OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say one person has been killed after a crash along Interstate 80 in Omaha.

Police say a westbound vehicle went out of control near the I Street exit around 2:30 a.m. Monday. The vehicle rolled, ejecting the driver onto the southbound lanes of the I-L-Q streets exit ramp, where the driver was struck by a southbound sport utility vehicle.

The victim was identified as 29-year-old Lucio Lazo-Romero, who lived in Papillion (puh-PIHL’-yuhn). An autopsy has been scheduled.

Police identified the SUV driver as 23-year-old Christian Yochum.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a firefighter has been injured battling flames at an unoccupied house in Lincoln.

The fire was reported a little before 6 a.m. Monday, about six blocks south of the Capitol.

Fire Chief Micheal Despain says the firefighter was taken to a hospital for observation and treatment of minor injuries.

A fire investigator is trying to determine what caused the blaze.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — The wind energy program at Northeast Community College is supporting a growing industry by preparing students to take care of wind turbines.

Northeast’s is the only program in the state that offers an associate’s degree of applied science in wind energy.

Since 2011, over 60 students have completed the program. Out of the 12 students who graduated last year, 11 are employed either as wind energy technicians or in related electrical fields.

Currently, there are seven freshmen and 10 sophomores in the program.

Shanelle Grudzinski, who oversees the program, says several wind farms have been built in northeast Nebraska so there are jobs in the area for graduates.

SCHUYLER, Neb. (AP) — A $589,265 state grant will help build housing for senior citizens in Schuyler.

The Nebraska Department of Economic Development says its grant will help build 14 units of housing in Schuyler.

The rest of the project’s nearly $3 million cost will be covered by a combination of low-income tax credits, a conventional loan and an owner equity loan.

The homes will each have three bedrooms, one and three-quarters bathrooms and attached garages. Snow removal, lawn care and trash pick-up will be provided by the landlord.

The homes will also be designed for wheelchair access to a first-floor bathroom and reinforced bathroom walls so grab bars can be installed.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The next Omaha Science Cafe will focus on the use of a marijuana plant extract to treat epilepsy.

Cannabidiol is extracted from the Cannabis sativa plant and is different from the extract that provides the high from smoking marijuana.

Dr. Deepak Madhavan is involved in the oversight of a clinical study investigating the use of cannabidiol in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. At Tuesday’s Science Cafe he’ll discuss the substance and its potential clinical use.

The event is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. at the Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha police detective has testified that old files on a former Indiana doctor led to his becoming a suspect in the killings of four people with ties to an Omaha medical school.

Detective Derek Mois testified Friday in the murder trial of Anthony Garcia. Mois said the Creighton University School of Medicine files detailed Garcia’s problems with school faculty like Dr. Roger Brumback, who was killed along with his wife in 2013, as well as with Dr. William Hunter, whose 11-year-old son and housekeeper were stabbed to death in 2008.

Prosecutors say Garcia was motivated by lingering rage over being fired from the school’s residency program in 2001.

Mois said further investigation turned up cellphone and credit card records that put Garcia near Omaha the day the Brumbacks were killed.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — A man acquitted earlier this year in the 2013 death of a teenager has been sentenced to up to five years in prison for fleeing the state after the shooting.

Perquondis Holmes entered an Alford plea in August to a charge of flight to avoid arrest. Police say he fled to Nebraska after the November 2013 shooting death of 18-year-old Dae’Quan Campbell.

Holmes was given credit for nearly three years he spent in jail awaiting trial.

Holmes was previously convicted in the killing, but was granted a second trial because jurors in his first trial saw Facebook photos of Holmes that included gang affiliation, violating an earlier ruling. Holmes was found not guilty in the second trial held in August.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Two California men have been arrested in Lancaster County after deputies say they found more than 40 pounds of marijuana in their car during a traffic stop.

The men were pulled over Wednesday afternoon on Interstate 80 near the Lincoln airport exit Wednesday afternoon for speeding.

A deputy reported a strong odor of marijuana coming from the car, and a search of it turned up three duffel bags stuffed with marijuana packed in vacuum-sealed bags. Deputies also seized $1,300 in cash.

The two men were arrested.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An ex-exotic dancer says one of her former customers now on trial for the deaths of four people tied to an Omaha medical school told her he had killed “an old woman and a young boy.”

The woman’s testimony came Thursday in the first-degree murder trial of Anthony Garcia. Prosecutors believe Garcia’s words to the stripper were a confession of the 2008 stabbing deaths of 11-year-old Thomas Hunter and his family’s housekeeper, 57-year-old Shirlee Sherman.

The boy was the son of Creighton University School of Medicine faculty member, Dr. William Hunter. Garcia is also charged in the 2013 killings of another Creighton faculty member, Dr. Roger Brumback, and his wife, Mary.

Authorities believe Garcia was motivated by his rage at being fired in 2001 from a Creighton residency program.