GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Court records say a Grand Island woman accused of letting children stand on the running boards of moving vehicle intends to rely on an insanity defense.

The attorney for 42-year-old Stephanie Wedige filed notice of the defense Wednesday in Hall County District Court. Her trial is scheduled to begin the week of Dec. 4.

Police say all six children fell off when Wedige stopped her sport utility vehicle Nov. 11 in a church parking lot. Police say two of the children were hospitalized and the four others were not injured.

Wedige’s already pleaded not guilty to two felony counts of negligent child abuse causing injury, four misdemeanor counts of negligent child abuse causing no injury and one count of willful reckless driving.

SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have arrested the husband of a woman who was fatally shot at a police station parking lot in northeast Nebraska.

South Sioux City police say 41-year-old Beisheng Chen, of South Sioux City, has been charged with murder and two related crimes in the slaying of 33-year-old Mei Huang. Police say she died in a Sioux City, Iowa, hospital less than three hours after she was shot Wednesday morning in the east lot at the South Sioux City Law Enforcement Center.

Beisheng Chen was found in the area and taken into custody. Online court records don’t yet list the name of an attorney who could comment for him.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — One person has been hospitalized after a fire that damaged a house in southwest Lincoln.

The blaze was reported around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, and fire officials say it was ignited by a discarded cigarette. The flames were mainly contained to the living room.

The name of the injured person hasn’t been released.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An African elephant brought to Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo last year as part of a controversial relocation has died.

The zoo says in a news release that the male elephant named Warren died Thursday morning after being anesthetized to treat a cracked tusk.

The release says that during the procedure, Warren’s breathing slowed, then stopped. Emergency efforts failed to revive the elephant — estimated to be 8 or 9 years old.

The zoo says a necropsy will be performed.

Warren was one of 17 elephants flown from Swaziland to the U.S. in early 2016 and placed in the Omaha zoo and those in Wichita, Kansas, and Dallas.

Animal rights group Friends of Animals, which opposes elephants being kept in zoos, unsuccessfully sued to stop the importation of the elephants.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha Police Department says it will have a new partner in fighting crime: the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Omaha officials announced Thursday an agreement that will see the police department break from Douglas County for forensic crime lab services and instead rely on UNMC for crime lab needs.

Police Chief Todd Schmaderer and Mayor Jean Stothert have long advocated for independent crime labs. UNMC will provide drug testing and DNA testing.

The agreement will take effect Oct. 1 if approved by the Omaha City Council. That vote is expected on Sept. 26.

Schmaderer says the new system will allow for faster crime test results. He says his department will still sometimes use the Nebraska State Patrol lab, but most of its work will move to UNMC.