OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 56-year-old man has been imprisoned for killing his Omaha neighbor.

Robert Inman was sentenced Tuesday to eight to 10 years in prison. He’d pleaded no contest to a manslaughter charge in the death of 48-year-old John Hanes. The two lived near each other at a mobile home park.

Prosecutors say Hanes took a meal of pot roast, potatoes and carrots to Inman’s home early in the morning on Aug. 29, 2015, in hopes of partying. But that pre-dawn disruption of their sleep angered Inman and his roommate. Prosecutors say a fight broke out, and Inman put Hanes in a chokehold to subdue him.

Inman says he called 911 later after realizing Hanes wasn’t breathing.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A series of six layoffs will reduce the workforce at the Omaha Public Power District’s Fort Calhoun nuclear plant to as few as 300 employees.

There are currently 570 employees on site. The layoffs will occur over the next 20 months as part of the decommissioning of the plant, which will permanently cease power operations Oct. 24.

The first round of cuts is scheduled around Nov. 1, and the next round is set for the first quarter of 2017.

Mary Fisher, senior director of decommissioning for Fort Calhoun, told regulators Tuesday that employees are aware that layoffs beyond 2017’s first quarter could happen sooner or later than called for in the preliminary plan.

The decommissioning process includes disassembly and decontamination of equipment, which can take decades.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — The Hall County Board of Supervisors has approved a nearly $75,000 settlement with a former county corrections department employee whose lawsuit accused jail managers of sexual harassment and unfair treatment of female employees.

A lawsuit was filed on behalf of Sgt. Debb Rea in May saying her civil rights were violated by former corrections director Fred Ruiz and assistant director Jimmy Vann. According to the lawsuit, female employees were subjected to harsher discipline and referred to in an offensive manner.

Ruiz and Vann were fired by the board in August 2015 after Rea sent a letter to the board outlining her concerns and the county hired an attorney to investigate the jail.

Hall County Attorney Jack Zitterkopf says the settlement includes a non-admission clause, meaning Ruiz and Vann don’t admit any wrongdoing.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police have identified a man found shot to death in an Omaha backyard.

Officers say they were dispatched a little before 7:10 a.m. Wednesday to investigate a report about a person on the ground in a Benson-area yard. Police say they found 32-year-old Ronnie Devers unresponsive, and he was declared dead at the scene.

Police say Devers’ death is being investigated as a homicide, and investigators are trying to determine who is responsible.

No arrests have been reported.

DECATUR, Neb. (AP) — Company officials say they’ll be meeting Wednesday with residents who fled fumes that escaped from an anhydrous ammonia pipeline in northeast Nebraska.

Authorities have said a Tekamah man checking the leak was killed by the fumes Monday night.

Magellan Midstream Partners, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, said the meeting would start at 2 p.m. at City Hall in Decatur.

Magellan says it’s making progress on repairs. Company says it wants to isolate the failed portion of the 8-inch-diamer pipeline, which will allow local roads to reopen. A decision on letting people return to their homes will be made later Wednesday.

Magellan spokesman Thomas Byers says the incident is still under investigation and didn’t say whether Magellan had determined what caused the release of the fumes.

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — An Arlington woman has pleaded no contest to a charge related to the death of a patient who was burned after falling asleep near a fireplace.

23-year-old Anne T. Pavlik entered a no contest plea to a misdemeanor charge in the death of 82-year-old Bernard Batten at a Fremont memory care center.

Investigators determined Batten awoke early on Feb. 12 and eventually sat in a chair. Pavlik, who as the only staffer on duty, didn’t notice he then pulled his chair near a burning fireplace and fell asleep.

She later found Batten was badly burned. He died the next day at a hospital.

An autopsy shows he died of natural causes and burns.

Pavlik will be sentenced Nov. 29 and faces up to a year in prison.

TEKAMAH, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have identified the man who died after driving near anhydrous ammonia that was leaking from an underground pipeline in northeast Nebraska.

The Burt County Sheriff’s office says 59-year-old Phillip Hennig of Tekamah, Nebraska, died after coming in contact with the chemical.

The leak in the pipeline operated by Magellan Midstream Partners, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was reported Monday evening about eight miles north of Tekamah, which is nearly 40 miles from Omaha.

Authorities are still trying to determine why the pipeline leaked.

Anhydrous ammonia is a farm fertilizer with suffocating fumes that cause breathing difficulty and irritation to eyes, nose or throat.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities arrested 26 men and 15 women in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa as part of an annual nationwide operation targeting human trafficking.

The FBI led a task force of law enforcement agencies in the three-day operation that ended on Sunday.

Police in Omaha, Lincoln, La Vista, Council Bluffs, Iowa and Glenwood, Iowa, all took part in the operation locally.

The names of the people arrested were not immediately available Tuesday.

The FBI says 82 sexually exploited children were recovered nationwide and 239 people were arrested in the operation.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha Public Schools board has given itself a March deadline to hire a new superintendent.

The board voted on Monday to approve a request for a proposal that will guide search firms in submitting their bids. Bids are to be submitted by Nov. 2.

The request for a proposal includes a tentative timeline for the search and the desired qualifications in a search firm.

Superintendent Mark Evans is retiring at the end of this school year. He was hired in 2013.

The board hopes to hire someone in March so the incoming superintendent can work with Evans on a transition plan before he steps down.