OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man accused of shooting an officer during a traffic stop before being shot himself by other officers has been released from a hospital and booked into jail.

Omaha police say 36-year-old John Ezell Jr. was booked Wednesday into the Douglas County jail on suspicion of attempted murder, assaulting an officer and weapons counts.

Police say Ezell was a passenger in a car that fled police on Sept. 11. Once the car was stopped, officer body camera video shows Ezell opening the car door holding a gun and shooting Officer Ken Fortune at point-blank range. The bullet hit Fortune’s radio microphone and entered his shoulder. Ezell was then shot several times by police.

Fortune has since returned to active duty.

SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) — South Sioux City has sued the owner of the grain elevator that exploded earlier this year.

The lawsuit against Andersen Farms Inc. and Bryce Andersen was filed last week in Dakota County District Court. It seeks reimbursement of more than $120,000 the city says was amassed during its response. The May 29 blast blew a hole in the elevator and injured an employee who died July 9.

Associated Press attempts to reach Andersen were unsuccessful Tuesday.

Fears of the elevator collapsing kept many neighbors away until June 11, when the elevator top was dismantled.

City code cited in the lawsuit says South Sioux City is entitled to reimbursement from the owner of a property that has been deemed unsafe and must be secured.

Grand Island Public Schools announced Monday that the district received the seven-year GEAR UP matching grant. The acronym stands for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs.

The district’s in-kind contributions and partner matches bring the grant’s total impact to more than $13.6 million.

The district’s chief transformation officer, Josh McDowell, says it’s the first GEAR UP grant awarded to a district in Nebraska. He says the grant allows the district to introduce students and families to college readiness as early as middle school.

Superintendent Tawana Grover says the grant will help the district to “create a pipeline of success.”

The accident occurred around 7:30 p.m. Saturday on Nebraska Highway 36 near Glenn Cunningham Lake. Police say an eastbound pickup truck crossed the center line and struck an oncoming vehicle.

The vehicle driver was pronounced dead at the scene. He’s been identified as 21-year-old Joseph Daniels, who lived in Council Bluffs. His passenger was taken to a hospital. He’s been identified as 21-year-old Thomas Greise, also of Council Bluffs.

The pickup driver was arrested on suspicion of vehicular homicide and drunken driving. Court records don’t show that he’s been formally charged. Police say the 28-year-old man lives in Earling, Iowa.

The Norfolk Public Schools district’s new teaching strategy comes after two years of development, the Norfolk Daily News reported. The model has seven concepts designed to complement each other, such as student-focused instruction and technology integration.

A task force of educators recommended the approach after finding commonalities among established teaching models and incorporating them into their best teaching practices, said Mike Hart, the district’s director of human resources and accreditation.

Teachers are implementing the model in their classrooms by introducing one concept at a time using Google Classroom, a web application that helps educators share files.

The main purpose is to offer support and a shared language for teachers, many of whom were already using most of the recommended concepts, he said.

Hart said the model “has a lot of staying power.”

Chris Mueller, a math teacher at Norfolk High School, is one of the 12 educators who developed the instructional model.

“We’re really not doing anything that’s new,” Mueller said. “(We’re) taking best practices that are research-based to maximize student learning and tweaking them, making them our own.”

He said the biggest change for students is better comprehension, which is reflected in how he ends his lessons.

Mueller now finishes his classes with activities such as having students discuss what they learned with a partner or having them complete quick problems to show they’ve grasped a new math concept.

“Now I close my lesson(s) a little better than I used to,” he said. “I don’t just say, ‘We’re done for the day.'”

A police report says 19-year-old Roscoe Ricketts was robbed at gunpoint around 9 p.m. Sunday as he was walking. The robber took Ricketts’ smartphone and then left the area in a white car. Police say Ricketts was not injured. No arrest has been reported.

He has appeared in election television ads for his father, Gov. Pete Ricketts.

Ricketts said Monday he doesn’t think the mugging was politically motivated and doubts the perpetrator knew who his son was. He says his son is doing fine, and he thanked Omaha police for their professionalism.

The state provides a home for the governor in Lincoln, but the family has maintained its Omaha residence.

The lawsuit was dropped after police said that Jim Jasa intentionally triggered the explosion that killed him and his wife, Jeanne. An attorney for the family said in a statement Monday that relatives chose not to pursue the lawsuit because they want a sense of closure.

Jeanne Jasa died about two weeks after the Aug. 14, 2017 explosion that destroyed their home and damaged nearly three dozen more in their neighborhood. Lincoln police have said Jim Jasa died May 2 in hospice care.

Investigators weren’t able to interview Jeanne Jasa or her husband before they died.

Republican Rep. Adrian Smith, who represents Nebraska’s vast rural 3rd District, announced his bill Thursday in a news release. Smith says the bill in intended to ensure the cultural and historical value of the 100-acre site just west of Beatrice.

The monument commemorates the Homestead Act of 1862, which allowed any adult citizen or intended citizen, who had never fought against the U.S. government, could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. They had to improve the land by putting up homes and farming it, too. After five years, the filers were entitled to the land.

America gave away 270 million acres between January 1863 and 1976 under the act.