BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — A Gage County judge has ordered the owners of a defunct outdoor wood furnace company to repay part of a loan given the company by the village of Filley.

Local media reports that District Judge Daniel Bryan Jr. issued partial summary judgment in the case on Tuesday, ordering Mark and Kathy Setzer to repay part of the nearly $116,500 loan. The order does not say how much of that loan the Setzers must repay.

The Setzers had owned HeatSource1, which stopped operating in August and filed for bankruptcy in September.

The village of Filley sued in November, saying it delivered a signed promissory note to the company for $236,440. The lawsuit says HeatSource1 failed to make the mandatory scheduled payments and still owes the $116,500, plus interest.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Lincoln Sport Parachute Club will offer tandem skydives later this month to benefit the American Cancer Society.

The Redemption Skydiving Boogie will be held from July 19-22, when people can skydive from one of two Twin Otter airplanes from Arizona that can hold up to 23 skydivers at one time, and achieve higher altitude than the normal jump planes in Nebraska.

That will allow first-time skydivers making a tandem jump to experience a longer, more exciting skydive from 13,000 feet above the ground.

At last year’s event, more than 2,200 skydives were made, including 260 first time jumpers.

More information on the fundraiser may be found online at www.redemptionboogie.com.

MINDEN, Neb. (AP) — One person has died in a rollover crash near Minden in south-central Nebraska.

Local media reports that the crash happened early Wednesday on a rural road seven miles west of Minden.

The Kearney County Sheriff’s office says the person was driving a sport utility vehicle when the SUV left the road, went into a ditch and rolled.

The driver was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators have not released the victim’s name. The crash remains under investigation.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Tim McCoy has been named the new deputy director of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.

McCoy, a native of Arapahoe, begins his new duties immediately.

McCoy came to the agency in 2002, and has been administrator of the wildlife division since March 2011. He has a bachelor’s degree in agriculture from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and master’s degree and doctorate in fish and wildlife from the University of Missouri.

Scott Taylor, the wildlife division assistant administrator for research and analysis, has been named the interim wildlife division administrator.

Levi Krause, a conservation officer from Louisville, has been named the southeast district law enforcement supervisor, and Christy Rasmussen has been selected as the new information and education division administrator.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Lilly Ledbetter, the Alabama woman whose lawsuit led to the federal pay equity law that bears her name, will lead discussion and hold a book-signing at a forum in Omaha.

Ledbetter will be in Omaha on Tuesday for the forum sponsored by the Nebraska Coalition for Constitutional Values.

Ledbetter sued Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. after learning near the end of her 19-year career that she was being paid less than her male colleagues. A jury awarded her more than $3 million in back pay and punitive damages, but a judge later reduced that to $300,000.

In 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, effectively overturning a Supreme Court decision in Ledbetter’s case that had strictly limited workers’ ability to file lawsuits over pay inequity.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha man is accused of impersonating an airline employee at Eppley Airfield.

Local media says Timothy Foster faces federal charges for allegedly using false pretenses to enter secured or restricted areas of an airport.

According to the criminal complaint, Foster pretended to be a United Airlines employee for six weeks starting in April. The complaint says he accessed restricted areas and a computer system of United Airlines and displayed a security badge.

Foster’s alleged scheme started in March after he was offered a voucher for an oversold United Airlines flight. He interacted with a gate agent, saying he was part-time employee for United Airlines who lived in Omaha and commuted to work in Portland, Ore.

Foster’s attorney, Joshua Weir, says the case is blown out of proportion.

YORK, Neb. (AP) — Hundreds of mourners have turned out in York to honor a Marine who was killed in Afghanistan. Twenty-one-year-old Lance Corporal Hunter Hogan died June 23rd during combat operations. He’s from Norman, Indiana but was born in Nebraska, where his father lives. Funeral services were held yesterday.

McCOOK, Neb. (AP) — A car thief tracked down by police using sandwich wrappers he left in the stolen vehicle has been sentenced to nearly eight months in jail.

Local media reports that Merrill Johnston of McCook was sentenced Monday in Red Willow County District Court. Johnston had pleaded guilty to a reduced theft charge and misdemeanor forgery charge in April.

Johnston was implicated after McCook police found a stolen van left in Atwood, Kan. Sandwich wrappers from a Wal-Mart store were found in the van and investigators were able to identify the store. Police obtained a video of Johnston buying the sandwiches with a stolen check, as well as a video of him leaving the store in the stolen van.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court is taking the week off from releasing opinions to observe the July Fourth holiday.

The state’s high court usually issues opinions on Friday morning, but the court announced late Thursday that opinions would not be issued this week.

The high court will resume its usual schedule next week.

CHADRON, Neb. (AP) — A man accused of flooding a western Nebraska jail and causing more than $10,000 in water damage to county offices has pleaded guilty to a felony criminal mischief charge.

Local media reports that Dale Yellow Horse of Pine Ridge, S.D., will be sentenced later this month in Dawes County District Court.

Authorities say the 25-year-old plugged toilets, sinks and a shower while incarcerated on check-forging charges in October. Water overflowed into county offices below the jail.

Authorities say Yellow Horse was upset because he was placed in a different cell while officers handled a fight involving two other inmates. He allegedly accused jailers of violating his rights, and plugged the drains because he felt they weren’t responding to his complaints quickly enough.