(AP) — Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a man charged in the beating death and rape of a 93-year-old Omaha woman.

Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said Friday that he plans to seek the death penalty for 19-year-old Sergio Martinez-Perez.

Martinez-Perez is being held without bond on charges of first-degree murder, first-degree sexual assault and burglary in the attack last month on Louise Sollowin, who died from her injuries three days after the attack.

Police say officers found Martinez-Perez naked and passed out on top of the elderly woman. Authorities believe Martinez-Perez was drunk when he entered the home through an unlocked door.

Authorities say Martinez-Perez is in the country illegally and had been in Omaha working as a roofer at the time of the attack.

(AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the dismissal of a racial discrimination lawsuit by a state employee who said she was offered inferior health insurance because she lives in Omaha.

Sandra Cartwright, a black woman, argued that employees living in certain Omaha and Lincoln ZIP code areas — where some 96 percent of the state’s black employees reside — were given a choice between two health insurance plans that offered inferior coverage to what employees living elsewhere in the state could get.

The state ended the practice in 2009, but said it did so for cost savings, not allegations of discrimination.

On Friday, Nebraska’s high court said Cartwright failed to show that health plans offered to those in Omaha and Lincoln were inferior to plans offered to others.

(AP) — A 21-year-old Columbus man has died in a traffic accident on a rural road in eastern Nebraska’s Colfax County

Cody Black was pronounced dead at the scene on Thursday afternoon.

The Colfax County Attorney’s Office says Black was ejected from his sport utility vehicle after he lost control of it and it rolled down an embankment. Twenty-two-year-old Rico Chavez was a passenger in the SUV. He was taken to Columbus Community Hospital for treatment and then released.

The accident is being investigated.

(AP) — The Nebraska Public Power District’s board has decided against boosting capacity of its nuclear power plant in the southeast corner of the state.

In December the board decided to seek federal permission to raise the Cooper Nuclear Station’s power output by 18 percent, to 946 megawatts from 800. But the board voted Friday to follow a recommendation from NPPD President and CEO Pat Pope to scrap the project.

Pope said the latest, detailed cost estimates for the project pegged it at $409 million, $120 million above an earlier estimate. He said NPPD “most likely would not see sufficient returns to justify that expense.” Pope also cited technical and other issues.

The plant sits along the Missouri River near Brownville, nearly 60 miles south of Omaha.

(AP) — Authorities have arrested two Omaha men in connection with a motel robbery in western Iowa.

The Cass County Sheriff’s Office says the men were arrested early Friday morning following a car chase near Minden. Authorities were able to successfully deploy stop sticks that disabled the men’s vehicle from entering Nebraska.

The car eventually lost control and crashed near Crescent. The men were extricated from the vehicle and transported to area hospitals for treatment.

Authorities say one suspect is accused of displaying a firearm at the America’s Best Value Inn near Atlantic. The suspects’ names have not been released.