OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Some neighbors say Omaha would be breaking a promise if it were to build an outdoor shooting range at the city’s Public Safety Training Center.

Officials say the range is needed so officers can train with rifles in an outdoor environment that simulates job conditions.

Construction of the center was approved in 2000 after a heated public discussion. A condition of the approval barred any outdoor shooting at the site. But officials now are asking the City Council to remove that provision.

The neighbors asked the council at a public hearing Tuesday to not remove the condition. They say that if it is, they want assurances the range would be safe and not too noisy.

The council took no action.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former ultrasound technician accused of fondling patients will serve four to five years in prison.

A judge sentenced Kevin W. Ryan to eight to 10 years in prison, a term cut in half under state law.

Ryan won’t have to register as a sex offender because he wasn’t convicted of a sex crime in connection with the alleged assaults at Midwest Cardiology in September, October and December 2011.

Two women over 50 said Ryan digitally penetrated them during ultrasound exams on veins and arteries in their legs. A 17-year-old patient said he fondled her breasts during a chest exam.

A plea bargain dropped Ryan’s misdemeanor fondling charge and reduced his two first-degree sexual assault counts to one count of second-degree assault.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Classes and other operations are expected to resume Wednesday at Creighton University in Omaha, where a power outage emptied two dorms and forced some class cancellations.

Creighton spokeswoman Cindy Workman says power was restored overnight to all buildings affected by Tuesday’s outage, which started around 10 a.m.

Cots were set up in the university’s Sokol Arena for the 675 students displaced from the two freshman dorms. Students from the Omaha area were asked to just go home for the night.

University officials blamed two failed circuits for the outage.

sarpBELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say the wrong-way driver who was killed in a Bellevue freeway crash was a 61-year-old man from Iowa.

The Sarpy County Sheriff’s Office says the man has been identified as Richard Wilcoxson, of Bedford, Iowa. He died early on Feb. 24 when his sport utility vehicle ran into a semitrailer on the Kennedy Freeway, which also is known as U.S. Highway 75. The truck driver was not injured.

Authorities say the SUV had been spotted earlier heading south in the freeway’s northbound lanes.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police have arrested a man in connection to an August shooting that killed an Omaha teenager.

The Omaha Police Department announced that 26-year-old Marcus Short was arrested Tuesday on charges of first-degree murder and use of a weapon to commit a felony in the death of 19-year-old Garion Johnson.

Police found Johnson with multiple gunshot wounds in north Omaha on August 8. He was taken to a hospital, where he died.

Authorities say Short is being held at the Douglas County Jail.

Court records do not list an attorney who could be reached for comment.

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — A Norfolk man is scheduled to be sentenced in April for forging checks on his grandfather’s closed account.

Prosecutors say 26-year-old Daniel Wetherell also opened accounts at other retailers and services by using his grandfather’s Social Security number. Online court records say Wetherell pleaded no contest Monday to a charge of forgery. His sentencing is set for April 18.

Wetherell also most pay nearly $4,000 in restitution to a Fremont bank branch.