OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Eastern Nebraska officials have identified a woman killed in a head-on crash in Douglas County.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says 59-year-old Tammi Croy died in the Friday afternoon crash near 245th and Q streets southwest of Omaha. Investigators say Croy was driving a car westbound on Q Street when she crossed the center line and hit a westbound dump truck head-on. Croy was pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver of the truck, which overturned, was not injured.

A hazardous materials team was called to clean up diesel fuel spilled by the truck.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Custom-designed outdoor climbing structures are among plans for improvements at the Children’s Museum in downtown Lincoln.

A science center also was included in the plans shared with the Nebraska Capitol Environs Commission earlier this week. The museum sits in the shadow of the Capitol, near Centennial Mall, so officials for the museum and its architectural firm sought the commission’s blessing.

“There’s a number of ways we can accomplish what the museum would like to do, as well as be a very sensitive neighbor to Centennial Mall,” DLR Group architect John Badami said.

The commission unanimously voted its endorsement of the plans, the Lincoln Journal Star reported .

The climbing structures could rise 35 feet (10.7 meters) into the air and would light up at night. They’d be made of bent plywood or rotationally molded plastic climbing pads suspended on cables from steel pipes and would be located in a former parking area east of the museum.

The designer, Luckey Climbers, says it offers adventures while challenging kids to solve problems and think spatially.

Museum executive director Tara Knuth and DLR’s Badami architect told the commission the climbing structures would comprise a unique draw for the Children’s Museum. In addition, there would be outdoor space in the play area for camps, fundraisers and other activities in and around the climbing structures, Badami said.

Depending on fundraising, the science center for kids ages 8 to 12 would be built in a former storage area in a lower museum level.

Museum officials intend to begin a fundraising campaign for the project by midsummer.

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — A woman is accused of embezzling nearly $250,000 from her employer in Hastings.

Adams County Court records say 34-year-old Crystal Maser is charged with felony theft. Her attorney didn’t immediately return a call Friday from The Associated Press.

The records say Maser used a Dutton-Lainson Co. credit card to buy items for herself and pay her bills. The items included clothing, jewelry and furniture.

Her next court hearing is scheduled for Nov. 30. She lives in Hastings.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha landlord accused of bribing an Omaha Housing Authority inspector has been fined $20,000 after making a plea agreement with federal prosecutors.

The Omaha World-Herald reports that Lafi Jafari also was ordered at his sentencing Thursday in U.S. District Court to serve a year of probation. Prosecutors dropped the bribery charge in exchange for Jafari pleading guilty to lying to a federal investigator.

He’d acknowledged in his plea agreement that he gave the inspector $2,100 in cash from 2012 to 2014. Over roughly the same period Jafari received federal rent payments of about $2.1 million as part of Jafari’s participation in a federal housing subsidy program.

Prosecutors have said Jafari offered the cash so housing authority employees would steer prospective tenants his way.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has rejected the latest appeal of a man serving life in prison for the 1995 killing of an Omaha police officer.

Kevin Allen appealed after a lower court rejected his motion for post-conviction relief without an evidentiary hearing. In the motion, Allen argued, among other things, that former crime scene investigator David Kofoed (KO’-fode) — who was convicted of planting blood evidence in another case in 2006 — might have also tampered with evidence in his case.

On Friday, the state’s high court ruled that testimony showed Kofoed did not play a major role in gathering evidence in Allen’s case.

Allen was convicted of first-degree murder in the Aug. 20, 1995, murder of 24-year-old Officer Jimmy Wilson Jr. Wilson was fatally shot as he checked the license plate on a van he had stopped.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Douglas County authorities in eastern Nebraska say one person has died in a crash involving a dump truck and a car near the Elkhorn River.

The crash happened Friday afternoon near 245th and Q streets. Officials say the truck and the car were traveling in opposite directions when they collided, killing a woman.

The victim’s name had not been released by late Friday afternoon.

Officials say the dump truck driver did not suffer any serious injuries.

Investigation into the crash continues.