UPDATE:

(AP) — At least four of the 10 workers sent to hospitals after an explosion and partial collapse at an Omaha manufacturing plant have already been released.

Authorities say two employees were killed in the accident at the International Nutrition plant in south-central Omaha on Monday morning.

Bergan Mercy Medical Center says two of the three workers sent there were treated and released.

The Nebraska Medical Center says two workers sent there were treated for minor injuries and then released. The hospital also says it treated a firefighter and released him.

Authorities say seven other workers were treated at the scene.

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(AP) — Officials say at least 10 people have been hospitalized and others could be trapped after an explosion and partial building collapse at an Omaha animal feed processing plant.

Interim Omaha Fire Chief Bernie Kanger said he’s not sure how many workers could be trapped in the wreckage of the International Nutrition plant. The fire that followed the explosion around 10 a.m. Monday has been extinguished. Firefighters are gingerly searching the structure, fearing that more debris could rain down.

Kanger says one firefighter was among those injured. At least two of the injured were sent to a burn center in Lincoln.

Kanger declined to comment on possible fatalities. At the time of the blast there were 38 employees at work.

(AP) — Nearly half of black men and 40 percent of white men are arrested at least once on non-traffic-related crimes by the time they turn 23. That’s according to a new study.

The estimates published this month by criminologists at the University of South Carolina and the University at Albany didn’t rely on arrest records but on an annual federal survey of 7,000 young people who answered questions from 1997 to 2008.

The authors found that by age 18, 30 percent of black men, 26 percent of Hispanic men and 22 percent of white men have been arrested.

By 23, those numbers climb to 49 percent for black men, 44 percent for Hispanic men and 38 percent for white men.

(AP) — At least nine people have been hospitalized and others could be trapped after an explosion and partial building collapse at an Omaha animal feed processing plant.

Interim Omaha Fire Chief Bernie Kanger (KANG’-ur) said Monday that nine workers have been sent to hospitals. He says firefighters are searching the building for anyone who may have been trapped by the blast or the falling debris. He declined to comment on possible fatalities.

Family members who have gathered outside the International Nutrition plant say they’ve received cellphone calls from their loved ones inside who told them one or two people may be missing or trapped.

The fire and explosion were reported at 10 a.m. Plant officials declined to comment to The Associated Press.

(AP) — Police say a potential suicide jumper who scaled a bridge between Nebraska and Iowa has come down.

The man climbed the Veterans Memorial Bridge around 6 p.m. Sunday. The bridge carries U.S. Highways 77 and 20 traffic between South Sioux City, Neb., and Sioux City, Iowa. Officers shut off bridge traffic for 15 to 20 minutes.

Sgt. Mike Hamm says the man came down willingly and was taken to UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s hospital in Sioux City.

(AP) — Authorities say fire code violations have forced the banning of residents from a fraternity house at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Fire Capt. Jim Bopp says a suspicious liquid was found in the Sigma Nu basement on Sunday afternoon, and there was a haze throughout the house when firefighters responded to an alarm.

UNL vice chancellor for student affairs Juan Franco says the house was a mess and that the frat likely will face university discipline. Several bottles of alcohol were found inside the house.

The 50 or so frat members are banned from the house until the code violations are corrected.

Some of the students have moved in with family and friends in Lincoln, and Franco says the university also offered the frat members some university housing in campus dorms.

(AP) — A 17-year-old boy is hospitalized in critical condition at an Omaha hospital after a skiing accident in western Iowa.

The boy was hurt Sunday in an accident at the Mt. Crescent Ski Area near Honey Creek, Iowa.

The 17-year-old was flown to an Omaha hospital for treatment.

Officials did not immediately identify the boy.

(AP) — Omaha police are looking for two sisters who have been missing since Friday evening.

Police say 12-year-old Zianne Sysel and 10-year-old Lakeisha Sysel were last seen at their home in north Omaha around 8 p.m. Friday.

Zianne Sysel is 5-foot-5-inches-tall and weighs 130 pounds.

Lakeisha Sysel is 5-foot-6-inches-tall and also weighs about 130 pounds.

Police are asking anyone with information about the girls to call 402-444-5818.

(AP) — A car fleeing from a hit-and-run crash in north Omaha smashed into another vehicle, leaving one person dead.

Omaha police say the incident began early Sunday when a Mercury Sable struck a Dodge Charger and then drove away. The driver of the Charger followed in an attempt to get a license plate number.

After traveling a short distance, the Mercury ran a stop sign and hit a Jeep Cherokee, causing both vehicles to veer into a yard. The Jeep rolled onto its roof.

The driver of the Jeep was killed.

Police say five people were in the Mercury, and the driver and a passenger ran away. The three others were taken to hospitals for treatment of minor injuries.

Police didn’t release names of those involved.

 

(AP) — A Nebraska man has died after he lost control of his minivan on a gravel road.

The Lancaster County Sheriff’s office says the accident happened around 10:30 p.m. Saturday in a rural northeastern part of the county on North 162nd Street.

Authorities say 55-year-old Daniel Benkusky of Ceresco lost control of his minivan, and it rolled into a field near Agnew Road.

Benkusky wasn’t wearing a seat belt, and he was thrown from the van. He died at the scene.

The sheriff’s office says alcohol may have been a factor in the crash.