LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man says he’s not dead, despite what the Social Security Administration has said.

Chuck Zellers said he learned the sad news in March after his Social Security deposit was removed from his bank account while he and his wife, Alice, were in Ajo (AH’-hoh), Arizona. They drove to Phoenix and talked to a woman at the Social Security office. She checked her computer and then told him, “‘Oh, by golly, you are dead.'” He laughed.

She told Zellers that somehow, someone or something mistakenly told the government that Zellers had died.

So he’s spent the past few weeks going from agency to agency, business to business, proving with various documents that Charles Richard Zellers II, of Lincoln, Nebraska, is not dead yet.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Two Omaha agencies have collaborated to create a $31 million village to house older adults, troubled kids and mothers seeking treatment for substance abuse.

An open house Thursday evening will mark the completion of the North Omaha Human Services Intergenerational Campus established by Heartland Family Service and Holy Name Housing Corporation.

The campus features dormitories for troubled kids, cottages for older adults and nearby housing that allows mothers to live with their children while getting treatment for addiction. Residents receive supplemental services, such a meals and medical care.

Sister Marilyn Ross, the retired executive director of Holy Name Housing who helped organize the project, says the project was initiated out of the need to stabilize low-income families in north Omaha.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A former village board chairman is scheduled to be sentenced next month for child enticement.

Court records say 56-year-old Steven Klingelhoefer pleaded guilty to enticement with an electronic communication device and to possession of child pornography. He entered the pleas after prosecutors lowered the enticement charge. His sentencing is set for June 21.

He resigned in November as chairman of the Amherst Village Board.

Prosecutors say Klingelhoefer tried to arrange a sexual encounter with a 15-year-old girl in Lincoln, where he was arrested on Nov. 20. Authorities say the person he was exchanging emails and text messages with was actually an undercover officer working for the Nebraska attorney general’s office.

SCHUYLER, Neb. (AP) — A former bank employee who faked loans to steal from a bank branch in Schuyler has been given probation and been ordered to pay restitution.

Online court records say 38-year-old Diana Sanchez was sentenced Wednesday to 24 months of probation and 100 hours of community service. She’d pleaded no contest to four counts of theft after prosecutors dropped five more counts.

Prosecutors say Sanchez accessed customer information at the Pinnacle Bank branch to create and process loan checks ranging from about $5,000 to $30,000. Court documents say she cashed the checks at the bank and pocketed the money. Documents say the loans totaled nearly $157,000.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha Public Power District is evaluating its long-term options for generating electricity.

The utility’s board meets Thursday and plans to discuss its options, which might include changing the mix of coal, nuclear, natural gas and wind power plants it relies on.

OPPD spends about $650 million a year on generating power, and that represents a little over half of its budget. So it wants a cost-effective mix.

But the utility also has to make sure it’s mix of power plants can comply with environmental rules and restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions.

OPPD typically gets about 30 percent of its power from its Fort Calhoun nuclear plant. The utility spent more than $100 million to repair Fort Calhoun after flooding and a small fire caused damage in 2011.

NORTH LOUP, Neb. (AP) — A 24-year-old North Loup woman has been accused of abusing her 4-week-old daughter.

Online court records say Jocelyn Nordin is charged with intentional child abuse. The records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for her. A home phone number for Nordin could not be found.

Valley County prosecutors say Nordin called 911 last week and reported that her baby wasn’t breathing. The baby eventually was flown to an Omaha hospital. Doctors say the infant had suffered a broken skull, bleeding in the brain and damage to her eyes.

Authorities say the baby had been dropped on her head twice and had been violently shaken.

SCHUYLER, Neb. (AP) — A Schuyler man has been given 30 to 40 years in prison for stabbing a woman.

Forty-three-year-old Amauri Herrera-Alvarez was sentenced Wednesday in Colfax County District Court. He’d pleaded no contest to a charge of attempted murder after prosecutors dropped a weapons charge. He was given credit for 555 days already served.

Prosecutors say the incident was discovered Nov. 2, 2014, outside a Schuyler apartment building. An officer cut a rope Herrera-Alvarez was using to hang himself from a tree. Inside the building, they found the injured woman, who was in a relationship with Herrera-Alvarez.

Herrera-Alvarez intended to plead not guilty by reason of insanity but eventually was found competent to stand trial.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Three states are getting ready for the possible return of grizzly bear hunting in the Rocky Mountains for the first time in decades.

The Obama administration has proposed lifting protections for grizzlies around Yellowstone National Park. The bears have been considered a threatened species since 1975, but wildlife officials say their population has sufficiently recovered.

Before the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service makes a final decision by March 2017, it is requiring Wyoming, Montana and Idaho to outline what their grizzly bear hunting seasons would look like.

The three states are coordinating their plans. Montana releases an outline for its hunting regulations on Thursday.

Environmental groups say federal protections should remain until the state plans are thoroughly reviewed, and there should be a transitional period before hunting the iconic species is considered.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — State psychiatric experts say an Omaha man is competent to face a death-penalty hearing for killing four people just weeks after he left prison.

The Lincoln Regional Center doctors issued their declaration Wednesday regarding Nikko Jenkins. Jenkins was convicted in 2014 of first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of four people in Omaha over a 10-day period in August 2013. It will be up to a district court judge to set a competency hearing that will determine whether Jenkins can understand the death-penalty proceedings and help his lawyer.

A defense psychiatrist has testified at hearings that Jenkins suffers from schizophrenia and perhaps a bipolar disorder, while state psychiatrists have testified that Jenkins is faking mental illness.