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A Nebraska bar owner won’t be charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man during weekend protests in downtown Omaha over the death of George Floyd in Minnea-polis, authorities said Monday. The shooting occurred at around 11 p.m. Saturday in the city’s Old Market area and within a couple of blocks of where protesters had gathered. Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said Monday that Jake Gardner, who owns two bars near where the shooting happened, fired the fatal shot during a scuffle with protesters outside one of his bars. Kleine said the bar owner said he feared for his life before firing the shot that killed 22-year-old James Scurlock.

FREE-SPEECH RIGHTS OUTWEIGH PANDEMIC Gov. Pete Ricketts says Nebraska could see another flare-up of coronavirus cases because of the demonstrations over the death of George Floyd, but he concluded that allowing protesters to peacefully vent was more important than concerns about the pandemic. His comments came as new, lighter virus restrictions went into effect throughout most of the state. The restrictions ap-proved by Ricketts allow bars, zoos, swimming pools and other public venues to reopen, with crowd limits based on a venue’s occupancy. Protests in Omaha and Lincoln have each drawn more than 1,000 people, often clustered into large groups as they confront law enforcement officers. Ricketts says officials decided that the protesters’ free-speech rights outweigh concerns about the pandemic.

SURVEY RESULTS FOR RECOVERY Business leaders are optimistic the economy will begin to recover later this year in a nine-state region of the Midwest and Plains despite the ongoing impact of the coronavirus outbreak, accord-ing to a monthly survey released Monday. The overall index for the region improved in May to 43.5 from April's 35.1 but it re-mained in negative territory. The survey results are compiled into a collection of indexes ranging from zero to 100. Survey organ-izers say any score below 50 suggests decline. A score above 50 suggests growth. The survey's confidence index improved to suggest that businesses are optimistic the economy will begin to rebound within the next six months. That index improved to 56.6 in May from April's weak 45.5 reading. Creighton University economist Ernie Goss said the survey shows that the coronavirus outbreak has had a greater impact on businesses tied directly to the consumer and a smaller impact on manufacturers. "This is a consumer led recession with manufacturing lagging. Nonetheless, Creighton’s survey indicates that the regional manufacturing sec-tor is trapped in a recession,“ said Goss, who oversees the sur-vey. The monthly survey covers Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Minne-sota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota.

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SPORTS When Nebraska football players began working out on campus Mon-

day, they were the first out of the gate in the Big Ten. As of late last

week, only four of 14 Big Ten football programs had announced specific

dates for when players can train in campus facilities voluntarily and

not directed by coaches. The others are Illinois (Wednesday), Iowa

(June 8) and Ohio State (June 8). If Nebraska has a competitive advan-

tage over league opponents, that edge is secondary in Husker head

coach Scott Frost's mind behind the importance of keeping his team and

community safe during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, which es-

sentially shut down college athletics in mid-March. "Right from the

beginning of this, as the leader of the football program, I came to the

realization that one of two things was going to happen: Either this is

going to get really bad and we're not going to have football and no-

body's going to care because our nation's health and our kids' health is

far more important than football," Frost told the Journal Star and one

other media outlet. "And scenario two was this blows over, this

passes, this isn't as bad as people think, and we have football.

Utah transfer Both Gach announced his five finalists on Twitter Monday.

The Jays were among that group. The 6-foot-6 wing, who spent his first

two collegiate seasons with the Utes, did declare for the NBA draft back

in April. But he entered the transfer portal last month. Now he's consid-

ering transferring to Creighton. And Maryland, Auburn, Minnesota and

Iowa State. Gach is from Austin, Minn., though he played his final sea-

son of high school ball at Arizona Compass Academy in Phoenix. He

was a four-star prospect in the 2018 class, according to 247Sports and

Rivals. At Utah this past season, Gach averaged 10.7 points and 3.6

rebounds per game at Utah, shooting 39.7% from the floor and re-

cording a 1-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio. He finished in double figures

in three of his final four outings last year, a stretch that included a 28-

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