OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha, Bellevue and Sarpy County will be asked to pay more than $2 million each for levee repairs around Offutt Air Force Base.

The $25 million repair project is aimed at recertifying 19 miles of levees that protect the Offutt area from Missouri River flooding. The cost-sharing figures are part of a proposal being presented Tuesday to the Sarpy County Board.

Officials have been working to recertify the levees since 2010. If they aren’t brought up to stricter federal standards, the land they protect would revert to flood plain status, including the base and a number of other properties that have been targeted for development.

Officials have said that development becomes all but impossible if the land behind the levees reverts to flood plain.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Crime Commission says Lincoln police officers stopped black motorists at a disproportionately higher rate than other motorists last year.

The commission report released last week says officers pulled over more than 54,000 motorists in 2014, and 10.2 percent of them were black drivers. Black residents account for 3.9 percent of the city’s population.

Eighty-two percent of Lincoln’s population is white, and white drivers were pulled over in 78.8 percent of the Lincoln Police Department’s stops last year.

Civil liberties and civil rights advocates say the report’s findings are troubling.

Lincoln Public Safety Director Tom Casady says he doesn’t think racial bias is behind the disparity but also says he doesn’t know why the disparity exists.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Crews have begun working at the future site of the long-awaited Omaha National Cemetery in western Sarpy County.

Local officials have been discussing plans for the cemetery for more than a decade. But they weren’t able to immediately make it a reality due to a Department of Veterans Affairs rule requiring at least 170,000 veterans to live within a 75-mile radius of the proposed site.

In 2009, President Obama’s administration relaxed the rule and started budgeting for the cemetery the following year.

Cemetery director Cindy Van Bibber moved onto the property earlier this month. She says the VA plans to open a small portion of the property for in-ground burials in about a year.

Construction on the cemetery’s first phase will continue into 2018.

LEIGH, Neb. (AP) — Two teenagers have been injured in the collision of an all-terrain vehicle and a pickup at a rural intersection in Colfax County.

The accident occurred around 1:30 p.m. Sunday about five miles southeast of Leigh. The Colfax County attorney’s office says 17-year-old Blake Paprocki, of rural Clarkson, didn’t stop his northbound ATV at a stop sign and it collided with a westbound pickup.

Paprocki was taken to a Schuyler hospital. His passenger, 16-year-old Sydney Folken, of rural Leigh, was flown to an Omaha hospital.

The attorney’s office says the pickup driver wasn’t injured. He was identified as 47-year-old Jarrod McCullough, of rural Leigh.2

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is hosting its first-ever Rural Opportunities Fair to connect students with rural communities and businesses.

The event hosted by the university’s Rural Futures Institute is scheduled for Oct. 21 in the Nebraska East Union, from noon to 2 p.m. Representatives from nearly 40 communities, companies and organizations are expected to attend.

The fair will allow students to explore internship, job, social and business opportunities in rural Nebraska. All students who are interested in living and working in a rural community are invited to attend at no cost.

Fields where internship or job opportunities will be available include agribusiness, agronomy, community planning, education, engineering, entrepreneurship, accounting and finance, health care, information technology, marketing and communications, natural resources, veterinary and animal sciences.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — One motorcyclist died and three others were injured when a car crashed into a group of riders who were escorting a veteran’s body home to Nebraska.

The crash happened Saturday afternoon on Interstate 80 near Atlantic, Iowa.

The Iowa State Patrol says 81-year-old Donald Kerby of Des Moines struck the motorcycles when he changed lanes to avoid a trailer on the right shoulder. Thirty-eight-year-old Ryan Lossing of Omaha, Nebraska, died and three other riders were hurt.

The fatal crash echoed the events near Manassas, Virginia, that caused Army veteran Bill Henry’s death earlier this month.

The 69-year-old died Sept. 14, two weeks after suffering head injuries while helping provide a motorcycle escort for six West Coast veterans being transported to Arlington National Cemetery for burial.

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say three people have been shot in two separate shootings in Omaha overnight, including a convenience store clerk shot during a robbery.

Police say the 31-year-old clerk at a Mega Saver in southeast Omaha was shot once in a leg around 10 p.m. Friday by a man wearing a ski mask after he had already taken the store’s cash. She was taken to an Omaha hospital and is expected to recover.

Police are seeking the shooter and a second suspect in the robbery.

Police say hours later, around 4 a.m. Saturday, two men sitting in a vehicle on a north Omaha street were shot.

Both were taken to an Omaha hospital for treatment of injures not considered to be life-threatening.

No arrests have been reported in that shooting.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A judge has found that a lawsuit by a man denied a liquor license so he could open a nightclub in Lincoln can proceed against the city.

Senior U.S. District Judge Lyle Strom ruled that a third amended complaint filed by Shane Harrington meets the legal criteria to move forward.

Harrington alleges in the lawsuit that the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission wrongfully denied him a license that would have allowed him to open Club Smooth, a nightclub planned for downtown Lincoln. Harrington is seeking $12 million in damages.

Much of the testimony during a 2011 commission hearing focused on Harrington’s ownership of pornographic websites. Harrington says he was harassed by Lincoln officials and that his license application was unrelated to his websites.