(AP) — Nebraska economic forecasters see modest state growth ahead as income declines for Nebraska farmers.

The Nebraska Business Forecast Council’s latest report says the state’s farm income is expected to stabilize at about $5.1 billion this year, a drop of about 7.3 percent from last year and well below the record $7.5 billion in 2011.

The council cites the predicted drop in ag income in saying that the rest of the state’s economy will grow modestly over the next three years, trailing growth in the rest of the country.

The council expects a 1.1 percent increase in the number of Nebraska jobs this year.

(AP) — A 77-year-old man has been hospitalized after being found outside in frigid Omaha, wearing little more than pajama bottoms.

The man was found around 4 a.m. Tuesday, clad in slippers, a fleece top and the pajama bottoms.

The National Weather Service says the air temperature at the time was around minus 2, with a wind chill of minus 18. Authorities weren’t sure how long the man had been outside.

Douglas County dispatchers say the man was taken in serious condition to the Nebraska Medical Center. Rescue workers described the man as cold to the touch.

(AP) — Authorities have identified the second worker killed in a Nebraska industrial plant accident as 47-year-old David Ball, of Omaha.

Police said Ball’s relatives were notified Tuesday, shortly after his body was retrieved from the International Nutrition building that collapsed the day before. Interim Fire Chief Bernard Kanger says authorities believe no other people are in the building.

The accident killed two and injured 17.

Kanger says the men killed were found on the second floor of the south Omaha plant, but the bodies were not near each other.

Authorities say they recovered the body of 53-year-old Keith Everett, of Omaha, Monday night.

Thirty-eight people were in the animal feed and supplement plant when it collapsed. Authorities are still trying to determine a cause.

(AP) — Authorities say they have located two Omaha sisters who were missing for several days.

Omaha police said in a news release Tuesday that 12-year-old Zianne Sysel and 10-year-old Lakeisha Sysel are safe.

Additional information was not released.

The girls were reported missing after they were last seen Friday night at their home in north Omaha.

(AP) — Federal investigators have begun the task of determining what caused an Omaha industrial accident Monday that killed two and injured 17.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration spokesman Scott Allen said OSHA investigators were on the scene of the accident Tuesday morning to look into the cause of the accident. Allen says it is too early to speculate on what may have caused part of the three-level International Nutrition building to collapse.

But OSHA records show the plant has been cited before for safety violations, including for the 2002 death of a 45-year-old worker who died when he fell into a moving mixer he was cleaning.

Other records show that the plant, which makes nutritional products that are added to livestock and poultry feed, was cited for six violations in 2012.

(AP) — Nebraska’s U.S. Senate race to replace retiring Sen. Mike Johanns officially has a Democratic candidate.

David Domina, a lawyer, launched his campaign with a speech in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday. After the event, Domina spoke about his views on the Keystone XL pipeline, gun control and health care.

Domina represents landowners challenging a state law that has allowed TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline to proceed. Domina says TransCanada should not have eminent domain power.

On gun control, Domina says there are reasonable restrictions on every constitutional right and that applies to the Second Amendment as well. He says citizens should not be armed in the same way as the military.

Domina also says the federal health care law should be fixed, not thrown out.

(AP) — A passenger has died in the rollover crash of a vehicle on a county road four miles west of Homer in northeast Nebraska.

The Dakota County sheriff’s office says the accident occurred a little before 3 a.m. Sunday. The office says 28-year-old Tiffany Schmitt, of Homer, died after being ejected. The office says the driver, 39-year-old Russell Roberts, also of Homer, and two other passengers were hospitalized.

The crash is being investigated.

(AP) — An Iowa man has been killed and an Iowa woman has been injured in an accident along Interstate 80 in eastern Nebraska.

Omaha police say the accident occurred a little after 6 a.m. Monday where I-80 merges with Interstate 480 and U.S. Highway 75.

Police say 28-year-old Brian Pete, of Des Moines, Iowa, had stopped and parked his car on the painted median of I-80. Police say it was hit by a westbound sport utility vehicle driven by 26-year-old Sara Barker, of Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Pete was pronounced dead at the scene. Barker was taken to an Omaha hospital.

The accident is being investigated.

UPDATE:

(AP) — At least four of the 10 workers sent to hospitals after an explosion and partial collapse at an Omaha manufacturing plant have already been released.

Authorities say two employees were killed in the accident at the International Nutrition plant in south-central Omaha on Monday morning.

Bergan Mercy Medical Center says two of the three workers sent there were treated and released.

The Nebraska Medical Center says two workers sent there were treated for minor injuries and then released. The hospital also says it treated a firefighter and released him.

Authorities say seven other workers were treated at the scene.

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(AP) — Officials say at least 10 people have been hospitalized and others could be trapped after an explosion and partial building collapse at an Omaha animal feed processing plant.

Interim Omaha Fire Chief Bernie Kanger said he’s not sure how many workers could be trapped in the wreckage of the International Nutrition plant. The fire that followed the explosion around 10 a.m. Monday has been extinguished. Firefighters are gingerly searching the structure, fearing that more debris could rain down.

Kanger says one firefighter was among those injured. At least two of the injured were sent to a burn center in Lincoln.

Kanger declined to comment on possible fatalities. At the time of the blast there were 38 employees at work.

(AP) — Nearly half of black men and 40 percent of white men are arrested at least once on non-traffic-related crimes by the time they turn 23. That’s according to a new study.

The estimates published this month by criminologists at the University of South Carolina and the University at Albany didn’t rely on arrest records but on an annual federal survey of 7,000 young people who answered questions from 1997 to 2008.

The authors found that by age 18, 30 percent of black men, 26 percent of Hispanic men and 22 percent of white men have been arrested.

By 23, those numbers climb to 49 percent for black men, 44 percent for Hispanic men and 38 percent for white men.