The Nebraska Humane Society raided a farm near Louisville, Nebraska, on Saturday after receiving a tip about a cockfighting event there.

Mark Langan with the Nebraska Humane Society says the raid broke up a large, well-organized cockfighting operation.

The men who were arrested range in age between 20 and 67. They all face charges of participating, viewing or promoting cockfighting. Two juveniles were also detained.

Cass County Sheriff William Brueggemann says the two property owners said they didn’t know why so many people were on their property.

Many others at the cockfighting event were able to escape into fields near the property before officers could arrest them.

Metro Community College hopes to use the 100,000-square-foot, two-story expansion for its auto technology and auto collision programs, The Omaha World-Herald reported .

The auto programs have 290 students this year, which is pushing capacity, said Al Cox, the coordinator for Metro’s auto technology department. Students in the programs learn in the classroom, receive hands-on training and many also work for local dealerships as they study.

The new building would have more classrooms, faculty offices and bays for students to work in. The facility would also feature a dealer-style automotive showroom.

The proposed expansion comes ahead of an anticipated need for mechanics. The industry expects to have more than 25,000 technician openings nationwide over the next three years, according to a representative for Baxter Automotive Group, which hires 10 to 20 students from Metro each year.

“It is literally an industry that is in need,” said Tim Nordquist, a service director for Baxter Automotive in Omaha. “We don’t have enough technicians.”

The two-year college’s plan must still be approved by the State Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education.

The proposal is the latest building project the college had undertaken in the last two years. Metro spent $90 on three new buildings on its Fort Omaha campus and also renovated the Industrial Training Center on the south Omaha campus for about $10.5 million.

The gear includes blinds and decoys and is available through a grant partnership between the National Wild Turkey Federation and the Cabela’s Outdoor Fund.

Officials say students must visit the Outdoor Adventure Center in person to rent the gear.

The shooting occurred Oct. 5 at an apartment in Bellevue . Sarpy County authorities say the bullet from the semi-automatic handgun struck 26-year-old Eric Niedbalski in a shoulder. He died later that night at Nebraska Medical Center. He lived in Bellevue.

Chief Deputy Sarpy County Attorney Bonnie Moore said Wednesday that “it doesn’t appear that there was any criminal wrongdoing” on the part of 27-year-old Benjamin Morrison, who was cleaning the .45-caliber handgun.

The Iowa State Patrol says 40-year-old Angela Bender, of Omaha, Nebraska, was driving the southbound minivan late Wednesday night when the collision occurred near Blencoe in Monona County. The other driver killed was identified as 51-year-old Carolyn Klimper, who lived in Fort Morgan, Colorado.

Three other people in Klimper’s vehicle were injured.

The Dakota County Sheriff’s Office says the dog, Jake, broke through the ice on a private lake northwest of Dakota City on Wednesday morning. He’d chased after a goose that had been shot. Thirty-year-old Andrew Sedivy, of Sioux City, Iowa, went after his dog and got him out but also broke through into the frigid water.

Sheriff’s deputies, the landowner and other hunters used a canoe to get Sedivy out of the lake and back to dry land, where he and Jake were later treated for their dunking.

The accident occurred around 8 p.m. Tuesday on U.S. Highway 275, about 3 miles (5 kilometers) northeast of Battle Creek. The Madison County Sheriff’s Department says the SUV driven by 68-year-old Douglas Rakowsky struck the rear of a combine driven by Mark Freudenberg, of rural Madison.

Rakowsky was pronounced dead at the scene. He lived in rural Battle Creek. It’s unclear whether Freudenberg was injured.

The accident is being investigated.