COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska State Patrol says eight people have been taken to the hospital after a five-car pileup near Columbus.

Sgt. Tim Salmen says a crash caused a chain reaction on Sunday evening on Highway 81. He says a car was stopped and waiting to turn when another vehicle rear-ended it. All of the vehicles involved were traveling south.

The injured people were taken to a Columbus hospital. Salmen says their injuries weren’t life threatening.

He says one of the vehicles caught fire after the accident but it was quickly extinguished.

The accident is under investigation.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A southeastern Nebraska county treasurer wants state officials to be more transparent about fees charged to people who make payments on the Department of Motor Vehicles website.

Lancaster County Treasurer Andy Stebbing said his office charges a lower convenience fee to people who use credit or debit cards in person or over the phone compared to people who make payments on the state’s DMV website. Stebbing says his office charges 2.49 percent as a convenience fee, while the state’s website charges a 3 percent fee.

He also says that the state charges a flat $3 fee to customers who make online payments using electronic checks. Stebbing says his office charges half of that.

Stebbing recently sent a letter to Nebraska’s Secretary of State, requesting he order a review of the convenience fees.

WATERLOO, Neb. (AP) — A 27-year-old Fremont man has been killed in a rollover crash in eastern Nebraska’s Douglas County.

The accident occurred around 4:15 p.m. Sunday near the intersection of U.S. Highway 275 and West Maple Road on the north side of Waterloo. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says a westbound car went out of control on a curve, crossed the median and another roadway and then rolled several times.

The driver, Jonathan Craig, was pronounced dead at the scene. His passenger, 26-year-old Alana Kaiser, was flown to an Omaha hospital. She also is from Fremont.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska State Patrol says one person has died and four others have been hospitalized after a car struck a semitrailer.

Troopers say the crash happened Sunday evening on Interstate 80 near Grand Island after the car malfunctioned. Witnesses say a tire fell off of the vehicle.

The car crossed the median and struck the back of a semitrailer in the opposite lane. The truck’s back axel broke off and both vehicles rolled.

Troopers say one person from the car died. They haven’t released that person’s identity.

The other three people in the car and the semitrailer driver were taken to a Grand Island hospital.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 16-year-old is facing several charges after sailing his vehicle onto a sunken Omaha football field and crashing on the 18-yard-line.

Omaha Police Officer Kevin Wiese says the crash happened at Omaha South High School around 3 a.m. Sunday morning.

Police say the teen failed to stop at a T intersection next to the stadium, which is below street level. The vehicle flew over the bleachers and came to rest upside down on the field.

The teen was taken to the Nebraska Medical Center for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries after the crash.

The teen is suspected of driving while intoxicated and reckless driving. Police say the driver also lacked proof of insurance and had an open alcohol container in the vehicle.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say the bodies of all four victims have been removed from a Wichita flight training facility that was hit by a small plane this week.

Fire Marshal Brad Crisp said the body of the pilot was removed Saturday from the roof of the building at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport.

The bodies of the other three victims who were inside a flight simulator when the twin-engine plane hit Thursday were pulled from the rubble a day earlier.

Crisp says the removal of the pilot’s body was made more difficult because of the crumbling structure, which caught on fire after the crash.

National Transportation Safety Board officials say the cockpit voice recorder has been recovered but it’s unclear whether a flight data recorder survived.

MILFORD, Neb. (AP) — Authorities are investigating an eastern Nebraska crash that killed one woman and critically injured another woman.

The Seward County Sheriff’s office says the crash happened around 5:45 a.m. Sunday on Highway 6 near Milford.

An eastbound Mazda pickup truck driven by a 45-year-old Lincoln woman collided with a minivan driven by a 20-year-old Milford woman.

Investigators have not determined what caused the crash, but the sheriff’s office said speed was a factor.

The Lincoln woman died at the scene of the crash. The Milford woman was flown to a Lincoln hospital in critical condition.

Authorities did not immediately release the names of both women.

SCHUYLER, Neb. (AP) — Police in the small eastern Nebraska town of Schuyler interrupted a suicide attempt and found a stabbing victim inside a nearby apartment this weekend.

The Colfax County Attorney’s office said the incident was discovered around 2:15 a.m. Sunday in Schuyler.

Officers encountered a 41-year-old man trying to hang himself from a tree outside an apartment building. They intervened by cutting the rope, and paramedics took the man to the local hospital.

Then officers went inside an apartment and found a 34-year-old woman with multiple stab wounds in her throat. The woman was conscious but couldn’t communicate. She was also rushed to the hospital.

Both the man and woman were later flown to an Omaha hospital for treatment.

Prosecutors say the man will be charged with at least two felonies.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Recent discoveries at biblical sites will be discussed at a conference at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

The annual Batchelder Conference for Biblical Archaeology will be held Nov. 13-15.

The focus of this year’s event will be on the biblical city of Bethsaida and other recent discoveries. Bethsaida is one of the most frequently mentioned cities in the New Testament.

One of the speakers at the conference will be Jon Seligman, who oversees excavation for the Israel Antiquities Authority.

Attending the conference costs $10, and UNO students can attend free with their student identification.

The conference’s full schedule is available online at: http://world.unomaha.edu/Bethsaida.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church says an Omaha man has reported he was molested as a child 30 years ago by a religious order priest.

The archdiocese said in a written release Friday that the priest, who died in 2012, was an associate pastor in the Holy Ghost Parish in Omaha in the mid-1980s.

The Order of Augustinian Recollects — based in New Jersey — founded Holy Ghost in 1918. It provided the parish with a pastor from its ranks until leaving Omaha and transferring Holy Ghost to the Omaha Archdiocese in 1986.

Deacon Tim McNeil with the Omaha Archdiocese says because the priest belonged to the Augustinian Recollects, the order is carrying out the investigation.