SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) — Officials say Big Ox Energy will stop paying motel bills next week for South Sioux City residents displaced by sewer odor.

The renewable energy company’s spokesman, Evan Zeppos, on Wednesday said Big Ox is working with the residents on individual remediation plans. The company has been covering the bills since late October.

As many as two dozen residents were originally displaced. As of last week a dozen remained at motels or at the homes of friends and family.

The source of the hydrogen sulfide that caused the smell in the homes is still being investigated. Last week Big Ox Energy released a report that pointed at plumbing issues in the majority of the homes instead of discharges from the Big Ox plant.

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha police chief says the shooting of a man who’d shot an officer was justified.

Chief Todd Schmaderer (SHMAH’-dur) said in a news release Tuesday that the shooting by Officers Jill Schillerberg, who was wounded in her lower left leg, and Matthew Skradski was in direct response to the actions of 20-year-old Monroe Evans III.

Evans was hospitalized after Monday afternoon’s incident several blocks west of downtown Omaha.

The officers told members of an internal investigation that Evans matched the description of a man reported to have been looking in windows. They say he refused orders to take his hands out of his sweatshirt pockets and eventually pulled out a handgun and fired once, hitting Schillerberg. She fired back once and Skradski fired 11 times.

O’NEILL, Neb. (AP) — A 38-year-old O’Neill man has been given 75 years to life in prison for killing his wife.

Court records say Eduardo Barajas Quintero was sentenced Monday. He’d pleaded no contest to a charge of second-degree murder.

Prosecutors say he fatally stabbed 37-year-old Guadalupe Verdin Quintero on Feb. 20. A Nebraska State Patrol investigator said in an arrest warrant affidavit that Eduardo Quintero told him that he stabbed his wife because he suspected she was having an affair with another man. Quintero said he used a different knife to cut his own wrists.

Investigators counted 34 stab wounds on the body of Guadalupe Quintero.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man has been imprisoned for sexually assaulting a teenage girl he met when he was a Cub Scouts den father.

40-year-old Matthew Towle was sentenced Tuesday to 13 to 25 years in prison. Towle had pleaded no contest to charges of sexual assault and pornography possession. He was credited with 340 days already served.

Lincoln police say Towle met the 15-year-old girl at a Cub Scouts summer camp in 2015. The two later exchanged sexual texts and Facebook messages. Under Nebraska law, people 19 and over cannot have sexual contact with people under 16.

BARNESTON, Neb. (AP) — Gage County authorities say a Barneston man has reported shooting his 25-year-old son during a struggle.

Sheriff Gus Gustafson said Wednesday that deputies sent Tuesday to check a disturbance found Julius Bruner with an abdominal wound. He was flown to a Lincoln hospital and was expected to survive.

Gustafson says Bruner’s 54-year-old father, Delbert Bruner, told deputies he’d sent his wife from the home and went to his bedroom to get away from his son, who he says was being aggressive.

Delbert Bruner reported that he feared he’d be injured, so he pointed a pistol at his son and told him to stop. He says his son continued to advance, so he grabbed one of his arms and the gun fired as they struggled.

Delbert Bruner was released after questioning.