(AP) — Police say a 5-year-old girl fatally shot herself when her mother locked her inside their home and went to the store.

The New Orleans Police Department said in a news release the girl was home alone Sunday, somehow found her mother’s revolver, and accidentally shot herself in the head. The mother, 28-year-old Laderika Smith, will be booked on a charge of second-degree murder. Police say her negligence resulted in the death of her daughter.

Upon returning home from the store, police say Smith found her daughter lying on a bedroom floor with a gunshot wound. She died at a hospital.

The jail’s website listed Smith’s birthday as Sunday. It wasn’t immediately clear whether she had an attorney. A call to the jail was not immediately returned.

(AP) — An Iowa couple mourning the death of a twin in the womb has sued a doctor and an Omaha hospital for not heeding their wishes to preserve the fetus for baptism, cremation and memorial service.

Jill and Victor McCall have sued the doctor and Methodist Women’s Hospital in west Omaha.

The lawsuit says the hospital and its staff violated a 2003 state law that requires every hospital maintain a written policy for the disposition of remains of a stillborn. The law also says a parent has the right to direct the disposition of a stillborn’s remains within 14 days of delivery.

The McCalls say that did not happen with their stillborn, whom they named Robert Thomas. His twin, Michael, survived and is now 2.

(AP) — Omaha police have identified a man killed and another man critically injured in a late-night shooting in north Omaha.

Police say officers found the men with gunshot wounds after 10 p.m. Saturday in a car that had crashed into others at a gas station. Police believe the driver crashed after being shot.

On Sunday, police said the man killed was 38-year-old Wardell Johnson and the man injured is Dantonio Crossley. Police are unsure of Crossley’s age.

One person has been arrested, and two others are being sought. Police are asking witnesses to the shooting to come forward.

(AP) — A Grand Island man has pleaded no contest to attempting to entice a Canadian teenager.

Authorities say 26-year-old Shaun Broxterman will be sentenced next Friday.

Prosecutors say Broxterman exchanged messages and nude photos with the 15-year-old girl between Nov. 12, 2011, and Aug. 22, 2012.

Broxterman had been scheduled to be sentenced last, but it was put off because a doctor who conducted an evaluation ordered by the judge refused to release the report until he is paid for it.

(AP) — Florida aerialist Nik Wallenda has completed a tightrope walk that took him a quarter mile over the Little Colorado River Gorge in northeastern Arizona.

Wallenda performed the stunt late Sunday on a 2-inch-thick steel cable, 1,500 feet above the river on the Navajo Nation near the Grand Canyon. He wasn’t wearing a harness.

The event was broadcast live on the Discovery Channel.

The 34-year-old Wallenda is a seventh-generation high-wire artist and is part of the famous “Flying Wallendas” circus family — a clan that is no stranger to death-defying feats.

Wallenda says he has wondered what it would be like to cross an area he considers the Grand Canyon since he was a teenager.

(AP) — Those huge list prices charged by hospitals are getting attention, but a federal law that limits what financially vulnerable patients can be billed seems to have shifted to the back burner.

A provision in President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul says most hospitals have to charge uninsured patients no more than what people with health insurance are billed.

But consumer groups that lobbied to get the provision are disappointed.

The law applies only to nonprofit institutions — about 40 percent of hospitals are exempted.

There isn’t a clear formula to determine which patients qualify for help, and the Internal Revenue Service has yet to issue final rules explaining how the provision would work.

The administration says it expects hospitals to comply, but it can’t say how many are doing so.

(AP) — The jury in the George Zimmerman murder trial is beginning its sequestered life.

Sequestration started this weekend, with attorneys set to make opening statements Monday. The 28-year-old Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in last year’s shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

The trial is expected to receive extensive media coverage, and the judge and attorneys don’t want jurors exposed to it.

Court officials are mum on details, but past cases can provide examples. Jurors probably won’t be allowed to read newspapers or access the Internet. They’ll do almost everything as a group. In hotel rooms, TV news channels will be inaccessible, and landline telephones likely will be removed. Deputies will keep jurors’ cellphones and give them back once a day for calls to loved ones and friends.

(AP) — Authorities say a colossal wildfire near a popular summer retreat in southern Colorado continues to be driven by winds and fueled by dead trees in a drought-stricken area.

The conditions have prevented fire crews from making containment lines around the blaze, which grew overnight to 108 square miles, up from 100 on Saturday.

No structures have been lost in the fire, and no injuries have been reported.

Officials say the fire burning near South Fork is the largest the region has seen. They say it is doubtful fire crews could establish any containment lines until there’s a break in the weather, possibly Tuesday.

Officials remain optimistic they can protect the town, however.

The blaze’s rapid advance Friday prompted the evacuation of hundreds of visitors and the town’s 400 permanent residents.

(AP) — Four workers have been injured after a building frame collapsed at an $80 million Texas A&M University equestrian complex that’s being constructed.

The College Station Fire Department says three workers are in critical condition. The barn frame collapsed shortly before 11 a.m. Saturday. Twisted metal beams could be seen at the site, where ground was broken last fall.

All four were transported to a hospital. Their names weren’t immediately released.

Texas A&M spokesman Lane Stephenson says the center is about a mile from the College Station campus.

Authorities are trying to determine what caused the collapse. University police did not immediately return calls.

 

(AP) — The list of federal charges against a former University of Nebraska-Lincoln student accused of hacking into a database of more than 650,000 student, alumni and employee records is growing.

A grand jury added to the charges against 23-year-old Daniel Stratman earlier this week. He was already charged with recklessly damaging a protected computer during the breach that happened in May 2012.

Now Stratman also faces nine charges of exceeding his authorized access to a computer and two charges of knowingly transmitting a program that damaged computers owned by the University of Nebraska and Nebraska State College Systems.

Stratman’s initial appearance on the new charges is set for July 2.

Stratman was a senior at UNL at the time of the breach and listed an Omaha address.