CLEARWATER, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say an 83-year-old woman died after the car she was in collided with a front end loader in northeast Nebraska.

The accident occurred Thursday on U.S. Highway 275 in Clearwater. The Antelope County Sheriff’s Office says a westbound car driven by 85-year-old Clayton Johnson struck the westbound loader as the loader slowed to turn north onto another street.

The Sheriff’s Office says Johnson and his wife, Lois, were taken to Antelope Memorial Hospital in Neligh (NEE’-lee), where Lois subsequently died. She’d lived in O’Neill with her husband. It’s unclear whether the loader driver was injured.

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BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 51-year-old Bellevue woman may have lain dead in her home for a week before family members found her.

Family members found Beverly Diane Bauermeister dead on her living room floor Thursday evening. Police say her body showed signs of significant trauma.

Later that night, police found Bauermeister’s 56-year-old live-in boyfriend, Alan Stack, in her car and arrested him. He has been charged with second-degree murder.

No attorney for Stack is listed in online court records. He remained jailed Saturday and could not be reached for comment.

Court records show that in 2010, Bauermeister applied for a protection order against Stack, saying he had beaten her.

Stack’s initial court appearance in the case is set for Monday.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium officials say a necropsy performed on a young African elephant that died at the Omaha zoo was unable to determine what caused his untimely death.

The results of the necropsy came back this week, two months after the elephant — named Warren — died under anesthesia to treat a cracked tusk.

Warren was estimated to be 8 or 9 years old when he died. He was one of 17 elephants flown from Swaziland to the U.S. in early 2016 and placed in the Omaha zoo and those in Wichita, Kansas, and Dallas in a controversial effort.

Animal rights group Friends of Animals, which opposes elephants being kept in zoos, unsuccessfully sued to stop the importation of the elephants.

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police in Omaha say they’ve arrested a man suspected of opening fire on an officer, who was not hit.

Omaha police say the shooting happened around 12:45 p.m. Saturday just north of midtown.

Police say the officer was in an unmarked vehicle when he saw a man he knew to be a gang member holding a gun. The officer radioed for backup and was putting on a tactical vest that identifies him as a police officer when the man came around the corner and fired a barrage of shots.

The police vehicle was hit by several rounds, but the officer was not. Another unoccupied parked vehicle was also hit. Police say the officer did not fire his weapon.

Police say the suspect was soon found and arrested.

The officer was treated for cuts from flying glass.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A death penalty sentencing hearing has again been delayed for a former doctor convicted of killing four people connected to an Omaha medical school.

A three-judge panel had been set to hold the hearing in the case of Anthony Garcia at the end of this month. On Thursday, a judge pushed the two-day hearing back to March 12 at the request of defense attorneys, who say they need more time to prepare.

The three-judge panel will determine whether Garcia is sentenced to death or to life in prison. He was convicted last year of killing the 11-year-old son and a housekeeper of Creighton University faculty member William Hunter in 2008, and killing pathology doctor Roger Brumback and his wife in 2013.

Prosecutors say Garcia blamed Hunter and Brumback for his 2001 firing from Creighton’s pathology residency program.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say an Omaha man has died following a two-vehicle crash at a southwestern city intersection.

Police say 60-year-old Jose Gil-Rodriguez died from injuries he received in the 5 a.m. Thursday crash.

Investigators say a 34-year-old driver ran a red light at the intersection, colliding with Gil-Rodriguez’s car. The older man was taken to an Omaha hospital, where he died.

The other driver was treated for cuts and scrapes.

No charges had been filed by early Friday.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Crete man has been charged with felony theft, accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Lincoln contractor.

Mark Ackerman was arrested Thursday by Lincoln police.

Officer Angela Sands says Vertical Horizons Contracting Inc. reported the theft to police on Oct. 15.

Last month, the company sued Ackerman, asking a Lancaster County District judge to order him to repay nearly $108,600. The contractor services the telecom, manufacturing, oil and gas, and utility industries. The lawsuit says Ackerman began working there in October 2007 and was fired Oct. 13. Company officials believe the company’s loss might exceed $400,000.

Ackerman has been released on bond.

Ackerman’s attorney, Justin Kalemkiarian (kal-em-CAHR’-ee-an) of Lincoln, declined to comment Friday on the case.

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BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — Police have arrested a man in connection with the death of a woman found at a Bellevue mobile home park.

Bellevue police on Thursday night arrested 56-year-old Alan Stack on suspicion of second-degree murder.

The charges followed the death of Stack’s girlfriend, 51-year-old Beverly Bauermeister. Relatives of Bauermeister had called police after finding her body Thursday afternoon in her mobile home.

Police found Stack in Bauermeister’s vehicle and booked him into the Sarpy County Jail.