(AP) — A bitterly divided Congress has plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown as a deadlock over President Barack Obama’s health care law stalled a temporary funding bill, forcing about 800,000 federal workers off the job and suspending all but non-essential government activities.

The shutdown, the first since the winter of 1995-96, closed national parks, museums along the Washington Mall and the U.S. Capitol visitors center. Agencies like NASA and the Environmental Protection Agency will be all but shuttered. People classified as essential government employees — such as air traffic controllers, Border Patrol agents and most food inspectors — will continue to work.

The military will be paid under legislation freshly signed by Obama but paychecks for other federal workers will be withheld until the impasse is broken.

(AP) — Five hikers were killed by a rock slide on a trail in south-central Colorado on Monday, and another was pulled out with injuries and flown to a hospital, authorities said.

The Chaffee (CHAY’-fee) County Sheriff’s Department confirmed the deaths and said recovery would wait until Tuesday to make sure the area is safe.

The slide occurred at about 11 a.m. on the trail to Agnes Vaille (VAYL) falls in the Pike and San Isabel National Forest, an easy day hike about a 2 1/2 hour drive southwest of Denver.

A 13-year-old girl who survived the slide was flown to a hospital in Denver for treatment. There was no immediate identification of the victims.

(AP) — A man who stripped naked within view of wedding guests at a Lincoln church has been cited.

Lincoln police spokeswoman Katie Flood says the incident occurred Saturday outside St. Mary’s Catholic Church across from the state Capitol.

Witnesses told officers a man who wasn’t invited to the wedding pulled up in a pickup and stopped outside the church. He got out with a head of lettuce and said he was going to feed the animals.

Flood says the man got back in the truck, drove 50 yards down the street and stopped before getting out and undressing. She says he’d gotten back into his truck by the time officers arrived.

The man was cited for driving the wrong direction on a one-way street and arrested on suspicion of indecent exposure.

(AP) — Wyoming authorities say a Missouri couple have been arrested in the deaths of their ex-spouses and two children more than 30 years ago.

Officials said Monday that 71-year-old Gerald Uden and 74-year-old Alice Louise Uden of Chadwick, Mo., face first-degree-murder charges in Wyoming.

Gerald Uden is accused of killing his ex-wife, 32-year-old Virginia Uden, and her two children, 12-year-old Richard Uden and 10-year-old Reagan Uden. All disappeared in 1980.

Authorities didn’t say whether Gerald Uden was the children’s father or where the killings occurred.

Alice Uden is accused of killing her ex-husband, 25-year-old Ronald Holtz, who disappeared in 1974 or 1975. Authorities say Holtz’s remains were recently found in an abandoned Wyoming mine.

Gerald and Alice Uden are in custody in Missouri while Wyoming authorities attempt to extradite them.

(AP) — Police say more than $30,000 worth of equipment has been stolen from a fire station in eastern Nebraska.

Omaha police say an external storage unit at an Elkhorn fire station was broken into between Thursday night and early Friday.

Several items were taken, including a thermal imaging camera valued at $6,000.

Authorities are asking the public for any help that may lead to arrests in the case.

(AP) — A prison inmate suspected of robbing a Beatrice bank while on work release says he wasn’t ready for freedom.

Lucius Turner was serving a 10- to 15-year sentence for robbing a Lincoln bank in 2007. Authorities say Turner robbed the Pinnacle Bank branch in Beatrice on Aug. 16. Turner had been assigned to work release and was supposed to be looking for a job that day.

Turner says he knows how to survive in prison or on some mean streets in Omaha, but he floundered when he was given some freedom to go find a job.

The 31-year-old told the Journal Star that he doesn’t “really think I was ready to go back out there.”

(AP) — A 28-year-old man is recovering after being shot in northwest Omaha while he was driving with two young children in the car.

Omaha Police said the shooting happened near 144th and Maple streets — far from the neighborhoods where shootings are common — around 10 p.m. Saturday.

Police say Lafayette Carodine was driving south on 144th Street when a Chevrolet Impala started tailgating him. The shots were fired from the Chevrolet.

Carodine continued south with his 5-year-old and 2-year-old children in the car before crashing near Blondo Street. He fled the car but collapsed nearby.

Carodine was hospitalized but his injury is not believed to be life-threatening.

The children, who were not wounded, are with their mother.

(AP) — A Gretna woman accused of embezzling more than $4 million from the tobacco and candy business where she worked has pleaded guilty to three counts of tax evasion.

The Nebraska Department of Revenue and the Sarpy County attorney opted to pursue the tax evasion charges against 54-year-old Caroline Richardson after her former employer, Colombo Candy and Tobacco Wholesale Co, declined to press charges against her.

Instead, the company has gone after an Iowa casino. In a federal lawsuit, Colombo says Ameristar Casino should have known that Richardson was gambling with ill-gotten money.

In exchange for her pleas, prosecutors dropped three counts of filing a false income tax return.

She faces up to 15 years in prison when she’s sentenced on Dec. 16.

(AP) — A northeast Nebraska man convicted of an attempted felony has been sentenced to three years of probation — and no dating.

Authorities say 21-year-old Jeffrey Hoadley, of Carroll, helped plan the Dec. 5 burglary of an auto parts store, but backed out as he and an accomplice approached the business.

Hoadley was initially charged with burglary, but he pleaded guilty in June to the lesser offense.

On Friday, Judge Mark Johnson sentenced Hoadley to three years’ probation and a 120-day jail term that could be waived if he successfully completes the terms of his probation — including an order not be involved in any romantic relationships during his probation.

In explaining the condition, the judge told Hoadley, “You need to focus on you.”

(AP) — A 29-year-old Lincoln man who was out on parole when prosecutors say he stole a truck and caused a fatal crash has pleaded no contest to three charges in the case.

Jefferson Potter entered the pleas Friday in Douglas County District Court to manslaughter, theft and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.

Police say Potter was speeding while driving a stolen pickup and trailer that collided in June with several other vehicles. Jennifer Siemens, of Bellevue, was a passenger in one of the vehicles hit and died from her injuries.

Police say Potter climbed out of the pickup and fled but was caught and held by witnesses.

He will remain in jail until he’s sentenced on Jan. 7.