SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) — South Sioux City is planning to reroute more industrial sewage away from a neighborhood that has been afflicted with sewer gas for the past three months.

The city will begin a $60,000 project this week to keep waste from traveling east by adjusting two blocks of sewer line near the neighborhood.

The sewage will travel north, returning to the lines it flowed through before the city performed a multimillion-dollar project in August that rerouted the sewage to the east.

About 10 families in the five-block area are still staying in hotels after residents were driven from their homes in October due to potentially toxic hydrogen sulfide gas, which was originally tied to Big Ox Energy.

City officials say tests show hydrogen sulfide levels are back to normal, but that strong odors persist.

RALSTON, Neb. (AP) — A 23-year-old Omaha woman accused of breaking one of her infant son’s legs has been given five years of probation.

Court records say Brittany Burgess was sentenced last week in Douglas County District Court. She’d pleaded guilty to a lesser child abuse charge after making an agreement with prosecutors.

Ralston police arrested Burgess last January. A court document says a hospital doctor told officers a bone in one of the boy’s lower legs was fractured more than once and was caused “by pushing down and twisting.”

The boy was 2 months old at the time. He and his older brother were placed in state custody.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Bail has been set at $5 million for an Iowa resident accused of killing a romantic rival last seen alive more than four years ago in Omaha.

Forty-one-year-old Shanna Golyar, of Persia, Iowa, is charged with first-degree murder. Bail was set during a hearing Tuesday inside the Douglas County Jail. Prosecutors say she killed Cari Farver, of Macedonia, Iowa, who was 37 when she was reported missing in November 2012.

Golyar’s attorney is James Martin Davis, and he said Tuesday there’s no confession, no body, no murder weapon and “no sufficient showing of blood that there was a death that even took place.”

Prosecutors say Golyar and Farver had dated the same man and that Golyar tried to cover up the killing by posing online as Farver.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln has been cutting down young, healthy ash trees to save money for its battle against an insect invader.

The emerald ash borer, which has killed millions of ash trees in other states, has been confirmed within 16 miles of Lincoln and already may be in the state capital. The city has around 70,000 ash trees, including around 14,000 on city street rights of way and in parks.

The city is removing younger ashes that are 14 inches in diameter or less at breast height. Experts say that to keep those trees alive through the looming infestation would require $150 chemical treatments every two years.

Under the city program, replacement trees will be lining streets as untreated ash trees die.

___

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have accused an Omaha firefighter slapping, shoving and threatening to kill a woman inside a home on Christmas morning.

Jail records say 45-year-old Sean Brenner remained in custody Wednesday. Court records say he’s charged with felony terroristic threats. The records don’t list an attorney who could comment for Brenner. The Fire Department has placed him on leave.

Deputies responding to the home around 5:30 a.m. Sunday say the woman had redness and swelling on her face. They say she reported that she and Brenner got into an argument and that he slapped her several times, punched her in a cheek and shoved her into a countertop. She also says he put a kitchen knife to her throat and threatened to kill her and her son before killing himself.

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — The Fremont City Council has approved plans for a bigger Costco Wholesale chicken operation.

The plans were approved unanimously Tuesday.

The processing plant as approved would cover 360,000 square feet, compared with the original plan for 250,000 square feet. An associated hatchery would cover 85,000 square feet — up from 75,000 square feet.

City documents say the expansion would increase the facility cost to $275 million, compared with original plans for a $180 million project. A staff report estimates that the tax based added to Fremont and Dodge County will rise to $93 million from $63 million and the new estimate of infrastructure improvements and impacts will increase to $275 million from $180 million.

Costco has said the operation would employ 800 to 1,000 people.

___

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a toddler in foster care has died after suffering brain and internal injuries at a west Lincoln home.

Lincoln Officer Katie Flood said Wednesday that the little boy died just before 10 p.m. Tuesday at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. Medics who were sent to the home just before 11 p.m. Thursday took over resuscitation efforts by a caregiver there.

Police are checking for evidence or reports of physical abuse, but no arrests have been reported. An autopsy has been ordered.

Nebraska Health and Human Services Department spokesman Russ Reno says the home’s residents have been licensed foster care providers for nearly three years and have had no disciplinary reports filed against them. He declined to comment further.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a man was taken to a hospital after his standoff with police in Grand Island.

Officers were called to the scene near the Grand Island Public Library around 4:30 p.m. Monday, where a man was seen holding a gun toward his head. Just after 10 p.m. officers used a distraction device to startle and capture the man. It’s unclear whether any shots were fired.

The man’s name hasn’t been released.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a Cleveland-bound United Airlines flight was diverted to Lincoln Airport so a passenger with heart issues could be taken to a hospital.

The Boeing 737 landed a little after 5:45 p.m. Monday. The plane was on the ground for about an hour as the woman was taken off. Lincoln Airport Executive Director Dave Haring says the jet was refueled before departing, and its oxygen supply was topped off to replace the oxygen given the woman as doctors among the other passengers attended to her.

The flight had originated in San Francisco.