SIBLEY, Iowa (AP) — A former football coach and teacher accused of sexually assaulting a child in northwest Iowa has been imprisoned for a similar crime in Nebraska.

Court records say 39-year-old Kyle Ewinger was sentenced Thursday to 55 to 85 years and credited for 105 days already served. In January a jury in Omaha found him guilty of sexual assault of a child. Prosecutors say he assaulted the 9-year-old son of a woman he was dating in 2012 and 2013.

Osceola County District Court records in Iowa say the former Sibley-Ocheyedan coach was fired after the district superintendent found him sleeping in his classroom next to a 10-year-old in October 2015.

Ewinger has pleaded not guilty. His trial start was set to begin April 10 but was delayed until Aug. 28.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the convictions of a 62-year-old man who killed another man during an argument outside an Omaha apartment.

James Cotton is serving a life sentence for the August 2015 shooting death of 24-year-old Trevor Bare. In his appeal, Cotton argued, among other things, that his trial court wrongly allowed evidence obtained in a search that went beyond the scope of the warrant. He also argued that his trial attorney was ineffective.

Cotton’s attorney was criticized during the trial for temporarily hiring a witness in the case.

On Friday, the high court found Cotton’s arguments without merit, noting that when presented with evidence that his attorney may have an ethical conflict, Cotton told the judge he wanted to continue with the trial with the attorney.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The mother of a former Nebraska prison guard has been accused of throwing away evidence against her son.

Court records say 41-year-old Jacinda Miller, of Oshkosh, is charged with felony evidence tampering. She didn’t immediately return a call Monday from The Associated Press. Court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for her.

The records say her son, 25-year-old Michael Miller, is accused of trying to smuggle synthetic marijuana and other contraband into the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln, where he worked until resigning in November.

A court document says he told investigators he’d asked his mother to go to his Lincoln apartment and get rid of the drugs. He says she told him after she bonded him out of jail that she’d disposed of them.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A survivor of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting has shared a senior prom night to remember with a Nebraska girl.

Fidan Ibrahimova told the Lincoln Journal Star that she liked what Kyle Kashuv said after the Feb. 14 attack, citing his thoughts on preventing gun violence without infringing on gun rights.

So the Lincoln Southeast High School senior sent him a message asking how many retweets she would need to get him to be her prom date. His eventual reply: 5,000.

She tweeted a screenshot of their exchange, pleading for help in making her dream come true. Aided by a retweet by commentator Ben Shapiro, she soon passed the 5,000. People also donated enough money to pay for Kashuv’s flight from Florida, his hotel room, a limo, and dinner.

After their magical date Saturday, Ibrahimova tweeted: “It was a night I will remember forever.”

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a man was arrested after deputies found marijuana in his car after stopping it along Interstate 80 near Lincoln.

The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office says a deputy pulled over the car around 11 a.m. Friday after seeing the driver fail to signal a lane change near the U.S. Highway 77 exit. The deputy reported smelling marijuana in the car, and a subsequent search turned up 114 pounds (52 kilograms) of pot and some cannabis edibles.

The man, who lives in Sioux City, Iowa, was arrested on suspicion of possession for sale and suspicion of other crimes. Court records don’t show that he’s been formally charged.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln’s school district is promoting diversity in Nebraska’s education workforce by encouraging its minority students to consider a career in teaching.

Lincoln Public Schools Multicultural Administrator Thomas Christie hosted an annual workshop Friday for about 60 students of different races to learn about becoming educators.

Some students who have participated in past workshops now teach at the district, where more than 5 percent of educators are people of color, Christie said.

The district has hired more than 70 people of color in the past five years.

About 33 percent of the district’s students are racial or ethnic minorities.

Recruiting and hiring minorities is challenging because there aren’t many students of color pursuing education degrees, Christie said. Those who do are in high demand, he said.

Nebraska would need to hire seven times more African-American and Native-American educators and 11 times more Hispanic educators to reflect the state’s current student population, according to Matt Blomstedt, state education commissioner.

