(AP) — Videos and photos taken by the public and posted online show the extensive damage wrought by tornadoes in northeast Nebraska and northwest Iowa.

The images show a number of businesses, including a farm implement showroom and a grain elevator at Wayne, Neb., destroyed. Many other businesses and homes stretching from Wayne to Cherokee, Iowa, are missing roofs and sections of walls. Windows in buildings and vehicles have been smashed. A semitrailer and tractor can be seen overturned in some photos.

The National Weather Service says at least six, but as many as nine tornadoes ravaged the region as a powerful storm cell moved through the area Friday night.

No deaths were reported, but 15 people in and around Wayne were treated for injuries.

(AP) — A tornado that struck the northeast Nebraska town of Wayne caused millions of dollars in damage, but the mayor says no one was killed and the injuries reported have been minor.

Mayor Ken Chamberlain said Friday that officials have accounted for all residents in town. At least 15 people were injured, but Chamberlain says nobody’s condition is life-threatening. Sioux City television station KTIV says the tornado caused millions of dollars in damage. Photos show widespread destruction to businesses and the local airport. Witnesses also reported that the tornado destroyed at least four homes and the city’s softball complex.

A Nebraska Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman says people were trapped in a building in Wayne. A hazardous material crew was dispatched to a gas leak at a supply company.

(AP) — A 53-year-old eastern Iowa man has been picked up by Nebraska authorities and awaits his return to face an arson charge.

Authorities say Jonathan Beam was taken into custody by Thayer County, Neb., sheriff’s deputies. Beam remained in Thayer County Jail on Friday. Online court records don’t list the name of his attorney.

He’s accused of setting fire on Tuesday afternoon to his home in the Washington County community of Washington. The home sits across the street from the Washington County Sheriff’s Office and the county jail. No injuries were reported.

(AP) — A northeastern Nebraska man has pleaded not guilty in connection with the death of his girlfriend’s 14-month-old son.

21-year-old Mark Grant, of Winnebago, pleaded not guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Omaha to one count of child abuse causing death. A trial date has not been set.

Court documents say Grant was caring for Julius Harlan on Sept. 10 when the boy received brain injuries. He died the next day at an Omaha hospital.

Investigators say Grant provided different stories about the circumstance behind the injury. He told authorities that he dropped the child on a bed and then shook him to revive him.

Court records do not indicate if Grant has an attorney.

(AP) — Police and witnesses say the gunfire outside the U.S. Capitol today began when a woman tried to ram through a White House barricade with her car.

They say the woman then led police on a chase that ended outside the Capitol. Police say the woman was killed, and a young child who was with her was taken to a hospital.

A police officer was injured when the car crashed outside the Capitol, but the injuries weren’t life-threatening. Police say no officers were wounded by gunfire.

The entire Capitol complex was locked down for about an hour. Both houses of Congress went into recess.

Witnesses say at least 20 police cars were involved in chasing the Lexus toward Capitol Hill. One tourist says he walked toward the scene, curious about what was going on — but the he “heard the gunfire” and hit the ground.

(AP) — Authorities say a 63-year-old woman was robbed after two armed men kicked in the front door of her Lincoln apartment.

The robbery occurred about 3:20 a.m. Wednesday.

Police say the woman heard two loud noises and then realized someone was in her apartment.

Police spokeswoman Katie Flood says the two men got away with a purse but didn’t harm the terrified woman.

Robbers sometimes target drug dealers to steal the cash or drugs they have. But Flood says investigators didn’t find anything in the woman’s home to believe she is involved in any drug dealing.

(AP) — A Fort Calhoun family says one of its alpacas is missing, and family members fear the native South American animal may have been stolen.

Kay Ryschon said the Suri alpaca was last seen around 3 p.m. Tuesday and does not believe it would have left the herd on its own accord.

The female alpaca, named Summer, is 7 years old, 5 feet tall at the head and is micro-chipped.

Ryschon said it’s believed Summer was taken from the herd through a section of a fence on the acreage north of Omaha.

Anyone with information on the case could contact the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.

It sounds disgusting but could solve a serious problem. Doctors have found a way to put healthy people’s poop into pills that can cure gut infections.

It is a more practical and less repulsive way to do fecal transplants, or using stool from one person to fix a bacterial imbalance in another.

Canadian researchers extracted the bacteria, packed it in capsules and gave it to patients with severe intestinal infections. All 27 were cured after failing to get better on strong antibiotics.

Doctors think the pills hold great promise. Half a million Americans get these infections each year.

Results were reported Thursday at an infectious diseases conference in San Francisco.

(AP) — A lawyer for death-row inmate Michael Ryan has asked the Nebraska Supreme Court to order a review of how state corrections officials got a lethal injection drug made by a Swiss company.

Nebraska and several other states were forced to buy the drug overseas when the last U.S. manufacturer quit making it in 2010 because of death-penalty opposition from customers.

Defense lawyer Rob Kortus, of the Nebraska Commission of Public Advocacy, questions the quality of sodium thiopental in a court filing. Nebraska bought its supply from a middleman.

Sodium thiopental recently has been banned for export by the European Union and is becoming increasingly difficult to get. It is made in India and China.

(AP) — Seven people have been injured in at least three separate Omaha shootings, including a 2-year-old boy.

Little Da’Marion Devers was treated at Creighton University Medical Center and then released after Wednesday night’s shooting.

Police say he and three teenage girls were inside the house around 10:30 p.m. when someone knocked and then started blasting gunshots through the front door before anyone answered. One of the girls was admitted for observation, another released after treatment and the third girl was treated at the house.

Two men were injured in two other shootings, and another person walked into an Omaha hospital late Wednesday for treatment of a gunshot wound.

No arrests have been reported.