AURORA, Neb. (AP) — A group of bicyclists is riding more than 100 miles as part of a fundraiser for a central Nebraska cemetery that was vandalized last year.

Eight are participating in the Gatekeeper Ride to help buy a new fence for the Farmer’s Valley Cemetery.

Nearly 50 gravestones were pushed over in August, and some were damaged beyond repair. The cemetery was established in 1876 along the banks of the Big Blue River near Henderson, in rural Hamilton County.

The bicyclists started in Fort Hartsuff State Historical Park near Burwell Sunday morning. They were expected to arrive at the cemetery on Monday for the annual Memorial Day Celebration.

YORK, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a former staffer at the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women walked into the state prison with a rifle and demanded to be let inside before shooting herself in the chin.

A Department of Correctional Services spokeswoman says 50-year-old Robin K. Staehr of York walked into the prison’s public lobby at around 5:15 p.m. Sunday. Authorities say prison staff members recognized Staehr as a former employee who resigned in 2005, and observed a rifle behind her back.

Staff members refused to allow her inside and called 911. Staehr then shot herself in the chin before dropping the .22-caliber rifle and walking out. She was stopped outside the entrance, and taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

No staff or inmates were injured. Authorities are still investigating.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Oscar-winning actress Patty Duke has been released from an Omaha hospital and plans to resume her speaking tour.

Bruce Crawford, who helped organize a screening of “The Miracle Worker” with Duke, said the actress left the Nebraska Medical Center Sunday after being treated for irritable bowel syndrome.

Crawford says Duke’s husband, Michael Pearce, told him Sunday that she was feeling fine.

Before Duke sought treatment, the 67-year-old spoke at the movie screening Friday at Omaha’s Joslyn Art Museum. Crawford says Duke even signed autographs for 90 minutes after the movie.

“The Miracle Worker” tells the story of tutor Anne Sullivan’s efforts to help a young Helen Keller.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — Rescue teams are resuming the search for three men reported missing after a large mudslide in western Colorado.

The slide hit Sunday in a remote area near the town of Collbran, about 40 miles east of Grand Junction.

Mesa County Sheriff’s dispatcher Amanda Orr says three area residents are unaccounted for, and it’s unknown if they were in the area impacted by the massive slide.

A sheriff’s helicopter was surveying the slide area early Monday. The department said late Sunday it estimated the slide to be about 4 miles long, 2 miles wide and 250 feet deep in many places.

Authorities say no structures or major roads were affected.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say a Fremont man was killed after his motorcycle crashed into a car in Omaha.

The motorcyclist was identified as 26-year-old Preston J. Turner. Omaha police say Turner was riding northbound in Omaha around 9:40 p.m. Sunday when his 2006 Kawasaki struck a southbound 2010 Lexus Sedan that was turning east.

Police say Turner was unable to avoid striking the Lexus. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver of the Lexus was identified as 83-year-old William W. Hugh, of Omaha. Police say the crash remains under investigation.

(AP) — An eastern Nebraska family of 11 has found a new home after a tornado destroyed their old one two weeks ago.

Mitch and Betty Nisly’s bank approved the family for a home loan last week. Their new home is in Utica, about 12 miles north of Beaver Crossing, which was struck by a tornado on May 11.

The storm also crushed the family’s 12-passenger van. Authorities say 17 tornadoes were reported in Nebraska that day. Beaver Crossing was hardest-hit, with 16 houses damaged.

Since the tornado, the family had been living in a three-bedroom house owned by the Utica United Methodist Church, and sleeping on air mattresses. The family also received donations of clothes, blankets, furniture and gift certificates.

(AP) — Two men wrongfully accused in a 2006 double murder are going after Douglas County’s liability insurance carrier to recoup a multimillion-dollar judgment against the county’s former crime lab chief.

Attorneys for Matthew Livers and Nicholas Sampson filed garnishment claims last week against the St. Paul Travelers Cos. They are seeking the $6.6 million they were awarded in a federal civil rights case against former Douglas County crime lab chief David Kofoed.

Livers and Sampson were jailed for months after the Murdock, Neb., shotgun murders of Wayne and Sharmon Stock, Livers’ aunt and uncle.

The case involved a false confession from Livers during a coercive interrogation. Livers, who has a learning disability, implicated himself and his cousin Sampson in the killings.

(AP) — A 20-year-old Omaha man is recovering from a gunshot wound, but he won’t tell police how he got hurt.

Omaha police say Travell Jones showed up at Immanuel Hospital around 1:20 a.m. Sunday with gunshot wounds in his groin, leg and foot.

Jones refused to cooperate with officers investigating the shooting or say whether he accidentally shot himself.

His injuries are not believed to be life threatening.

(AP) — The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is hosting a conference on water security and its impact on the Middle East.

The free conference is set for May 28-29 at the Kauffman Center on campus. Scholars from around the world will present research and discuss how access to water and water management will affect the politics and cultures throughout the world.

The conference will include presentations from water policy and environmental experts from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and universities throughout the world.

Sessions will run from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on May 28 and 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on May 29.

(AP) — A Nebraska man is taking his motivational messages to public television in Omaha.

Andy Greenberg’s “Your Daily High” messages are already syndicated on Radio America stations nationwide.

Now Greenberg plans to launch a new weekly television show that will air at 10 a.m. starting Saturday. The shows will also feature interviews with someone who lives in Omaha that has done something extraordinary with their lives.

Greenberg spent most of his career in sales and marketing and now he works in public relations and as a speaker and training consultant for companies.