OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former doctor accused of killing four people with ties to an Omaha medical school has asked to be moved out of Douglas County jail while he awaits trial because his solitary confinement in endangering his mental health.

Attorneys for Anthony Garcia, of Terre Haute, Indiana, filed the motion Monday, seeking to have Garcia moved to a halfway house or to a state psychiatric hospital in Lincoln.

Garcia is charged with first-degree murder in the 2008 deaths of the 11-year-old son of Creighton University pathologist William Hunter and the family’s housekeeper, as well as the May 2013 deaths of Creighton pathologist Roger Brumback and his wife.

Authorities say Garcia was motivated by revenge for being fired from Creighton’s pathology department in 2001. He has pleaded not guilty.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 27-year-old Lincoln man has been imprisoned for injuring his 5-month-old daughter.

Online court records say Andrew Vossen was sentenced on Monday to two to four years. Vossen had pleaded no contest and was convicted of intentional child abuse.

Court records say Vossen took the baby to a doctor in February. An X-ray showed that several of her ribs had been broken. The arrest affidavit says Vossen told an investigator that he’d accidentally dropped the baby a few weeks earlier. A doctor told police the injuries weren’t accidental.

YORK, Neb. (AP) — A September trial has been scheduled for a man accused of having a sexual relationship with an inmate at the women’s prison in York.

Michael Weichman, of Bradshaw, pleaded not guilty on Monday to a charge of sexually assaulting an inmate. The 47-year-old Weichman was a staff maintenance employee at the prison. He resigned last month.

Investigators say another inmate tipped prison officials that Weichman and the other inmate were having sex. Under Nebraska law, any prison or jail worker who has sex with an inmate has committed sexual assault.

A court document says Weichman described his relationship with the inmate as playful but not sexual. She’d been assigned to do maintenance work while serving time for child abuse resulting in death.

PILGER, Neb. (AP) — Rock star Bret Michaels and his band have rolled up their sleeves to help clean up a tornado-damaged town in northeast Nebraska and sign autographs for residents and other volunteers.

Michaels and company rolled into Pilger on Monday afternoon, a week after an EF4 tornado destroyed or damaged more than half of it. Two people were killed.

Stanton County Sheriff Mike Unger took Michaels, his band and crew into the heavily damaged Pilger Middle School. The former frontman of Poison said that, “Thinking about the children in this town, it takes your breath away.”

Michaels and the others then started cleanup work on the home of Tim and Betty Maly. Besides the basement, not much was left.

A traffic stop for speeding on Interstate 80 in Seward County over the weekend led to the seizure of 58.6 lbs. of cocaine and two arrests.

Just before 7:30 a.m., Saturday, June 21, a Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) trooper stopped an eastbound 2014 Ford Expedition for speeding in Seward County.  The trooper observed several suspicious packages in the rear passenger compartment of the vehicle. A probable cause search led to the seizure of 58.6 lbs. of cocaine. Seventeen packages of cocaine were located throughout the vehicle. The cocaine has an estimated street value of $1,000,000.

The driver of the vehicle, 39-year-old Sonia Hernandez, of Norwalk, Calif., and a passenger in the vehicle,  21-year-old Freddy Hernandez Jr., of Dry Fork, Va., were both lodged in the Seward County Jail on each on a charge of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — The Gage County jail in southeast Nebraska is testing a system that its creators say will reduce inmate suicides.

The system is called AliveLock and was developed by Pacific Place Enterprises LLC, which is based in Lincoln.

A special bracelet placed on an inmate wirelessly transmits vital signs to a central location. An alarm is triggered and jailers are notified if the inmate’s vital signs become unstable.

The device doesn’t prevent suicide attempts, but Gage County Sheriff Millard “Gus” Gustafson says the alarm will give jailers the precious seconds that could mean the difference between life and death for the inmate.