(AP) — Pouring corn, oil and wine over a cornerstone, Nebraska’s Freemasons have celebrated their new state headquarters building.

Sunday’s ceremony included a color guard of men clad in red, white and blue Revolutionary War uniforms. The color guard was surrounded by dozens of men in tuxedoes, wearing ceremonial aprons at their waists and jewels around their necks.

Grand Master Thomas Hauder says the fraternal group has outgrown its old Lincoln location. The new headquarters will serve the 12,000 members and 137 Masonic lodges in Nebraska.

The Masons is a charitable fraternity that has about 6 million members in nearly 80 countries.

(AP) — A Lincoln man faces a manslaughter charge for allegedly causing a multi-vehicle crash that killed a woman in Omaha.

Omaha police say 28-year-old Jefferson D. Potter was driving a stolen pickup and lawn trailer at a high rate of speed on Friday, when he struck a vehicle at the intersection of Saddle Creek Road and Leavenworth Street.

Authorities say Jennifer E. Siemens, of Bellevue, was a front-seat passenger in the vehicle that was struck, and the impact pushed the vehicle for nearly a block. The pickup careened off that vehicle, struck a second vehicle, and then crashed into a Jiffy Lube before hitting a fourth vehicle.

Siemens was hospitalized, but died on Saturday.

Police say Potter climbed out of the pickup and fled but was apprehended by witnesses.

(AP) — Lincoln police say a man arrested for driving under the influence will likely face a felony vandalism charge after he broke a $6,000 Breathalyzer machine.

28-year-old Jason Hansen was arrested around 3:45 a.m. Sunday for driving under the influence. Lincoln Police Assistant Chief Brian Jackson says Hansen was taken to the Cornhusker Place detoxification center for a formal blood alcohol test.

Jackson says that after the test was complete, Hansen ripped up his ticket and pushed a table, which caused the $6,000 Breathalyzer machine to fall to the floor.

Jason was taken to the Lancaster County jail, where he remained later Sunday.

(AP) — Grand Island’s city finance director has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after a hit-and-run crash.

51-year-old Jaye Monter of Cairo was arrested Friday.

Authorities say a Hall County Sheriff’s deputy saw Monter rear-end another vehicle on U.S. Highway 2. The deputy turned to follow Monter and activated his overhead lights, but Monter allegedly failed to stop. The deputy stopped pursuing the vehicle but alerted area law enforcement to be on the lookout. Monter was arrested shortly before 9:30 p.m.

Formal charges haven’t been filed, but Hall County Chief Deputy Sheriff Chris Rea says Monter was arrested for driving under the influence, refusal to submit to a breath test, leaving the scene of accident and flight to avoid arrest.

(AP) — Iowa authorities have identified a body found in a river as that of a 15-year-old girl who was abducted with another girl after getting off a school bus last month.

Officials said Sunday that an autopsy confirms the body found Friday night in the Des Moines River under a bridge near Boone is Kathlynn Shepard’s.

Chief State Medical Examiner Dr. Julia Goodin says Kathlynn died of “multiple sharp and blunt force injuries.”

Investigators expressed confidence the body was Kathlynn’s hours after a fisherman discovered it.

Clothes on it matched what Kathlynn was wearing when she and a 12-year-old friend were taken on May 20 in Dayton, about 60 miles north of Des Moines.

Authorities say Michael Klunder kidnapped the girls and committed suicide after the younger girl got away.

(AP) — Authorities aren’t expected to seek charges in the death of an Arizona man who was accidentally shot by his 4-year-old son.

Justin Stanfield Thomas was fatally shot Friday after he and his son traveled from Phoenix to a friend’s home 90 miles away in the northern Arizona community of Prescott Valley for a surprise visit.

Prescott Valley Police Brandon Bonney says the boy found the loaded gun in the home within minutes of arrival, asked a question about it and pulled the trigger.

Thomas later died at a hospital.

Bonney says the gun should have been locked away, but that Thomas’ friend, whose identity hasn’t been released, was caught off guard by the unannounced visit.

No children lived in the house.

The child is now with his mother.

An electrical problem at a waste water treatment plant in Bellevue caused untreated sewage to pour into the Missouri River.

The city of Omaha says the problem began about 4 p.m. Friday at the Papillion Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, just south of Offutt Air Force Base. The electrical problem caused about 115 cubic feet per second of sewage to be discharged into the river.

Workers were able to fix the problem within about four hours.

Before the problem was resolved, Omaha Public Works advised people to stay out of the river south of the confluence with Papillion Creek and several miles downstream. Officials lifted that advisory after the flow or untreated sewage stopped.

 

(AP) — The Sarpy County attorney says officers acted properly during an incident that left a Papillion man with a gunshot wound.

County Attorney Lee Polikov announced Friday there was no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by three Papillion police officers who responded to a disturbance call on May 31.

The attorney says Sgt. Jerry Prazan and officers Robert Morrell and Matthew Elsasser responded to the call and were confronted by the 25-year-old resident, Dennis W. Thomas.

Police say Thomas threatened the officers and then assaulted Morrell, who fired one shot that hit Thomas on his left side. Elsasser also fired a shot, but it missed.

The three officers have been on administrative leave. They will return to work Monday.

Polikov says Thomas will face criminal charges when he’s released from a hospital.

(AP) — Authorities say a 16-year-old has reported being raped after she was knocked off her bicycle in Lincoln.

Police spokeswoman Katie Flood says the girl told officers she was riding her bike to a friend’s house around 1 a.m. Friday when the attack occurred. The girl says she was crossing under a roadway overpass in north-central Lincoln when the man came up from behind. She says he grabbed her, threw her to the ground and raped her.

Flood says the girl told investigators the man then rode away on his own bicycle.

No arrest has been reported.