(AP) — A Lincoln attorney has announced plans to run for the Nebraska Legislature.

Adam Morfeld will file state campaign papers to seek the seat held by state Sen. Danielle Conrad, of Lincoln. Conrad is ineligible to run in 2014 because of term limits.

Morfeld is the executive director of Nebraskans for Civic Reform. He says he plans to focus his campaign on education, job-training programs and workforce development.

Morfeld earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He serves of the boards of the Daily Nebraskan student newspaper, the veterans advocacy group Boot Straps and Beyond, and the University of Nebraska College of Law Young Alumni Council.

The legislative district includes parts of downtown and north Lincoln, including the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus.

 

(AP) — Authorities say a California man has pleaded guilty in a conspiracy to steal beef products from a Nebraska facility.

Federal prosecutors say Artak Medjbarian of Sherman Oaks, Calif., is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 7. The 33-year-old pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to steal $163,000 worth of beef products from a Nebraska Beef facility in Omaha.

Prosecutors say Medjbarian schemed with other people by preparing documents in their effort to imitate legitimate freight haulers. The federal indictment says Medjbarian used the identity of a legitimate trucking company, but freight brokers raised questions about the documents and contacted the company.

He was arrested on Jan. 27 last year when he showed up at Nebraska Beef pretending to have the transport authority from the legitimate company.

(AP) — Authorities say a roofer has been killed in 30-foot fall in downtown Omaha.

Police officer James Shade says the accident occurred around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. Shade says the man was working on a rooftop when he went over the side and fell 30 feet onto the roof of an adjacent building. Shade says the man wasn’t wearing a safety harness.

The man’s name hasn’t been released.

(AP) — Lincoln has been sued over its new ordinance that would ban outdoor donation huts that primarily benefit for-profit companies rather than the charities whose names are on the huts.

The federal lawsuit was filed Monday in Lincoln for Linc-Drop Inc., which is based in the Omaha suburb of La Vista. It names the city and various officials, saying the ordinance scheduled to take effect Aug. 1 is unconstitutional.

Linc-Drop contracts with the local March of Dimes to collect clothing and gives the chapter 10 percent of the huts’ gross revenue.

Lincoln City Attorney Rod Confer declined to comment on the lawsuit.

(AP) — Police have identified the mother killed along with three young sons while crossing a Philadelphia highway that’s notorious for pedestrian deaths.

Police say 28-year-old Samara Selena Banks and her boys were killed by a speeding driver who may have been drag racing Tuesday night.

Banks and her 23-month-old son died at the scene, while her 4-year-old and 7-month-old sons died later at hospitals.

Authorities say her 5-year-old surviving child is in stable condition with bumps and bruises.

Police say the 22-year-old driver of the 2012 Audi was taken in for questioning. No arrests have been made, but police say charges are pending.

Roosevelt Boulevard divides several neighborhoods in north and northeast Philadelphia. The pedestrian deaths have prompted city officials to call for more crosswalks and speed patrols.

(AP) — A recording of a 911 call shows an 8-year-old Ohio girl witnessed her mother’s fatal stabbing just before the perpetrator killed himself.

The girl’s mom, 28-year-old Teresa Nelson, called 911 Tuesday when she saw her boyfriend banging at the door of the home in northwest Ohio.

About five minutes into the call, 22-year-old Justin Douglas Manns broke in.

The newspaper reports Nelson told her daughter to get away before telling the dispatcher she had been stabbed. The line then went dead, and when the dispatcher called back, the girl could be heard sobbing, begging for help and saying she thought her mother was dead.

Police stormed the home shortly afterward and found Nelson and Manns fatally stabbed.