(AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board has closed its San Francisco command post, concluding the on-scene investigation into the crash-landing of Asiana Airlines Flight 214.

The NTSB said in a statement Monday that its investigative team has completed the examination of the airplane wreckage and runway at San Francisco International Airport.

The wreckage will still be available for further examination if necessary at a secure storage location at the airport.

Investigators completed several witness interviews over the weekend and were expected to finish interviewing first responders Monday.

The agency says the next phase of the investigation will include additional interviews, examination of the evacuation slides and other airplane components, and more in-depth analysis of the airplane’s performance.

Flight 214 crashed July 6, killing three people and injuring dozens.

(AP) — Some Nebraska veterans have been sharing their war stories with a researcher from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

In some cases, the veterans are telling Brian O’Grady about things they’ve never told their families.

O’Grady says “it’s easier for them to talk to someone they’re not emotionally connected with.” But, he says, he’s given copies of the interviews to their families.

He’s focused on World War II vets but also has talked to men who fought in the Korean or Vietnam wars and to a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

O’Grady plans to publish the stories and may donate the recordings to an archive.

(AP) — Authorities say a driver died after his car rammed into a light pole in Lincoln.

Police say the accident occurred around 5 a.m. Monday at the intersection of South 70th Street and Nebraska Highway 2 in southeast Lincoln.

Police spokeswoman Katie Flood says the car missed a slight curve and ran off the roadway into the pole. The car burst into flames before rescue workers arrived.

Flood says the man has been identified, but his name won’t be released until relatives are informed about his death.

(AP) — Authorities have released the name of a man whose body was found in a building that houses the Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club in Omaha.

Police identified him as 48-year-old William Furlong, of Omaha.

Police say emergency workers were dispatched to the building in southeast Omaha about 10:45 a.m. Sunday.

Homicide investigators say there were signs that a crime was involved in Furlong’s death, but no arrests have been reported.

Police haven’t said how Furlong died or released any other information about the case.

(AP) — A Wisconsin man who killed his three daughters to get back at his ex-wife will soon learn if he’ll spend the rest of his life in prison.

A jury found in April that 35-year-old Aaron Schaffhausen was sane when he killed 11-year-old Amara, 8-year-old Sophie and 5-year-old Cecilia at their River Falls’ home. He’ll be sentenced Monday in St. Croix County.

He faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison for each death. The judge must decide if that sentence will include the possibility of supervised release after at least 20 years, or if Schaffhausen will stay behind bars forever.

Schaffhausen admitted he killed the girls last July to get back at his ex-wife. Jurors found he had a mental defect, but knew the killings were wrong.

(AP) — Authorities have released the name of a man who was shot to death outside a beauty supply store in north-central Omaha.

Omaha police identified him as 29-year-old Darnell Haynes.

Haynes was sitting alone in his sport utility vehicle when he was shot about 3:20 p.m. Sunday outside Mid-K Beauty Supply. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

No arrest has been reported.

(AP) — Legal experts say it won’t be easy for the Justice Department to mount a federal civil rights case against George Zimmerman after a Florida jury acquitted him of state charges in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

One observer, former U.S. Attorney Alan Vinegrad, says the department would have to show, among other things, that the attack was unjustified and racially motivated.

Those are some of the same challenges that complicated the unsuccessful state case.

The Justice Department says it’s reviewing evidence to determine whether criminal civil rights charges are warranted. It had opened an investigation into Martin’s death last year but stepped aside to allow the state prosecution to proceed.

The NAACP and other groups have called on the Justice Department to open a civil rights case against Zimmerman.

 

(AP) — Authorities say two drivers have been killed in a head-on collision near Murray in eastern Nebraska.

The Cass County Sheriff’s Office says the accident occurred around 5:30 a.m. Sunday on U.S. Highway 75. The office says a southbound car driven by 21-year-old Efrain Soto, of Omaha, crossed into oncoming traffic and struck a vehicle driven by 43-yaer-old Dion Higgins, of Nebraska City.

Both men were pronounced at the scene.

The accident and subsequent investigation forced the shutdown of the highway for seven hours.

(AP) — Authorities are investigating the shooting death of a 69-year-old Gretna man as a homicide, and a suspect is in custody.

The Sarpy County Sheriff’s department says William H. Braesch was found dead from gunshot wounds inside his home around 8 p.m. Saturday.

Authorities say they won’t identify the suspect until after they finish interviewing witnesses.

An autopsy on Braesch’s body is planned to be done on Monday.

(AP) — Omaha police are busy investigating two different homicides.

One death was reported in southeast Omaha on Sunday morning. The other occurred Sunday afternoon in northeast Omaha.

Omaha Police Officer James Shade says officers were called to the Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club building in southeast Omaha around 10:45 a.m.

Shade says a dead man was found inside the club, and the circumstances were suspicious but few details were released.

In the other homicide, someone sitting in an SUV was shot and killed outside a beauty supply store.