(AP) — A 60-year-old Grand Island man has been fined and given probation for structuring deposits to evade currency reporting requirements.

Federal prosecutors say Randy Evans was given five years of probation, was fined $50,000 and is required to forfeit nearly $33,000.

Prosecutors say Evans owns RCE Investments Inc., which did business as Randy Auto Sales in Grand Island. The prosecutors say that between January 2010 and February 2012, Evans made bank deposits of between $1 million and $2.03 million. Cash in the deposits was kept under $10,000, which prosecutors say showed that Evans was purposely evading laws that require banks to report cash transactions of $10,000 and above.

(AP) — A judge won’t close a preliminary hearing for an Indiana man charged with killing four people with ties to an Omaha medical school.

The preliminary hearing for Anthony Garcia is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Wednesday. The judge decided earlier in the morning to deny a request by attorneys for Garcia. The attorneys argued that news coverage of the preliminary hearing would hurt Garcia’s right to a fair trial.

Garcia is being held without bond on four counts of first-degree murder. Police say he killed the 11-year-old son of Creighton pathologist William Hunter and the family’s housekeeper in 2008, as well as Creighton University pathologist Roger Brumback and his wife in May.

Brumback and Hunter had fired Garcia from the Creighton pathology program in 2001.

(AP) — Authorities have released the name of the second of two men whose bodies were found inside a pickup near a city pool in southeast Omaha.

Omaha police identified him on Tuesday as 26-year-old Juan Uribe-Pena.

The bodies of Uribe-Pena and 29-year-old Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz were found just before 5 a.m. Sunday by a police officer near Spring Lake Park pool.

Police say the deaths are being investigated as homicides but have not said how the men died. No arrests have been reported.

(AP) — A judge will decide Wednesday morning whether to close a preliminary hearing for an Indiana man accused of killing four people with ties to an Omaha medical school.

The preliminary hearing for Anthony Garcia is set for 9 a.m. Wednesday. Before that, a judge will decide whether to close the hearing to the public. Garcia’s attorneys argue that news coverage of the preliminary hearing would hurt Garcia’s right to a fair trial.

Garcia is being held without bond on four counts of first-degree murder. Police say he killed the 11-year-old son of Creighton pathologist William Hunter and the family’s housekeeper in 2008, as well as Creighton University pathologist Roger Brumback and his wife in May.

Brumback and Hunter had fired Garcia from the Creighton pathology program in 2001.

(AP) — Authorities say an Omaha police officer shot a dog that had pinned a man against a fence.

The officer shot the dog Tuesday following a report of a man being pinned by his neighbor’s German shepherd. The man told dispatchers that the dog got out of its kennel.

Police say the dog charged at officers. One officer fired his weapon.

The dog was shot in the head. The Nebraska Humane Society says the dog was later euthanized.

The station reports the dog’s owner was cited for improper restraint of a dog and dog menacing behavior.

(AP) — The Nebraska Court of Appeals has affirmed the lengthy sentence of a 29-year-old man for sexually assaulting a teenage girl starting when she was 14.

The appeals court on Tuesday upheld the 40- to 50-year sentence for James Graves, of Salem, who was convicted last August of two counts of first-degree sexual assault.

Graves must also register as a sex offender after his release.

Graves’ appeal said he and girl had a consensual “boyfriend/girlfriend relationship” and that they were engaged to be married when she was 16.

But the appeals court noted that Graves subjected the girl to repeated acts of sexual abuse and violence, including an instance in which he broke into her bedroom window before dawn, dragged her through the window and savagely beat her.

(AP) — Health officials in Florida say a 12-year-old boy is fighting a rare and deadly infection that is attacking his brain.

Family members told media outlets that Zachary Reyna of Southwest Florida was infected with Naegleria fowleri, a microscopic single-celled living amoeba that is commonly found in freshwater lakes, ponds and rivers. State health officials say it can cause a rare brain infection called primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) that destroys brain tissue and is usually fatal.

Victims typically are exposed to the bug while swimming or doing water sports in warm ponds, lakes and rivers during the hot summer months, mostly in the South.

Family members said the boy was infected while knee boarding with friends in a ditch near his family’s LaBelle house on Aug. 3. He is being treated in the intensive care unit at Miami Children’s Hospital.

(AP) — Authorities have identified the woman killed by a truck while crossing a street in south Omaha.

Omaha police say 62-year-old Bonnie Lebbs, of Omaha, was killed Aug. 2. Neighbors say the woman was returning from a grocery store with items in a small wagon.

Police say the driver of the semi and trailer was turning onto a street when the accident happened. Witnesses told authorities that as the vehicle turned, Lebbs was underneath the rear tires of the trailer. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police say alcohol use or speed do not appear to be factors in the crash.

(AP) — Police say a 39-year-old Nebraska man was the second person to die after a weekend hit-and-run crash in Kansas City.

Police say Thomas G. Salistean of Omaha, Neb., died after being injured in the accident Sunday. His girlfriend, 36-year-old Elvia P. Walters, of Lee’s Summit, also died when Salistean’s car was hit by a vehicle at a Kansas City intersection.

The driver of the car fled on foot and has not been captured. He left a seriously injured passenger in his car.

Salistean was declared brain dead and the process to donate his organs began Monday.

(AP) — Native Americans in South Dakota are voting whether to legalize alcohol on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Tuesday’s vote is expected to be close. Critics of the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s plan say legalization would only make the reservation’s troubles worse. Alcohol is blamed for some of the highest rates of domestic abuse, suicide, infant mortality, unemployment and violent crime in Indian Country.

But others say alcohol is reaching the reservation anyway from the border town of Whiteclay, Neb., so the tribe might as well capture the profits. Proceeds from the sales would be used for education about the ills of alcohol abuse and for detoxification and treatment centers, for which there is currently little to no funding.