(AP) — A Missouri woman has been given 21 months in federal prison for taking another woman from Illinois to Missouri to Nebraska for prostitution.

A news release from the office of U.S. Attorney Deborah Gilg says 27-year-old Jessica Alamina, of St. Robert, Mo., was convicted of transporting someone for prostitution. Alamina must serve three years of supervised after she leaves custody.

Gilg’s office says that in May 2012, Alamina took the woman to Missouri and placed online advertisements. A month later Alamina brought the woman to Omaha. Gilg’s office says Alamina posted advertisements in the escorts section of Backpage.com and took the money from the woman after her “dates” with people who responded to the ads.

(AP) — The University of Nebraska Medical Center is holding a ribbon-cutting to celebrate the naming of the Mary and Dick Holland Regenerative Medicine Program.

The ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday.

Regenerative medicine involves science that enables the body to repair, replace, restore and regenerate damaged or diseased cells, tissues and organs. Regenerative medicine research includes the possibility of repair of damaged heart muscle after a heart attack, replacement of skin for burn victims, and restoration of movement after spinal cord injury.

Dick Holland, of Omaha, and his late wife, Mary, have a long history of philanthropy and support of UNMC.

(AP) — The oldest man in the world is a 112-year-old former musician and coal miner from Grand Island, N.Y.

Guinness World Records says research shows Salustiano Sanchez-Blazquez (sah-luh-stee-AH’-noh SAHN’-chez BLAHZ’-kehz) became the world’s oldest man when Jiroemon Kimura died June 12 at age 116.

The world’s oldest person is a woman, 115-year-old Misao Okawa of Japan.

Salustiano is currently the only man born in 1901 with proof of birth.

He was born June 8, 1901, in the village of El Tejado de Bejar, Spain. He moved to Cuba at 17, then to the United States in 1920 where he worked the coal mines of Lynch, Ky. He eventually moved to the Niagara Falls area of New York, where he still lives.

He has two children, seven grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.

(AP) — Authorities say a 93-year-old Omaha woman has died after being beaten and raped.

Omaha police say she died Wednesday, three days after the attack in her home. According to a police report, an officer who was sent to check on the woman found her covered in blood in a bedroom around 9 a.m. Sunday. The officer reported that 19-year-old Sergio Perez was unclothed and passed out on top of the woman.

Perez remained in jail on Thursday, as prosecutors consider a murder charge. Online court records don’t list the name of Perez’s attorney.

Prosecutors say Perez admitted to the assault and rape, saying he was mad at women after a night of drinking.

Perez had been working as a roofer and has no known ties to Omaha.

(AP) — Lincoln police say they have arrested a 47-year-old man in the stabbing death of another man in an apartment near the city’s downtown.

Police charged Ivan Fourhorns with second-degree murder and use of a weapon to commit a felony.

He’s suspected in the killing of 58-year-old Joseph Solomon Jr. in an apartment just blocks from the state Capitol.

Police say both men were transients and were drinking together in the apartment when they began to argue.

It was the third homicide this year in Lincoln. All of the killings have occurred in the past two months.

(AP) — A 19-year-old man is accused of beating and sexually assaulting a 93-year-old Omaha woman in her home.

Prosecutors said Wednesday that Sergio Perez is charged with first-degree sexual assault, first-degree assault and burglary.

According to a police report, an officer who was sent to check on the woman found her covered in blood in a bedroom around 9 a.m. Sunday. The officer reported that Perez was unclothed and passed out on top of her.

The woman suffered heavy trauma.

Prosecutors say Perez, who doesn’t speak English, admitted to the assault and rape, saying he was mad at women after a night of drinking.

Perez had been working as a roofer and has no known ties to Omaha.

(AP) — Fort Carson officials say they are investigating allegations of sexual misconduct involving several soldiers and under-age girls.

Officials said Wednesday the investigation is being conducted by the Army Criminal Investigation Command.

Fort Carson didn’t say how many soldiers were under investigation, where the alleged misconduct took place or how many girls were allegedly involved.

No one has been arrested.

Officials said commanders are aware of the investigation.

Fort Carson is an infantry post outside Colorado Springs.

(AP) — A Nebraska prison inmate who was driving a state van during a fatal crash last month has been charged with manslaughter.

Lancaster County Attorney Joe Kelly said Wednesday that 35-year-old Jeremy Dobbe had been charged in the June 25 crash that killed 47-year-old Joyce Meeks.

Tests showed Dobbe wasn’t on alcohol or drugs when the accident happened, but witnesses said he was speeding and swerving.

Dobbe is currently in prison for methamphetamine possession, and he as an extensive record, but he was allowed to drive other inmates to work-release assignments.

The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services ended the longstanding prison-driver program after the crash.

Dobbe is scheduled to make his initial court appearance on Aug. 1.

Meeks’ family has already announced plans to file a wrongful-death lawsuit against the state.

(AP) — Firefighters are beginning to stop the 1,700-acre wildfire burning near about 50 summer homes in Wyoming.

The Fairfield Fire was 15 percent contained Wednesday because of lines crews have dug on its north side. Firefighters will now try to build some containment lines along the head of the fire near Lander.

The homes and campgrounds in Sinks Canyon were evacuated after it broke out Monday. U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Kristie Salzmann says no homes have been lost. Crews dug lines and an air tanker also dropped slurry to protect them.

It’s the most significant fire of the season so far in Wyoming.

Crews are also fighting a fire burning on about 100 acres in the Medicine Bow National Forest. A 250-acre wildfire in the Washakie (WASH’-ah-kee) Wilderness is being monitored.

(AP) — Authorities say two women who got lost while hiking in a Maine state park died in a car accident shortly after their rescue.

Thirty-seven-year-old Amy Stiner, of Machias (muh-CHY’-us), and 38-year-old Melissa Moyer, of Sunbury, Pa., were killed Tuesday night when they drove their car into the ocean after driving the wrong way down a road. The county sheriff says Moyer was five months pregnant.

Officials say the women became lost while hiking near Roque Bluffs State Park. A landowner found them and their dog and gave them a ride to a home. Authorities later took them back to their car.

A short time later, the women called to say they had driven their vehicle into the water — and then the phone went dead. The car was later found underwater.