COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — A 58-year-old Columbus man has pleaded no contest to charges he stabbed his wife and initiated a two-hour standoff with police.

Alfredo Santistevan pleaded to second-degree assault and terroristic threats charges.

Court documents say Santistevan’s wife had a knife wound on her hand and swelling of her eye and nose.

Santistevan was arrested after the standoff and taken to a local hospital to be treated for self-inflicted knife wounds. Since his hospital release he has been held at the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Diagnostic and Evaluation Center in Lincoln.

He faces up to 25 years in prison.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A judge has signed off on a $100,000 settlement the city of Omaha will pay to a man who sued the city and several police officers he accused of using excessive force in his 2011 arrest.

The city will pay Robert Wagner $32,000 in damages and $68,000 in legal fees and other costs. U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon signed the order Tuesday.

The videotaped arrest of Wagner in May 2011 outside an Omaha hospital emergency room led to accusations of police brutality.

A hospital security camera captured images of several Omaha police officers pinning down Wagner in the hospital’s parking lot. The video seemed to show one officer kicking him while he was restrained on the ground. Two officers were fired, but both were later reinstated following arbitration.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Work is scheduled to begin next week on Interstate 80 in northwest Lincoln.

The project includes reconstructing the interstate to six lanes and rebuilding the Northwest 48th Street interchange. Work also will be done on the Northwest 56th Street bridge.

The Nebraska Roads Department says motorists can expect nighttime lane closures. The work is expected to be finished in the fall of 2016.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center have received a $10 million grant to study antibiotic-resistant infections linked to implanted devices.

Researcher Ken Bayles says his team is working to find ways to get rid of the staph infection methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, that can form on medical devices before they are implanted in people.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated last year that MRSA kills about 11,000 people annually.

Roughly 1-to-5 percent of implanted devices are infected with bacteria. And if the bacteria can’t be treated with antibiotics, the device has to be removed, so the infection can be treated and then replaced.