PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A Bellevue man accused of causing the death of his 5-month-old daughter has pleaded guilty.

22-year-old Camron Ludi entered the plea Tuesday in Sarpy County District Court to a charge of negligent child abuse resulting in death. He had been charged with intentional child abuse resulting in death. He’s scheduled to be sentenced in October.

His daughter, Cassidy, died in July last year. Court records say Ludi told investigators that he put the baby on his bed and went outside to smoke a cigarette. He says she was crying on the floor when he returned. She died hours later at a hospital.

A pathologist testified at a hearing that Cassidy’s injuries were inconsistent with a 30-inch fall onto a rug.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a Creighton University student and resident of Minnesota traveling in Nebraska to see a total solar eclipse has died in crash on Interstate 80.

19-year-old Joan Ocampo-Yambing, of Rosemount, Minnesota, was in the back seat of a car on Interstate 80 in Omaha on Monday morning when a semitrailer slammed into the back of the car, causing a four-vehicle pileup. Ocampo-Yambing died in the crash. Three other Creighton students in the car and two people in another car were seriously injured.

More than 800 people filled a church on the Creighton University campus in Omaha on Monday evening to mourn Ocampo-Yambing.

She was a computer science major who would have started her sophomore year at Creighton this week. She was a dean’s fellow at the university and also was involved in campus ministry, helping to tend to students’ spiritual and religious needs.

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BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — Classes have begun at a new high school in eastern Nebraska where teachers will serve more as mentors who challenge and engage students instead of lecturing.

Nearly a dozen ninth-graders from Omaha and Bellevue started school Tuesday at Next Generation Learning Academy on Bellevue University’s campus. Academy Chief Learning Officer Ray Ravaglia says all students are on scholarships.

The academy uses student-driven curriculum developed by nonprofit Opportunity Education. It’s designed to move away from lecture- and memorization-based lessons and toward comprehension-focused ones. Students work on projects individually or with a mentor instead of listening to a teacher speak to the class.

The school is the first NGL Academy to open in the country and will be followed by another school in California next month.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a gymnastics coach accused of producing child pornography in Nebraska and arrested this summer in Kansas is back in Omaha after fighting extradition.

Prosecutors say 27-year-old Bryce Fogg photographed and videotaped females without their knowledge while he worked at a gym in Omaha. Police reports say he’d recorded images of a 14-year-old girl and 22-year-old woman in “private compromising positions” without their consent.

He was arrested in July in Emporia, Kansas, where he’d moved for another coaching job.

Fogg is charged with one count of visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct of a child. His next court hearing is set for Aug. 23.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say an 8-year-old child has been fatally injured while walking across a street in east Omaha.

The accident was reported around 4:20 p.m. Monday. Police say the child didn’t enter the street at a crosswalk and was struck by a passing car.

Police say the child was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at a hospital. The child has been identified as Jalen Duncan, who lived in Omaha. The car driver has been identified as 23-year-old Noel Rangel.

The accident is being investigated. No arrest or citation has been reported.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have blamed lightning for a fire that damaged a University of Nebraska-Lincoln fraternity building.

The fire was reported around 8 a.m. Sunday and took about 20 minutes to control. Fire Capt. Dave Engl says the building is rented to Kappa Sigma for office space.

No injuries have been reported. Damage was estimated at $50,000.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — As local governmental units prepare to vote on budgets and set property tax rates for next year, Lincoln officials are struggling with what to do about a property tax windfall.

Lincoln City Council passed a resolution in March defining windfall as the increased property tax revenue resulting from the higher residential property valuations.

Lincoln has seen a nearly 9 percent valuation increase from last year due to rising home prices and the county assessor’s decision to reassess residences across the area one year ahead of schedule.

Some City Council candidates promised this spring to shield property tax payers from the windfall.

The Lincoln Independent Business Association PAC says local elected officials should reduce tax rates and not tap into the windfall.

MEMPHIS, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 16-year-old has been fatally injured and another hospitalized after a car crash in eastern Nebraska.

The accident was reported around 5:30 p.m. Sunday, about 2 miles (3 kilometers) south of Memphis in southeast Saunders County. The Sheriff’s Office says the northbound vehicle went out of control and rolled several times.

The Sheriff’s Office says passenger Nolan Thomas Beckenhauer, of Ceresco, was pronounced dead after being flown to a hospital. The driver, Conner David Buettner, of Manley, has been reported in stable condition at an Omaha hospital.

YORK, Neb. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a man who apparently was struck by a vehicle on a rural road in York County.

Deputies found the man’s body in a roadside ditch Saturday night, about 3 miles (5 kilometers) west of York. They’d been sent to check a report about an abandoned vehicle, which was found on the roadway.

Sheriff Dale Radcliff identified the victim as 41-year-old Chad K. Chapman, of York.

The driver of the vehicle believed to have hit Chapman contacted the sheriff’s department and that the matter was now considered a “hit accident.” He says it initially had been handled as a hit and run.

Radcliff says an autopsy was performed Sunday.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Officials say a middle school teacher in Omaha, Nebraska, was killed in a three-vehicle crash.

Millard Public Schools says Rhodes died in the accident about 6 p.m. Saturday in western Douglas County.

The district says Rhodes worked for the school system for 24 years and was currently a sixth-grade science and social studies teacher at Peter Kiewit Middle School.

Sheriff’s deputies say the crash happened when a truck sideswiped a car and crashed into a sport utility vehicle.

Several other people were injured, though their medical statuses were not immediately clear Sunday.