MADISON, Neb. (AP) — A trial has been scheduled for a Norfolk woman accused of killing her 4-year-old daughter.

Court records say the trial of 22-year-old Carla Montoya is set to begin Nov. 1. On Monday she waived her right to a jury trial, so a district judge in Madison County will hear the evidence and render a verdict.

Montoya has pleaded not guilty to intentional child abuse resulting in death. Prosecutors say Montoya told police she had tossed her 4-year-old daughter, Caylee, into a bed three times on March 12 and that the girl may have hit her head on the bed frame or a wall.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of a 15-year-old boy whose family sued the Nebraska State Patrol to keep him from being put on the state’s public sex offender registry for a juvenile case in Minnesota.

The boy in the lawsuit was 11 when adjudicated for criminal sexual conduct in juvenile court in Minnesota. As a result, his name went on a part of the state’s predatory offender list visible only to police.

The boy registered with the State Patrol when he moved to Nebraska because state law says all sex offenders who move there must publicly register, regardless of age.

Attorney Joshua Weir, who represents the boy, said Monday that common sense has prevailed.

WAHOO, Neb. (AP) — A grand jury will investigate the death of a Saunders County Jail inmate who a sheriff says declined some medical treatment.

Authorities say 45-year-old Robert Imus died in a hospital Saturday evening after being found unresponsive in his cell. Nebraska law requires a grand jury investigation whenever someone dies in custody.

Imus had been arrested in Dodge County on drug charges Wednesday. Saunders County Sheriff Kevin Stukenholtz said Monday that Imus refused to eat or take insulin for his diabetes while in the Fremont jail. The sheriff says Imus was taken to a hospital, where doctors declared him fit for confinement at the Saunders County Jail, which holds Dodge County inmates detained longer than 24 hours.

Stukenholtz says Imus eventually ate and consented to treatment but then took ill Saturday.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln woman has been given 10 to 15 years in prison for pandering of a minor.

Court records say 34-year-old Jacqueline Stebbins was sentenced Monday in Lancaster County District Court in Lincoln. She’d pleaded guilty to one count. Prosecutors dropped two other counts in exchange for Stebbins’ plea.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports that the 17-year-old girl involved told investigators she had sex for money with about three people a day for around a month before the police answered an online ad placed by Stebbins.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska prison officials say an inmate punched and kicked one of their staff members in the face and then fled when other employees arrived to intervene.

Officials say the assault took place Monday in a dining hall at the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution. They say the staff member suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

Officials say the injured staffer was punched in the face several times and fell to the group, at which time the inmate kicked the staff member. The inmate, who was not publicly identified, was restrained by other staff members shortly after the assault.

Prison officials say the Nebraska State Patrol is investigating and will provide details to a local prosecutor to see whether charges should be filed.

RANDOLPH, Neb. (AP) — The mayor of a northeast Nebraska city has been charged with intentional child abuse and four counts of child sexual abuse.

Court records say 61-year-old Dwayne Schutt has bonded out of custody. He declined to comment Monday when reached at a Randolph number listed for him in court records. Schutt’s attorney didn’t immediately return a call from The Associated Press.

A court appearance for Schutt is scheduled Wednesday in Hartington.

Schutt has been mayor of Randolph since 2011. The Cedar County city has about 940 residents.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nearly all of the Nebraska prisoners serving life without parole for crimes they committed as juveniles got new sentences in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, but for some it made little difference.

Nebraska lawmakers overhauled the state’s sentencing laws in 2013 in response to the high court’s ruling the previous year that banned mandatory life sentences for crimes committed at age 17 or younger.

The law eliminated mandatory life without parole for juveniles and set a new sentencing range of 40 years to life for those who commit first-degree murder or kidnapping.

However, some inmates received new sentences of 80 or 90 years to life, which critics say is effectively a life sentence.

TECUMSEH, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska inmate charged in the strangulation death of his cellmate and now facing the death penalty has fired his attorneys and pleaded guilty to first-degree murder.

Patrick Schroeder entered the plea Friday, telling a judge that he wants to represent himself and drop his legal challenges to the death penalty.

Schroeder is charged in the April death of 22-year-old Terry Berry Jr. Prosecutors said Friday that Schroeder and Berry had been sharing a cell for less than a week when Berry was killed. Schroeder confirmed at the hearing that he had grown intolerant of Berry’s constant talking and strangled him with a towel.

Schroeder is already serving life for the 2006 killing of 75-year-old Pawnee City farmer Kenneth Albers.