FORT CALHOUN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say two young men have been shot at a party in eastern Nebraska.

The shooting occurred in rural Washington County, south of Fort Calhoun. Authorities say deputies were called to a Fort Calhoun residence around 2 a.m. Sunday, where one of the wounded men had been taken by a friend. The wounded man was identified as 19-year-old Jordan Franklin, of Wahoo. He was taken to an Omaha hospital.

The other wounded man was identified as 18-year-old Caleb Thompson-Scheleiger, also of Wahoo. He also was taken to an Omaha hospital.

Deputies say a 20-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of assault and use of a firearm.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a fire that destroyed a Sarpy County home spread to two others nearby.

Bellevue firefighters arrived first at the home, around 11:45 p.m. Sunday. The home sits southeast of Papillion (puh-PIHL’-yuhn).

The arriving firefighters say the home already was engulfed, and flames had spread to the second home and was melting siding on the third home. Papillion, Bellevue, Ralston and Omaha firefighters combined to put out the blaze.

No injuries have been reported. The fire cause is being investigated.

BOYS TOWN, Neb. (AP) — Some houses being torn down to make way for commercial development in eastern Nebraska once sheltered Japanese-Americans escaping forced internment on the West Coast after the United States entered World War II.

The houses and surrounding buildings amid farmland west of Boys Town are giving way to a $1.2 billion entertainment, residential and retail district.

Boys Town orphanage founder Father Edward Flanagan urged Japanese-Americans to come live in the homes shortly after they were built in the early 1940s. Flanagan found them jobs on campus or helped them establish new lives in cities outside of Omaha.

Boys Town Director of Community Programs Tom Lynch says more than 200 relocated Japanese-Americans spent time in the town during the war, with about 30 living on campus.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln mail carrier faced an impossible task earlier this month when he found a letter sent more than 100 years ago in his pile.

The letter with a 2-cent stamp showed up in the pile of mail Larry Schultz was sorting for his route in the area June 14. Its recipient, Grace Wheeler, died in 1947, and her family home was torn down in 1965 to make way for the Nebraska Capitol’s south parking lot.

The three-page letter from Wheeler’s daughter, Margaret Casady, was mailed from Des Moines, Iowa, on June 1, 1914. It’s unknown how it appeared in Schultz’s stack and has been sent to other family members.

AUBURN, Neb. (AP) — A former Peru State College basketball player has been given one to six years in a Nebraska prison for his role in a brawl.

Jeffland Neverson, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced last week in Nemaha County District Court in Auburn. He’d pleaded no contest and was convicted of felony assault. Prosecutors dropped two related charges in exchange. The judge credited him with 106 days already served in jail.

Authorities say the crimes occurred after a fight broke out Sept. 17 last year about a block from the Peru State stadium in Peru, which is 56 miles (89 kilometers) south of Omaha. Several Peru State football and basketball players were involved. At least three of the athletes required medical treatment.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police in Omaha say a 10-year-old boy has drowned in a backyard swimming pool.

Police say officers were called to the east Omaha home around 12:30 p.m. Thursday for a boy pulled from a pool.

Officers first on the scene found 10-year-old William Chapman unresponsive, with family members performing CPR.

The boy was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) — Officials in northeastern Nebraska’s South Sioux City say a proposed five-megawatt natural gas power plant could be operating as early as the end of 2018.

The project would be the latest of several recent moves by the city to diversify its public energy portfolio and keep electricity rates low.

The city plans to place the single-story, 50-by-80-foot structure in the Roth Industrial Park. City Administrator Lance Hedquist says once completed, the plant would use natural gas purchased from MidAmerican Energy or Northern Natural Gas pipelines to generate electricity.

The City Council will vote Monday on two items related to the project: an agreement for soil testing at the proposed site and an ad for bids on the proposed $5 million natural gas plant.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 20-year-old woman accused of starting a fire in an Omaha college bathroom has been found not responsible by reason of insanity.

Sarah Piccolo had pleaded not guilty to a felony arson charge, accused of setting the Nov. 5 fire at Metropolitan Community College’s Elkhorn campus. After a nonjury trial Tuesday, Judge J. Russell Derr declared Piccolo was not responsible for the blaze and also a danger to herself and others because of mental illness. He ordered her to be evaluated at the state psychiatric hospital in Lincoln.

Piccolo is on five years’ probation because of a Lancaster County conviction. Authorities say she used a hunting knife and a claw hammer to attack a 17-year-old girl at Lincoln Pius X High School in October 2013. The girl was hospitalized.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — State health and environment officials have issued health alerts for toxic blue-green algae at Iron Horse Trail Lake in Pawnee County and Pawnee Lake in Lancaster County.

Officials say in a news release Friday that the alerts were issued following tests of the lake water.

Skin exposed to the toxin from certain strains of blue-green algae can develop rashes and blisters. Someone who drinks water containing the toxin is at risk for headaches, nausea and muscular pain.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The parents of a young woman strangled by her boyfriend and dumped in an open cemetery grave will be allowed to pursue their lawsuit against an Omaha mental treatment facility where the boyfriend was being held.

The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday that the lawsuit Melissa Rodriguez’s parents filed against Lasting Hope Recovery Center of Catholic Health Initiatives should not have been dismissed.

Mikael Loyd is serving a 30- to 35-year prison sentence for the August 2013 death of the 19-year-old Rodriguez. Loyd was initially found not mentally competent to stand trial.

Loyd was being held at Lasting Hope at the police’s request in the days before Rodriguez was killed. The lawsuit blames the center for failing to call police after Loyd walked away from the center and killed Rodriguez.