OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Barbers and hairstylists have gathered to give free haircuts to over 100 people living in Omaha homeless shelters.

113 people were given haircuts Sunday afternoon. Beauchamp Alejandro, owner of Evoluxion Barbershop, organized the event in conjunction with National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day, which is held annually on Dec. 21.

This was the first time that the event was held, but Alejandro says he and others visit shelters at least twice a month to give free haircuts.

In addition to a haircut, people were given a gift bag with grooming products and a meal courtesy of the MexiRican Restaurant.

NEBRASKA CITY, Neb. (AP) — Family, friends and community members have welcomed back 45 Nebraska City-based National Guard members from their Persian Gulf deployment.

The members of the 192nd Law and Order Detachment were warmly greeted Monday at Nebraska City Middle School. They’d left for the Persian Gulf on Feb. 21.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A police officer has rescued a woman from a house fire in Grand Island.

The blaze was reported a little after 2:45 a.m. Sunday. The officer had been told that a woman was still inside the home, so he entered it before the firetrucks arrived and found her near the front door.

The woman was taken to a hospital for treatment of burns. Ed Carlin of the Grand Island Fire Department says the officer also was treated at the hospital and soon released.

The fire cause is being investigated.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities are investigating a rollover crash that killed a 20-year-old Lincoln woman.

The Sarpy County Sheriff’s office said the crash happened around 6:20 a.m. Sunday along U.S. Highway 31 in Springfield.

The driver lost control of the 1992 Chevrolet pickup truck, and it wound up on its roof in a ditch. Tiffany Hofmeister died, and initially the driver couldn’t be found.

Around noon, the driver, Colin Larsen was found emerging from a field about a mile west of the crash. He was taken to a hospital for evaluation.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Three Nebraska communities have received community development funding distributed by the state.

The Department of Economic Development awarded a total of nearly $84,000 to Clearwater, Roca and Schuyler.

The federal Community Development Block Grant money will help Roca and Schuyler update their comprehensive plans. It also will allow Clearwater to conduct housing and blight studies.

Planning activities that are eligible for funding include environmental assessments, downtown revitalization projects and community strategic planning.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha Police say the shooting death of a 24-year-old man may have been an accident.

Police were called to a home in northwest Omaha shortly after midnight Saturday. Officers found Tyler Andersen dead when they arrived.

Police interviewed a witness, and detectives are investigating the incident as an accidental shooting.

But prosecutors will review the evidence after the investigation is complete to determine if charges are warranted.

Police did not immediately release any details of the shooting or explain why they believe it was an accidental shooting.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities are investigating a suspected bomb that was found inside a wall at a Nebraska apartment complex.

The device was discovered Friday by workers who were removing drywall from a third-floor Lincoln apartment. Workers took the bomb outside, where firefighters examined it.

Lincoln firefighters searched the apartment but didn’t find any other explosions. No one was hurt.

Fire investigator Damon Robbins says authorities believe the bomb was built and set by a past tenant whose lease wasn’t renewed three or four months ago. Workers also found several hiding places inside the drywall that Robbins believes were used to store drugs.

Lincoln police are waiting to begin their investigation until more details about the device are known.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha Police Department has launched an internal investigation, and the officer at the center of the investigation has been temporarily reassigned after he was seen on video punching a student while trying to break up a school fight.

A student’s cellphone video of the fight between two male Millard South High School students show Officer Nicholas Caniglia punching a teen in the face several times while trying to break up the fight. The video also shows the student punching the officer at least twice.

The fight occurred Thursday afternoon. Police say a school district security guard and the officer struggled to break up the fight.

Police say they are looking into what precipitated the officer’s actions and whether his actions were appropriate.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has reversed a judge’s decision to throw out a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of a 13-year-old boy who was killed by a train.

The court said in a 4-2 ruling Friday that reasonable people could have reached different conclusions about who was at fault for the July 2005 crash.

Efrain Ramos-Domingo was killed when he rode his bicycle onto a double set of railroad tracks in Schuyler while the safety gates were down. The boy was struck by a westbound Union Pacific train just after an eastbound train had cleared the intersection.

A Colfax County District Court judge ruled that Union Pacific had not violated its standard of care and concluded that the boy should have looked and listened for the oncoming train.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — Work has resumed on development of a 50-mile natural gas pipeline dubbed the Northeast Nebraska Line that will run from Bancroft to Norfolk.

Black Hills Energy first announced the project last year after a Houston-based company said it planned to build a manufacturing plant in Norfolk. But falling oil prices interrupted those plans.

This fall, OCT Pipe announced its plans to build and operate a manufacturing facility in Norfolk, and work on the pipeline began anew to supply OCT with natural gas.

Black Hills Energy has already determined the natural gas line’s route from Bancroft and completed preliminary reviews. Black Hills is also working with landowners along the route and expects to begin construction in the spring.