedics were unable to revive him.

The homeowner and several neighbors are being questioned in the shooting, but police described the incident as a home invasion.

No arrests in the case had been reported as of midday Sunday.

(AP) — The average U.S. price of a gallon of gasoline has jumped 10 cents over the past two weeks.

The Lundberg Survey of fuel prices released Sunday says the price of a gallon of regular is $3.51. Midgrade costs an average of $3.69 a gallon, and premium is $3.84.

Diesel was up three cents over the past two weeks at $4.03.

Of the cities surveyed in the Lower 48 states, Los Angeles has the nation’s highest average price for gas at $3.94. Jackson, Miss., has the lowest at $3.18.

In Nebraska, the average price per gallon of regular is $3.48.

(AP) — The University of Nebraska’s Center for Great Plains Studies has scheduled its 40th annual symposium on drought.

The event is scheduled for April 1-4 at the Nebraska Union. The title this year is “Drought in the Life, Cultures and Landscapes of the Great Plains.”

More than 40 speakers will share their expertise and perspectives. Topics include agriculture and livestock impacts, Dust Bowl history, drought in literature and art, climate extremes and human health effects.

For registration and more information, go online at http://bit.ly/1fGqqAJ .

(AP) — Omaha police have arrested a suspect in Friday’s fatal shooting of a 21-year-old man.

Police said Saturday that 23-year-old Laron Jones had been arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder and weapons charges in the case.

The shooting at a house in northeast Omaha was reported around 2:50 a.m. Friday. Officers found Brandon Samuels there with gunshot wounds.

Samuels was taken to Creighton University Medical Center where he later died. He is from Omaha.

Police interviewed several witnesses, and later arrested Jones.

(AP) — A 24-year-old Walthill man is dead after a rollover crash in northeast Nebraska.

Adam Joseph Zendejas was killed in the Friday morning crash on Highway 94.

Investigators say Zendejas was a passenger in the SUV that crossed the highway’s center line, entered a ditch and rolled around 6:40 a.m.

The name of the driver had not been released. The accident is still under investigation.

The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office is assisting the Nebraska State Patrol in the investigation.

(AP) — A central Nebraska shelter is caring for some feathered friends after officers seized several roosters from a Grand Island mobile home.

Police were called to the home for a report of kids trying to fight roosters.

When an officer and an animal control worker arrived Wednesday afternoon, they found eight roosters, two of which were dead.

While city law allows some residents to have chickens, roosters aren’t allowed in city limits.

An officer told a man who claimed the birds that he isn’t allowed to have roosters on his property. The roosters were impounded, and Human Society officials are waiting to see if they will be surrendered, returned to the owner or if there will be a court hearing on the matter.

(AP) — The Omaha Police Department is co-sponsoring a Gun Amnesty Day to collect unwanted or illegal guns and ammunition.

The latest event runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 15 at the Sheet Metal Workers Union Hall in south Omaha. Police say guns may be dropped off at the hall with no questions asked, but police will document all firearms. If a gun is linked to a crime or reported stolen, police will investigate.

Police say all guns and ammunition that are turned in are destroyed.