LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Latest on the case of a Nebraska man charged with assisting in his girlfriend’s suicide (all times local):

1 p.m.

A friend of a Florida woman who flew to Nebraska to kill herself says the woman never mentioned to him that she had been diagnosed with cancer.

Kenny Johnson, of Orange City, Florida, said Tuesday that 38-year-old Alicia Wilemon-Sullivan was a hard-working single mom who only ever mentioned pain in her feet.

Johnson says Wilemon-Sullivan texted him on July 31 to tell him she was going on vacation and needed him to watch her children until Aug. 3. He says he met her at the airport and she gave him $200 and her truck keys.

He says she was “bawling” and told him it was because she was going to miss her children. Three of the four still lived with her.

Authorities say she killed herself in a wooded area near Weeping Water, Nebraska, on Aug. 1. Her boyfriend Matthew Stubbendieck told investigators she had told him she had late-stage cancer.

He is charged with helping her kill herself.

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12:50 p.m.

An investigator says a Nebraska man accused of helping his Florida girlfriend kill herself was “pretty convincing in his interviews” that he believed she had cancer of the lymph nodes.

Lt. Larry Burke of the Cass County sheriff’s office said Tuesday that Matthew J. Stubbendieck appears to have accepted 38-year-old Alicia Wilemon-Sullivan’s word that she had late-stage cancer. But he says the 41-year-old Stubbendieck never contacted the authorities while he and his girlfriend were planning her death.

Burke says authorities don’t believe the Orange City, Florida, woman had cancer because an autopsy found no tumors. The cause of death was undetermined, but the autopsy found no sign of blunt force trauma and concluded that cuts on her forearms and wrists appeared to be self-inflicted.

Wilemon-Sullivan also had alcohol, painkillers and cold medicine in her system.

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7:50 a.m.

Investigators say a Nebraska man facing an assisted suicide charge in his Florida girlfriend’s death said he believed she had stage-four cancer, but an autopsy didn’t find any tumors.

Cass County sheriff’s deputies charged 41-year-old Matthew J. Stubbendieck, of Weeping Water, last week in the death of 38-year-old Alicia Wilemon-Sullivan of Orange City, Florida.

Authorities said Stubbendieck reported that Wilemon-Sullivan had killed herself and led them to her body Aug. 5 in a wooded area near Weeping Water, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southwest of Omaha. They said the couple arranged for Wilemon-Sullivan to fly to Nebraska from her home near Orlando to kill herself on Aug. 1.

Investigators say Stubbendieck believed his girlfriend had stage-four cancer in the lymph nodes of her neck, armpit and stomach. But an autopsy didn’t find any cancerous masses or tumors.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A murder charge has been filed in the case of a missing Peru State College student who disappeared nearly seven years ago.

The Nebraska Attorney General’s office says that 36-year-old Joshua Keadle has been charged with first-degree murder, accused of killing 19-year-old Tyler “Ty” Thomas.

Thomas disappeared in the early morning hours of Dec. 3, 2010, after leaving a party near the southeast Nebraska campus. Authorities say Keadle, a fellow student, told them he and Thomas had sex in his vehicle that night, and Keadle later told investigators Thomas threatened to report he had raped her.

The state issued a death certificate for Thomas in 2013, even though her body has not been found. The attorney general’s office declined to comment on whether Thomas’ remains or any new evidence had been found.

Keadle is currently serving 15 to 20 years for the 2008 rape of a 15-year-old girl.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 44-year-old Lincoln man has been sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison for arranging to meet with a prostitute he believed was 15 years old.

44-year-old Nathan Meister was sentenced Tuesday in Lancaster County District Court after pleading guilty to attempted child enticement.

Meister had sought a two to four-year sentence, saying he was seeking treatment. But the judge said Meister was already a registered sex offender for a similar offense in Nebraska — actions that got him dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Air Force in 2009.

Police say Meister tried to meet with a girl who was actually an undercover officer in September 2016.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — An eastern Nebraska man won’t be prosecuted for the shooting death of his wife.

