It sounds disgusting but could solve a serious problem. Doctors have found a way to put healthy people’s poop into pills that can cure gut infections.

It is a more practical and less repulsive way to do fecal transplants, or using stool from one person to fix a bacterial imbalance in another.

Canadian researchers extracted the bacteria, packed it in capsules and gave it to patients with severe intestinal infections. All 27 were cured after failing to get better on strong antibiotics.

Doctors think the pills hold great promise. Half a million Americans get these infections each year.

Results were reported Thursday at an infectious diseases conference in San Francisco.

(AP) — A lawyer for death-row inmate Michael Ryan has asked the Nebraska Supreme Court to order a review of how state corrections officials got a lethal injection drug made by a Swiss company.

Nebraska and several other states were forced to buy the drug overseas when the last U.S. manufacturer quit making it in 2010 because of death-penalty opposition from customers.

Defense lawyer Rob Kortus, of the Nebraska Commission of Public Advocacy, questions the quality of sodium thiopental in a court filing. Nebraska bought its supply from a middleman.

Sodium thiopental recently has been banned for export by the European Union and is becoming increasingly difficult to get. It is made in India and China.

(AP) — Seven people have been injured in at least three separate Omaha shootings, including a 2-year-old boy.

Little Da’Marion Devers was treated at Creighton University Medical Center and then released after Wednesday night’s shooting.

Police say he and three teenage girls were inside the house around 10:30 p.m. when someone knocked and then started blasting gunshots through the front door before anyone answered. One of the girls was admitted for observation, another released after treatment and the third girl was treated at the house.

Two men were injured in two other shootings, and another person walked into an Omaha hospital late Wednesday for treatment of a gunshot wound.

No arrests have been reported.

(AP) — A man accused of killing four people in three separate shootings in and around Omaha this summer is not the only one facing charges in the three-week rampage.

Several of Nikko Jenkins’ relatives also face charges, with prosecutors saying Jenkins’ uncle, mother, sister and a cousin all played roles in the ambushes.

Court records show Jenkins’ uncle, Warren Levering, has been charged with first-degree murder and weapons counts in the Aug. 21 shooting death of 33-year-old Andrea Kruger. Prosecutors say that while Jenkins pulled Kruger from her SUV and shot her, Levering helped carry out the carjacking and tried to destroy evidence in the crime.

Jenkins’ sister, Erica Jenkins, faces charges in all four shootings, including first-degree murder and weapons charges in the Aug. 19 killing of 22-year-old Curtis Bradford.

(AP) — The Lincoln Airport Authorities has been awarded a $750,000 grant that could help the airport land service to Atlanta.

The authority says the money would be used to guarantee revenue for possible Delta flights. The money would provide some financial protection for Delta if first-year revenue from the Lincoln-Atlanta flights falls short of expectations.

Airport Authority Executive Director John Wood says the grant will help Lincoln as it continues negotiating with Delta on flight details. Wood says that if the talks are successful, Delta probably would begin the flights in June next year as the airline launches its summer schedule.

(AP) — Two state lawmakers and a national health-policy expert are set to speak about the future of health care in Nebraska.

The University of Nebraska Medical Center is hosting a health-policy meeting on Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon at the Michael F. Sorrell Center for Health Science Education.

The keynote speaker is Alan Weil, executive director of the National Academy for State Health Policy. Nebraska state Sens. Kathy Campbell and Mike Gloor are also scheduled to lead the meeting.

More than 150 health care experts from around the state are meeting to talk about Nebraska’s health care system. Campbell and Gloor are leading a legislative push this year to find ways to control health care costs at the state level while improving quality.

(AP) — A 40-year-old Grand Island man has been given six to eight years in prison for sexually assaulting his two stepdaughters.

The man was sentenced on Monday. The man had pleaded no contest to two counts. Another count was dropped in exchange for the man’s plea.

The Associated Press is not using the man’s name, in order to protect the girls’ privacy.

Prosecutors say the assaults began in 2008. One of the girls is 13 now; the other is 9.

(AP) — A real estate investment firm has bought the Omaha office that houses the FBI field office and agreed to lease it back to the government.

Easterly Patners says it has purchased the 112,196-square-foot building as an investment. It is fully leased to the federal government.

The building that was built in 2009 earned gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, program.

Easterly is a private firm based in Washington D.C. that specializes in U.S. government real estate investments.

(AP) — Prosecutors feel confident they have the evidence to convict an Omaha man charged with killing four people in the weeks after he was released from prison this summer.

They now must prepare for his likely insanity defense and how that might affect prosecutors’ attempt to seek the death penalty.

Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said Wednesday that he would seek the death penalty for 27-year-old Nikko Jenkins, who was ordered Tuesday to stand trial on four counts of first-degree murder and a bevy of weapons counts. Jenkins is accused of shooting four people to death in three separate ambushes carried out in August.

Kleine presented incriminating evidence during Jenkins’ preliminary hearing Tuesday, including police testimony that Jenkins’ DNA was found on a 12-gauge deer slug recovered from one victim’s vehicle.

(AP) — Authorities say more than 55 pounds of marijuana has been found in a vehicle in eastern Nebraska.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says 35-year-old David Costanzo was stopped Wednesday morning on Interstate 80. Officers say Costanzo’s vehicle was stopped on suspicion of following too closely.

A dog on the department’s K-9 unit led to the vehicle being searched. More than 55 pounds of marijuana were found in the rented car’s trunk.

Costanzo was arrested and faces possession with the intent to deliver a controlled substance and no tax stamp. Court records do not list an attorney.