ALLEN, Neb. (AP) — A crop-duster pilot has been injured when his helicopter crashed in a field in northeast Nebraska.

The helicopter commissioned by Crop Production Services of South Sioux City crashed Thursday afternoon near Allen, in Dixon County.

Tom McBride, a sales representative for the company, says the pilot was able to walk away from the crash.

The Dixon County Sheriff’s Office says the pilot was taken by ambulance to Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City. His name wasn’t released.

Marty Vohs, a manager with Crop Production Services, says it appears the helicopter clipped power lines.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska county attorney says a teenager has been charged with tampering in connection with a fatal game of Russian roulette.

Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine on Thursday provided new details about the Sunday shooting in Omaha. He says 19-year-old Joseph Merolla died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Kleine says Merolla died on the first turn of the game. He says two of Merolla’s friends saw the shooting and a third was in another room. Klein was found dead on the kitchen floor.

Kleine says 18-year-old Erik Valencia took the gun and left the apartment. He has been charged with tampering with physical evidence, a felony offense.

Valencia was released from jail Thursday after posting bond. It wasn’t immediately clear if he has an attorney.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A 49-year-old suburban Omaha teacher is accused of serving alcohol to minors.

Online court records say Ann Urwiler is charged in Sarpy County with procuring alcohol for a minor and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Both charges are misdemeanors.

School records say Urwiler is a first-grade teacher at Trumble Park Elementary School in the Papillion-La Vista district. Online court records don’t list the name of Urwiler’s attorney. A public phone listing for Urwiler couldn’t be found. She didn’t immediately respond to an email message on Friday.

A district spokeswoman declined to speak directly about Urwiler’s case.

Urwiler’s first court appearance is scheduled for later this month.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The U.S. Small Business Administration has approved federal disaster assistance for seven Nebraska counties struck by severe weather, including the tornado-ravaged town of Pilger.

SBA spokesman Rick Jenkins said Thursday that residents of those counties may be eligible for low-interest, fixed-rate federal loans to help them rebuild. The agency will have staff members on-site to work with residents.

The approved counties are Stanton, Colfax, Cuming, Madison, Pierce, Platte and Wayne.

Gov. Dave Heineman submitted the request after the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced this week that five Nebraska counties weren’t eligible for individual home and business assistance. The aid was denied in part because of the amount of privately insured property in the area.

The Pilger tornado was one of four that touched down in northeast Nebraska on June 16.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln developers plan to build a $20 million, eight-story senior housing project in the city’s West Haymarket district.

Mayor Chris Beutler announced Thursday that the project will include 100 senior housing units, 10,000 square feet of retail space and 8,000 feet of office space.

Beutler says the project will help meet the increasing demand for housing in the downtown area. Developers for the project include The Argent Group of Chicago and Speedway Properties of Lincoln.

City officials say construction is expected to being in spring 2015, and will take 12 to 14 months to complete.

City planners have said they would like to see parts of the Haymarket turned into a housing area for retiring baby boomers and young professionals.

WAHOO, Neb. (AP) — Residents of a southeastern Nebraska town say they are concerned that a new highway bypass could negatively impact businesses.

Gas stations and other mom-and-pop businesses benefit from about 9,000 vehicles that pass through Wahoo on U.S. Route 77 each day. Several residents say they are worried that those local businesses will lose customers. Although the bypass will likely increase the amount of traffic, they say it could prevent motorists from stopping on their way through the small town.

The Nebraska Department of Roads estimates daily traffic counts could reach 11,000 within 20 years.

Crews began pouring concrete Tuesday for the nearly 4-mile long bypass. The Department of Roads says it could be open by November.

DENVER (AP) — Recreational pot brownies in Colorado are about to get weaker. Or at least, easier to break up into manageable doses.

Colorado marijuana regulators have drafted an emergency rule aimed at making it easier for new marijuana users to tell how much pot they’re eating. A draft of the emergency rules, obtained by The Associated Press before its public release, requires makers of edible pot to physically demark their products so that consumers can “intuitively determine” how much constitutes a dose of marijuana’s intoxicating ingredient, THC.

Colorado’s rules already require edible pot to be sold in “servings” of 10 milligrams of THC. But many consumers have complained they can’t tell what a serving is.

Edible marijuana producers say they’ll comply with the rules by making milder products.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Fremont man is suing the state of Nebraska, saying his constitutional rights were violated when he was required to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, even though he objected to the organization’s religious foundation.

Marvin Sundquist, of Fremont, says his massage therapy license was placed on probationary status last year, and he was ordered to attend AA meetings as part of his probation. Sundquist says the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office moved to revoke his massage therapy license when he objected to mandatory attendance of AA. He says he asked to see an alcohol counselor who offers a non-religious program, but was denied that option by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.

Sundquist is asking for $200,000, saying the state cost him a promising career as a massage therapist.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A child-welfare expert who was accused of exposing himself to some girls at a Lincoln hotel has made a deal with prosecutors.

Online court records say 68-year-old Steven Preister, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace and was fined $500. Prosecutors dropped a charge of public nudity in exchange for Preister’s plea late last month.

Preister was charged after an April 7 incident at the Cornhusker Marriott in Lincoln. He is accused of yelling at four teenage girls, following them to their room and trying to stop them from closing their door. The girls said Preister appeared intoxicated and was wearing only a T-shirt.

He was in Lincoln to provide technical help to the Nebraska Health and Human Services Department.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police say a 24-year-old man has been arrested as part of an investigation into the death of a 1-year-old boy.

Tyler Kennedy was arrested Wednesday on a count of felony child abuse resulting in death.

Police say officers were called to a north Omaha home on Saturday on a report of an unresponsive child. The boy, Orlando Were, was taken to an Omaha hospital. Police say the boy died on Monday after suffering injuries while in the care of Kennedy, his mother’s boyfriend.

Police say they’re still investigating.