DAKOTA CITY, Neb. (AP) — Both men charged with killing and dismembering another Nebraska man have pleaded not guilty to murder and related crimes.

Eighteen-year-old Brayan Galvan-Hernandez made his pleas Tuesday in Dakota County District Court in Dakota City. His trial is set to begin May 9. Online court records say 26-year-old Andres Surber entered his pleas Dec. 29, but the records don’t show that a trial has been scheduled.

The two are accused of shooting to death 41-year-old Kraig Kubik, of Emerson. Parts of his body were found in a car and in a creek about 4 miles away. Authorities say Surber and Galvan-Hernandez had gone to Kubik’s trailer home Nov. 1 and demanded that he give them a car that once belonged to Surber.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The City Council has approved an ordinance that will allow the creation of entertainment districts in Omaha.

The council voted 7-0 Tuesday to pass the proposal. Under it, people will be able to drink alcohol outdoors in the districts. They will have several eateries that will open into a common area for dining and drinking.

The areas must operate under one promotional organization or have a common owner.

Representatives of Aksarben Village and the Capitol District say their areas will apply.

YORK, Neb. (AP) — A 38-year-old woman has been given 10 to 16 years in prison for having sex with a teenager at a York facility for troubled children.

Online court records say Jamie Bishop, of Seward, was sentenced Monday in York County District Court. She’d pleaded no contest to felony sexual assault of a minor.

Court documents say Bishop was a staff member when she and the 15-year-old had sex several times in his room or on the grounds at Epworth Village from January to July 2015. She bore a child in December 2015, and authorities say DNA tests prove the boy’s paternity.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have decided not to prosecute a man whose vehicle fatally struck an Iowa woman in southeast Nebraska.

Nineteen-year-old Merzedes Hart, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was killed late Jan. 13 as she crossed U.S. Highway 6 northeast of Lincoln. The vehicle that hit her continued on. The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office says Hart and two friends had been at a nearby strip club.

A news release from Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday that investigators concluded the vehicle driver did nothing to cause the accident and left the scene only because he thought his vehicle had struck a deer. The 51-year-old man, Ricky Phillips, of Lincoln, was cited for driving with a suspended license.

Hart was a student at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and was on the track team.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln will continue to keep its downtown theater protection policy that prohibits large multiscreen movie theaters elsewhere in the city.

The City Council voted Monday to retain the more than 30-year-old rule allowing six-screen theaters in larger regional shopping areas. The larger theater complexes will only be allowed in the downtown area.

Councilman Roy Christensen wants to end the downtown protection to allow more competition. But other council members who like the protection say the theaters boost business downtown.

Theater experts say allowing large multiscreen theaters in regional areas would likely put a smaller east-central Lincoln theater out of business.

The policy began in 1984 as part of an effort to make downtown Lincoln an entertainment destination.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A woman has been given two years of probation for helping an inmate flee to Omaha after he escaped a Lincoln prison.

Court records say 51-year-old Wanda Minor was sentenced Monday in Omaha. She’d pleaded no contest to being an accessory to the escape.

Inmates Timothy Clausen and Armon Dixon escaped the Lincoln Correctional Center on June 10 by hiding in a laundry truck. Authorities have said the two ripped a hole in the truck’s roof, climbed out and jumped off for a brief span of freedom. Dixon was caught the next day. Clausen was captured at an Omaha apartment on June 15.

Authorities have said Minor drove Clausen to Omaha.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha school board has voted in a new president and vice president, breaking a deadlock that had led to 125 board votes on the presidency at its last meeting.

The board voted just once Monday, selecting Lacey Merica to replace Lou Ann Goding, who was seeking another term. Marque Snow, who’d also sought the board presidency, was voted in as vice president.

Goding says it was time for someone else to lead.

Merica says she and Snow will be partners in building bridges to district staffers, parents and other school board members.

The board president sets meeting agendas, leads meetings and works with the superintendent’s executive council on district issues.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — Two men tried to escape from a treatment center for sex offenders in northeast Nebraska over the weekend, but neither left the facility’s grounds.

The Nebraska State Patrol says the two men jumped out of separate windows at the Norfolk Regional Center early Saturday. The attempted escape was reported around 2 a.m.

Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Julie Naughton says one of the men was injured in a fall from a third-story window. That man was remained hospitalized Monday in Omaha with non-life-threatening injuries.

The second man remains at the Norfolk Regional Center hospital.

Naughton declined to identify the men who tried to escape because of health privacy laws.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha school board members are scheduled to take another whack or two or maybe more Monday night at deciding who will become the board president.

Two weeks ago the board voted 125 times but couldn’t provide the winning five votes from the eight members present for either Lou Ann Goding or Marque Snow, who both want the post. The voting was finally tabled after the meeting into the wee hours of Jan. 10.

The board president sets meeting agendas, leads meetings and works with the superintendent’s executive council on district issues.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Under a proposed city ordinance to create entertainment districts in Omaha, residents would be able to drink alcohol outdoors in some parts of town.

The City Council will vote Tuesday to create entertainment districts, where many eateries open into a common area for dining and drinking. Assistant City Attorney William Acosta-Trejo says that the project will be similar to Lincoln’s Railyard.

Representatives of Aksarben Village and the Capitol District say their areas will apply to become entertainment districts if the proposed ordinance passes.

Project Extra Mile policy and research coordinator Chris Wagner says entertainment districts could lead to underage drinking and binge drinking. Nebraska Liquor Control Commission chairman Bob Batt says the possibility of binge drinking is not concerning because the districts won’t promote it.