OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The labor union representing public school teachers in Nebraska has created a new strategic plan to advance “a culture of social justice.”

Delegates from local teachers unions approved the plan last month during the Nebraska State Education Association’s annual assembly in Lincoln.

The plan calls for more diversity in teacher recruitment, training teachers in “cultural proficiency” and promoting a legislative agenda that “advances human and civil rights.”

Jenni Benson, the union’s new state president, says the union looks at social justice as providing free and equitable public education across the state.

Other goals included in the union’s plan are protecting collective bargaining rights and “being active in the election of pro-public education candidates.”

The union reports it has about 28,000 members.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a pedestrian died at a hospital after being struck by a sport utility vehicle in Lincoln.

The accident occurred around 2:30 a.m. Sunday. Police Capt. Danny Reitan says the SUV was northbound on North 56th Street in north Lincoln when it hit the 28-year-old woman.

Reitan says the 20-year-old SUV driver hasn’t been cited. The names of those involved haven’t been released.

ADAIR, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a Nebraska man died when a semitrailer ran into his disabled car on Interstate 80 in western Iowa.

The accident occurred around 11:30 p.m. Saturday near Adair. A crash report says the car driven by 45-year-old Both Thoch, of Bellevue, broke down in the right lane of westbound I-80 and soon was struck by the westbound semitrailer.

The semitrailer driver told the Iowa State Patrol that he didn’t see the disabled car.

Authorities say Thoch was pronounced dead at the scene. His passenger, 42-year-old Kek Yok, of Omaha, Nebraska, was hospitalized.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — A passenger has been killed in the northeast Nebraska crash of a sport utility vehicle.

The accident occurred around 8:40 p.m. Saturday, about 3 miles east (5 kilometers) of Norfolk. Stanton County Sheriff says the driver, 19-year-old Blake Baldwin, lost control of the SUV. It rolled, ejecting him and his two passengers.

All three were taken to Faith Regional Health Services in Norfolk. Stanton County Sheriff Mike Unger says 19-year-old Beau Kellogg was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. He lived in Norfolk.

Unger says Baldwin and passenger Kaleb Eatherton were cited for being minors in possession of alcohol.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Police say four men are dead — including the suspected gunman — after a shooting at a home in Topeka, Kansas, that is part of a private business providing in-home care for people with special needs.

Police Lt. Colleen Stuart tells the Topeka Capital-Journal (https://bit.ly/2pyvFgg ) that dispatchers received a report about the shooting late Sunday afternoon from a call from the home. Stuart said the four men were pronounced dead at the scene and another male victim was taken to the hospital with injuries not believed to be life-threatening.

Stuart says the suspected gunman died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

None of the names of the deceased were identified pending notification of kin. Stuart said the shooter and all the victims were associated with the home but declined to elaborate.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The state plans to hold a hearing next month on the future of a Beatrice facility for people with developmental disabilities.

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services plans to collect public input on the facility on May 9. The hearing will be held at the state office building in Lincoln from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

The input from the hearing will be part of a report state officials are drafting on the future of the Beatrice State Developmental Center. That report was required by a law passed last year.

The center is a state-run home that has served people with intellectual or developmental disabilities since 1887.

SEWARD, Neb. (AP) — A former treasurer of an eastern Nebraska golf course treasurer accused of embezzling more than $141,000 it has been placed in a diversion program.

31-year-old Chaise Vegas, of Milford, is participating in pretrial diversion, which would see the theft charges against him dropped if he successfully completes it.

An arrest affidavit says Vegas made unauthorized withdrawals totaling nearly $142,000 from two accounts for Thornridge Golf Course in Milford. Vegas took over as treasurer in April 2015. The affidavit says all but around $3,500 had been repaid by the time he was arrested.

Vegas resigned in December, and the club said it has since been repaid for all unauthorized withdrawals.

RED OAK, Iowa (AP) — Firefighters in southwestern Iowa have rescued a man trapped under an overturned tractor.

The accident happened early Friday morning at Red Oak, Iowa. Crews were sent to the area around 6:15 a.m. for a report of a tractor rollover and a person trapped.

Arriving firefighters found a tractor on its top with a man underneath. Crews used special inflatable bags to lift the tractor and get the man out.

He was taken to a local hospital and later moved to a trauma center in Omaha, Nebraska, about 55 miles west of Red Oak.

Officials have not released the man’s name or medical condition.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium in Omaha has begun work on an Asian forest exhibit designed to create a habitat for tigers, leopards and other species, including red pandas.

The $20 million, eight-acre Asian Highlands is under construction in an empty northeast corner of the zoo.

The tropical and deciduous forest habitat is being built on a hillside that last hosted the “Dinosaurs Alive” exhibit in 2013. It’s hoped half the exhibit will open by summer 2018 and the rest will open the following summer.

Amur tigers, snow leopards and Indian rhinos already living at the zoo will get upgraded homes. In addition to the red pandas, newcomers will include sloth bears, white-naped cranes, and two kinds of deer and goat-antelopes.

AUBURN, Neb. (AP) — A June 21 sentencing hearing in southeast Nebraska has been scheduled for a former Peru State College basketball player who took a plea deal in an assault case stemming from a brawl.

25-year-old Jeffland Neverson, of Brooklyn, New York, pleaded no contest and was convicted Thursday in Nemaha County District Court of felony assault. Prosecutors dropped two related charges in exchange. His trial had been set to begin May 1.

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.