LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A giant paper airplane soon will grace a major intersection near the Lincoln Airport.

The sculpture is called “Pitch, Roll & Yaw” and was designed by Lincoln artist Shannon Hansen. It looks like a paper plane but is made out of metal. It is 32½ feet long, 20 feet wide and 5½ feet tall. It’s being painted now and is expected to be installed later this month.

The sculpture was commissioned by the city of Lincoln and will be owned by the city, with funding provided by Duncan Aviation, a Lincoln-based maintenance, repair and overhaul facility.

RISING CITY, Neb. (AP) — Firefighters have responded to a blaze that broke out at Butler County Dairy in Rising City, Nebraska.

Nebraska media outlets report firefighters were called to the dairy farm Sunday afternoon when a stack of 450 1-ton hay bales caught fire. Mark Doehling, assistant chief of the Rising City Volunteer Fire Department, said firefighters from four departments were called in.

Doehling said wind blew the fire away from about a dozen other storage buildings with hay for the facility’s 6,000 cows.

Dairy management determined that the fire could not be stopped, so firefighters remained at the scene through the night to monitor the blaze as the hay burned to a manageable level. Doehling says hay that has been contaminated with smoke will not be consumed by livestock.

Doehling said the cause of the fire was under investigation.

CENTER, Neb. (AP) — A 66-year-old man has been given 40 to 60 years in prison for killing his wife in northeast Nebraska.

Phillip Privett, of Verdigre (VUR’-dih-gree), had pleaded no contest and was convicted of second-degree murder and a weapons charge after prosecutors lowered the murder charge. He was sentenced last week in Knox County District Court.

Prosecutors say Privett shot to death his wife, 66-year-old Linda Privett, at their home in Verdigre on Oct. 20.

(Lincoln, Neb.)- A 29-year old Grand Island woman is jailed in Cass County after a crash that claimed the life of another driver.

Just before 6:30 p.m. Sunday, May 31, troopers responded to reports of a hit and run crash on westbound Interstate 80 at MM 419 near the Greenwood Exit in Cass County.  Witnesses reported a black Chrysler 200 was westbound on I-80 driving erratically when it entered the median, came out of the median and collided with a westbound 1999 Nissan Pathfinder. The collision caused the Pathfinder to roll in the north ditch.

The driver of the Pathfinder, Kristine J. Olson, 50, of Grand Island was killed in the crash. Olson, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was ejected from the vehicle.

The driver of the Chrysler, Mandy M. MacDonald, 29, Grand Island, continued on before being stopped by a trooper near the 56^th Street Exit (MM 405) in Lancaster County.

MacDonald was arrested and lodged in the Cass County Jail on charges to include Leaving the Scene of an Accident and Motor Vehicle Homicide.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police are investigating the death of a 50-year-old man after his body was found over the weekend.

Police said Charles Keathley’s body was found Saturday evening in a central Omaha home.

Few details about the death were released immediately, but police said the circumstances were suspicious.

Investigators are treating the case as a homicide. Anyone with information about the death is encouraged to contact police.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska judge has ordered a lawyer to pay $15,000 for filing frivolous motions in a long-running lawsuit dispute over a defunct insurance company’s assets.

The case that dates back to 1998 is far from over because that lawyer, Bill Gast, is appealing the latest ruling against his David Fulkerson’s estate and his former firm, Countrywide Insurance Agency.

Douglas County District Judge Peter Bataillon fined Gast Friday after deciding that several of his motions were frivolous.

Gast didn’t immediately respond to questions about the sanctions over the weekend. Gast has been critical of Bataillon’s past rulings, and he argues in his appeal that the judge didn’t have the legal authority to decide the case this spring.

Florida regulators are trying to recover at least $2.2 million in the case.

WOOD RIVER, Neb. (AP) — Construction is set to begin Monday on U.S. Highway 30 east of Wood River and is scheduled to last until fall.

The Nebraska Department of Roads says the work will include concrete repair and milling and resurfacing of the roadway and shoulders on about a 12-mile stretch of the highway.

Traffic along the stretch will be controlled by one-lane work zones, a pilot car and flaggers.

On June 5, a three-day project is also set to begin on Highway 30 east of Alda. Union Pacific Railroad will replace the crossings on the highway. Traffic will be detoured using Husker Highway and Alda Road. Highway 30 is expected to be reopened to traffic on the afternoon of June 8.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska wildlife officials have fitted a peregrine falcon, hatched this spring atop the Nebraska Capitol, with two identifying bands over the chick’s vocal protests.

The chick’s parents — Ally and an unnamed male — had four eggs in their nest this spring, but only one hatched.

That chick, a male, was fitted with two bands on Friday. One includes a 10-digit number and the other a red and gray band with a letter and number that can be read from a distance. The bands will aid in tracking the raptor.

The chick also was treated for any parasites.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission plans to hold a contest to name the chick.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Hickman man is accused of trying to smuggle drugs to inmates when he was a guard at Tecumseh State Correctional Institution.

21-year-old Michael Splittgerber is accused of offering to sneak marijuana into the prison to an inmate last year.

An arrest affidavit says prison officials learned of the offering after an inmate reported to Splittgerber’s superior that Splittgerber told the inmate he had something for him.

Investigators say a search of Splittgerber’s pockets by prison officials turned up a marijuana cigarette inside a staff-issued plastic glove.

He was arrested on a warrant earlier this month. He remained Saturday in the Johnson County Jail on $5,000 bond and could be reached for comment.

COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — A 23-year-old Columbus woman will stand trial on forgery, theft and identity theft charges.

Fiama Montalvan is accused of opening a phony bank account and forging more than a dozen checks. Police say she did so to try to conceal the theft of thousands of dollars from a local payday advance business.

Montalvan, who was an office employee at the business, is accused of forging the signatures of Advance America customers on 15 fraudulent checks to hide cash thefts that were used to pay for personal expenses.

Montalvan is set to be arraigned on June 26 in Platte County District Court.

A phone listing for Montalvan could not be found.