(AP) — A Nebraska prison inmate who assaulted a correctional officer earlier this month while being treated at a hospital has died.

The Nebraska Correctional Services Department says Robert Carter had been dealing with significant long-term health problems before he died Tuesday.

The 50-year-old was serving a 30-year sentence for several counts of robbery and for assaulting an officer. He wasn’t projected to be released until 2036.

Officials say Carter stabbed a correctional officer with a butter knife when he was being treated at a Lincoln hospital on Sept. 5.

Carter, who was from the Omaha area, was in the prison’s nursing care unit when he died.

A grand jury will investigate the death because Carter was in state custody.

(AP) — Miss Kansas Theresa Vail says she wants to break the stereotype that women with visible tattoos don’t compete in pageants.

So during the swimsuit portion of the Miss America competition on Tuesday, Vail revealed two tattoos — the Serenity Prayer on her right side and the insignia of the U.S. Army Dental Corps on her left shoulder.

Vail is a 22-year-old senior at Kansas State University. She’s also a member of the Army National Guard who wants to become a military dentist.

Her platform is helping women overcome stereotypes and break barriers.

Given her platform, she wrote on her blog last month: “What a hypocrite I would be if I covered the ink.”

The Miss America pageant is back in Atlantic City, N.J., after a six-year absence. The finale will be Sunday night.

(AP) — A scabies outbreak spread to officers and inmates and forced a deep cleaning with disinfectants at the Hall County Jail in Grand Island.

County corrections director Fred Ruiz on Tuesday told Hall County board members about the health problem. He says it began about three weeks ago and probably was caused by a new prisoner. The outbreak spread to 13 jailers and five other inmates.

Scabies is a skin infection caused by a mite that burrows under a person’s skin and causes intense itching.

The infected inmates were segregated and treated with a medicated cream. The infected officers were sent home and told to see doctors.

Ruiz says only one new scabies case has surfaced in the past eight days at the jail.

(AP) — Firefighters have found the body of an 82-year-old Omaha woman inside a burning house.

The fire was reported about 6:30 a.m. Wednesday in central Omaha, and fire officials say it was under control by 6:45 a.m. The cause is being investigated.

Authorities haven’t release the woman’s name. Reid Jacobson told the Omaha World-Herald that his mother, Helen Jacobson, lived alone at the house.

An autopsy has been ordered.

(AP) — A federal appeals court has reversed a Nebraska court’s ruling throwing out evidence from what it said was an improper search of a car by Omaha police that turned up drugs and nearly $2,000 in cash.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday also reversed the suppression of statements 36-year-old Shawn Morgan made to police confessing to being a drug dealer.

Court records show that when Omaha police approached Morgan’s car in a grocery store parking lot on April 17, 2012, he reached under his seat and did not immediately raise his hands when ordered to do so.

A lower court found that officers conducted an improper search of the car after handcuffing Morgan, but the appeals court said Tuesday that there was nothing improper about the search.

(AP) — A northwest Iowa woman is set to stand trial in connection with a January car crash that killed a Nebraska woman and her granddaughter.

The trial for 28-year-old Heather Reisdorph, of Sioux City, is scheduled Thursday in Dakota County Court.

Reisdorph is charged with two counts of misdemeanor motor vehicle homicide.

Authorities say Reisdorph’s vehicle was traveling on U.S. Highway 77 near Dakota City when it rear-ended a car driven by 57-year-old Patricia Oldenburg, of Homer, Neb. The impact pushed Oldenburg’s car into oncoming traffic and another vehicle struck it.

Oldenburg and her 3-year-old granddaughter died from their injuries.