OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A judge has imprisoned an Omaha man whose 7-week-old daughter suffered massive brain injuries at his hands.

23-year-old Jacob Ford was sentenced Tuesday to 10 to 20 years. Judge James Gleason had found Ford guilty after a nonjury trial on a charge of intentional child abuse resulting in serious injury.

Ford says he dropped little Skyler Ford on Aug. 3. Prosecutors say he shook and otherwise injured her on purpose.

A doctor testified that Skyler suffered several spots of bleeding on her brain, as well as bleeding behind her eyes.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska and Knox County have sued more than two dozen drug manufacturers and distributors of opioid painkillers.

Their attorney, Dave Domina, told the Lincoln Journal Star the companies misled medical professionals and misrepresented the dangers and addictive risks of their drugs.

He says the costs associated with addictions have dramatically increased the costs of government operations for the Ponca Tribe and Knox County and says their budgetary and other resources can’t handle the rapidly growing problem.

More than 400 cities and counties across the country have sued drugmakers and distributors for costs associated with the addiction crisis. And last month a U.S. Senate committee was told that Native Americans and Alaska Natives saw a fivefold increase in overdose deaths between 1999 and 2015.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say two workers were shocked when the boom lift they were working on touched an overhead power line in southwest Lincoln.

The accident occurred Thursday evening near a car dealership. Lincoln Police Officer Angela Sands says the two were checking for a hydraulic leak when the wind knocked the lift into the line. Sands says the electrical discharge knocked 38-year-old Scott Ruda unconscious, burned him and 51-year-old Thomas Pluhacek and ignited a fire in nearby bushes.

The two were taken to a hospital and are expected to recover.

The boom was being used to replace a street light.

CENTRAL CITY, Neb. (AP) — A Columbus woman accused of embezzling more than $84,000 from her employer has been sentenced.

Merrick County District Court records say 25-year-old Chelsea Aldrich was given 90 days in jail and five years of probation at her sentencing hearing earlier this month. She’d pleaded no contest to felony theft. Prosecutors dropped a forgery charge in exchange for her plea.

Prosecutors say Aldrich wrote bogus checks on the Agroservice Inc. account while working as a secretary for the company in Silver Creek from Aug. 1, 2016, to Jan. 31, 2017.

Aldrich was ordered to pay restitution to Agroservice’s owners.

BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — Iowa authorities have charged two people suspected of firing at officers during a pursuit in southwest Iowa and at officers in a suburb of Omaha.

Authorities say 37-year-old Jacqueline Streich and 28-year-old William Stanfill were charged in Fremont County, Iowa, with attempted murder of a police officer. Court records don’t list the names of attorneys for the two Bellevue, Nebraska, residents.

The two are suspected of shooting at a man Tuesday afternoon in Bellevue, shooting at another man Tuesday night just south of Bellevue and of shooting at officers looking for their car early Wednesday morning.

Authorities suspect the two fired at a sheriff’s deputy in Tabor, Iowa, later and at pursuing officers in Hamburg, Iowa. A state trooper was injured when his cruiser crashed.

Streich and Stanfill were arrested after their car crashed into the Nishnabotna River just south of Hamburg.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A judge says Omaha police report delays cited by a defense lawyer aren’t sufficient reason to dismiss murder charges against the lawyer’s client.

Judge Horacio Wheelock said Wednesday that there’s no indication that a “sinister motive” was behind police actions in the case against Marcus Short. Short and Preston Pope have been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the August 2015 slayings of 23-year-old Deprecia Neelon and 19-year-old Garion Johnson.

Short’s attorney sought the dismissal, saying the delays made it “virtually impossible to present a defense.” Short’s trial is scheduled to begin Monday.

A police spokeswoman says Chief Todd Schmaderer has made several changes since learning of the delays, changes intended to improve the homicide unit’s performance on the issues raised.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A jury has acquitted a man accused in the shooting death of a friend in Omaha.

Jurors said Tuesday that 32-year-old Antoine Johnson was not guilty of second-degree murder. Police say he shot to death 29-year-old Trent Stutheit on Easter Sunday last year.

His attorneys argued that Johnson shot Stutheit in self-defense when they argued after hours of drinking, drug use and horseplay.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A man who served time for second-degree murder has been sent back to prison for shooting a neighbor in Lincoln.

61-year-old Jimmy Livingston was sentenced Tuesday to 30 to 40 years. Judge Jodi Nelson told Livingston that if he is “at liberty where you can drink alcohol and have access to guns … you are a danger.”

Livingston had pleaded guilty to assault and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. He apologized at his sentencing for “taking the law into my own hands,” saying the man he shot had conned his way into his home for a family gathering and since has run off with Livingston’s 20-year-old stepdaughter.

Court records say Livingston spent time in prison for shooting a man at an Omaha bar.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Two people have taken plea deals for the slaying of a man on an American Indian reservation in northeast Nebraska.

Federal court records say 20-year-old Jeremiah Wolfe pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Omaha to second-degree murder and his mother, 39-year-old Natasha Wolfe, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit second-degree murder.

The two and Lawrencia Merrick were charged with the April 2017 strangulation of 32-year-old William Redhorn Jr. on the Winnebago Reservation. Merrick is expected to change her plea of not guilty at a hearing Thursday.

The records say Jeremiah Wolfe and Merrick told investigators they came upon Redhorn outside a building he was trying to break into. Wolfe says a fight broke out and he put Redhorn in a chokehold until he quit struggling. Merrick says she also struck Redhorn.

BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a police chase that began in suburban Omaha and wound south through southwest Iowa ended with a crash and the arrests of two people.

Bellevue police investigating a reported drive-by shooting Tuesday night say a man in a vehicle fired at officers early Wednesday and then fled into Iowa. None of the officers was hit.

Iowa State Patrol Sgt. Nathan Ludwig says an Iowa trooper intending to join the chase crashed his cruiser near Hamburg and was flown to an Omaha hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. Ludwig identified him as Trooper Dillon Malone.

Ludwig says the vehicle being pursued crashed in northwest Missouri, and two occupants were arrested. The pair’s names haven’t been released.