The Douglas County Attorney’s Office says it won’t file criminal charges against a woman shot by an Omaha police officer after she threatened police.

Charges won’t be filed against 52-year-old Paula K. Moen.

An officer shot Moen on May 9 at her mother’s home after officers say she threatened them with a knife and 12-gauge flare gun.

Moen, who received a chest wound, has been released from a hospital.

She had faced possible charges of assaulting a police officer and use of a weapon to commit a felony.

Police encountered Moen after a responding to a report of loud music.

Authorities say a man suspected of abducting two girls from an Iowa bus stop has been found dead, and one of the girls is still missing.

The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation says 42-year-old Michael Klunder was found dead Monday night at a rural property near Dayton, about 60 miles north of Des Moines. His cause of death hasn’t been released.

Klunder is on Iowa’s sex offenders list, and he served several years in prison on kidnapping charges.

He’s accused of abducting a 15-year-old and 12-year-old on Monday. The 12-year-old escaped and told authorities they’d been taken to an agricultural facility after accepting a ride from a stranger.

A large search is underway for 15-year-old Kathlynn Shepard. Authorities released her name and photo in an effort to find her alive.

The state medical examiner’s office has revised the death toll from a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb to 24 people, including nine children.

Spokeswoman Amy Elliott said Tuesday morning that she believes some victims were counted twice in the early chaos of the storm. Authorities said initially that as many as 51 people were dead, including 20 children.

Elliott says nine children are confirmed dead, including seven who were pulled from the wreckage of an elementary school in Moore, 10 miles south of Oklahoma City.

Teams are continuing to search the shattered community after the Monday afternoon tornado.

(AP)-A public defender in central Nebraska has suffered a heart attack, leading a judge to declare a mistrial in an assault case.

Adams County Public Defender Art Toogood had a heart attack over the weekend. He is now a hospital in Lincoln. His family as asked hospital staff not to release information about his condition.

Toogood’s absence in Adams County District Court on Monday morning forced Judge Stephen Illingworth to declare a mistrial in the case against 30-year-old John Espino, which began Thursday and was expected to conclude Monday.

Espino has been accused of hitting his pregnant girlfriend in the stomach with a board in August 2011.

Prosecutors can still try the case later.

Burglars made a bold move in southeast Nebraska, targeting a small-town police department.

The department in Friend — about 30 miles southwest of Lincoln — was burglarized last week.

Police have arrested a 20-year-old Strang man and two juveniles in the case.

Investigators say several pieces of equipment were stolen, including badges, ballistic vests, night-vision goggles, a police radio and boxes of ammunition.

Investigators found many of the stolen items within a day of the burglary.

An Arizona man has been convicted of five felony counts for exchanging sexually explicit text messages with a 14-year-old Fremont girl.

30-year-old Christopher Vick, of Glendale, Ariz., pleaded no contest Monday to five counts of enticement by electronic communication device. In exchange, one of those counts was reduced from sexual assault.

Vick faces up to 25 years in prison when he’s sentenced July 8.

Fremont police received a report last September of a man in Arizona exchanging sexually explicit messages with the girl and tracked the messages to Vick, who was arrested in Arizona and extradited to Nebraska.

Police say a man found unresponsive in a north Omaha home has died, and investigators are treating the death as a homicide.

Police say officers were called to the home just before 10 p.m. Monday by family members who were checking on his well-being and found him unconscious. Medics who arrived were unable to revive him, and he was declared dead.

Police have not yet released the name of the man or other details of his death.

Homicide police are asking anyone with information to contact police at 402-444-5652, or Crime Stoppers at 444-STOP (7867), www.omahacrimestoppers.net, or text “OPD” to 274637 (Crimes).

A Hastings man has been given more than five years in prison for helping to distribute methamphetamine.

U.S. Attorney Deborah Gilg announced Monday that Ruben Manzano has been sentenced to 70 months in prison. He will be given two years of supervised release after he completes his sentence. He also will be ordered to pay a $100 special assessment.

Manzano pleaded guilty in late February to conspiring to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine between May and October 2012.

More severe weather is in the forecast for parts of the central United States already reeling from powerful tornadoes this week.

The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., says golf ball-sized hail, powerful winds and isolated, strong tornadoes could strike areas of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma on Tuesday. The area at risk does not include Moore, Okla., where dozens of people were killed in a monstrous tornado Monday.

Forecasters say the greatest risk for severe weather Tuesday includes the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The National Weather Service is predicting flash flooding in parts of Arkansas and Louisiana as the storm system dumps several inches of rain in a short time frame Tuesday afternoon.

In Moore, where search and rescue operations continue, showers and thunderstorms are expected Tuesday with heavy rainfall.

Lincoln police say a man smashed into a dry cleaner’s business while trying to escape two men he thought were trying to rob him.

Lincoln police officer Katie Flood says a 37-year-old man was sitting in his car early Monday at a stop sign when two men rushed toward his car and yelled for him to get out. One man was running and another was riding a bicycle.

Flood says the driver punched the gas, then lost control of his car and slammed into Williams Cleaners.

Police responded and searched for the two men, but they had apparently left the area.

It wasn’t clear if the driver was injured.

A damage estimate for the building and car were not available.