OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha City Council has changed its collective mind and voted to apply the city’s 2.5 percent restaurant tax to food trucks.

The council voted 5-2 Tuesday to expand the tax to food trucks, which were specifically exempted when the city began charging the tax in 2010.

Operators of regular restaurants have complained that the exemption was unfair, but a majority of council members has resisted expansion of the tax. In September four council members — Pete Festersen, Chris Jerram, Rich Pahls and Aimee Melton — voted to kill an expansion proposal.

But on Tuesday Melton and Jerram switched their votes to yes and joined the other council members in favor of expansion.

Omaha Food Trucks Association leader Kelly Keegan says the association has no problem with the expansion.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Operators of a Kansas water park where a state lawmaker’s 10-year-old son was killed on a waterslide last summer say that ride will be demolished.

Schlitterbahn Waterparks and Resorts and the family that runs it said in a statement Tuesday that the 168-foot “Verruckt” at the Schlitterbahn park in Kansas City, Kansas, will eventually be torn down.

The ride has been closed since authorities say Caleb Thomas Schwab was killed Aug. 7 while on the Verruckt, which is German for “insane.” Two other riders in Caleb’s raft, both women, were injured.

Attorneys for Caleb and the women are investigating the accident. No charges or lawsuits have been filed as of Tuesday. Messages left by The Associated Press for the attorneys were not immediately returned.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 53-year-old Lincoln man has been sentenced to up to 50 years in prison for sexually assaulting a girl hundreds of times over nearly a decade.

Jack Borkowski was sentenced Monday to 40 to 50 years in prison. Even with so-called good time credit, Borkowski will be at least 80 before he’s eligible for parole.

Prosecutors say he began inappropriately touching the girl when she was 6 and soon began raping her before she reached puberty. The abuse continued until the girl was in her teens.

Police say Borkowski admitted during a police interview to committing more than 200 sexual assaults on the girl.

ODELL, Neb. (AP) — A veteran teacher has been accused of slapping a student in southeast Nebraska.

The incident occurred last week in an agriculture classroom at Diller-Odell High School in Diller. Authorities say a student was leaning against or otherwise moving a desk, causing the desk legs to make a squeaking noise. The teacher told the student to stop moving the desk and, while standing behind the student, slapping a side of the boy’s face.

The teacher described it to a Gage County Sheriff’s Office investigator as a light slap. The teacher was ticketed for misdemeanor assault. Online court records don’t yet show that he’s been formally charged.

Superintendent Mike Meyerle declined to comment Tuesday but said the teacher had worked 31 years for the district.

DAKOTA CITY, Neb. (AP) — A 45-year-old Iowa man has been found guilty of vehicular homicide in the crash deaths of three people in northeast Nebraska.

Online court records say Christopher Cox, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, pleaded no contest to three counts last week in Dakota County Court. He’s scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 4.

Authorities say Cox’s car ran off U.S. Highway 20 west of Jackson on June 9 and struck a concrete creek barrier. He told officers he swerved to avoid hitting a deer.

Two of his passengers died at the scene: 57-year-old Connie Fauzae and 9-year-old Espinoza Lara, both of Council Bluffs, Iowa. A third passenger died later at a Sioux City, Iowa, hospital: 10-year-old Jose Lara, also of Council Bluffs.

Cox was treated for minor injuries.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A Bellevue man convicted in the sexual assault of a group home resident has been given 10 to 21 years in prison.

Court records say 39-year-old Adrian Galbreath was sentenced Monday in Sarpy County District Court. He’d pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault and two counts of abuse of a vulnerable adult. Prosecutors lowered the assault charge in exchange for Galbreath’s pleas.

The judge credited Galbreath with 396 days already served.

Court records say Galbreath worked at Hands of Heartland and had invited the group home resident to Galbreath’s Bellevue apartment on Sept. 23 last year. Authorities say Galbreath pushed down and began to assault the man after the man became intoxicated.

A Hands of Heartland official has said Galbreath is no longer an employee.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Three people were injured when a sport utility vehicle crashed into the terminal at Omaha’s airport.

The incident happened around 1:35 p.m. Monday at Eppley Airfield.

Omaha Airport Authority Police Chief Tim Conahan says the man driving the Jeep Grand Cherokee had just arrived on a flight from California.

Conahan says the man’s brother needed to use the restroom, so he asked the man to drive around the terminal and pick him up.

But the driver was startled when he shifted into reverse and then put the SUV in drive. The vehicle hit the driver’s brother and a woman getting into her car before smashing into a revolving door and window.

One person was in critical condition and the second person was in serious condition. The driver sustained minor injuries.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a trucker dumped a load of corn on a southeast Nebraska highway after reading a text telling him he’d been fired.

Court records say 36-year-old Darren Walp, of Crum Lynne, Pennsylvania, is charged with felony criminal mischief and a related misdemeanor. The records don’t list the name of his attorney.

A court document says Walp was driving the load from Reynolds, Nebraska, to Hanover, Kansas, on Aug. 8 when he exchanged texts with his boss. The document says that soon after Walp read that he’d been dismissed, he stopped the truck on Nebraska Highway 8 near Odell, got out and opened the grain trailer’s bottom hatch doors.

The document says Walp then drove down the highway, spilling out nearly 1,000 bushels of corn — nearly $3,100 worth.

MALVERN, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a woman was killed and two others were injured in a western Iowa collision.

The crash occurred around 4:50 p.m. Sunday, just north of Malvern on U.S. Highway 34. The Iowa State Patrol says a westbound car collided in the eastbound lane with an eastbound minivan.

The patrol says the minivan driver died in the crash. She was identified as 80-year-old Alice Campbell, of Hastings.

The car driver was identified as 55-year-old Patti Jipsen, of Elliott. Her passenger was identified as 53-year-old Barbara Irwin, of Charleston, Illinois. Both were flown to Omaha, Nebraska, hospitals for treatment.

The collision is being investigated.