OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Norfolk man has been sent to prison for killing his half brother in Omaha.

29-year-old Courtney Moore was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years. He’d pleaded guilty to manslaughter and a weapons charge after prosecutors lowered a murder charge filed after the Dec. 27 slaying of 38-year-old Johnny Moore.

Courtney Moore’s attorney says both Moores had been drinking when they began to fight over some leftover chicken.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Republican Don Bacon has won Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District seat and defeated incumbent Democrat Brad Ashford.

Ashford held a news conference Wednesday morning to reflect on what he accomplished in his one term in the U.S. House, such as moving closer to building a new veterans’ hospital in Omaha and securing funding for an infectious disease training program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Ashford says serving in Congress represented a dream come true because he had the opportunity to teach Washington about Nebraska values.

Ashford conceded Wednesday after Bacon held onto a narrow lead after all the votes were counted.

Bacon, a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general, ran on a platform of smaller go

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — A December sentencing has been scheduled for a 21-year-old woman who bore a child after having sex with a 13-year-old boy.

Online court records say Brianne McIntosh, of Omaha, pleaded no contest to felony sexual assault of a child and intentional child abuse. Her sentencing is set for Dec. 19 in Dodge County District Court.

Authorities say McIntosh was 19 in May 2014 when she had sex with the boy. Under Nebraska law, people 19 and over cannot have sexual contact with people under 16.

State authorities have placed the little boy with his grandmother, who is helping his now 16-year-old father raise him.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha teenager has been sentenced to prison for shooting a boy in Lincoln.

Online court records say 17-year-old Noah Molczyk on Monday was given 20 to 30 years in prison. He’d pleaded guilty after Lancaster County prosecutors reduced the assault and weapons charges. The records also say Molczyk waived his right to try to move the case to juvenile court.

Molczyk turns 18 on Dec. 29 and can enter a Nebraska prison for adults then. The boy he shot Jan. 22 was 14.

DAKOTA CITY, Neb. (AP) — Human remains found over the weekend show a Nebraska man who was pronounced dead after his severed arm and leg were found in a car had been shot in the head.

The additional remains were found Saturday in a creek about four miles from the farm house where the first body parts were found last week.

Authorities have charged 25-year-old Andres Surber and 18-year-old Misael Galvan-Hernandez with first-degree murder in the death of 41-year-old Kraig Kubik.

Authorities say Surber and Galvan-Hernandez went to Kubik’s trailer home Tuesday and demanded that he give them a car that once belonged to Surber. On Wednesday, investigators found a large amount of blood in Kubik’s yard.

Surber and Galvan-Hernandez were being held in lieu of $2.5 million bond.

A traffic stop on Interstate 80 in Seward County over the weekend led to the seizure of 58 lbs. of marijuana and one arrest.

Just before 9:00 a.m., Saturday, November 5, a trooper stopped an eastbound black Chevy Suburban for failing to maintain lane of travel, near the Pleasant Dale interchange.

A probable cause search of the vehicle led to the seizure of 58 lbs. of marijuana. The marijuana was located
in two duffle bags in the cargo area of the SUV.

The driver of the vehicle, Merrie H. Whitaker, (F), 58, Lincoln, was lodged in the Seward
County Jail on a charge of Possession of Marijuana with Intent to Deliver.

WAVERLY, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a head-on collision fatally injured two people just south of Waverly in Lancaster County.

The collision was reported just after 5:30 p.m. Sunday. The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office says northbound and southbound vehicles collided on North 148th Street.

The Sheriff’s Office says one of the drivers, 44-year-old Jeffrey Goettemoeller, was pronounced dead at the scene. He lived in rural Waverly. Three other people in his minivan were hospitalized.

The other driver, Steven Kriesen, was pronounced dead later at a Lincoln hospital.

The collision is being investigated.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 33-year-old man released from prison in March has been fatally wounded in an Omaha shooting.

Police say Markus Walker was shot around 12:30 p.m. Sunday in northeast Omaha. Officer Michael Pecha (PEH’-kuh) says Walker was pronounced dead later at Creighton University Medical Center.

No arrests have been reported.

Nebraska Correctional Services Department say Walker was released in March after being convicted of being a murder accessory in a March 2011 Omaha shooting.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The mayor of Lincoln, an artist, a philosophy student and other residents have come together to discuss how the creation of creative spaces improves health and well-being.

The Placemaking for Wellbeing discussion took place Sunday.

Mayor Chris Beutler says the city is making an effort to collect creative ideas and create spaces where people can come together and be inspired. According to Beutler, the connection between the arts and the well-being of a community is often lost.

The mayor and event organizer Nick Hernandez agree that people contributing their creative ideas has a positive impact on personal health and the health of the city.