A 22-year-old Omaha man has been charged with manslaughter for the death of a woman in a boating accident near Fremont

Saunders County Attorney Scott Tingelhoff says Sean Salisbury is scheduled to be arraigned on Nov. 13.

Tingelhoff says Salisbury was driving a boat at Woodcliff Lakes south of Fremont when the accident occurred on July 9. The Saunders County Sheriff’s Office says Salisbury got too close to the docks, so he turned sharply. The tube he was towing swung into a boat that was on a lift at the docks.

Authorities say 21-year-old Kayla Linn, of Omaha, was on the tube. She was pronounced dead at a Fremont hospital.

A phone listing for Salisbury couldn’t be found. Online court records don’t list the name of his attorney.

More than 21,000 electricity customers are without power in the Denver area and northern Colorado after a powerful wind storm.

Xcel Energy says the blackouts affected about 50,000 customers in Denver, Fort Collins and Greeley starting at 10 p.m. Tuesday. Crews restored service to most by mid-day Wednesday.

The company expects to have everyone online Wednesday afternoon.

The National Weather Service expects sustained winds of 25 to 40 mph with gusts of up to 60 mph possible across eastern Colorado Wednesday.

The wind and low humidity prompted forecasters to issue a red flag warning for eastern and southeastern Colorado, meaning the danger of fire is very high to extreme.

A listeria outbreak that triggered a recent cheese recall has contributed to the death of an elderly Nebraska woman.

A spokeswoman for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services confirmed Monday that the state has seen one case associated with the outbreak, which involved ricotta salata cheese.

The woman was in her late 80s and lived in west-central Nebraska. She died in July. State health officials say they were unable to confirm whether she had eaten the cheese.

Listeria is a bacterial infection usually spread through food. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have identified 20 cases in 13 states as of last week. Four people have died, and 19 have been hospitalized.

Frescolina Marte brand ricotta salata cheese was recalled from stores last month.

An Adams County supervisor is recovering after he was rushed to a Hastings hospital when he became unresponsive during a board meeting.

Dale Curtis, 65, was taken by ambulance to Mary Lanning Healthcare Tuesday morning. He became unresponsive at the beginning of the meeting. The Hastings Tribune says Curtis was in a chair and appeared to have fallen asleep. Supervisors tried to wake him, but he was unresponsive.

Officials called 911 and a defibrillator was obtained from the courthouse. A sheriff’s deputy assisted at the scene until emergency crews arrived. Curtis was revived and speaking by the time he was taken out of the building.

A hospital spokeswoman said Curtis was listed in stable condition late Tuesday afternoon.

Nebraska has awarded $2.7 million in grants to cities for local public works and water treatment projects.

Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy announced that eight cities will receive community development block grants. The federal grant money is administered by the Nebraska Department of Economic Development.

The money will help pay for projects in Loup City, Sidney, South Sioux City, Taylor, Walthill, Crawford, Haigler and North Loup. Cities will use the money for sidewalk and street upgrades, new wastewater treatment plants and water storage facilities. The city of Walthill will receive a new fire station.

A 42-year-old man has been given 30 to 35 years in prison for raping a 9-year-old boy in Hastings.

A jury convicted Luis Gonzalez-Hernandez in May of first-degree sexual assault of a child. He was sentenced on Monday.

The boy testified that Gonzalez-Hernandez was staying with the boy’s family in Hastings in September last year. The boy says he was home alone with Gonzalez-Hernandez when the man grabbed him, carried him into a spare bedroom and raped him.

The boy says his mother came home and found the two of them in bed together.

Gonzalez-Hernandez testified that he had fallen asleep that day and awoke to find the naked boy in bed with him.

Two California men face drug charges in Nebraska after a traffic stop on Interstate 80 led state troopers to over $500,000 worth of methamphetamine hidden in a spare tire.

The patrol says a trooper stopped a westbound car for following too close on Monday near the Utica interchange. A search turned up 12 packages of meth, which weighed over 17 pounds.

The driver, Fausto Jacques Jr., of Chula Vista, Calif., and a passenger, Francisco Frias-Felix, of San Ysidro, Calif., were booked in the Seward County jail on a charge of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver.

Their cases on not on the online court system, and it’s unclear if they have an attorney.

A noted horticulturist who founded a nationally known nursery in eastern Nebraska has died after an explosion at his home in Clarkson.

Officials say 76-year-old Harlan Hamernik was pronounced dead a little before 11 p.m. Monday at a Lincoln hospital. The explosion and fire were reported around 8:15 p.m. Monday.

Colfax County Attorney Denise Kracl says Hamernik suffered severe burns. She said Tuesday that there won’t be an autopsy. No injuries to anyone else have been reported.

The cause of the explosion and fire are still being investigated.

Hamernik and his wife founded Bluebird Nursery in 1958. He also served as mayor of Clarkson and on the village board.

The Omaha school board’s lawyer has been cleared of allegations about her handling of the scandal over explicit emails sent by the woman hired to be the district’s next superintendent.

The Omaha World-Herald reports that Omaha school board President Freddie Gray, at Monday night’s board meeting, shared the response from the Nebraska Supreme Court’s Counsel for Discipline.

Former state Sen. Ernie Chambers had filed a grievance alleging negligence by attorney Elizabeth Eynon-Kokrda , saying she should have informed the entire board about emails sent on a district computer by Nancy Sebring before she left the Des Moines district for the Omaha post.

Eynon-Kokrda had conferred only with Gray. Gray and Eynon-Kokrda have said Sebring minimized what she’d done, so they didn’t share the information with the board.

Nebraska’s child and family services director says the call centers that handle requests for food stamps, Medicaid and other public benefits are understaffed.

Thomas Pristow told a legislative panel Tuesday that staffing at the centers has not kept pace with the number of programs now handled by its employees. The state runs four customer centers that process applications for 16 public-benefit programs.

The call centers have received mixed reviews since the program was launched in 2010. Call times have trended downward, but some users still complain about long waits and mix-ups that caused them to lose their benefits.

A new law requires the state to offer face-to-face services as well as the call centers. Lawmakers have said they’ll likely push for more changes next year.