BARNESTON, Neb. (AP) — Gage County authorities say a Barneston man has reported shooting his 25-year-old son during a struggle.

Sheriff Gus Gustafson said Wednesday that deputies sent Tuesday to check a disturbance found Julius Bruner with an abdominal wound. He was flown to a Lincoln hospital and was expected to survive.

Gustafson says Bruner’s 54-year-old father, Delbert Bruner, told deputies he’d sent his wife from the home and went to his bedroom to get away from his son, who he says was being aggressive.

Delbert Bruner reported that he feared he’d be injured, so he pointed a pistol at his son and told him to stop. He says his son continued to advance, so he grabbed one of his arms and the gun fired as they struggled.

Delbert Bruner was released after questioning.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say an Omaha man was fatally shot on his birthday by his teenage son in what appears to have been an accident.

Omaha police were called Tuesday night to an apartment in northwest Omaha for a shooting. Arriving officers found 44-year-old Benjamin Majestic wounded. Majestic was taken to Nebraska Medical Center, where he died.

Police confirmed Majestic’s 17-year-old son shot him while inside their third-floor apartment and that investigators believe the shooting was accidental. No charges have been filed.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nearly 200 people turned out at a southeast Omaha intersection to remember a Council Bluffs, Iowa, woman killed a year ago in a crash police say was caused by a drunken driver in the country illegally.

Friends and family of 21-year-old Sarah Root release balloons Tuesday night in her memory.

Investigators say 20-year-old Eswin Mejia was in the country illegally when he was driving drunk last February and crashed into Root’s car, killing her.

Authorities haven’t seen Mejia since he posted $5,000 bond and was released from jail.

Iowa and Nebraska lawmakers have introduced legislation to require federal immigration officials to keep any person in the country illegally in custody when charged with a crime involving serious injury or death.

President Donald Trump mentioned the Omaha case during his campaign rallies to bolster support for a crackdown on illegal immigration.

AURORA, Neb. (AP) — An Aurora man charged with raping a woman he met on online has pleaded not guilty to a first-degree sexual assault charge.

41-year-old Ross Carstensen is set to stand trial in June and faces up to 50 years in prison if convicted. He entered his plea Jan. 18 in Hamilton County District Court.

Police say Carstensen communicated with an 18-year-old woman via Facebook posing as someone named “Brandon” and arranged to meet her at a park. Investigators say Carstensen met her at the park and said he would take her to “Brandon.” Once they arrived at a house, police said, Carstensen raped the woman.

Carstensen’s attorney, Clarence Mock, says Carstensen “vigorously contests” the accusations and that the sexual encounter was consensual.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — A Beatrice couple have been accused of injuring a 3-year-old girl.

34-year-old Jason Sanchez and 33-year-old Laura Blakely were arrested Monday. Online court records don’t list the names of attorneys who could comment for them.

Police began investigating after the girl was hospitalized for two days around Christmas. The girl has since recovered, and she and her older brother have been placed in foster care.

Police Lt. Mike Oliver says Blakely is the children’s mother.

O’NEILL, Neb. (AP) — Scores of pipeline opponents in Nebraska are gathering to renew their fight against construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

Almost 150 people met for two hours Monday at a community center just south of the proposed pipeline route. The meeting consisted of plans to stop, delay or reroute the pipeline.

The Keystone XL — which is proposed to run through Alberta, Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska — has become a symbol of how the U.S. should tackle climate change concerns. Former President Barack Obama previously rejected the pipeline in 2015, but President Donald Trump signed an executive order earlier this month to bring it back.

Jane Kleeb, leader of activist group Bold Alliance, says this time it’ll be farmers, ranchers and Native Americans fighting in the courts, and not politicians.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Lincoln City Council has voted to bar corrugated cardboard from the city landfill.

The compromise approved Monday night won’t require people to pay for curbside recycling from trash haulers. Councilwoman Jayne Raybould says people can take their cardboard to any of the city’s 29 recycling sites.

Mayor Chris Beutler had wanted to ban cardboard and all paper products from the landfill, but he couldn’t rally enough council votes for his stricter measure.

The compromise plan will require trash haulers to offer curbside recycling and to report their recycling totals each year. There no penalties for individuals or businesses that don’t abide by the new restriction. But garbage haulers could be fined $100 every time they take recyclable cardboard to the landfill.

The measure takes effect in April 2018.

FALLS CITY, Neb. (AP) — A Falls City man has been sentenced to life in prison for first-degree murder in the death of his cousin.

The Nebraska attorney general’s office says 32-year-old Desiderio Hernandez was sentenced Tuesday in Richardson County District Court to the life term, plus another eight to 17 years for weapons counts.

Hernadez was found guilty in December of killing his cousin, Joseph Debella Jr., in August 2015. Debella was found in the basement of a home with a gunshot wound to his head and died eight days later at a Lincoln hospital.

Hernandez was arrested after a nearly seven-hour standoff at a home in Horton, Kansas.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha woman who sold thousands of worthless airline vouchers has been sentenced to 63 months in federal prison.

Patricia Urbanovsky was sentenced Monday.

Federal Judge Joseph Bataillon says the sentence was warranted because of the sophisticated scheme Urbanovsky ran, the number of victims and amount of the loss.

Urbanovsky was the owner of Creative Creations in Omaha. Authorities say she ran a scheme to sell discounted airline travel vouchers, most of which turned out to be worthless.

Urbanovsky pleaded guilty last year to 16 counts of wire fraud. In exchange, federal prosecutors dropped nine counts of money laundering.