(AP) — A former doctor accused of killing four people with ties to an Omaha medical school that fired him in 2001 now also faces a charge of attempted burglary.

Anthony Garcia appeared in court Thursday because his lawyers unsuccessfully asked a judge to order prosecutors to disclose evidence to the defense more quickly.

Prosecutors said they added the burglary charge because forensic evidence linked the 40-year-old Garcia to an attempted break-in at the home of another Creighton University Medical School professor.

Garcia, of Terra Haute, Ind., is charged with first-degree murder for the 2008 deaths of the 11-year-old son of Creighton University pathologist William Hunter and the family’s housekeeper, as well as the May deaths of Creighton pathologist Roger Brumback and his wife.

Brumback and Hunter had fired Garcia.

(AP) — President Barack Obama says congressional critics of the 3-year-old health care law have become more irresponsible in their attempts to kill it the closer the law comes to full implementation.

Obama on Thursday set out to pitch the law known as “Obamacare,” five days before the start of a six-month sign-up period for millions of uninsured Americans.

House Republicans are inserting provisions that undermine the health care law into a short-term spending measure needed to avoid a government shutdown on Oct. 1 and into legislation that would increase the government’s borrowing ability, which the Treasury says will hit its limit in mid-October.

Obama says, quote, “that’s not going to happen as long as I’m president.” He says critics are, quote, “threatening steps that actually would hurt our entire economy.”

(AP) — Authorities say they’ve arrested a Lincoln man suspected of groping or slapping the backsides of women jogging on city trails.

Twenty-seven-year-old Christopher Jackson faces at least three counts of third-degree sexual assault and one of misdemeanor assault. A Lancaster County jailer said Jackson remained in custody on Thursday. Online court records don’t list the name of Jackson’s attorney.

Lincoln police spokeswoman Katie Flood says three women had reported separate incidents in the past week. They said their attacker would ride up on a bicycle from behind them and would reach out to grab or slap their buttocks.

Officers say they found Jackson just west of the Rock Island Trail after an incident on Tuesday.

Flood says Jackson also is suspected in an attack on a woman running on a trail in February.

(AP) — The FBI says there is no indication that the Navy Yard shooter targeted any specific individuals when he opened fire inside a building, killing 12 people.

Valerie Parlave, head of the FBI’s field office in Washington, said Wednesday during a news conference that investigators are continuing to explore the background and motivations of 34-year-old Aaron Alexis. However, she says Alexis had a well-documented history of mental health issues.

Parlave says Alexis held a delusional belief that he was being controlled by extremely low frequency waves, or ELF waves. Alexis had written “my ELF weapon” on a shotgun he used in the rampage.

Alexis, a former Navy reservist and IT contractor, was killed in a shootout with police.

(AP) — A judge has sentenced a Bellevue man to 90 days in jail and three years of probation for stealing more than $700,000 from his employer.

Douglas County Judge James Gleason sentenced Steven S. Molnar on Tuesday.

Molnar faced up to 20 years in prison after pleading no contest to theft charges, but the judge noted he’d repaid the $768,000 he stole from Pitney Bowes Presort Services, a business that specializes in mail sorting and delivery. Molnar’s probation officer also recommended probation.

Molnar worked as an account manager. He kept some of the money in banks but had $207,000 in cash, which he wrapped in a grocery bag and stuffed behind drywall at his home.

Prosecutors speculated he viewed the money as his retirement fund.

(AP) — A 19-year-old man who acknowledged trying to run down a woman and her boyfriend in Lincoln has been sentenced to prison.

Online court records say Mark Kometscher Jr. was sentenced on Monday to two consecutive terms of 20 months to 36 months. He’d pleaded no contest to two felony counts of terroristic threats after prosecutors dropped two felony assault counts.

Police say Kometscher told officers that he was so angry at the woman that he tried to run her and her boyfriend over on Oct. 16. The couple told officers Kometscher tried to hit them with his car several times and at one point got out and pointed a gun at them, threatening to shoot. He didn’t, and officers later found a black BB gun in the car.

 

(AP) — A 61-year-old man has been sentenced for mailing a threatening communication to Mutual of Omaha in Nebraska.

Federal prosecutors say David Naylor, formerly of Perrysville, Ind., was sentenced Tuesday in Lincoln. He was ordered to spend another day in custody, serve 100 hours of community service and pay restitution of more than $1,800. Naylor also must serve three years of supervised release. Naylor already has spent 54 days behind bars awaiting prosecution.

Prosecutors say that on May 14, 2012, the Mutual of Omaha mail facility in Blair received an envelope that had been mailed by Naylor. The envelope contained a white powder. A message on the outside of the envelope said: “Open carefully contains cornstarch.”

Four workers had to remain in place until experts determined the powder was not harmful.

(AP) — Authorities are investigating a two-vehicle crash in Weeping Water that critically injured two people.

A man and a woman were flown to an Omaha hospital for treatment after the crash happened shortly after 1 p.m. Wednesday.

The man and woman were in a pickup truck that was towing a grain truck before the accident. The grain truck’s drive shaft fell and that caused the pickup to flip over.

The accident happened on state Highway 50 just north of state Spur 13K.

The names of the people injured in the crash weren’t immediately released.

(AP) — A 30-year-old Lincoln woman has been given 18 months of probation for having sex with her former foster child.

The woman was sentenced Tuesday for child abuse.

At a trial in May, the now 20-year-old man said he was 15 when he moved in with the woman and her husband in 2008. She became his legal guardian about a year later. He says she kissed him one day in 2010, then had sex the next night.

Her lawyer argued the subsequent two-year relationship was consensual. The prosecutor said the woman put the teenager in a situation that endangered his life or physical or mental health by sexually abusing him.

The Post is not naming the woman, to protect the man’s identity.

(AP) — A Nebraska business executive will serve 21 months in federal prison for trying to bribe a public official for a contract with the Los Angeles County hospital system.

Seventy-one-year-old James Barta of Fremont, Neb., was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Chicago. He’ll begin serving his sentence in early January and pay a $125,000 fine.

Barta was president of family-owned Sav-Rx, a national provider of managed care prescription medication.

Prosecutors say that in 2012, then-Chicago Alderman Ambrosio Medrano introduced Barta and a former Sav-Rx employee to a hospital purchasing agent, who really was an undercover FBI agent. The agent agreed to pass $6,500 to a Los Angeles County hospital official who could secure a contract.

Medrano, Barta and the third man, Gustavo Buenrostro of Illinois, were convicted in June.