(AP) — A small Nebraska town enjoyed a free country music concert this weekend because Pepsi wanted a location halfway between New York City and Los Angeles.

Country star Lee Brice performed about ten songs in the streets of Milligan, Neb., Saturday, and the concert was followed by fireworks.

The concert also featured York High School’s marching band dressed in white Pepsi Hype Squad uniforms.

Pepsi staged the event to promote the Super Bowl halftime show it is sponsoring. Several other concerts are planned over the next month.

The concert helped boost’s the town’s population from a little over 200 to about 5,000 for the night.

(AP) — A 61-year-old Lincoln woman is in critical condition one day after a firefighter pulled her from her smoke-filled home.

Sharon Buss was taken to a Lincoln hospital on Thursday.

A police officer was sent to the house shortly before 8:30 p.m. and heard a woman yelling from inside. Authorities say the officer didn’t have protective gear and the smoke was too thick for him to enter the home, so he called firefighters.

Firefighters found a fire in the basement that had been mostly extinguished by a sprinkler system. They found Buss unresponsive in a hallway and a dead dog under a chair in the basement.

City Fire Inspector Rick Campos estimates that the fire, heat and smoke damage totals about $30,000.

(AP) — A Nebraska waitress received far more than just a tip when she served two inquisitive customers last week.

Abigail Sailors was given a $5,000 college tuition check and $1,000 for personal use, on top of a $100 tip that she split with another server.

The men walked into a Lincoln Cracker Barrel restaurant on Thursday and asked the 18-year-old about her life. Sailors told them about her mother’s brain injury, her youth spent in foster homes and her efforts to put herself through Trinity Bible College in North Dakota. But she says she still felt blessed.

When the men were finished eating, one of them opened his checkbook. Sailors says she thanked the men, and they replied: “Thank God.”

(AP) — Authorities say a 34-year-old man was killed in a car crash in eastern Nebraska.

The Saunders County Sheriff’s office says the man ran a stop sign at Highway 66 while driving northbound on County Road 17, about two miles south of Wahoo. The driver’s Toyota Camry collided with an eastbound semi driven by a 50-year-old woman from Casey, Iowa.

The Camry was dragged several hundred feet east before the vehicles came to a stop. The male driver was pronounced dead at the scene. Both drivers were wearing seat belts, and authorities say alcohol was not a factor in the crash.

Authorities did not identify the male driver, but they say he had recently moved to the Wahoo area. A phone message left with the sheriff’s office was not immediately returned.

(AP) — Lincoln police are investigating the death of an elderly woman who was run over by a car in a grocery store parking lot.

The Lincoln Police Department says the accident happened Friday afternoon outside a Hy-Vee on the city’s south side.

Another elderly woman in a Ford Fusion appears to have rapidly accelerated while backing out of a parking spot. Police are investigating whether the victim was in a motorized grocery cart at the time of the accident.

The names of the victim and the driver have not been released.

(AP) — A 19-year-old man has been sentenced to up to 20 years in prison for his role in a string of home burglaries in Lincoln last summer.

Lancaster County District Judge John Colborn on Friday gave Mark Fotopulos between 15 and 20 years in prison. Fotopulos has already served more than 180 days and will need to serve another seven years before he’s eligible for parole.

Fotopulos has been linked to multiple home burglaries last summer. Two other teenagers are also tied to the cases and face charges.

Police say many of the victims were home during the burglaries, which involved stolen items like jewelry, weapons and a car. Fotopulos is accused of attacking one homeowner in the face with an electronic game console.

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(AP) — Fire officials say a blaze has severely damaged an old building in downtown Plattsmouth.

The fire was reported around 11 p.m. Thursday at the Quart House Pub inside the structure. At least three businesses in the building and an apartment were affected. No injuries have been reported, but some firefighters fell on ice.

Seven departments were called in to help battle the blaze, but firefighters were hampered by the frigid weather. The National Weather Service says Plattsmouth temperatures hovered around zero or barely above, with wind chills reaching minus 14

The cause of the fire hasn’t been determined.

Plattsmouth is a city of about 6,500 residents that sits on the west bank of the Missouri River, 17 miles south of Omaha.

(AP) — Felony arrest warrants have been issued for a man and a woman in connection with the October homicide of an Omaha man.

The Omaha Police Department said Friday they’re looking for 27-year-old Amber L. Perez and 27-year-old Samuel Ochoa as they continue to investigate the death of 31-year-old Rodney Hunt.

Hunt was found in south Omaha in early October with at least one gunshot wound. He was taken to a local hospital and died days later.

23-year-old Anthony Floyd was arrested recently in the case. He is charged with first-degree murder and use of a weapon to commit a crime. Court records do not list an attorney.

Additional information has not been released.

(AP) — A Colorado teacher is facing charges after he was accused of asking students to send him topless photos of themselves.

The Fruita Police Department says 58-year-old public school teacher Randy Majors is facing 3 counts of sexual exploitation of a child and 5 counts of attempted sexual exploitation of a child.

According to an arrest affidavit, a parent told police she was going through her 16-year-old daughter’s Facebook account and found a message asking her daughter to send nude pictures of herself and to not tell anyone.

Authorities say Majors admitted he had asked a couple of girls for indecent pictures.

Majors could not be located for comment and court records did not indicate he has an attorney.

(AP) — Prosecutors won’t retry a Lincoln man who was granted a new trial on a charge of attempted sexual assault of a teenager.

Prosecutors have dropped the charges that were filed against Mohammed Nadeem after an August 2009 arrest.

The Nebraska Court of Appeals last year vacated Nadeem’s two convictions and said the jury should have been allowed to consider whether Nadeem was entrapped by police.

Nadeem was 22 when he was arrested. Police said he met a 14-year-old girl at a public library in Lincoln and gave her his phone number. Prosecutors say that and his other behavior at the library were substantial steps toward committing sexual assault.