AURORA, Neb. (AP) — An Aurora has been sentenced to up to 100 years in prison for trying twice to hire someone to kill his wife.

Robert Honken was sentenced Friday to 45 to 50 years in prison on each of two counts of conspiracy to commit murder.

Authorities say Honken paid Derrick Shirley to kill Honken’s wife. They say Shirley did surveillance around the woman’s Hamilton County home, but never tried to kill her. Authorities say Honken also tried to hire another person, but that man turned out to be an undercover officer.

Shirley was sentenced in December to 16 to 20 years in prison for his role.

EDGEMONT, S.D. (AP) — BNSF Railway has released the names of two employees who were struck and killed by a train in South Dakota.

The railroad on Thursday identified the victims as 35-year-old gang foreman Richard Lessert and 58-year-old motor vehicle operator Douglas Schmitz. Lessert had 10 years of service with BNSF while Schmitz was employed by the railroad for 39 years.

BNSF says the two were headquartered at Edgemont, near where the accident happened Tuesday morning.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating.

Edgemont is about 60 miles southwest of Rapid City.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha mother and her 9-year-old daughter have been seriously hurt after being run over by the family’s minivan.

Police say the mother had started the van and put her daughter in the front passenger seat. The mom then went to get her other two children when the 9-year-old apparently put the van in reverse and it began to roll.

When the mother tried to pull the 9-year-old from the moving vehicle, they were both pulled under the van, which ran other them.

Both were hospitalized with serious injuries but are expected to recover.

SPRINGFIELD, Neb. (AP) — Authorities in Sarpy County are investigating the death of a man who may have been involved in an exchange of gunfire with a family member.

Deputies found his body in the front yard of a farmhouse near Springfield after the shooting was reported around 4 p.m. Wednesday. None of the three other people at the house were injured. Deputies have not released any of their names but say all four were related.

Two guns have been recovered. Capt. Monty Daganaar of the Sarpy County Sheriff’s Office says investigators aren’t sure whether someone shot the man in self-defense or he died defending himself. No arrests have been reported.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — The parents of a 4-month-old child are accused of injuring the little boy in Council Bluffs.

Police say 30-year-old Jacqueline Short and 28-year-old Jack Williams are charged with child endangerment resulting in serious injury. Williams’ attorney didn’t immediately return a call Thursday from The Associated Press. Online court records don’t list an attorney for Short.

Suspicions about the child’s injuries were raised after he was taken from a Council Bluffs motel to Jennie Edmundson Hospital on Jan. 12. Medical staffers told police his injuries were consistent with those seen in physical abuse cases.

The child’s been transferred to a hospital in Omaha, Nebraska.

BEAVER CITY, Neb. (AP) — A man being held in a south-central Nebraska jail cell is awaiting a Jan. 30 hearing on returning him to face charges in Tennessee.

Furnas County Sheriff Kurt Kapperman said Thursday that 55-year-old Michael Parsons was arrested without incident Jan. 12 at the Arapahoe Airport. Kapperman says the FBI, working with Tennessee authorities, had tracked Parsons’ cellphone to the area.

Kapperman says investigators think bad weather forced Parsons to land a single-engine plane there two days earlier. Kapperman says Parsons hasn’t been forthcoming about where he was headed.

An arrest warrant says Parsons is wanted in Tipton County, Tennessee, on charges of failure to appear and possession of a weapon by a felon. Kapperman says Parsons was unarmed when taken into custody.

It’s unclear whether Kapperman has an attorney.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Iowa woman charged with first-degree murder in the death of someone who allegedly dated the same man as her will go to trial.

A judge bound 41-year-old Shanna Golyar over to district court Wednesday for the 2012 disappearance-turned-homicide case of 37-year-old Cari Farver. Golyar was arrested in December of 2016 in connection to Farver’s disappearance, who was last seen in Omaha.

Attorney for Golyar, James Davis, says there is no real evidence proving his client murdered Farver, citing police have no body or murder weapon.

Officials testified Golyar posed as Farver online and by phone for years after the disappearance, and also posed as other people confessing their murder of Farver. A sergeant testified Farver had been dating Golyar’s ex-boyfriend for some weeks.

The prosecution and Farver’s family declined to comment after the hearing.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A federal appeals court has affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a Florida man against doctors at Nebraska’s psychiatric hospital, where he was held for 20 years on a misdiagnosis.

John Montin sued after being released from the Lincoln Regional Center in 2013, where he had been held since 1993 after being found not guilty by reason of insanity of false imprisonment and weapon use. Police had said Montin was delusional when he walked up to a house, declared it belonged to his ancestors and that he was taking it back.

Psychiatrists wrongly relied on that police report for nearly 20 years before determining he had been only temporarily psychotic.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday that Montin’s malpractice claim was improperly filed in federal court.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police have identified a person killed and another injured in a southwest Omaha collision.

Investigators say the crash occurred a little before 6:40 a.m. Thursday when an eastbound sedan ran a red light and was hit by a southbound pickup. A passenger in the car, 34-year-old Katrina Olson of Gretna, died at the scene. The driver of the car, 40-year-old Mitzi McCoy of Omaha, was critically injured in the crash and taken to an Omaha hospital with head injury, broken leg, pelvis and ribs and many other injuries. Investigators say neither woman was wearing a seat belt.

Police say the driver of the truck, who was wearing a seat belt, suffered only soreness and refused medical treatment.

SPRINGFIELD, Neb. (AP) — Sarpy County Sheriff’s officials say a man has died in a shootout with his nephew after the man threatened family members with a gun.

Officials say they were called to a home near Springfield, just southwest of Omaha, and found 56-year-old Jeff Hayes dead outside. Three other people — Hayes’ 52-year-old brother, 25-year-old niece and 22-year-old nephew — say Hayes was living in a trailer on the property and got into an argument with them Wednesday. They say Hayes pulled a handgun, firing several rounds at the other family members, but missing.

Investigators say the nephew ran, retrieved another handgun and shot at his uncle once. Hayes then turned at fired at the nephew, who returned fire and killed Hayes.

Officials will determine whether to file charges.