OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The mother of a northeast Nebraska slaying suspect has pleaded not guilty to an accessory charge.

38-year-old Natasha Wolfe entered the plea Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Omaha. She’s accused of kicking 32-year-old William Redhorn Jr. once during his fatal fight with her son April 23 in Winnebago on the Winnebago Reservation. Authorities say that after the fight Wolfe let her son, 19-year-old Jeremiah Wolfe, and 21-year-old Lawrencia Merrick go to her house and wash their blood-covered clothes.

Court records say Jeremiah Wolfe reported that a fight broke out between him and Redhorn and that he put Redhorn in a headlock until he quit struggling. Jeremiah Wolfe and Merrick have pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 36-year-old man has been found guilty of drunken driving and other crimes related to an Omaha collision that left his 8-year-old daughter in what prosecutors say is a persistent vegetative state.

Court records say jurors also convicted Benjamin Thompson on Tuesday of three counts of negligent child abuse and one count of failing to stop and render aid after the Oct. 24 collision. He was acquitted of one count of intentional child abuse. The records don’t list a sentencing date.

Prosecutors say it was Thompson’s fifth drunken driving offense. All three girls in the car are his daughters.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A man has pleaded not guilty to charges that he killed a sheriff’s deputy and wounded another while escaping from an Iowa jail.

Online court records say 24-year-old Wesley Correa-Carmenaty filed the written pleas Tuesday to charges of murder, attempted murder, escape, kidnapping and other crimes. His trial in western Iowa’s Pottawattamie County is scheduled to begin July 25.

Authorities say Correa-Carmenaty had just been sentenced on May 1 to 45 years in prison in an unrelated murder case when he managed to grab one of the deputies’ guns while being transferred to the county jail in Council Bluffs. He shot them both and used the jail van to escape.

Authorities say he was recaptured after he carjacked a woman at gunpoint and forced her to drive to Omaha, Nebraska.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 41-year-old Iowa woman has been convicted of killing her romantic rival, who was last seen in Omaha more than four years ago.

A Douglas County judge conducting the nonjury trial found Shanna Golyar, of Persia, Iowa, guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder in the slaying of 37-year-old Cari Farver. Farver disappeared in November 2012, and her body’s not been found. Golyar’s sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 15.

Police say Golyar posed as Farver online and by phone for years after Farver’s disappearance, and also posed as other people confessing to having killed Farver. An officer testified that Farver had been dating Golyar’s ex-boyfriend for some weeks when she disappeared.

Golyar’s lawyer argued that prosecutors presented no evidence that a homicide occurred: no body, no murder weapon and no crime scene.

BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 55-year-old driver has been killed in a collision between his pickup truck and a semitrailer.

The accident occurred around 8:55 a.m. Monday on U.S. Highway 34 south of Bellevue. The Sarpy County Sheriff’s Office says Randy Strode was turning east onto the highway when the passenger side of his pickup was struck by the eastbound big rig.

Strode was pronounced dead at the scene. He lived in Ashland. The trucker was treated for minor injuries at an Omaha hospital. He was identified as 37-year-old Nathan Jongeling, of Omaha.

The crash is being investigated.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Two people have pleaded not guilty to killing a man on northeast Nebraska’s Winnebago Reservation.

Court records say 19-year-old Jeremiah Wolfe and 21-year-old Lawrencia Merrick entered the pleas Monday in U.S. District Court in Omaha. The charge: second-degree murder. No trial date has been set.

The records say 32-year-old William Redhorn Jr. was slain early on April 23 in Winnebago. An autopsy shows that he’d been strangled but also suffered head trauma.

The records say the two had told tribal police that they’d come upon Redhorn outside a building he was trying to break into and approached him when he wouldn’t stop. Wolfe says a fight broke out between him and Redhorn and that he put Redhorn in a headlock until he quit struggling. Merrick says she struck Redhorn, too.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a Gresham woman has been given three years of probation for her role in an income tax refund scheme.

Court records say 36-year-old Kathy Hansen was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Omaha. She also must make restitution of nearly $11,600.

She’d pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony. Authorities say Hansen knew a crime was being committed and failed to notify law enforcement.

Officials say that in 2014, Hansen opened a bank account with nearly $12,000 in illegally obtained tax refunds. Investigators say the refund fraud scheme was operated by people believed to be outside the U.S. The deposited funds were sent by Hansen to people in Nigeria.

GRETNA, Neb. (AP) — The Ak-Sar-Ben Aquarium at Schramm Park State Recreation Area in eastern Nebraska will close Tuesday for renovations.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission says the work will transform the facility into a state-of-the-art interactive exploration center. The new aquarium will feature Nebraska aquatic habitats, and visitors will be able to view an array of Nebraska’s native fish species.

The project is expected to be finished in fall 2018.

The park sits along Nebraska Highway 31, 5 miles (8 kilometers) south of Interstate 80, Exit 432.