FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — Fremont is still struggling to enforce part of its ordinance requiring people to obtain licenses and swear they have legal permission to live in the U.S. before renting homes in the Nebraska city.

Fremont Police Chief Jeff Elliott says nearly 500 rental licenses have been issued to people who applied and paid the $5 fee since the city started the process on April 10.

Only applicants who say they aren’t U.S. citizens are investigated, but none of the 17 people who said they aren’t citizens have been scrutinized.

Fremont lacks an agreement with the federal government, so Elliott says none of the applicants have been investigated.

The attorney who is negotiating that agreement for the city didn’t immediately respond to a message Thursday.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man has died three days after crashing his sport utility vehicle in southeastern Nebraska.

The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office says in a news release that 65-year-old Steven Hyatt died Wednesday at a Lincoln hospital from his injuries.

Investigators say Hyatt was driving the SUV west on a county road Sunday afternoon when his vehicle left the road, hit a tree and rolled. Hyatt, who was not believed to be wearing his seat belt, was thrown from the SUV.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A former Lincoln firefighter has lost his emergency medical technician license after he was found guilty of possessing child pornography.

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services revoked the license of 53-year-old Daniel R. King in May, citing his felony conviction.

King, who also was a former substitute school bus driver for Lincoln Public Schools, was sentenced in November to 90 days in jail and five years of probation. He was required to register as a sex offender for 25 years.

King was charged in January 2013 after police searched his home and found child pornography on a desktop computer and an external hard drive. Before his arrest, King had worked as a firefighter in Lincoln for 22 years and a substitute bus driver since 2009.

 

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln district officials are hoping to acquire more buses and vans so the district no longer has to use taxis to take homeless children to and from school.

Federal law requires that public schools pay transportation costs to get students to and from their home school when they become homeless.

The vans and buses would cost $244,000 to $304,000, which would be offset by savings on transportation costs. Officials would use savings from this year and next year’s budgets to buy the vehicles.

Associate superintendent Liz Standish estimates that the vehicles would pay for themselves over the next seven years.

The purchase proposal is under consideration by the school board.

YORK, Neb. (AP) — No charges will be filed against a former staffer who shot herself in the chin while in the lobby at the state prison in York.

Authorities say 49-year-old Robin Staehr, of York, walked into the prison lobby on May 24, demanding to be let inside. Then she shot herself with a .22-caliber rifle. She was soon captured and taken to a Lincoln hospital.

Staehr had resigned from her job at the women’s prison in 2005.

York County Attorney Candace Dick said that state statutes aren’t applicable in the case and that every effort was being made to ensure that Staehr didn’t pose a threat to anyone else.

Authorities said shortly after the incident that it was believed Staehr was intoxicated that day.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — The Madison County coroner’s office says a man whose body was found in the North Fork of the Elkhorn River drowned.

The coroner’s office said in a news release issued Thursday that 52-year-old Jeffrey Planer, of Norfolk, died of asphyxia by drowning.

The circumstances surrounding Planer’s death are still being investigated. The coroner’s office says toxicology test results won’t be available for a few weeks.

The body was found and recovered on June 20.