The father of a 10-year-old Arizona girl who died after authorities say another relative padlocked her in a footlocker has pleaded guilty to an attempted child abuse charge.

Fifty-three-year-old David Martin Deal isn’t charged in the July 2011 death of his daughter Ame Deal. But he admitted Wednesday to putting her into the plastic box and throwing the box into a pool on another occasion.

He faces up to 16 years in prison for guilty pleas to attempted child abuse and marijuana possession charges.

Authorities say Ame Deal died after a man who’s married to the girl’s cousin padlocked her in the footlocker as discipline for having stolen popsicles.

The child’s aunt has already pleaded guilty to abuse charges.

Two others are charged with first-degree murder.

Two Omaha police officers fired in an excessive force investigation have filed notices of appeal, indicating they intend to fight to get their jobs back.

Omaha police said Tuesday that the city’s human resources department upheld the firings. Those fired who filed notices of appeal are former officers Bradley Canterbury and Justin Reeve. The Omaha World-Herald says the others fired were former Officer James Kinsella and Sgt. Aaron Von Behren.

Police Chief Todd Schmaderer (SHMAH-dur) fired the officers earlier this month after a March 21 incident involving police was secretly recorded. The video showed an officer grabbing 28-year-old Octavius Johnson from behind, violently throwing him to the ground and punching him while he was restrained. Other officers were seen chasing Johnson’s brother, who was recording the arrest, into his house.

An Omaha man has died after being pinned under a car.

Police say officer were called to an area in north-central Omaha around 6 a.m. Wednesday for a personal injury accident. When officers arrived, they found 60-year-old William Larsen pinned under the front driver’s side tire of a vehicle. Larsen was declared dead at the scene. Police say there was no sign of foul play in his death.

But police also determined that the vehicle had been involved in a hit-and-run accident Tuesday night.

Police did not release any other details of that crash or of Larsen’s death.

The nation’s drug czar will outline drug policy reforms that will emphasize public health to fight addiction and focus on diverting non-violent drug offenders into treatment instead of prisons.

Gil Kerlikowske, director of the National Drug Control Policy, is scheduled to release President Barack Obama’s 2013 blueprint for drug policy on Wednesday at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore.

Kerlikowske said in an interview Tuesday that millions of Americans who have not had access to drug treatment will be able to get it under federal health care reform.

He says many criminal justice experts recognize the nation can’t arrest its way out of the problem of drug addiction.

A Kansas doctor has been charged with operating a pill mill for pain killers and antidepressants after Fort Riley officials raised concerns about soldiers who overdosed.

The U.S. attorney’s office alleged in a criminal complaint Tuesday that 53-year-old Michael P. Schuster conspired to illegally distribute controlled substances.

The affidavit says the investigation began last year when police received reports that Schuster was issuing high-dosage prescriptions based on limited physical examinations, leading to several overdoses. Medical staff at Fort Riley also reported that Schuster had treated active duty soldiers and family members who died from overdoses. More than 500 prescriptions were written while Schuster was out of the office.

A phone message left for Schuster’s attorney, Barry Clark of Manhattan, wasn’t immediately returned.

Two law enforcement officials say the target of a potential cross-border terror attack was a train that runs between New York City and Canada.

The officials have knowledge of the investigation and tell The Associated Press the attack was to take place in Canada. They aren’t authorized to discuss the investigation and would speak only on the condition of anonymity.

Amtrak and Via Rail Canada jointly operate routes between the United States and Canada, including the Maple Leaf from New York City to Toronto.

Two men were in court in Canada on Tuesday, accused of plotting with al-Qaida members in Iran to derail a train.

Canadian authorities have charged them with conspiring to carry out an attack and murder people in association with a terrorist group.

Police say the men never got close to carrying out the attack.

A Samurai sword-wielding Mormon bishop, in Salt Lake City, came to the aid of a woman who was being attacked in front of his house.

The 47-year-old Kent Hendrix woke up Tuesday to his teenage son pounding on his bedroom door and telling him somebody was being mugged. Hendrix grabbed a 29-inch Samurai sword and rushed out the door.

Hendrix says the man attacking a woman jumped back and ran down the street after he drew the sword. He and others chased the man until he jumped in his car and drove away.

Unified Police Lt. Justin Hoyal says the suspect, 37-year-old Grant Eggersten, turned himself in later in the day and was booked on multiple charges.

The victim, a 35-year-old woman, had minor injuries. She had a stalking injunction against the suspect.

Lawmakers have voted to expand a state grant program that helps connect students with paid internships in Nebraska.

The proposal won first-round approval on Tuesday with a 26-0 vote. It builds on an existing state program, which awards matching grants to qualified companies that offer college internships.

Sen. Tom Carlson of Holdrege introduced a bill that would extend the program to first- and second-year college students, who aren’t currently eligible. The bill would allow nonprofits to participate.

It also would increase the maximum state matching grant to 75 percent, or $7,500, for each intern. To qualify for that amount, employers would have to show that students were federal Pell Grant recipients when they applied.

The program is overseen by the Nebraska Department of Economic Development.

Public health officials are now saying that 264 people sought treatment at hospitals for injuries sustained in the Boston Marathon bombings.

Authorities had been saying that about 180 people were injured, but that was just victims brought to hospitals in the immediate aftermath of the April 15 explosions. Three people were killed and at least 14 people lost all or part of a limb.

The Boston Public Health Commission says the larger number includes people who delayed seeking treatment. For example, some people had ringing in their ears from the blasts and thought it might go away, but it persisted for several days. Other people sought delayed treatment for minor shrapnel wounds. Twenty-seven different hospitals treated the injured.

The commission said as of Tuesday, 51 people were still hospitalized.

A Nebraska man has pleaded no contest to assaulting a referee at his son’s church league basketball game earlier this year.

Fifty-four-year-old Joseph Stephans pleaded no contest to misdemeanor assault on Monday and apologized for his actions.

Prosecutors say Stephans grabbed referee Carlos Bradford’s glasses during the game and broke them before briefly struggling with Bradford at St. Margaret Mary Catholic School. Other parents broke up the confrontation.

Bradford says this is an example of parents who take their kid’s sports too seriously.

Stephans told the judge he wants to put the Feb. 3 incident behind him.

Prosecutors agreed not to seek jail time for Stephans as long as he pays to replace Bradford’s broken glasses. Stephans is scheduled to be sentenced on May 30.