The state Education Department has joined nine other states in an initiative aiming to revise state policies to create a more diversified workforce by 2020.

Encouraging educators from other states to move to Nebraska is also difficult, Christie said.

In 1997, Lincoln Public Schools convinced Jai Burks to move from Louisiana to Lincoln, where he teaches instrumental music at Park Middle School. He’s one of 45 black educators in the district.

“I figured if I could be an educator, I could bring along people who didn’t have the advantages I did,” Burks said at the Friday workshop. “I could bring them along through music.”

North Star High School Principal Vann Price is the only principal of color in the district.

She told students at the workshop, “Ten years from now I want one of you to be a principal at LPS.”

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police say an arrest warrant for second-degree murder has been issued in connection with a fatal shooting in Lincoln last month.

Lincoln Police said Monday that investigators are searching for the suspect but won’t name him until after he is arrested.

Last week, police also arrested two 17-year-olds as accessories in connection with the March 26 shooting death of 22-year-old Edgar Union Jr.

Police have said Union was shot after a fight between two groups of people that included gang members.

Union was the father of five girls, including triplets.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Seward man has been sent to prison for stealing from a youth basketball program.

Court records say 38-year-old Levi East was sentenced Friday to two to four years, with credit for one day already served in custody. He’d pleaded no contest to felony theft.

Lincoln police say in court records that East used credit and debit cards from the Cornhusker Shooting Stars program for nearly $96,000 in unauthorized personal purchases. He was working at the time for Lesoing’s Inc. as an office manager and as assistant director of the youth program.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a worker has died at a joist and decking plant in Norfolk.

The accident occurred around 7:40 a.m. Monday at the Vulcraft plant. Details have not been released.

Madison County Attorney Joe Smith identified the victim as 60-year-old John Gallop Jr., who lived in Hoskins. He’d worked there for 39 years.

The accident is being investigated.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday rejected the latest appeal from a man who pleaded guilty to killing his 4-year-old son but now says a discredited crime scene investigator planted evidence to frame him.

The court ruled that a Cass County judge was right to dismiss 40-year-old Ivan Henk’s post-conviction motion last year.

Henk had argued that former Douglas County CSI director Dave Kofoed planted blood evidence in a garbage bin to implicate him in the 2003 death of his son, Brendan Gonzalez. In 2010, Kofoed was convicted of evidence tampering in an unrelated murder case.

Henk argued in his post-conviction motion that without that blood evidence, he would not have admitted guilt in his son’s death and would not be serving a life sentence.

But the state Supreme Court ruled “there was ample evidence that Henk would have accepted the plea offer, regardless of the blood evidence from the dumpster.” An attorney for Henk did not immediately return a message seeking comment on the ruling Friday.

Henk pleaded guilty to first-degree murder days before his trial was to begin in October 2003 in the death of his son, avoiding a possible death sentence. The boy, who was last seen with Henk, vanished on Jan. 6, 2003. Despite an extensive, weeks-long search of the Sarpy County landfill, the little boy’s body was never found.

During a court hearing in April 2003, Henk shouted that he killed Brendan “because he was the anti-Christ. He had 666 on his forehead.” Court documents said Henk told investigators he killed the boy and threw his body in a Bellevue trash bin.

But in his appeal, Henk said that in deciding to plead guilty, he relied on DNA evidence that he now believes Kofoed planted. Henk argued that violated his right to a fair trial.

Kofoed spent nearly two years in prison for tampering with evidence in the 2008 slayings of Wayne and Sharmon Stock of rural Murdock. Kofoed claimed to have found the only physical evidence that tied two innocent men to the killings: a drop of one victim’s blood. He claimed the blood had been found in a car driven by one of the innocent men that had already been combed over by another forensic investigator.

A man and woman from Wisconsin eventually pleaded guilty to killing the couple. They’re serving life prison sentences.