HOWARD CITY, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say five people have been injured in an accident at a tractor pull near Grand Island.

The incident happened Sunday afternoon in Howard City, leaving four men and woman injured. Two of them were critically injured.

According to a press release from Howard County Sheriff Tom Busch, a tractor and sled collided with event staff, participants and multiple vehicles.

The victims were transported to CHI Health St. Francis in Grand Island. The cause of the accident is under investigation.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police investigating six weekend shootings that left one man dead and seven other people wounded.

The shootings all occurred in northeast Omaha either late Saturday or early Sunday morning.

Police Officer Kevin Wiese said 25-year-old Travis Holbert died at Creighton University Medical Center after one of the shootings.

Holbert was sitting on a porch near 33rd and Burdette when he was shot by someone in a vehicle around 3 a.m. Sunday.

Six other shooting victims were in critical condition Sunday, but the conditions of all four men and three women wounded weren’t immediately available.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Bail has been set at $150,000 for an Omaha woman accused of operating a travel voucher scheme that bilked her employees out of thousands and customers out of more than $1 million.

30-year-old Patricia Urbanovsky also had her passport confiscated Friday at her bond hearing in Douglas County Court.

Urbanovsky faces three felony counts of theft. She faces up to 20 years in prison for each count if convicted.

County Attorney Don Kleine says Urbanovsky ran a scheme through her event-planning business, Creative Creations, to sell discounted Southwest Airlines travel vouchers, which turned out to be unusable.

Kleine says Urbanovsky had three former employees buy $141,000 in vouchers with their personal credit cards, promising to pay them back. When she did, the checks bounced.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A Grand Island man is seeking $400,000 from the city of Grand Island, saying a major error by the city’s utility department “fried” his house.

Michael Brewer’s claim says that on Oct. 23, city utility crews hooked power lines to his house backward. The error caused Brewer’s appliances and walls to ignite. It ruined the house’s wiring, plumbing, furnace, air conditioner, sprinkler system and personal property in the house.

The effect, Brewer said, “was like the house was hit by lightning.”

Grand Island Utilities Director Tim Luchsinger did not contest the department’s fault.

The City Council has six months to either approve or deny the claim. If it denies the claim or does nothing, Brewer has the right to sue.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The pilot of a small airplane is unhurt after making an emergency landing about 3 1/2 miles south of the Lincoln Airport.

The incident happened early Friday afternoon.

The pilot told authorities the plane was experiencing engine problems.

The Piper Comanche landed near some train tracks.

David Haring of the Lincoln Airport says the pilot alerted airport authorities about landing at the airport, but that engine issues prevented the plane from reaching the runway.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Authorities say a man shot and killed a 4-month old baby before turning the gun on himself in the tiny southeastern Wyoming town of Lingle.

53-year-old Duane Clarkson Sylvester’s wife called 911 on Thursday night to report that her husband was suicidal. The Goshen County Sheriff’s Office says that while the woman was on the phone, she told dispatchers that Sylvester shot her baby and then himself.

The man was flown to a hospital in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, where he is in the trauma intensive care unit.

Sylvester’s 33-year-old wife was uninjured. No other details have been released.

FORT CALHOUN, Neb. (AP) — The Declaration of Independence will be read during a Living History Weekend at Fort Atkinson State Historical Park in eastern Nebraska.

Volunteers will portray life at the 1820s military post during the Saturday and Sunday event and demonstrate trades such as blacksmithing and coopering as well as crafts such as spinning and weaving.

Fort Atkinson sits on the east side of Fort Calhoun, which is situated 15 miles north of Omaha. A park entry permit is required for all vehicles and may be purchased at the park.

Contact the park for more information at 402-468-5611 or ngpc.fort.atkinson@nebraska.gov.

BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — The Bellevue City Council has approved a $110,000 settlement for a woman whose car collided with a city fire truck in February 2011..

The Omaha World-Herald reports (https://bit.ly/1CAPd0l ) that Janice Michalek was driving near the Bellevue Medical Center on a snowy night, when the fire truck made a U-turn in front of her. Michalek tried to brake, but slick roads didn’t allow her to stop before hitting the fire truck.

Michalek suffered a shoulder injury that required surgery, as well as bumps and bruises.

The city’s liability insurance provider will pay out the $110,000.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has received a $2.4 million federal grant to fund creation of the Drought Risk Management Research Center.

The three-year grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was announced Wednesday. The new center will be housed within the existing National Drought Mitigation Center at the university. It will join the university’s center this summer.

According to retired Coast Guard Vice Admiral Manson Brown, who announced the partnership, the center will coordinate drought preparedness at the federal, state and local levels.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say the death of a 28-year-old woman whose body was found inside a midtown Omaha home is suspicious.

Omaha homicide detectives are investigating what caused the death of Jessica Nelson, whose body was found Thursday morning in the rental home.

Officer Michael Pecha, a police spokesman, says Nelson’s death was reported in a 911 call around 9:25 a.m. Thursday.

No other details of Nelson’s death have been released.