BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — A former Beatrice mayoral candidate is suing the city and its current mayor, claiming he was harassed and intimidated for his 2010 campaign.

Ron Hasley filed the complaint in U.S. District Court Tuesday. He says city officials retaliated against him for running a campaign that was critical of Mayor Dennis Schuster.

Hasley was defeated in the election and Schuster won re-election.

The lawsuit seeks damages for emotional harm, humiliation and inconvenience stemming from income lost on a property that was condemned. Hasley says city inspectors condemned the property in retaliation.

The newspaper says Shuster and other city officials declined to comment.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A Grand Island woman says she’s staying active at 90 by going to her local YMCA three times a week.

Doris Wetzel celebrated her birthday Friday at the YMCA in Grand Island. She says the venue was perfect for the event because she’s been coming there for so many years.

Wetzel suffered a hip injury several years ago and uses a walker to move around. But she still goes to the pool several times a week to keep her body and mind sharp. Wetzel says she attributes her good health to regular exercise.

Robyn Dibbern, an aquatics teacher, says Wetzel is one of the YMCA’s oldest members. She added that senior citizens are using the facility more because they like the camaraderie.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have identified a man found dead on a couch inside an Omaha home.

The Omaha Police Department says 29-year-old Tristan E. Harper was found unresponsive Friday morning in the Benson neighborhood.

Officers had been responding to a report of a shooting a little before 5 a.m. Friday. Homicide investigators found bullet casings at the scene and holes in a nearby home.

Homicide detectives are investigating. No arrests have been reported.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska is suing Lincoln’s police chief in an attempt to get records related to an alleged rape nearly 10 years ago.

The lawsuit was filed Monday in Lancaster County District Court by the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic at Yale Law School and the ACLU of Nebraska.

The lawsuit claims Lincoln police are violating the state’s public records law by refusing to turn over documents from an alleged rape in 2004. A reporter at Slate Magazine requested the records.

Police released a brief public incident report, but said additional information would be investigatory and thus is excluded from public record. Police spokeswoman Katie Flood said Friday their position remains the same.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man has been convicted of selling misbranded meat to the Omaha public school system.

U.S. Attorney Deborah R. Gilg said in a news release Friday that 63-year-old Paul Rosberg, of Wausa (WAH’-sah), was sentenced to 18 months of imprisonment. He also received one year of supervised release and was fined more than $8,000.

Prosecutors say Rosberg supplied about 2,650 pounds of ground beef to the Omaha public school system in October 2011. Rosberg, as owner of Nebraska Finest Meats in Randolph, told officials that the meat was federally inspected.

Officials say the meat was not federally inspected. Federal agents later intercepted all the meat before it was served to students.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has halted an appeal involving a co-op employee who suffered a traumatic brain injury when he fell off a truck’s flatbed.

The court dismissed an appeal by the Aurora Cooperative in a ruling Friday, and sent the case back to a workers’ compensation court.

John Jacobitz of Milligan was injured in August 2010 while cleaning up after a customer appreciation supper. Court records say Jacobitz dropped off a grill in a company shed and was riding back to the event location when he fell off.

A judge ruled that Jacobitz was acting within the scope of his duties when the accident occurred, but had not yet determined his benefits. The high court ruled that the co-op filed its appeal too early.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A court-appointed referee says former Nebraska state Sen. Brenda Council should keep her law license even though she used campaign money to gamble at casinos.

Fremont attorney Thomas Thomsen recommends that the Nebraska Supreme Court suspend Council’s license for one year and place her on probation for another two.

Council was sentenced to three years of probation and fined $500 earlier this year after pleading guilty to a federal wire fraud charge. She also was fined $500 after pleading guilty to two state misdemeanor charges related to her use of campaign money. The former Omaha lawmaker lost her 2012 re-election bid to state Sen. Ernie Chambers.

Thomsen says Council has repaid all of the money taken from her campaign election fund and is undergoing treatment for a gambling addiction.

ATLANTA (AP) — Target says that customers’ encrypted PIN data was removed during the data breach that occurred earlier this month.

The company issued a statement Friday that additional forensic work has shown that encrypted PIN data was removed along with customers’ names and card numbers. But Target says it believes the PIN numbers are still safe because the information was strongly encrypted. It says the PIN can only be decrypted when received by its independent payment processor.

A PIN number is the personal identification code used to make secure transactions on a credit or debit card.

Data connected to about 40 million credit and debit cards used at Target were stolen between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15.

Minneapolis-based Target says it is still in the early stages of investigating the breach.