OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A western Iowa woman has been sentenced in Nebraska to five years’ probation for being an accessory to a 2016 road-rage shooting death.

19-year-old Page Green, of Council Bluffs, was sentenced Wednesday. She had pleaded no contest to being an accessory to a homicide in the shooting death of 32-year-old Cristian Pastrana-Marin.

Last year, 21-year-old Darwin Johnson of Omaha was sentenced to up to 60 years in prison for the fatal shooting.

Police say Pastrana-Marin and Green got into a dispute in which Pastrana-Marin honked at her after one car cut off the other on U.S. Highway 75 near downtown Omaha. At a red light, Johnson got out of Green’s vehicle and fired seven times at Pastrana-Marin, hitting him once in the head.

DORCHESTER, Neb. (AP) — A former schoolteacher in southeast Nebraska has pleaded not guilty to one sexual assault and two sexual abuse charges.

Court records say 41-year-old Matthew Hoffman, of Dorchester, entered the pleas Wednesday in Saline County District Court. No trial date has been set, but a pretrial conference is scheduled for May 2.

Law enforcement accounts that led to Hoffman’s arrest have been sealed from public view.

Hoffman is chairman of the Dorchester village board of trustees. He resigned his Crete High School position last month.

YORK, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say two young men have died in a collision at an intersection near York in eastern Nebraska.

The accident occurred around 10:40 p.m. Wednesday about a mile (2 kilometers) east of York. Sheriff’s Lt. Paul Vrbka says an eastbound pickup truck hit a northbound car that didn’t halt at a stop sign.

The York News-Times reports that the two men in the car were pronounced dead at the scene. Vrbka identified the driver as 19-year-old Dylan Quast, of Columbus. His passenger was identified as 18-year-old Jacob Barnett, of Stromsburg.

Vrbka says the pickup driver was taken to York General Hospital for treatment of injuries not believed to be life-threatening. He’s been identified as 19-year-old Braxton Nunnenkamp, of York.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say a 5-year-old boy has died after a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 80 in Omaha.

Police say the crash happened around 5:15 a.m. Tuesday when a car was rear-ended by a semitrailer on the interstate near 72nd Street.

The crash critically injured 5-year-old Cameron Philpott, who had been in the back seat of the car. The boy later died at a hospital of his injuries, and an autopsy has been scheduled.

Police say neither the driver of the car nor the driver of the semi was hurt.

The crash is still under investigation.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The second trial of a former public address announcer at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln has begun with his lawyer saying no crimes were committed.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports that Patrick Combs’ attorney, Bob Creager, said during his opening statement Tuesday in Lincoln that, “There is simply no crime here whatsoever.”

Prosecutors say Combs took thousands of dollars from an elderly widow suffering from Alzheimer’s before her 2015 death. Combs has countered that the woman and her husband thought of him as a son and encouraged him to spend estate money earmarked for him in their will — money that would otherwise be taxed.

The 52-year-old Combs’ first trial on theft and other charges ended in a mistrial.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 35-year-old man has been convicted of beating and stabbing to death his aunt in Omaha more than 10 years ago.

A jury found Charles Simmer guilty Monday of first-degree murder in the slaying of 50-year-old Joy Blanchard in her home in November 2007.

Authorities say he’d been a suspect since her death, but prosecutors weren’t able to assemble a convincing case until additional DNA tests in 2016 further implicated him. Also, a high school friend of Simmer told police after Simmer was arrested that he’d told her in 2008 that he’d killed someone.

Simmer’s conviction brings a life sentence.

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — Another of the three people suspected in the slaying of a Hastings man has pleaded not guilty.

Court records say 19-year-old Deante Mullen, of Lincoln, entered his pleas Monday in Adams County District Court to charges of first-degree murder and to use of a firearm. His next court appearance is scheduled for April 9.

Mullen and 21-year-old Daniel Harden, of Hastings, are accused of shooting to death 19-year-old Jose “Joey” Hansen on Sept. 11 during a robbery attempt. Hansen’s body was found by a couple out for a walk.

Mullen’s girlfriend at the time, 21-year-old Katherine Creigh, of Hastings, faces an accessory charge. She’s accused of helping Mullen and Harden avoid arrest after the shooting. Her next hearing is scheduled for April 16.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Two endangered Sumatran tigers will top the food chain when they arrive at a zoo in Lincoln this fall.

The two are brothers from separate births at the San Diego Zoo. One is 2 years old; the other is six months older.

They’re being added to the collection at Lincoln Children’s Zoo and will star in the zoo’s $16 million expansion. The zoo’s new habitats and exhibits should be finished by spring 2019.

Sumatran tigers are the world’s most endangered tigers. Experts estimate there are fewer than 500 remaining in the wilds of Sumatra and about 90 in captivity around the world.

DAKOTA CITY, Neb. (AP) — A judge has granted a prosecutors’ request to force a homicide defendant to take anti-psychotic medication.

The judge ruled Friday the drugs will give psychiatrists treating Andres Surber a chance to definitively determine his mental competency

Surber has pleaded not guilty to murder and related charges for the slaying of 41-year-old Kraig Kubik at Kubik’s home in Emerson. Another man charged, Brayan Galvan-Hernandez, has been sentenced to 50 to 60 years in prison.

A judge ruled in April that Surber was not mentally competent to stand trial.

A doctor said in a Feb. 1 memo that Surber has stopped taking his medication for long periods of time and said he suspects Surber is “malingering for the purpose of avoiding punishment.”

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The city of Lincoln has dropped its legal effort to recover lawsuit settlement money paid to a couple who said police wrongly seized $224,000 in cash and coins from their home.

Court records say the lawsuit against David Tarrence and Tamara Geis was dismissed Feb. 20 at the city’s request. The records don’t outline any settlement, and lawyers for both sides have declined to comment.

Tarrence and Geis received more than $50,000 from the city in November. Their lawsuit said police entered their home in 2014 without a warrant and forced the couple to leave while officers waited for one.

The city lawsuit alleged Tarrence violated a confidentiality agreement. The city says he was recorded on video on Dec. 8 telling convenience store clerks that he “won” his lawsuit and that police “broke” his and Geis’ civil rights.