OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Douglas County prosecutor has announced he’s turning over the criminal cases against two former Omaha police officers charged in connection with the death of a mentally ill man to the Nebraska attorney general.

County Attorney Don Kleine made the announcement in a written statement Friday, citing that it was the state attorney general’s office that oversaw a grand jury process last month. That grand jury concluded that assault charges are warranted against the former officers in the June stun gun-related death of 29-year-old Zachary Bearheels.

Police video shows then-Officer Scotty Payne using a stun gun repeatedly on Bearheels, and then-Officer Ryan McClarty punching Bearheels outside an Omaha convenience store after Bearheels was on the ground.

Kleine said Friday that because the attorney general’s case saw the grand jury recommend the same charges Kleine had previously filed, it would be more efficient for the attorney general’s office to prosecute the cases.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — Sarpy County has filed a second lawsuit challenging an annexation by Gretna that doubles the city’s land area.

The county on Thursday filed the lawsuit, which claims the annexation is illegal because it includes agricultural land. That would violate a state law allowing cities to annex only suburban or urban land.

The suit also notes that if the annexation of agricultural land isn’t allowed, that would mean Gretna violated a requirement that annexed land by contiguous or adjacent to the incorporated boundaries.

The county dropped its initial lawsuit filed in October after Gretna introduced amendments to its annexation ordinance, but county officials found the changes didn’t meet their concerns.

The annexed land is home to at least 2,800 people and businesses.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The city of Council Bluffs is suing the federal government to stop a Native American tribe from building a casino just seven miles away in Carter Lake.

City attorney Richard Wade says in U.S. District Court documents that a Ponca Tribe of Nebraska casino would compete with state-licensed casinos in Council Bluffs and cut into millions of dollars in fees, taxes and charitable contributions that benefit the city’s residents.

The National Indian Gaming Commission and the U.S. Interior Department cleared the way for the tribe’s casino plan in November.

Wade claims in documents filed Wednesday that federal laws prohibit a casino on the tribe’s Carter Lake land.

The casino, to include 2,000 slot machines and a 150-room hotel, would create about 1,500 jobs.

A Ponca tribe spokesman didn’t immediately respond to a message.

LA VISTA, Neb. (AP) — The driver of a loaded concrete truck that tipped onto a car near Omaha, killing two people, has been charged with two counts of felony motor vehicle homicide.

20-year-old Austin Holloway, of Fremont, turned himself in Friday evening and was booked into the Sarpy County Jail.

In filing the charges, the Sarpy County Attorney’s Office says Holloway was driving recklessly and too fast on Oct. 25 in La Vista when the fatal crash occurred.

Investigators say Holloway was driving east on Giles Road in La Vista when he made a sharp right turn. That called the loaded concrete truck to tip and land on a northbound car stopped at a traffic light, killing driver Michael Dearden and passenger Phillip Hertel, both 23.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A judge has set bail at $150,000 for a Lincoln High School girls basketball coach and staffer accused of sexually assaulting a student in a classroom last week.

Bail was set Friday for33-year-old Marcus Perry, who has been paid administrative leave since Tuesday and was arrested Thursday at his home on suspicion of first-degree sexual assault of a student.

Police say the 17-year-old student told school officials and officers that Perry touched her genitals in an in-school suspension room on Dec. 7. Officials say in a written statement that the incident did not involve a member of the basketball team.

It was not clear Saturday whether Perry yet had an attorney.

BOYS TOWN, Neb. (AP) — Boys Town celebrated 100 years of caring for children this month.

The famous facility filled a time capsule with letters, artwork, commemorative objects, a yearbook and other items to mark the occasion. It is slated to be opened 100 years from now.

The facility was started in Omaha in 1917 by Father Edward Flanagan as an orphanage for troubled boys. It was made famous in the 1938 movie starring Spencer Tracey and Mickey Rooney.

Today, Boys Town is a national organization that operates sites around the country and serves girls and families as well as boys.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A fifth-grader from Nebraska has won a national contest to design a poster reminding people to lock up household poisons.

The Nebraska Regional Poison Center says Daisy Villatoro won the contest’s middle division for third, fourth and fifth graders.

Villatoro is a student at Knickrehm Elementary in Grand Island, Nebraska.

Her artwork will be featured on the national poster for poison prevention week in March. Her poster encouraged people to “Bee Smart” and lock up household poisons where children can’t get them.