(AP) — At least 10 times since 2008, freight trains hauling oil across North America have derailed and spilled significant quantities of crude. Most of the accidents have touched off fires or catastrophic explosions.

The derailments released a total of almost 3 million gallons of oil, and the deadliest wreck killed 47 people in the town of Lac-Megantic, Quebec.

Those findings are from an Associated Press review of U.S. and Canadian accident records. They underscore a lesser-known danger of America’s oil boom, which is changing the global energy balance but raising urgent safety questions closer to home.

Adding to the danger is the unusually high volatility of the light, sweet crude from the fast-growing Bakken oil patch in Montana and North Dakota, where many of the oil-hauling trains originate.

(AP) — A 30-year-old Omaha man has been arrested, accused of a stabbing death in one of Lincoln’s neighborhood parks.

LeRon Branch was jailed on Saturday and awaits action on charges of manslaughter and use of a weapon to commit a felony. Lancaster County Jail records say Branch remained in custody on Monday. Online court records don’t list the name of his attorney.

Police say the body of Jarvis Long was found the morning of Jan. 16 in Peter Pan Park. He’d been stabbed several times.

Investigators have said they think Long was walking between friends’ homes when he was attacked.

(AP) — A 24-year-old Omaha man is recovering from a gunshot wound after his SUV crashed into a pole.

The incident happened shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday in northwest Omaha.

Police officers found the crashed SUV near 84th and Blondo streets. A 21-year-old man who had been cut told police someone had fired on the SUV before the crash. The 21-year-old was a passenger.

Officers found the 24-year-old driver near 88th and Maple streets with a gunshot wound. His injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.

(AP) — The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is considering merging its analytical College of Architecture with the free-thinking College of Fine and Performing Arts.

College officials say the merger could happen in the 2015-16 school year.

UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman says combining the two would help the university create more diverse courses that combine different disciplines.

Two other Big Ten Conference universities have already combined arts and architecture programs. Both the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and Penn State University have created successful combined colleges.

UNL officials plan to study what needs to be done to combine the colleges by July 2015.

(AP) — An Omaha man faces up to 20 years in federal prison for robbing a central Iowa bank a year ago.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the northern district of Iowa says 44-year-old Michael Clayton, of Omaha, was convicted Thursday by a federal jury in Sioux City of one count of bank robbery.

Proseuctors say Clayton took more than $11,000 from the Citizens’ State Bank in Fort Dodge on Feb. 7, 2013, with the help of another man, Christopher Anderson, who acted as a getaway driver.

Anderson pleaded guilty last year to being an accessory and faces up to 10 years when he’s sentenced on March 5.

Clayton remains in custody of the United States Marshal pending sentencing, which will be set at a later date.

(AP) — Authorities have identified an inmate who died in southeast Nebraska’s Gage County Detention Center as the suspect in a police standoff earlier in the week.

Deputy Gage County Attorney Amanda Spracklen-Hogan said that 36-year-old Adam Wolken was found unresponsive in his jail cell just before 4 a.m. Saturday and could not be revived. She did not say how he died.

Wolken was arrested early Thursday following a standoff with police at a Beatrice motel. Police say Wolken held two women and a 20-month old child hostage before surrendering.

The Nebraska State Patrol will investigate Wolken’s death. State law requires a grand jury investigation any time a person died in state custody or during in the process of being detained.

(AP) — A University of Nebraska Board of Regents committee is studying the qualifications of 11 search firms interested in finding a replacement for President J.B. Milliken, who is leaving for a new job.

University officials mailed letters to 13 executive search firms across the country on Jan. 28.

NU spokeswoman Melissa Lee says 11 responded by the Wednesday deadline.

The Board of Regents is not required to complete a competitive bidding process to hire a search firm, so the board’s executive committee will narrow the 11 to a short list of firms to be interviewed by the board.

When the firms are narrowed to four, their identities will become public record.

NU hopes to have a firm hired by the end of the month.

(AP) — A replica of the world’s largest snake will go on exhibit later this month at the University of Nebraska State Museum in Morrill Hall.

The 48-foot-long replica is of the Titanboa cerrejonensis, which scientists say weighed up to an estimated 2,500 pounds. The Titanboas lived 60 million years ago.

The museum exhibit will include fossils and bones of Titanoboa and modern reptiles, exhibits on past environments and clips from the Smithsonian Channel documentary, “Titanoboa: Monster Snake.”

For more information go online at https://museum.unl.edu/Titanoboa.

The exhibit opens Feb. 22 and runs through Sept. 7.

(AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of an inmate in southeast Nebraska’s Gage County Detention Center.

Police were summoned to the jail just before 4 a.m. Saturday.

Deputy Gage County Attorney Amanda Spracklen-Hogan has confirmed that a male inmate had died at the jail. She and other authorities are not releasing the man’s name or details on how he might have died pending notification of his family.

Spracklen-Hogan says officials tried to revive the man, but couldn’t.

The Nebraska State Patrol will investigate. State law requires a grand jury investigation any time a person died in state custody or during in the process of being detained.

(AP) — A southeast Nebraska truck driver has been found dead in his semitrailer off Interstate 80 near Giltner.

56-year-old Charles Westwood’s truck was found off the road just before 7 p.m. Friday.

Investigators say Westwood was east of Grand Island when his truck swerved, went off the road and crashed through a fence. There was little damage to the truck, but Westwood was pronounced dead at the scene.

Nebraska State Patrol spokeswoman Deb Collins says Westwood likely swerved off the road because of a medical emergency.