LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Two of three men arrested in connection to the August shooting death of a man have been charged with first-degree murder.

Prosecutors charged the 19-year-old Joshua Nootenboom-Carr and 23-year-old Derick Lewis on Friday in the death of 21-year-old Maurice Lamont Williams. Nootenboom-Carr is also charged with attempted robbery and three weapons counts. Lewis also faces an attempted robbery charge.

A third man, 23-year-old Jason Holmes, is set to be arraigned next week. He is accused of arranging the botched robbery and driving the getaway car.

All three men are being held on $50,000 cash bond each.

Police say Williams was shot in the chest during the Aug. 30 home invasion. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.

SUTTON, Neb. (AP) — Fire officials in southeastern Nebraska say an electrical fire in downtown Sutton gutted an office building and caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage.

The fire was reported just before 7 p.m. Friday. Sutton Fire Chief Chris Moore says he was handing out candy to trick-or-treaters at the fire station when someone came running in, saying there was a fire downtown.

About 30 firefighters from Sutton, Hastings, Clay Center and Grafton battled the fire that ravaged the two-story building owned by Abat Lerew, a construction contracting company.

No one was injured. Officials estimate damage at between $100,000 and $200,000.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — State Fire Marshal’s gear worth $11,000 that was stolen last year has turned up in a tree grove east of Lincoln.

A 41-year-old rural Lincoln man found the equipment on his property Monday morning. A Lancaster County Sheriff’s deputy report says that among the equipment found was a scuba tank, hoses, tubes and detectors used to pick up harmful gases.

State Fire Marshal Jim Heine went to the grove and confirmed the equipment was from his office.

Heine says he’s not sure if any of the equipment still works. He said it looks like it had been outside a long time, noting that it was extreme dirty and muddy.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 26-year-old Lincoln man who was behind the wheel when he hit a homeless man, then fled the scene, has been sentenced to prison.

Grant Siggins was sentenced Thursday in Lancaster County District Court to three years in prison and had his driver’s license revoked for two years.

Police say Siggins was driving last November when he hit 63-year-old Marvin Archer, who was crossing a Lincoln street. Police say Siggins sped from the scene, leaving Archer with critical injuries.

Siggins, who pleaded no contest, was soon arrested and refused to submit to a test to determine whether he had been drinking.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is hosting a panel discussion on the local food movement and its future.

The panel will include community leaders, restaurant owners and farmers. They’re scheduled to speak on Nov. 12 at 3:30 p.m. at the Great Plains Art Museum.

Local farmers will showcase their food in the museum’s lobby after the panel discussion. The Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society is sponsoring the local farmers. They’ll be available until 5:30 p.m.

The seminar is presented by the University of Nebraska’s Center for Great Plains Studies. It’s free and open to the public. Audio from the event will be posted online at http://www.unl.edu/plains on Nov. 13.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities are investigating a reported hunting accident in southeast Nebraska near Auburn.

A Nebraska Game and Parks Commission spokesman says the agency’s officers and the Nemaha County Sheriff’s Office are looking into the incident reported at 6 a.m. Friday.

Three brothers were reportedly hunting turkeys when the accident happened on private property about 6 miles west and 5½ miles south of Auburn.

A 48-year-old Auburn man was injured and transported via helicopter to Bryan LGH West Hospital in Lincoln.

The man’s name and condition were not immediately released.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — State and Lancaster County officials are at odds over payments the county receives for housing juvenile offenders at the Youth Services Center in Lincoln.

Lancaster County says the state owes more than $500,000 to the county. They also argue the state should be paying the county more each day for the young offenders.

State officials disagree and say they’re paying enough. But they also say they will negotiate a new contract with Lancaster County.

Nebraska counties must now discuss rates with state probation officials instead of the Department of Health and Human Services.

In the 2013 legislative session, Nebraska senators transferred the oversight of juvenile offenders from the state’s health and human services and gave the responsibility to probation officers and juvenile court judges.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska inmate who likely saved a guard’s life while incarcerated will not have an opportunity to argue for his release.

The State Board of Pardons voted 3-0 on Thursday to deny a commutation hearing request by Ted Parsons, an ex-Air Force officer who’s now 71. He was sentenced to life in prison for the 1986 fatal shooting of his girlfriend, Jill Garlock.

Garlock had tried to break up with him before the shooting.

Parsons was in prison for five years before several other inmates trying to escape stabbed and set a guard on fire. Parsons removed his shirt and helped put out the flames with the help of another inmate.

Thursday marked the first time Parsons asked for a commutation hearing.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a 43-year-old inmate at the Douglas County Jail in Omaha.

The county corrections department said Joseph Losteiner was found unresponsive in a single cell shortly after midnight on Friday.

Staff members announced a medical emergency and tried to resuscitate Losteiner. He was later pronounced dead at an Omaha hospital.

Losteiner was booked into the jail Thursday night on charges of theft, flight to avoid arrest, leaving the scene of an accident and other charges. He had not made an initial court appearance.