OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say a motorcyclist died at a hospital after a collision with a car in south-central Omaha.

The accident occurred around 10:35 a.m. Tuesday. Police say the westbound car was trying to turn south when it was hit by the northbound motorcycle.

Police say the motorcyclist died later at Nebraska Medical Center. He’s been identified as 45-year-old Jason Foreman, who lived in Omaha. The car driver was not injured. She’s been identified as 63-year-old Bonnie Petersen, of Bennington.

The collision is being investigated.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The FBI and law enforcement agencies around Omaha have teamed over a rash of bank robberies officials believe have street gang ties.

Officials held a news conference Tuesday at the FBI field office in Omaha to announce the task force. Randall Thysse, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Omaha office, says officials are particularly concerned about the violent nature of recent bank robberies around Omaha and Council Bluffs, Iowa. Thysse says of the 42 armed bank robberies in the last 17 months, 33 were similar enough that investigators believe they are related.

Thysse says the robbers storm banks with guns drawn, their faces covered and yelling demands. In at least one case, a teller was bound.

Omaha Crime Stoppers has doubled its reward for information on the bank robberies to $20,000.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Nebraska man will stand trial next month for the death in northwestern Iowa of his estranged wife.

29-year-old Rogelio Morales, of Hubbard, Nebraska, has been ordered to stand trial on June 6 in Woodbury County District Court. The case has been delayed several times as defense attorneys have repeatedly withdrawn from representing Morales.

Morales has pleaded not guilty to killing 21-year-old Margarita Morales on April 19, 2015, in his car near a Sioux City residence.

Court documents say Morales told investigators a fight broke out when his wife told him she no longer wanted to be in a relationship and that she was seeing another man.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Firefighters are being credited with saving two people from a house fire in northeast Omaha.

An emergency call to report the fire was made early Tuesday morning. When firefighters arrived, flames were coming from the home.

Firefighters forced entry into the home and pulled two occupants to safety.

Officials say the fire was quickly extinguished, despite having spread to a neighboring house before fire crews arrived.

Both homes suffered heavy damage to their exteriors. The cause of the fire is still under investigation

BLAIR, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say the fatal crash of a glider near Blair Airport occurred soon after the aircraft’s canopy opened unexpectedly as the glider was being towed aloft.

Nebraska authorities have identified the pilot as 59-year-old Michael Boska, who lived in Glenwood, Iowa. The crash occurred around 3:30 p.m. Saturday.

Witnesses say that after the canopy opened, Boska lost control of his glider. It went airborne but soon plunged and crashed while still attached to the tow plane.

Federal investigators have been called in.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The founder of what has become Omaha’s Boys Town is now one step closer to obtaining sainthood.

The Vatican has issued a decree of validity for the investigation that the Archdiocese of Omaha completed two years ago. The investigation looks at the life, virtue and works of the Rev. Edward Flanagan, who died in 1948.

Steve Wolf, president of the Father Flanagan League Society of Devotion, said Monday that a decree of validity means the investigation is completed and proves the priest has a reputation for sanctity. The society is leading the sanctification effort.

Flanagan founded Boys Town in 1917 in downtown Omaha. City Archbishop George Lucas says Flanagan’s work has been a blessing for the community.

BLAIR, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say an Iowa pilot has died after his aircraft crashed near Blair Airport in eastern Nebraska.

The crash occurred around 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Blair police say the aircraft went down as it was taking off.

Authorities say the 59-year-old pilot lived in Glenwood, Iowa. His name hasn’t been released. He was alone on the aircraft.

Federal investigators have been called in.

YORK, Neb. (AP) — A grand jury has found no crime was committed by officers chasing a Kearney man who died when his vehicle crashed along Interstate 80 in York County.

Authorities say 40-year-old Anthony Emmons died Feb. 27 when he was ejected when his vehicle rolled after striking a guardrail and a pillar. He was being chased because he’d fled from a rest stop when a state trooper approached him. Authorities say Emmons’ vehicle matched the description of a vehicle that had been weaving in and out of interstate traffic.

An autopsy showed Emmons’ blood contained drugs and had an alcohol content of more than three times the legal limit.

State law requires a grand jury investigation whenever someone dies in custody or being taken into custody.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A report from the Nebraska Crime Commission says that the disproportionate percentage of black drivers pulled over by Lincoln police has climbed over the last five years even as police officials gave more attention to the problem.

Black drivers accounted for about one in every 10 motorists pulled over last year even though African-Americans only accounted for a little over 4 percent of the city’s population.

The report released in March highlights the racial disparities among traffic stops for agencies like the Lincoln Police Department but doesn’t give an explanation behind them. Police officials deny racial profiling drives the disparity.

The commission has been tracking data on racial breakdowns of traffic stops and the results since 2001.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say officers have found a man dead after a standoff at a home in northeast Omaha.

The standoff began around 7 a.m. Monday when shots were fired as officers served an arrest warrant at the home. Police say the officers retreated and that none fired a weapon.

Nearby residents were evacuated and some streets were blocked off. Police say officers found the man dead inside the home a few hours later. It’s unclear whether he shot himself. A police spokesman didn’t immediately return messages from The Associated Press.

Police say he was the man they were sent to arrest. His name hasn’t been released.