DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The city of Council Bluffs is suing the federal government to stop a Native American tribe from building a casino just seven miles away in Carter Lake.

City attorney Richard Wade says in U.S. District Court documents that a Ponca Tribe of Nebraska casino would compete with state-licensed casinos in Council Bluffs and cut into millions of dollars in fees, taxes and charitable contributions that benefit the city’s residents.

The National Indian Gaming Commission and the U.S. Interior Department cleared the way for the tribe’s casino plan in November.

Wade claims in documents filed Wednesday that federal laws prohibit a casino on the tribe’s Carter Lake land.

The casino, to include 2,000 slot machines and a 150-room hotel, would create about 1,500 jobs.

A Ponca tribe spokesman didn’t immediately respond to a message.

LA VISTA, Neb. (AP) — The driver of a loaded concrete truck that tipped onto a car near Omaha, killing two people, has been charged with two counts of felony motor vehicle homicide.

20-year-old Austin Holloway, of Fremont, turned himself in Friday evening and was booked into the Sarpy County Jail.

In filing the charges, the Sarpy County Attorney’s Office says Holloway was driving recklessly and too fast on Oct. 25 in La Vista when the fatal crash occurred.

Investigators say Holloway was driving east on Giles Road in La Vista when he made a sharp right turn. That called the loaded concrete truck to tip and land on a northbound car stopped at a traffic light, killing driver Michael Dearden and passenger Phillip Hertel, both 23.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A judge has set bail at $150,000 for a Lincoln High School girls basketball coach and staffer accused of sexually assaulting a student in a classroom last week.

Bail was set Friday for33-year-old Marcus Perry, who has been paid administrative leave since Tuesday and was arrested Thursday at his home on suspicion of first-degree sexual assault of a student.

Police say the 17-year-old student told school officials and officers that Perry touched her genitals in an in-school suspension room on Dec. 7. Officials say in a written statement that the incident did not involve a member of the basketball team.

It was not clear Saturday whether Perry yet had an attorney.

BOYS TOWN, Neb. (AP) — Boys Town celebrated 100 years of caring for children this month.

The famous facility filled a time capsule with letters, artwork, commemorative objects, a yearbook and other items to mark the occasion. It is slated to be opened 100 years from now.

The facility was started in Omaha in 1917 by Father Edward Flanagan as an orphanage for troubled boys. It was made famous in the 1938 movie starring Spencer Tracey and Mickey Rooney.

Today, Boys Town is a national organization that operates sites around the country and serves girls and families as well as boys.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A fifth-grader from Nebraska has won a national contest to design a poster reminding people to lock up household poisons.

The Nebraska Regional Poison Center says Daisy Villatoro won the contest’s middle division for third, fourth and fifth graders.

Villatoro is a student at Knickrehm Elementary in Grand Island, Nebraska.

Her artwork will be featured on the national poster for poison prevention week in March. Her poster encouraged people to “Bee Smart” and lock up household poisons where children can’t get them.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln officials are expected to approve city building code changes that would allow some residents to build tiny homes, guest houses and small studios on their property.

The City Council will vote on the proposal on Monday.

Areas that are zoned for duplexes and single-family homes would be allowed to add a small, one-bedroom addition of no more than 800 square feet (74 square meters).

Ann Post is an attorney for the Home Builders Association of Lincoln. She says builders have had more requests for smaller houses alongside a larger family home, often because families are now caring for elderly family members.

Local builder Dan Klein says allowing smaller homes on more lots will give more flexibility when meeting families’ needs.

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — The city of Hastings has sworn in its new chief of police.

Dozens of people turned out Wednesday to see Chief Adam Story take the oath of office.

Last month, the City Council voted unanimously to hire Story as police chief to replace Pete Kortum, who is retiring and plans to move to Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Story has been with the Hastings Police department for 22 years and was in the running for the top job five years ago when Kortum was hired.

Story says the last five years have given him the opportunity to grow and prepare to the position of police chief.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Officials say no one was injured in a fire at a commercial bakery in Omaha.

The fire was reported just before 9:00 a.m. Thursday at Rotella’s Italian Bakery in southwest Omaha.

Arriving firefighters found an oven inside the bakery had caught fire. It took firefighters less than 20 minutes to bring the blaze under control.

The bakery said it would be back up and running by Thursday afternoon.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 23-year-old Lincoln man has pleaded not guilty to being an accessory in the shooting death last year of another man.

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Michael Stuart entered the written plea in Lancaster County District Court, where he had been set to be arraigned Wednesday. Stuart faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

Prosecutors say Stuart concealed and destroyed evidence from the house where 41-year-old Jamie Watson was killed on Dec. 14, 2016.

Stuart is one of 10 people charged in connection with the death. The man believed to have pulled the trigger, 33-year-old Jamez Henderson, was earlier sentenced to 54 to 65 years in prison for manslaughter and drug charges.

Stuart is already in prison serving a two-year sentence on unrelated charges.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police have announced an arrest in the death of a man whose body was found last month in a vehicle in a police station parking lot.

Police said Wednesday that an 18-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder and use of a weapon to commit a felony. Formal charges did not appear Wednesday in online court records.

Police found the body of 29-year-old Julio Cesar-Ortega on Nov. 9 after an officer noticed a vehicle in the lot at the northeast Omaha station around 1 a.m., then saw the body inside.

Homicide investigators suspect Cesar-Ortega was injured elsewhere and drove himself to the station, where he died.

Police have not released details about the crime, but Cesar-Ortega’s family members say he had been shot.