LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A federal trial has been scheduled in Nebraska for a man suspected of being the “AK-47 bandit,” who investigators believe robbed banks in five states.

Court records show Richard Gathercole pleaded not guilty last week to robbery and other charges in U.S. District Court. Gathercole is accused of stealing more than $90,000 in August 2014 from a bank in Nebraska City, which sits about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Omaha. His trial is set to begin Oct. 23 in Lincoln.

FBI officials believe the bandit carried an AK-47 while robbing banks in California, Idaho, Iowa, Nebraska and Washington.

Gathercole, of Montana, was arrested near Lexington, Nebraska, after a sheriff’s deputy spotted a pickup truck that Kansas authorities had reported stolen by a man who fired at a state trooper.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police say one person has died and six people have been injured in a collision involving five vehicles in east Lincoln.

The crash was reported a little before 10 a.m. Wednesday near the Lancaster Event Center. Police say they would not release the name of the person killed Wednesday afternoon as officers worked with the family and Lincoln Public Schools to coordinate the release.

The names of others involved and other details about the crash have not been released.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha father has been charged after police say he killed his newborn son.

Omaha police say medics were called to a southeast Omaha house Friday afternoon for a report of an unresponsive infant. Police say 2-month-old Sebastian Valadez was revived and remained in a hospital pediatric intensive care unit until he died Sunday night. Investigators suspect the baby had been violently shaken.

Police say the baby’s father, 18-year-old Missael Valadez, was caring for the infant when he was hurt.

Valadez is now charged with intentional child abuse resulting in death. He remains jailed on $250,000 bail.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska-based bank has increased security at all its branches in the wake of several Lincoln bank robberies.

Pinnacle Bank branches in Lincoln have been the targets of bank robbers five times in the past year. Lincoln police say there have also been nine other bank robberies in the city in the past two years.

A spokeswoman for the bank says Pinnacle is adding controlled access at all 12 of its Lincoln branches and is using armed guards at some locations until it can complete the process. Bank doors will be locked and staff will have to physically let in customers.

The FBI reports the surge in Nebraska bank heists comes as bank robberies rose nationally by about 5 percent between 2015 and 2016.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — In a split decision, a federal appeals panel has sided with the city of Lincoln in a civil rights lawsuit by a man who was arrested and convicted of trespassing for handing out religious leaflets outside an arena on public land.

Larry Ball appealed last year after a federal court in Lincoln granted the city’s request for summary judgment, ending Ball’s lawsuit.

The 80-year-old Ball sued after being found guilty in 2015 of two misdemeanor trespassing counts and fined $100. Ball maintains the area in front of the Pinnacle Bank Arena entrance is for public use and that the city violated his free-speech rights.

But two of a panel of three 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges on Tuesday agreed that the city’s policy restricting use of the plaza is reasonable.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A woman has been sent to federal prison for health care fraud in Nebraska.

Chandra Wrightsell, who ran Evol Consulting, was sentenced Tuesday in Lincoln to 18 months behind bars and was told to pay nearly $106,000 in restitution.

Court records say that between December 2011 and July 2014, the 47-year-old Wrightsell submitted nearly 1,200 false claims to Nebraska Medicaid for her mental health and substance abuse treatment company.

It’s her second federal sentence in 10 years. In 2007 Wrightsell was sentenced to 15 months for embezzling more than $101,000 while working as vice president of marketing for First National Bank of Omaha.