BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — The father of a man who died during an arrest by Bellevue police has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city just south of Omaha.

The lawsuit, which has been moved to federal court, seeks $19,000 in medical and funeral expenses. The family also seeks an unspecified amount for their pain and suffering following the 2016 death of 31-year-old Alex Zoucha (ZOO-ha).

Authorities say officers called to a home found Zoucha trying to break into the house and that he didn’t respond to their commands. Police say they used a stun gun with little effect until he became unresponsive.

Officers performed CPR, but Zoucha died at a hospital.

The four officers involved were cleared of any wrongdoing and have since returned to active duty.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A former Grand Island Police officer has been given probation in an assault case.

31-year-old Michael Lyon was sentenced Friday in Hall County Court to nine months’ probation. He will also be subject to random chemical testing.

Lyon pleaded no contest in March to attempted misdemeanor assault after prosecutors lowered the charge from misdemeanor assault.

Police have said Lyon was off-duty when he assaulted a 26-year-old woman the night of Oct. 30 in a Grand Island residence. Police say the assault was not “a domestic offense.”

Lyon is no longer with the Grand Island Police Department.

The cars collided around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at a crossing. The drivers and a passenger managed to get out before the train arrived and hit the car on the tracks.

Authorities say the person hurt in the initial collision was taken to a hospital.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Iowa authorities say they’ve obtained arrest warrants charging a man accused of ramming his pickup truck into two Council Bluffs police vehicles before being shot by an officer.

Police say 28-year-old Wade Clifton, of Bondurant, has been charged with two counts of attempted murder, aggravated assault on an officer and eluding.

Police say Clifton fled when officers tried to stop his pickup at a closed construction site around 3 a.m. Tuesday. The chase mostly took place on Interstate 29 before investigators say Clifton intentionally rammed two police cruisers. One officer then shot him.

Clifton was taken to a hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, for treatment of injuries not considered to be life-threatening. Two officers were treated and released from another hospital.

The names of the officers haven’t been released.

HARTINGTON, Neb. (AP) — A South Dakota man and his father are due in court May 14 to face charges stemming from the death of a 21-year-old woman after an all-terrain vehicle crash in northeast Nebraska.

The June 29 crash last year near Fordyce killed 21-year-old Jessi Anderson, a South Dakota State University student.

Nebraska court records say 26-year-old Derrik Nelson was driving the ATV after consuming alcohol for several hours before the crash. He’s charged with vehicular homicide, failure to render aid, and other crimes.

His father, 64-year-old J. Douglas Nelson, is charged with being an accessory. Prosecutors say he disassembled the ATV after the crash in an effort to hide evidence.

The men surrendered Monday and bonded out of jail. Their attorneys didn’t immediately return calls Wednesday from The Associated Press.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha City Council has broadened the mayor’s power to pardon people.

The measure approved Tuesday lets the mayor pardon people convicted of just about any criminal offense prosecuted under city code, including failing to restrain a dog or keeping a dirty yard. The power had been limited to offenses such as trespassing, prostitution and disorderly conduct.

The expansion doesn’t permit the major to pardon someone convicted of breaking a federal or Nebraska law.

Mayor Jean Stothert (STAH’-thurt) had sought the increase, saying she wanted to give residents another opportunity when they’re seeking employment.

One person was killed and more than a dozen others injured in a multi-vehicle crash that occurred Sunday, April 29 on Interstate 80.

The crash claimed the life of Franklin Owens, 81, of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Owens had been traveling with his wife, Betty Owens, in a 2014 Toyota SUV. He was life-flighted to Bryan Health West in Lincoln where he was pronounced deceased. Betty Owens, 68, also suffered serious injuries and has been transported to Bryan Health West. 

The crash happened at approximately 5:15 p.m. Sunday, April 29, as high winds kicked up dust from nearby fields and caused zero-visibility conditions. Nearly 30 vehicles were involved. All other injuries are believed to be non-life-threatening.

I-80 was closed for more than two hours in both directions. Deputies from the Hall, Hamilton, and York County Sheriff’s Offices, as well as multiple rescue crews assisted in the response and traffic control.

The investigation into the crash is ongoing.

ST. HELEN, Neb. (AP) — Several felony charges have been filed in connection with a fatal all-terrain vehicle crash that happened last summer in northeast Nebraska.

Prosecutors charged a 26-year-old man from Yankton, South Dakota, with motor vehicle homicide, tampering with evidence and drunken driving in connection with the crash that happened last June in Cedar County, Nebraska.

21-year-old Jessi Anderson, of Yankton, South Dakota, was riding on the back of an ATV that failed to negotiate a t-intersection in a rural area, just west of St. Helen and southeast of Yankton.

Cedar County Attorney Ed Matney says the ATV driver provided false information to investigators, and his father tried to conceal evidence of the crash. The father was charged with being an accessory to a felony.

MINDEN, Neb. (AP) — A trial has been scheduled for a former Hastings police officer accused of hitting and kicking his wife and slapping and kicking his mother.

Court records say 27-year-old Cody Bland has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor domestic assault, assault, and interfering with a public service device. Bland’s trial is set to begin July 12.

The records say Bland’s wife told officers that Bland kicked, shoved and tackled her at their Hastings home Oct. 30. She managed to summon some of her husband’s relatives for help after he took her cellphone. His mother says he slapped and kicked her after she arrived.

The trial has been moved to Kearney County Court in Minden.

Bland had been on the Hastings force for four years. He resigned in November.

YORK, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say one person has died after a dust storm triggered a 29-vehicle accident along an interstate in eastern Nebraska.

The Nebraska State Patrol says visibility was reduced to nearly zero Sunday as dust blew in from farm fields along Interstate 80 near York.

The patrol says the conditions caused a chain-reaction crash that injured 15 people, including one person who was flown to a Lincoln hospital.

Patrol spokesman Cody Thomas said Monday that one of the injured had died. Thomas says he couldn’t release further details.

Others injured were taken to hospitals in Aurora and York.

Winds gusts of 60 mph (97 kph) were reported in the area. The patrol says the crash closed a 2-mile (3-kilometer) stretch of the interstate for nearly three hours.