Investigators say a blast that prompted evacuations near Union Pacific's massive railyard in western Nebraska last week appears to be accidental.

Kansas has canceled its fall turkey hunting season as U.S. turkey populations drop in states across the Midwest and Southeast.

Nebraska authorities don't expect any lingering problems related to Thursday's explosion of a railroad shipping container carrying an acid used to make explosives because the chemical largely burned off and any residue was contained.

Casino company Caesars Entertainment has joined Las Vegas gambling rival MGM Resorts International in reporting a recent cyberattack.

An explosion inside a shipping container at the world's largest railyard prompted evacuations in western Nebraska Thursday because of the toxic smoke generated when one of the chemicals aboard caught fire.

Gov. Jim Pillen has named a state lawmaker from central Nebraska and fellow Republican to replace State Treasurer John Murante.

Police in Nebraska's largest city say officers fatally shot an armed man who pointed a gun at them in an Omaha street.

Federal inspectors found an alarming number of defects in the locomotives and railcars Union Pacific was using at the world's largest railyard in western Nebraska this summer, and the railroad was reluctant to fix the problems.