FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — Some Fremont area residents are complaining that they’ve been kept in the dark about plans for a giant chicken plant that could be built north of town.

Area resident Randy Ruppert says that when people asked local officials for details, they were met with silence.

The plant would be built along U.S. Highway 77 between Fremont and Nickerson. The Greater Fremont Development Council says the initial investment would be around $300 million and says the plant would bring 1,300 jobs to the area.

Council Executive Director Cecilia Harry told people outside a Fremont City Council meeting Tuesday night that she’ll be meeting with neighbors and that their concerns will be taken into account. She says a major company is behind the plant but says she can’t reveal the company’s name.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A homemade explosive device has been found on a Lincoln elementary school playground.

A fire investigator seized the small explosive Tuesday afternoon and removed the device from Brownell Elementary School.

Lincoln Fire Investigator Ken Hilger says bomb squad members were called to the school just before 1:30 p.m. after a staff member found the item.

A black canister with a wick was taken inside a school office and that’s when authorities were called. Staff then evacuated the office.

Officials say the wick appeared to have already been lit and burned itself out. The device didn’t appear to have exploded.

Hilger says the device wasn’t very big but was capable of hurting someone.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 26-year-old man has been arrested in connection to an August shooting that left an Omaha teenager dead.

A news release from the Omaha Police Department said that the suspect was arrested Monday on suspicion of first-degree murder, use of a weapon to commit a felony and use of a weapon by a prohibited person.

Police found 19-year-old Garion Johnson with multiple gunshot wounds in north Omaha on August 8. He was taken to a hospital, where he later died.

Another 26-year-old man was arrested earlier this month on suspicion of first-degree murder and use of a weapon to commit a felony in connection to the case.

WINNEBAGO, Neb. (AP) — A driver has been killed in a fiery crash in northeast Nebraska’s Thurston County.

The accident happened about 2:15 a.m. Monday on a county road around three miles from Winnebago. The Nebraska State Patrol says the car went out of control, rolled into a roadside ditch and caught fire.

The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. His name hasn’t been released.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln police have ticketed a man suspected of hiding under a truck so he could touch one of a woman’s feet.

The ticket cites the 20-year-old with disturbing the peace on March 21. Police say the woman reported seeing a man’s hand touch one of her feet as she loaded groceries into her truck in a Lincoln parking lot.

Officer Kate Flood says investigators who looked at security recordings linked the man to a similar incident in June at another Lincoln store.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 33-year-old man has been arrested on charges that he sexually assaulted two women in Lincoln more than nine years ago.

Jaime Villasenor (vee-uh-sehn-YOR’) was arrested last week. Court documents say he raped a woman in downtown Lincoln in November 2006 and raped a cab driver in January 2007.

Online jail records say Villasenor remained in Lancaster County custody Tuesday. Online court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for him. Records say Villasenor also is known as Jaime Chavez and Antonio Morales.

Authorities say Villasenor returned to Lincoln after serving federal prison time for being in the country illegally. Authorities also say a DNA sample taken from him matched DNA evidence found in the Lincoln cases.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln schoolteacher has advanced to the next round on the “The Voice,” NBC’s singing contest.

On Monday night Hannah Huston (HYOO’-stuhn) was wildly praised by the celebrity coaches for her rendition of a 1964 rock classic, “House of the Rising Sun.” On the show, celebrity coaches aid the competing singers as they vie for a recording contract.

The 24-year-old teaches at Arnold Elementary School in Lincoln, but she’s on a leave to participate in the show. The district says a TV crew was in Lincoln in November to record Huston with her class.

Huston graduated from Grand Island Senior High School in 2009 and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2013.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — An empty lot in east Beatrice will soon be the site of a new home built by Nebraska inmates.

Officials from the city, the Nebraska Department of Corrections and the nonprofit Prairie Gold Homes held a ground breaking ceremony Monday afternoon on the site where inmates at Community Corrections Center in Lincoln will build a new home.

The house will be about 1,200 square feet and include three bedrooms, a two-stall garage and a full, but unfinished, basement.

Mayor Stan Wirth says the price of the home hasn’t been set, but that it’ll be affordable. The city hopes to have the house pre-sold before completion.

Prairie Gold Homes’ executive director Renee Bauer says the home is set to be finished by Thanksgiving.

LOUISVILLE, Neb. (AP) — The pilot of a single-passenger airplane that crashed in eastern Nebraska has been taken to a hospital for his injuries.

Officials with the Cass County Sheriff’s Department say authorities received a report of an airplane with engine trouble Sunday night. The plane later crashed in a field south of Louisville.

The pilot, 44-year-old Eric Stadjuhar, was flying the plane out of the Millard Airport in Omaha. He was trapped inside the airplane after the crash and had to be cut free.

A helicopter transported Stadjuhar to the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

Hospital officials said Stadjuhar was in fair condition Monday.

The crash is under investigation.