LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A man severely injured in a camping trailer fire in Beatrice is improving at a Lincoln hospital.

54-year-old David Hogan is was listed in fair condition Thursday at Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center.

He had been flown to the hospital after a fire Monday morning at a trailer court in north Beatrice that killed his wife, 59-year-old Vernia Hogan.

Firefighters believe the fire was caused by clothes that ignited after being placed too close to a space heater.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man will face trial in May on a second-degree murder charge that accuses him of stabbing a friend to death.

47-year-old Ivan Fourhorns waived his right to a speedy trial at a hearing Tuesday, and his public defender requested time to prepare for trial.

The judge set trial for May.

Fourhorns faces 20 years to life if convicted of murder, and another one to 50 years if convicted of a weapons count.

Rescue workers were called to a Lincoln apartment July 23 and found 58-year-old Joe Solomon, who wasn’t breathing. He was later pronounced dead at a hospital.

Police say Solomon and Fourhorns got into an argument after drinking alcohol with others at the apartment.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 30-year-old man who drew a pellet gun on a Lincoln police officer has been sentenced to prison.

Carlos Sisneros was sentenced Tuesday to 15 months to 30 months in prison for convictions of third-degree assault on an officer and obstructing an officer.

Police say that on the night of July 30, a Lincoln police officer confronted Sisneros in a city park after receiving a report of a man sitting in a tree with binoculars. Police say that when the officer moved to search Sisneros, Sisneros reached for his waistband, yelled, “I have a gun,” and pulled out a realistic looking pellet gun.

The 50-year-old officer disarmed Sisneros, tossed the pellet gun and the two scuffled before Sisneros was arrested.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police are investigating after a female Lincoln Southeast High School student reported being grabbed, pulled into a boy’s restroom and thrown against a wall by a teenage boy.

The girl told authorities the attack happened Tuesday when she went to her locker during her lunch period.

The girl says she screamed when she grabbed while she was in the empty hallway, then pulled into the restroom and thrown to the ground. Her attacker then fled.

Police have labeled the incident an attempted sexual assault, and believe a student was the assailant. School officials, however, say there is no evidence of sexual contact.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — The mother of a Council Bluffs high school student has been arrested for a Facebook post that made reference to a school shooting, but the woman’s attorney says she was simply venting frustration that her son is being bullied at school.

Police say 39-year-old Teri Pallat was arrested Monday on suspicion of making terroristic threats and first-degree harassment. Her arrest came after she posted a message on her Facebook page that said “this is exactly why” school shootings happen.

Pallat’s attorney, Michael Murphy, said Pallat’s son has been the target of bullying and at least one assault at school, and that school officials have done nothing to stop it.

Lewis Central High School Principal Joel Beyenhof says the school looks into every bullying accusation.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Office of Construction has unveiled the first designs for eastern Nebraska’s first national military cemetery.

A pair of engineers from the office unveiled the plans Tuesday for the 230-acre cemetery during a downtown Omaha meeting attended by about 80 local veterans.

The engineers say the first burial at the 230-acre cemetery could occur within two years.

Project Manager David Martino says the centerpiece of the Sarpy County National Veterans Cemetery will be a flag assembly area at the highest point on the site, where services for Memorial Day and Veterans Day can be held. Nearby will be a memorial walkway, where vets groups may put up monuments.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Officials hope new fencing will make an accident-prone roundabout in Lincoln safer for motorists.

Workers installed fencing at the roundabout after an expert on the intersections recommended the move.

The hope is the fencing placed at the approach to each leg of the roundabout will force drivers to slow down and check for oncoming vehicles already in the intersection.

It’s the second effort to reduce crashes at the roundabout, which opened in the summer of 2012.

Earlier, officials eliminated one lane of the roundabout, making the intersection less complicated for motorists.

Since then, there has been one accident at the intersection every nine or 10 days, compared to an accident about every three days before the change.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Nebraska woman and her son have been charged with first-degree murder in the death of the woman’s husband nearly 13 years ago in Middle Tennessee.

A Tennessee Bureau of Investigation news release says 53-year-old Lisa Ann Showalter of Lincoln, Neb., was arrested Wednesday at the Nashville airport and booked into the Hickman County jail on $250,000 bond following an indictment from a Hickman County grand jury.

Her son, 32-year-old Andrew Scott Waddell, is imprisoned in Mississippi for a 2003 armed robbery conviction and was served with the charge Wednesday.

Showalter and Waddell are charged in the Jan. 6, 2001, shooting death of 35-year-old Jeffrey Ola in his driveway in Centerville.

The TBI says law enforcement authorities received new information about the case in May and resumed the investigation.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Two young brothers have died in a mobile home fire in northwest Omaha that injured two adults.

Omaha police say a 3-year-old and a 3-month-old died in the fire that was reported around 8:15 a.m. Wednesday. Their mother and a 16-month-old sister were both hospitalized after the fire.

The boys who died in the fire at Maplewood Estates were Gabriel Rodriguez and Brandon Rodriguez. Witnesses said a neighbor tried to rescue the boys, but couldn’t make it past the intense flames.

The boys’ 18-year-old mother, Champaine Harn was in serious condition Wednesday. Their sister, Adrianna Rodriguez, was in good condition. Both are expected to survive.

Investigators are still trying to determine what caused the fire.