LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln High School student and teacher have teamed up to start a club to connect students with one another and help refugees across the world.

The club, called Fork in the Road, draws students from two groups: the International Baccalaureate program and the English Language Learner program.

Senior Elizabeth Yost and teacher Christ Maly formed the club after attending the Aspen Ideas Festival, which brings together the country’s foremost thinkers to share ideas.

The club plans to host its own weeklong festival at the end of April that will facilitate conversations between the students.

Students will also make pinwheels to send to refugee camp classrooms in Lebanon and Iraq. The Bezos Foundation will donate $2 per pinwheel to train teachers working in the camps.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Grand Island officers have given a grandma some unsolicited advice about leashing her grandchild to a pole: Don’t.

The officers were sent to a motel around 4:30 p.m. Sunday after a 911 caller reported seeing the child on a leash there. The officers say the woman had safely attached the child leash to the pole so the child wouldn’t wander onto U.S. Highway 30 nearby. She didn’t want the 7-year-old to get hurt.

But Sgt. Tony Kuiper says the leash could have posed a problem had the child fallen or got snagged on something while not being supervised.

The officers told the woman that leashing the child to the pole just wasn’t as safe as she thought. They didn’t issue her a citation.

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — A truck driver has been killed in a collision with a train in Adams County.

The accident occurred a little before 4 p.m. Friday about four miles east of Hastings. The Nebraska State Patrol says the truck was headed south when the driver didn’t yield at a crossing to the eastbound train.

The semi driver was identified as 68-year-old Alan Lanham, of Ravenna (ruh-VEH’-nuh).

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — There were only two Omaha homicides in the first three months of 2016, the fewest to begin a year in at least a decade.

Last year, when there was a record 50 homicides, 14 of them occurred during the first three months of the year.

A retired Omaha police captain, Mike Butera, oversaw homicide investigations in the 1990s and early 2000s, and he says homicides are cyclical, prone to lulls and to jump in number. Butera says Omaha is “probably going to see an uptick.”

He says that, as the weather warms, outdoor crowds, open-air drug dealing and more drive-by shootings could lead to more killings.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A judge has decided there is enough evidence to try a 37-year-old Nebraska man on charges that he plotted to hire someone to kill his estranged wife.

Robert Honken has been bound over for trial on two charges of conspiracy to commit murder in Hamilton County.

The man prosecutors say Honken hired to kill his wife, Derrick Shirley of Bradshaw, is scheduled to be in court for a similar hearing on Tuesday.

Nebraska State Patrol Sgt. Ryan Phinney testified last week about the evidence against both men who were arrested last month.

Phinney says Honken tried to hire an undercover officer to kill his wife. And Shirley told investigators that he had been paid earlier this year to kill Honken’s wife but had backed out.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Furniture Mart is open after a small fire inside one of its Omaha warehouses near the store, but the access is restricted to the flooring warehouse where the fire happened.

Firefighters were called to the warehouse around 7 a.m. Sunday after an alarm indicated the sprinkler system had been activated.

Batallion Chief Kathy Bossman says some wooden pallets inside the warehouse had caught fire. Firefighters were able to put the fire out without damage to the building, but some of the contents were damaged.

No one was in the warehouse at the time of the fire.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A multiple vehicle crash has closed part of a southeastern Nebraska highway.

The crash happened around 7:30 a.m. Saturday on Nebraska Highway 77 just south of O Street in Lincoln. At least one person was taken to a hospital.

Lincoln Police on the scene told the newspaper that someone had been pinned in one of the vehicles.

The Nebraska State Patrol also responded to the crash.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Two Omaha attorneys have offered to work with the out-of-state defense team of a former doctor accused of killing four people with ties to an Omaha medical school.

Jeremy Jorgenson and David Reed filed a motion Friday to sponsor Chicago attorneys Alison Motta, her husband Robert Motta Jr. and father-in-law Robert Motta Sr. They represent Anthony Garcia in his first-degree murder case. A judge must decide whether the Mottas will be allowed to continue as Garcia’s attorneys.

Garcia’s trial had been set to begin Monday. It was postponed Thursday when two other Omaha attorneys who had been working with the Mottas withdrew after prosecutors accused Alison Motta of trying to taint the jury pool by telling reporters that DNA evidence exonerates Garcia.

CAIRO, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have identified a man killed in a crash with a semitrailer earlier this week in south-central Nebraska.

80-year-old Arthur Klinkacek, of Ravenna, died in the Thursday morning crash.

The accident happened just after 8:30 a.m. nearly three miles south of Cairo at the intersection of West Airport Road and Nebraska Highway 11.

The Hall County Sheriff’s Office says Klinkacek collided with the semitrailer after failing to stop at a stop sign and died at the scene.

The semi overturned, spilling some of the corn mash it was hauling. The semi’s driver suffered only minor injuries.