PRAGUE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a motorcyclist who died after colliding with a van in eastern Nebraska.

The Saunders County Sheriff’s Office identified him as 59-year-old Glenn Linholm, who lived in Valparaiso.

The accident occurred around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday on Nebraska Highway 79 near Prague. The Sheriff’s Office says Linholm and another motorcyclist were southbound when Linholm’s bike struck the passenger side of the northbound van as the van was turning west. The other motorcyclist managed to miss the van.

The Sheriff’s Office says Linholm was pronounced dead at a hospital. The van driver wasn’t injured.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Three people have been accused of killing a 21-year-old man in northeast Omaha.

Authorities say Brandon White was found by officers around 8:15 p.m. Wednesday and died later at an Omaha hospital.

A 15-year-old and a 16-year-old have been booked into Douglas County Youth Center on suspicion of first-degree murder. The Associated Press generally doesn’t name juveniles accused of crimes.

Police say 18-year-old Allana Smith surrendered Friday. Court records say she’s charged with first-degree murder, robbery and use of a weapon to commit a felony. The records don’t list an attorney for her.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a man who was found shot in northeast Omaha has died at a hospital.

Officers sent to check on gunshots around 8:15 p.m. Wednesday discovered the man, who was taken to Creighton University Medical Center. Police say he died there.

Police identified him as 21-year-old Brandon White.

No arrests have been reported.

HOUSTON (AP) — Everything is bigger in Texas, including population booms.

Figures released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau show that four of the five fastest-growing large cities in the U.S. during the 12 months leading up to last July 1 were in Texas, including some in its sprawling suburban areas.

Conroe, a Houston suburb, was the fastest-growing, increasing by 7.8 percent during that span. That growth rate was more than 11 times higher than the national average.

Next on the list were the Dallas suburbs of Frisco and McKinney, which had growth rates of 6.2 percent and 5.9 percent, respectively. Rounding out the top five were Greenville, South Carolina, which grew by 5.8 percent, and the Austin suburb of Georgetown, which had a 5.5 percent population increase.

Local and state officials attribute the growth to various factors, including the Texas’ robust job market and the cities’ diversified economies, lower costs of living and skilled workforces that earn higher wages.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have recovered the body of a man reported missing in a downtown Omaha lagoon.

Fire officials say sonar operated in a rescue boat found the body around 9:45 a.m. Thursday, and long poles were used to bring the body to the surface of the lagoon in Heartland of America Park. The man’s name hasn’t been released.

A 911 caller reported around 10 p.m. Wednesday that a man was crying for help from the lagoon, which is referred to as ConAgra Lake. A subsequent search was called off after about three hours and resumed around 8 a.m. Thursday.

The lagoon water is up to 19 feet deep in some places. It remains unclear why the man was in the water.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The mother of a northeast Nebraska slaying suspect has pleaded not guilty to an accessory charge.

38-year-old Natasha Wolfe entered the plea Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Omaha. She’s accused of kicking 32-year-old William Redhorn Jr. once during his fatal fight with her son April 23 in Winnebago on the Winnebago Reservation. Authorities say that after the fight Wolfe let her son, 19-year-old Jeremiah Wolfe, and 21-year-old Lawrencia Merrick go to her house and wash their blood-covered clothes.

Court records say Jeremiah Wolfe reported that a fight broke out between him and Redhorn and that he put Redhorn in a headlock until he quit struggling. Jeremiah Wolfe and Merrick have pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 36-year-old man has been found guilty of drunken driving and other crimes related to an Omaha collision that left his 8-year-old daughter in what prosecutors say is a persistent vegetative state.

Court records say jurors also convicted Benjamin Thompson on Tuesday of three counts of negligent child abuse and one count of failing to stop and render aid after the Oct. 24 collision. He was acquitted of one count of intentional child abuse. The records don’t list a sentencing date.

Prosecutors say it was Thompson’s fifth drunken driving offense. All three girls in the car are his daughters.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A man has pleaded not guilty to charges that he killed a sheriff’s deputy and wounded another while escaping from an Iowa jail.

Online court records say 24-year-old Wesley Correa-Carmenaty filed the written pleas Tuesday to charges of murder, attempted murder, escape, kidnapping and other crimes. His trial in western Iowa’s Pottawattamie County is scheduled to begin July 25.

Authorities say Correa-Carmenaty had just been sentenced on May 1 to 45 years in prison in an unrelated murder case when he managed to grab one of the deputies’ guns while being transferred to the county jail in Council Bluffs. He shot them both and used the jail van to escape.

Authorities say he was recaptured after he carjacked a woman at gunpoint and forced her to drive to Omaha, Nebraska.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 41-year-old Iowa woman has been convicted of killing her romantic rival, who was last seen in Omaha more than four years ago.

A Douglas County judge conducting the nonjury trial found Shanna Golyar, of Persia, Iowa, guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder in the slaying of 37-year-old Cari Farver. Farver disappeared in November 2012, and her body’s not been found. Golyar’s sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 15.

Police say Golyar posed as Farver online and by phone for years after Farver’s disappearance, and also posed as other people confessing to having killed Farver. An officer testified that Farver had been dating Golyar’s ex-boyfriend for some weeks when she disappeared.

Golyar’s lawyer argued that prosecutors presented no evidence that a homicide occurred: no body, no murder weapon and no crime scene.