(AP) — A mural depicting TV talk show legend Johnny Carson will be going up on the side of a downtown building in his Nebraska hometown of Norfolk.

Norfolk artist Karl Reeder will use various images of Carson on the side of the former Andrew Bicycle building.

Carson was born in Corning, Iowa, but grew up in Norfolk, Neb., and attended the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. He hosted NBC’s “The Tonight Show” for 30 years. He died in California in 2005.

Organizers hope the mural will be finished in time for the 2014 Great American Comedy Festival, set for June 11-14 in Norfolk. The festival was created as a way to honor Carson.

(AP) — Kiss, Nirvana and Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band have been ushered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in a ceremony at Barclays Center.

They were joined Thursday by duo Hall & Oates, British rocker Peter Gabriel, 1970s folkie Cat Stevens and the absent Linda Ronstadt.

Nirvana was the emotional centerpiece. The trio rooted in the Seattle-area punk rock scene was voted into the hall in its first year of eligibility.

Original Kiss members Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley had wanted the replacements for ex-bandmates Ace Frehley and Peter Criss to perform at the ceremony instead of the original four. The result: Kiss’s music went unheard.

Springsteen’s 1999 entrance into the hall without the E Street Band was a sore point for some members, who finally got their due.

UPDATE 4/9/14 4:00 p.m.

(AP) — Authorities say a standoff with a Lincoln man at a hotel has ended with his arrest.

Deputies with the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office say 33-year-old Jeremiah Joseph Burkhart was arrested Thursday afternoon at a Quality Inn near the airport. The standoff lasted about five hours.

Burkhart barricaded himself in one of the rooms in an attempt to avoid an arrest warrant.

Authorities communicated with Burkhart through the door of the room, over the phone and by text message before the arrest. Burkhart told officials at one point that he was armed. At least one hotel floor was evacuated, and a nearby street was shut down.

Burkhart had a warrant out for his arrest for allegedly using a financial device illegally.

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(AP) — Authorities say they have surrounded a Lincoln hotel because a man has barricaded himself in one of the rooms.

Deputies with the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office say the standoff Thursday with 33-year-old Jeremiah Joseph Burkhart is happening at a Quality Inn near the airport. The standoff has been going on for about two hours.

Authorities have communicated with Burkhart through the door of the room, over the phone and by text message. Burkhart has told officials he is armed. At least one floor of the hotel has been evacuated, and a nearby street has been shut down.

The newspaper reports Burkhart has a warrant out for his arrest for allegedly using a financial device illegally.

(AP) — A 27-year-old Lincoln man suspected of tossing Molotov cocktails has surrendered.

Lincoln police spokeswoman Katie Flood says Daniel Walter faces five counts of possession of a destructive device. He turned himself in on Wednesday.

Jail records said Walter remained in custody on Thursday. Online court records don’t list the name of his attorney.

Flood says Walter is suspected of hurling five of the flaming devices from his car last month. The firebombs caused only minor damage, and no injuries were reported.

(AP) — The Tilden City Council in northeast Nebraska has decided to close the city-owned hospital.

The council voted 6-0 on Tuesday night to close Tilden Community Hospital and sell or lease it. Norfolk-based Faith Regional Health Services is expected to lease a portion of the property and offer some services. The nearest hospital is 22 miles to the east in Norfolk.

Tilden hospital administrators say the hospital has been losing money. They blamed a steady decline in the number of inpatients, new government requirements and changing demographics.

(AP) — Federal health officials say a salmonella outbreak linked to Foster Farms chicken isn’t over and has now infected 524 people in 25 states and Puerto Rico.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the updated numbers on Wednesday. The agency reported in January that the outbreak appeared to be over. It has been going on since March 2013.

The CDC noted an uptick in illnesses in February.

The outbreak led to a public health alert from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for raw chicken packaged at three Foster Farms facilities in California.

Though no one has died, the CDC says the outbreak strains have been resistant to several commonly prescribed antibiotics.

Foster Farms says it has implemented a salmonella control program that has reduced the prevalence of salmonella in its products.

Most of the ill persons (76%) have been reported from California. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alaska (1), Arkansas (1), Arizona (24), California (399), Colorado (9), Connecticut (1), Delaware (1), Florida (4), Hawaii (1), Idaho (5), Illinois (1), Kentucky (1), Louisiana (1), Michigan (4), Missouri (5), North Carolina (1), Nevada (10), New Mexico (2), Oregon (13), Puerto Rico (1), Tennessee (1), Texas (12), Utah (4), Virginia (4), Washington (17), and Wisconsin (1).

For more information, visit the CDC’s website, http://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/heidelberg-10-13/.

(AP) — Police have identified a man found dead near Omaha’s Westroads Mall.

Omaha police said in a news release Thursday that it was the body of 50-year-old Ronald Price found the afternoon of April 3 in some bushes near an office building northwest of the mall.

Police say Price, of Omaha, was reported missing on Oct. 15 and that foul play is not suspected in his death.

Police did not release details on how Price died.

(AP) — Authorities say the Nebraska woman whose body was found near her wrecked car froze to death.

Cuming County Attorney Daniel Bracht says an autopsy shows Donna Baumert died of hypothermia, not her crash injuries.

The body of the 56-year-old woman was found March 5 near her car about a mile south of Beemer. Authorities say it appeared her car ran through a dead end and went about a half-mile through a field before coming to rest in a creek bed.

The accident appeared to have occurred about two weeks before the wreckage and Baumert’s body were found. She lived in West Point.

(AP) — Authorities in Omaha say a man is in custody in connection to a stolen vehicle found damaged and on its side.

Police say the man was arrested Wednesday after he was removed from the SUV at a Kmart store parking lot. His name was not released.

The owner of the vehicle told police that a man pulled her out of the SUV as she waited in a different store parking lot for her work shift to begin.

Officers tracked the stolen car a short time later. Police say the driver of the stolen car entered the Kmart parking lot but accidentally drove down a grass embankment.

The man was arrested and taken to a local hospital for injuries sustained in the crash.

(AP) — A Dodge County couple accused of animal cruelty has been barred from owning animals for 20 years.

Roland and Lori Peterson received the sentence Tuesday in Dodge County Court. They were ordered to serve two years of probation.

The couple pleaded no contest in February to four counts each of attempted animal abuse as part of a plea deal.

Authorities investigated the couple in connection with the deaths of 30 dogs, cats, horses and goats found in their residence last August. Deputies found animals in various stages of decay in a freezer.

Lori Peterson said she believed a highly contagious disease called the canine parvovirus killed the animals.