(AP) — A Lincoln man has been sentenced to 240 days in jail for assault and threatening two women with a machete.

43-year-old Clarence Edwards II was sentenced Monday in Lancaster County District Court.

Police say Edwards punched a 21-year-old woman in the face during a parking lot confrontation. The woman told police that when she went to an apartment Edwards shared with another woman to tell her what happened, Edwards came at both the women with a machete. Police say the women barricaded themselves in a bedroom, and that Edwards hacked at the bedroom door with the machete and threatened to kill then on Jan. 16.

Edward received credit for 120 days already served, meaning he must serve another week in jail.

(AP) — Officials in Columbus say it’s too early to know whether the city will replace a downtown Civil War memorial smashed in last weekend’s storm.

High winds Saturday night toppled a tree in the downtown Frankfort Square, which smashed the Civil War memorial in the middle of the square on its way down.

City officials are meeting with property damage experts later this week and have lots of other work to be done to clean up the wreckage from the storm.

Public Property Director Doug Moore says the city hopes to have the tree removed Tuesday, but that it’s too early to know when or how much it would cost to restore the monument.

(AP)-Scottsbluff city leaders are considering a proposal to build a meatpacking plant in the western Nebraska city.

During a City Council meeting Monday, Keith DeHaan with Future Food Energy LLC outlined the company’s proposal to buy 43 acres of city land.

The company has already signed a letter of intent to buy the property in the Immigrant Trails Subdivision along state Highway 26. The company is now hoping the city will approve the sale, with Future Food Energy offering $10,000 per acre.

The Wyoming-based company is seeking to construct a 358,000-square-foot plant that would initially employ 250 to 400 workers to process 300,000 to 375,000 cattle per year.

The facility would use reclaimed heat in a process that DeHaan says eliminates the odor commonly associated with meat-packing facilities.

(AP) — A Lincoln bus driver who was fired after a video showed him beating a rider has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor assault.

43-year-old Troy Fischer entered his plea Tuesday during a brief court hearing.

The StarTran Bus Service suspended Fischer for two days and then fired him after a disciplinary hearing. He also was charged with misdemeanor assault.

The case stems from a March 23 incident that was recorded on surveillance video from the bus.

The video showed Fischer appearing to punch a 40-year-old rider more than a dozen times before pushing him off the bus.

The Douglas County Attorney’s Office says it won’t file criminal charges against a woman shot by an Omaha police officer after she threatened police.

Charges won’t be filed against 52-year-old Paula K. Moen.

An officer shot Moen on May 9 at her mother’s home after officers say she threatened them with a knife and 12-gauge flare gun.

Moen, who received a chest wound, has been released from a hospital.

She had faced possible charges of assaulting a police officer and use of a weapon to commit a felony.

Police encountered Moen after a responding to a report of loud music.

Authorities say a man suspected of abducting two girls from an Iowa bus stop has been found dead, and one of the girls is still missing.

The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation says 42-year-old Michael Klunder was found dead Monday night at a rural property near Dayton, about 60 miles north of Des Moines. His cause of death hasn’t been released.

Klunder is on Iowa’s sex offenders list, and he served several years in prison on kidnapping charges.

He’s accused of abducting a 15-year-old and 12-year-old on Monday. The 12-year-old escaped and told authorities they’d been taken to an agricultural facility after accepting a ride from a stranger.

A large search is underway for 15-year-old Kathlynn Shepard. Authorities released her name and photo in an effort to find her alive.

The state medical examiner’s office has revised the death toll from a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb to 24 people, including nine children.

Spokeswoman Amy Elliott said Tuesday morning that she believes some victims were counted twice in the early chaos of the storm. Authorities said initially that as many as 51 people were dead, including 20 children.

Elliott says nine children are confirmed dead, including seven who were pulled from the wreckage of an elementary school in Moore, 10 miles south of Oklahoma City.

Teams are continuing to search the shattered community after the Monday afternoon tornado.

(AP)-A public defender in central Nebraska has suffered a heart attack, leading a judge to declare a mistrial in an assault case.

Adams County Public Defender Art Toogood had a heart attack over the weekend. He is now a hospital in Lincoln. His family as asked hospital staff not to release information about his condition.

Toogood’s absence in Adams County District Court on Monday morning forced Judge Stephen Illingworth to declare a mistrial in the case against 30-year-old John Espino, which began Thursday and was expected to conclude Monday.

Espino has been accused of hitting his pregnant girlfriend in the stomach with a board in August 2011.

Prosecutors can still try the case later.

Burglars made a bold move in southeast Nebraska, targeting a small-town police department.

The department in Friend — about 30 miles southwest of Lincoln — was burglarized last week.

Police have arrested a 20-year-old Strang man and two juveniles in the case.

Investigators say several pieces of equipment were stolen, including badges, ballistic vests, night-vision goggles, a police radio and boxes of ammunition.

Investigators found many of the stolen items within a day of the burglary.