Authorities say 72-year-old Dennis Teague was cleaning his .22-caliber pistol Thursday afternoon at their Sarpy County home when the gun fired. The bullet struck his wife, 68-year-old Afton Teague, in the head. She was pronounced dead at an Omaha hospital.

Sarpy County Attorney Lee Polikov said in a news release Tuesday evening that an investigation showed neither the intent to shoot nor reckless disregard on the part of Dennis Teague.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a fire has heavily damaged an apartment building in northern Lincoln.

The blaze at the Black Sand Apartment Homes was reported around 5 a.m. Wednesday and more than a dozen firetrucks eventually were dispatched as flames leaped from the roof.

No injuries have been reported.

The fire was brought under control by 6:15 a.m. The fire cause is being investigated.

WEEPING WATER, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man faces an assisted suicide charge after authorities say he helped his girlfriend kill herself in the woods.

Cass County sheriff’s deputies charged 41-year-old Matthew J. Stubbendieck of Weeping Water in the death of 38-year-old Alicia Wilemon-Sullivan of Florida.

Authorities say Stubbendieck reported that Wilemon-Sullivan had killed herself and led them to her body Aug. 5 in a wooded area near Weeping Water, about 25 miles (40.23 kilometers) southwest of Omaha. They say the couple arranged for Wilemon-Sullivan to fly to Nebraska from her home near Orlando to kill herself on Aug. 1.

According to court documents, Stubbendieck believed his girlfriend had cancer. But a pathologist who performed an autopsy on her didn’t report any tumors.

Court records do not show whether Stubbendieck has an attorney.

MARYSVILLE, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have captured two inmates who are accused of obtaining two shotguns while escaping from a Kansas jail near the state’s northern border with Nebraska.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says 46-year-old Jeffrey Guenther and 30-year-old Matson Hatfield escaped Saturday from the Marshall County Jail after a fire was lit in a cell.

The KBI says Hatfield fled to a nearby home and surrendered a short time later. A pickup truck also was stolen at gunpoint from a civilian county employee. The KBI says Guenther was arrested after rolling the truck in rural Gage County, Nebraska.

The KBI says shots were fired at a Kansas fire department truck and at a man in front of a home. No one was hurt, and no charges have been filed in the escape.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Officials in a southeast Nebraska county are crafting a policy that would allow people to buy a sign commemorating a loved one’s death instead of creating private, personal roadside memorials.

Lancaster County Engineer Pam Dingman says the proposal would allow people to choose from three varieties of blue, rectangular roadside signs. The signs would include the name of the person who died and a reminder to drive safely.

The sign would be posted for three years and cost the person’s survivors about $100.

Dingman says private roadside memorials can create safety hazards because county roads aren’t meant to have people stopping to drop things off. She says the proposed signs are a safe way to pay tribute to those who died on county roads.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Officials are starting to remove the rubble remains of a Lincoln home that was torn apart by a fatal explosion in August.

Neighbors complained to city officials and American Family Insurance about the lack of action in addressing the debris. A spokeswoman for the home insurer said Thursday the company has ordered cleanup to begin.

The Aug. 14 explosion leveled the home of Jim and Jeanne Jasa. Jeanne Jasa died as a result of the blast. Jim Jasa was still hospitalized as of Thursday.

Lincoln police are still investigating what caused the natural gas-fed blast. Police are treating it as a criminal investigation.

The insurance spokeswoman says contractors could begin removing debris as early as Friday. She doesn’t know how long the job will take.

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal authorities have arrested a man after what officials say is was the largest seizure of the drug fentanyl ever in Nebraska.

Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested 27-year-old Edgar Navarro-Aguirre on Wednesday after seizing about 33 pounds of the drug, which is an opioid up to 50 times more potent than heroin. Even tiny doses of the drug can be fatal.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says Navarro-Aguirre was traveling on an Amtrak train and was waiting at the Omaha station when agents noticed a suspicious bag. After getting approval to search the bag, they found the fentanyl.

Navarro-Aguirre faces charges of possession with intent to distribute a substance containing fentanyl. His initial federal court appearance will be Friday afternoon.

It wasn’t clear if he has a lawyer who could discuss the matter.

The potential street value was estimated at around $15 million.