OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha Public Schools officials say they’ve received three separate reports within the past week of people attempting to lure students into vehicles.

The incidents occurred at Benson High School, South High School and Morton Moccurrediddle School.

Separate emails were sent to Benson and South parents. After the third incident at Morton, all families in the district were notified.

The email says that the students quickly reported the incidents to a nearby adult. All of the incidents have been reported to the Omaha Police Department.

The Benson student was approached by someone in a white van with dark tinted windows and side double doors. The South student was approached by someone in a black Chevy pickup truck.

The Millard and Elkhorn school districts also have reported luring attempts in the past few weeks.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 27-year-old Omaha man has been killed in the collision of his motorcycle with a sport utility vehicle.

An Omaha police news release says a woman riding with the man and the SUV driver were hospitalized.

Police say the accident occurred a little after 12:20 a.m. Wednesday as the motorcycle raced east on Dodge Street, ran a red light and collided with the northbound SUV.

Police say Jed Workman died at the scene. His passenger, 23-year-old Rachel Macchietto, and the SUV driver, 33-year-old Anei Mathet Anei, were taken to Nebraska Medical Center. They live in Omaha.

BRADSHAW, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a man who died after a tractor accident about 2½ miles from Bradshaw.

York County Sheriff Dale Radcliff identified the man Tuesday as 85-year-old David Quiring, who lived in Henderson.

Radcliff says Quiring was mowing the edge of a county road when a tractor wheel went over the edge onto the steep bank, causing the tractor and its attached mower to roll over. Quiring was found dead at the scene, trapped under the tractor.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A letter from the chief executive of Omaha Public Power District says the utility will permanently shut down its nuclear plant at Fort Calhoun this fall.

That comes from correspondence it obtained from OPPD President and CEO Tim Burke to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The letter, dated Thursday, says the Fort Calhoun plant will be shuttered Oct. 24.

The utility’s board voted in June to permanently close the plant.

Once closed, a nuclear plant must undergo a decommissioning process to remove or decontaminate materials and equipment that have been exposed to radioactivity. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission requires decommissioning to be completed within 60 years of a plant’s closure.

Cleaning up the site after its closure is estimated to cost more than $1 billion.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man accused of stripping to his underwear at an airport in Nebraska, stealing a truck and ramming it into a Southwest Airlines plane has been charged with theft and criminal mischief.

A judge on Monday set bail at $50,000 for 35-year-old Delairo Koonce. Jail records say Koonce remains in custody Tuesday.

Authorities say Koonce was acting erratically at Omaha’s Eppley Airfield Thursday when he climbed a fence to evade airport police. Authorities say Koonce stripped down to his boxer shorts, stole an airline pickup and drove it into the plane as passengers were boarding. Three people suffered minor injuries.

Court records don’t list an attorney who can comment on Koonce’s behalf.

Koonce’s father says his son has a history of mental illness and drug problems.

AUBURN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a Texas man has been killed in a collision with a semitrailer in southeast Nebraska.

The crash occurred around 2:30 p.m. Monday on U.S. Highway 75 about 5½ miles north of Auburn. The Nemaha County Sheriff’s Office says a southbound sport utility vehicle pulling a camper trailer crossed the center line and struck a northbound semitrailer that was hauling a skid loader.

The SUV driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The Sheriff’s Office identified him as 72-year-old Lester Meciej, who lived in Round Rock, Texas. His wife, 70-year-old Jeanne Maciej, and the truck driver, 52-year-old Bryant Olson, of Springfield, Missouri, were taken to an Auburn hospital for treatment of what the Sheriff’s Office says were non-life-threatening injuries.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Two local University of Nebraska institutions have teamed up to create a program to diversify Omaha’s physician population.

The Urban Health Opportunities Program will provide tuition and other benefits to undergraduate students at the University of Nebraska at Omaha who want to be doctors in Omaha, particularly in the northeast and southeast parts of the city.

Those who meet the program’s requirements will be admitted into medical school at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

The program’s goal is to produce more physicians from minority groups, more who can speak foreign languages and more who have a passion for working in low-income areas.

The program’s leaders say it isn’t an affirmative action initiative but an effort to break the typical mold from which most physicians emerge.

BRADSHAW, Neb. (AP) — A man driving a tractor to mow a roadside ditch has been killed in York County.

Officers and medics were dispatched 3:40 p.m. Monday to a rural roadside about 2½ miles south-southeast of Bradshaw. Bradshaw Fire Chief Todd Hellerich said the man was trapped under the tractor and died at the scene.

York County Sheriff Dale Radcliff says the man was mowing the ditch when the tractor and its attached mower rolled on the steep bank.

The man’s name hasn’t been released.

Authorities say the Little Blue River has left its banks in south-central Nebraska.

The National Weather Service said Tuesday that the river is a foot above flood stage of 10 feet and cresting near Deweese. The service says the high water is moving downstream to Nuckolls and Thayer counties, where minor flooding is expected through Wednesday. Stream flooding also is expected to continue in Adams and Webster counties.

The ground is already saturated from heavy rains Sunday night and Monday morning. The service says more than 7.25 inches was recorded overnight at a reporting station two miles northeast of Blue Hill.

Flash flood watches are posted for much of eastern Nebraska and southwest Iowa. The service says heavy rain is expected from storms moving through the area.