(AP) — A plant sale billed as the Midwest’s largest gardening event will take place in Lincoln.

More than 500 plant varieties will be offered at the Spring Affair event on April 26 at the Lancaster County Events Center. The event will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln horticulture specialist Kim Todd says this year’s events will focus on the importance of gardens as far more than just places of beauty. Todd says gardens have become increasingly important for ecological diversity, pollination and wildlife habitats.

Admission to the sale is free.

(AP) — Two Omaha police officers’ decision to shoot at a fleeing suspect’s truck will be investigated, but no one was seriously injured in the shooting.

Police Officer Michael Pecha says the two officers were working security at the Tequila Bar when the incident happened early Sunday.

The officers and the bar’s security staff noticed someone prowling the parking lot checking car doors while another man followed in a white truck.

The man roaming the lot was apprehended without incident, but the man in the truck drove at the officers as he fled. The officers fired at the truck.

The man in the truck turned himself into police later and was arrested.

One of the officers sustained minor injuries. Both officers will be on leave while the shooting is investigated.

The average price of regular gasoline in the U.S. has fallen 2 cents a gallon during the past two weeks.

Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg said Sunday a gallon of regular now costs $3.29 on average. Gas is 30 cents a gallon cheaper than this time last year

Lundberg says the price has dropped more than a nickel per gallon in the past month, but it’s unlikely to fall further unless crude oil prices plunge.

Diesel prices rose in the past two weeks by six cents to $3.95 per gallon.

Of the cities surveyed in the lower 48 states, Billings, Mont., has the lowest price at $2.99 a gallon and San Diego has the highest price at $3.63.

The average price per gallon in Nebraska is $3.18.

(AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has been chosen to oversee the courts in Hall and Buffalo counties.

Hall County Judge Art Wetzel will oversee the courts in the 9th Judicial District this year.

Wetzel worked as a lawyer for 27 years before becoming a judge in 2011. He previously worked as deputy Adams County attorney and as a defense attorney.

He was nominated by his fellow county judges.

Presiding judges oversee court services within their district and serve as the point of contact for state and local agencies. They’re also responsible for hiring and disciplining county court staff and setting local policies.

(AP) — Roughly 1,000 people attended a fundraiser Sunday for the victims of last month’s deadly building collapse at an Omaha livestock feed manufacturer’s plant.

Organizers of the spaghetti dinner event were pleasantly surprised with the turnout at the Ralston Arena.

Alyssa Stout said she never expected this big of a crowd at the event to help the people who worked with her father, Duanne Stout, at International Nutrition.

The Jan. 20 collapse killed 47-year-old David Ball and 53-year-old Keith Everett and injured several others.

Then the company laid off 25 production workers while it works to rebuild the plant.

The money raised Sunday is going to be shared by all the victims.

The cause of the collapse hasn’t been determined.

(AP) — The Blackbird Bend casino in western Iowa, formerly CasinOmaha, is set to reopen in a brand new building on Wednesday.

Table games, a restaurant and bar and gift shop are all coming back with the move to the new building.

The Omaha Tribe-owned casino, located in Onawa, Iowa, was shut down by Missouri River flooding in June 2011. It reopened in a portion of the old building about a year ago while the new casino was under construction.

Marketing director Mike Krysl says the new casino is next door to the old building and sits 6 feet higher than the old casino to prevent future flooding. Part of the old building will reopen in March as a bingo hall.

(AP) — A Bloomfield police officer has been given a written reprimand for shooting a family cat he had trapped on city property.

Lisa Kilgore, a Des Moines, Iowa, veterinarian, says the 2-year-old, neutered cat belonged to her parents, who live just outside of town. The cat went missing on Jan. 13, and Kilgore says her mother confronted Officer Wally Holz on Jan. 21. He confirmed he had trapped the cat following complaints of feral cats in town, shot it and dumped its body behind a city maintenance shed.

Bloomfield Mayor Phil Schroeder said that Holz should have impounded the cat for five days to give its owners a chance to claim him.

Schroeder says it’s the first time the 15-year police veteran has been disciplined.

(AP) — The city of Fremont says an investigation will be conducted into the police officers who reportedly were at a bar where a teenager drank alcohol and later died in a crash.

Fremont City Attorney Paul Payne tells The Omaha World-Herald (http://bit.ly/1ecLx7c) that city administrators have known about the incident involving the officers since several days after the December 2012 crash that killed 18-year-old Jacob Dickmeyer, of Valley.

That news came a day after a Douglas County jury convicted 20-year-old Amanda Heiman, a former waitress at the bar, of procuring alcohol for a minor resulting in death.

Testimony during her trial indicated, among other things, that four off-duty Fremont officers were in the bar when Dickmeyer was drinking, and that one of the officers bought him a beer.

(AP) — A Douglas County judge has sentenced a South Sioux City man to 90-days in jail and probation for his conviction of attempted sexual assault of a child in Valley, just west of Omaha.

48-year-old Marc Mallory pleaded no contest Friday to the charge in Douglas County District Court and received credit for 21-days already spent in jail.

Once he’s released, he’ll serve five years of probation and must register as a sex offender.

Police say Mallory entered the bedroom of a sleeping 11-year-old girl and fondled her.

The judge also ordered Mallory to have no contact with any female under the age of 18.

(AP) — An Omaha, Neb., woman has been arrested on suspicion of setting a fire at a motel in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

43-year-old Carolettia Looney was arrested after police say she lit Bible pages in a trashcan in her room Thursday night.

Police Sgt. Chad Meyers says Looney told officers she started the fire because hotel management disputed her assertion that she had prepaid enough to cover four days’ lodging.

No one was injured. The small fire was discovered when a motel security guard heard a smoke alarm and knocked on Looney’s door. He quickly put out the blaze, and Looney was arrested on suspicion of first-degree arson.

Looney is being held at the Pottawattamie County Jail and could not be reached for comment.