SEWARD, Neb. (AP) — The new Seward home for the Nebraska National Guard State Museum is slowly taking shape as it’s transformed from its previous mission as a Guard armory.

The Nebraska National Guard’s state historian, Gerald “Jerry” Meyer, said the museum’s nearly 11,000 items provide him with “a treasure hunt every day.”

The museum’s former home was in the State Arsenal building on what was the state fair location in Lincoln. The National Guard moved the museum to make way for the Nebraska Innovation Campus, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln research park being built on the former fairgrounds.

The Guard hopes to have the Seward building and grounds ready for visitors during Seward’s Fourth of July celebration next year.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska family whose home was damaged by a fire says they are thankful for the love and support of their community.

Marshal and Stacy Hardy and their three children escaped their Norfolk home about six weeks ago after it caught on fire.

The family says they have received numerous offers of housing and many people have given them gift cards so they could buy clothes and other necessities. They are now living in a rental property while they work with the insurance company and contractors to repair their house.

The cause of the fire has not been determined.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say a 28-year-old Omaha man has died after a collision on the east side of the city.

The accident was reported a little before 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Police say a westbound vehicle driven by Zachary Redden crossed into oncoming traffic and struck a vehicle driven by 22-year-old Zachary Dunn, also of Omaha.

Police say Redden died later at a hospital and that Dunn and a passenger in his vehicle was treated at a hospital and released.

Officers suspect Redden had been drinking and are awaiting autopsy results.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The man convicted of first-degree murder in four 2013 shootings shortly after he was released from prison has filed another lawsuit accusing the state of failing to adequately treat his mental illness.

Nikko Jenkins is seeking $1.7 million in damages because he says his mental health deteriorated during more than two years in solitary confinement.

The 28-year-old Jenkins made some similar claims in two other handwritten lawsuits filed against officials earlier this year, but those cases were dismissed because of technical problems.

A spokesman for the Department of Correctional Services, James Foster, declined to comment on the lawsuit filed Tuesday.

Jenkins shot and killed four people in Omaha in a 10-day period in August 2013, and was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder in April.

HOMESTEAD, Pa. (AP) — A 12-year-old girl saved her 4-year-old sister by carrying her out of their burning home in the Pittsburgh suburbs.

Laniyah Coller (lah-NY’-ah KOH’-ler) said her mom hollered that the family’s Homestead residence was on fire about 6 a.m. Wednesday.

Laniyah was upstairs with her little sister, Angel-Lynn, and grabbed the still-sleeping girl.

Angel-Lynn says, “The first thing when I woke up, my sister was carrying me. I saw the fire all up there,” she added, pointing to her badly damaged home.

Laniyah says she asked her mother whether to jump out a window, and was told instead to hurry downstairs.

Laniyah says, “That’s when I grabbed my sister. I just skipped the steps. All the smoke was in my eyes.”

The fire’s cause was still being determined.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A rat competition, in which psychology students condition the behavior of their lab rodents to clear a series of obstacles, is still going strong after 40 years at a Lincoln college.

About 15 rats competed in Tuesday’s Xtreme Rat Challenge at Nebraska Wesleyan University. The rodents climbed ropes, walked on a tightrope and raced through tubes.

The event was created in 1974 by former psychology professor Marty Klein. He said he crafted it as an alternative learning experiment from the “boring” psychology labs he sat through as a student.

While training the rodents, students learn techniques in how to teach them to clear the obstacles. Klein says the rats signal to students when they’re doing something wrong by becoming uninterested or not learning the desired behavior.

CRETE, Neb. (AP) — Saline County Emergency Management officials say no one was injured in an emergency landing after a small plane’s landing gear malfunctioned.

The plane carrying two people circled the Crete Municipal Airport on Tuesday before descending without its front wheel. The plane landed on its back wheels and nose before skidding to a stop.

Pilot Mitch Edwards tells KLKN-TV he was taking his passenger from Crete to Salina, Kansas. He says he returned to the airport when he discovered the problem after trying to land in Kansas.

It’s unclear what caused the malfunction. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha zoo officials say one of its lionesses has given birth to a rare white cub.

The Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium says the male cub is one of three born late last week, two boys and one girl. Zoo officials say lion cubs typically weigh about three pounds at birth and that their cubs weigh just over four pounds.

They say the cubs will soon go on display with their mother and will likely open their eyes within a week or two.

Zoo officials say the inheritance of the white coloring is not fully understood and may be linked to a rare recessive gene from each parent.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A man has pleaded no contest to a charge after he was found asleep under a 7-year-old girl’s bed in Lincoln.

Twenty-five-year-old Dangelo Madkins pleaded no contest Tuesday to a charge of terroristic threats. The plea deal dismissed charges of stalking and criminal trespassing.

Police say Madkins was stalking the girl’s mother, whom he had dated. He was found under the empty bed snoring in May. Police say he had a stun gun, knife, screwdriver, a key to the apartment and the woman’s work identification.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln woman has been given probation for a slow-speed chase down Interstate 80 earlier this year.

26-year-old Leahlia Beatty was sentenced Tuesday to two years of probation on charges of driving under the influence and operating a motor vehicle to avoid arrest. Her license was revoked for six months.

Authorities say they pulled over Beatty in February as she drove east in the westbound lanes of Interstate 80. The vehicle later did a U-turn and began heading west in the eastbound lanes.

The chase reached speeds of 40 mph. Beatty is accused of nearly hitting a Nebraska State Patrol trooper. Spiked stop strips flattened her car’s tires and it soon went out of control, ending up in the ditch.