A 30-year-old man has been given four years of probation and 128 days in jail for causing a fatal crash north of Columbus last year.

Brian Browning, formerly of Humphrey, was sentenced last week. Browning had pleaded guilty in February to vehicular homicide.

Authorities say Browning was speeding and driving recklessly on July 21, 2012, when he lost control of his pickup and it rolled. Browning, Toni Krumland and another passenger were ejected. The 20-year-old Krumland, of Columbus, died days later. She’d been flown to an Omaha hospital for treatment.

The judge said Browning immediately must serve 100 days in jail, then seven days a year while on probation. That jail time is to begin on July 21 in each of those four years.

A 26-year-old Grand Island man has been arrested, accused of killing a dog.

Michael Berst was arrested on Sunday.

Grand Island Police Sgt. Jim Duering stated that investigators believe Berst used a hammer to bludgeon to death the family dog.

Duering didn’t have any information on what led up to the incident. He says it occurred several days before Berst’s arrest.

Hall County jail records say Berst remained in custody on Monday. Online court records don’t list the name of his attorney.

A lawyer for the wife of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev says federal authorities have asked to speak with his client.

Authorities went to the suburban Rhode Island home of Tsarnaev’s in-laws Sunday evening, where Katherine Russell Tsarnaev has been staying. Lawyer Amato DeLuca tells The Associated Press that she did not speak with them, and they are discussing how to proceed.

DeLuca says Tsarnaev did not suspect her husband of anything, and nothing seemed amiss after the bombings. He says she had been working 70 to 80 hours a week as a home health care aide, while her husband cared for their daughter.

DeLuca says on the day he died, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was home when his wife left for work.

He says the couple married in 2009 or 2010.

Denver police have pointed to a YouTube video they say shows a possible suspect in the weekend shooting at a marijuana celebration that injured two people and scattered a crowd of thousands.

The shooting on Saturday took place during the outdoor celebration of the first 4/20 counterculture holiday since Colorado legalized marijuana. Witnesses said as many as 10 shots could be heard at about 5 p.m. Denver police spent much of Sunday scanning video taken at the event.

Police spokesman Sonny Jackson said that the suspect is shown in the video walking in a crowd moving away from the scene of the shooting as sirens wail in the background.

He says the suspect is a black male who was wearing a brown and white checkered shirt.

A DNA sample taken in 2011 after a Nebraska man’s burglary conviction has linked him to five sexual assaults in Omaha between 1999 and 2009.

Anthony G. Vaughn was arrested early Sunday.

Authorities say a warrant was issued for the 41-year-old Vaughn after labs linked his DNA to evidence from those previous sexual assaults.

Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine says it’s not clear why it took nearly two years for authorities to compare Vaughn’s DNA with the FBI database of crimes.

Authorities are also checking whether Vaughn may be linked to any other sexual assaults.

In February 1999, a jury acquitted Vaughn of sexual assault in a separate case.

Spokeswoman Corinne Geller says 54-year-old pilot Joseph D. Brown IV and his wife, 52-year-old Susan D. Brown, died when a single-engine Cessna 210 crashed in a James City County subdivision. Their dog also died in the crash. There were no other passengers on the plane.

Virginia and Nebraska media outlets identified Joseph Brown as an Air Force major general. They said he was an official at the National Defense University in Washington and formerly was assigned to U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska.

Geller says the crash occurred at 4:53 p.m. Friday near the Williamsburg-Jamestown Airport.

The search for an Oklahoma teenager who set out to test himself against the wilderness in the wilds of southeastern Oregon has been suspended indefinitely until conditions improve.

Sheriff Dave Glerup of Harney County, Ore., said Sunday that no search is planned until weather improves and snow begins to melt, allowing searchers to comb Steens Mountain.

Nineteen-year-old Dustin Self has been missing a month since setting out from his family home outside Oklahoma City.

Weather forced cancelled searches on Friday and Saturday.

Glerup says Self’s parents arrived at the scene Saturday and were taken to the location where Self’s pickup truck was found.

Glerup says he thinks Self is either dead or walked off the mountain and hitched a ride somewhere. He says they’ll decide by the week whether to resume the search, depending on weather.

 

The FBI is disputing a claim by the mother of the suspected Boston bombers, who said the bureau had spoken to the older brother after the bombs exploded at last Monday’s marathon.

At FBI headquarters in Washington, spokesman Michael Kortan says the bureau’s 2011 interview with Tamerlan Tsarnaev (tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) was the only FBI contact with him.

Kortan is standing by the bureau’s public statement from Friday in which the bureau described that interview. That statement says the FBI did not learn of the identities of the bombing suspects, Tamerlan and his brother, Dzhokhar (joh-KHAR’), until Friday, the day Tamerlan was killed.

The brothers’ parents in Russia have insisted that the FBI continued to monitor Tamerlan after the 2011 interview and say both of their sons were set up.

Authorities say two men are dead and another hospitalized in a one-car crash near Lincoln.

The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office says the crashed happened just before 6:30 a.m. Saturday on a county road near Branched Oak Lake north of Lincoln.

Investigators say the car was westbound when it left the road and rolled several times.

Two passengers in the car — 24-year-old Chad Spencer and 24-year-old Ryan Bostock, both of Lincoln — were found dead at the scene of the crash. The driver, 24-year-old Joshua Fagan, of Lincoln, was flown to a Lincoln hospital with injuries not considered to be life-threatening.

The sheriff’s office says no arrests have been made, but that speed and alcohol use are believed to have contributed to the crash.

A Nebraska woman was killed in a rollover accident on Interstate 80 this weekend that also injured four other people.

The York County Sheriff’s office says 26-year-old Daniela Testa of Omaha died in the one-vehicle crash Saturday morning. The crash happened near the Waco exit on I-80.

Officials say the rear tire of the vehicle blew out, and the vehicle hit a culvert before rolling.

Four other people besides Testa were in the vehicle.

One was flown to an area hospital for treatment and the others were taken by ambulance. Their conditions weren’t immediately available Sunday.