LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a Lincoln man broke into his ex-girlfriend’s home and assaulted her and her new boyfriend.

Officers who were sent to the duplex early Sunday morning found the former boyfriend there and arrested him. Online court records don’t show that he’s been formally charged.

Police spokeswoman Katie Flood says the man punched the new boyfriend and threatened to kill him and the woman. Flood says the two barricaded themselves in her bedroom, but the former boyfriend managed to cut the woman on an arm before she escaped through a window.

Flood also says children ages 4 and 12 were in the home sleeping during the assault.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — As part of its outreach and education efforts, the Nebraska Court of Appeals will be in session on the campus of Doane University in Crete next week.

The Court of Appeals will divide into their customary two panels with three judges each to hear arguments at 9:30 a.m. and again at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday in Doane’s Heckman Auditorium.

The panels will hear several cases during both the morning and afternoon sessions, followed by an open question and answer session with students. Students will be given detailed case descriptions of each case in order to help them follow the legal arguments.

Doane University students, along with government classes from area high schools, are invited to attend. Reporters, including student journalists, are also encouraged to participate.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Douglas County District Court has announced the establishment of the state’s first veterans treatment court.

The veterans treatment court is a judicially-supervised court designed to hold responsible and address the unique needs of military veterans. The special court is only for veterans accused of nonviolent crimes and who are deemed in need of mental health or substance abuse treatment.

The Nebraska Legislature approved a measure earlier this year to establish the pilot project court in Douglas County.

A formal ceremony to open the court will take place at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 4 in the Legislative Chamber of the Omaha/Douglas Civic Center. The Honorable W. Mark Ashford will preside.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An art exhibit in Lincoln will feature a number of dramatic works, but don’t expect a chat with the artists. They’re behind bars.

The 16 works — both visual and written pieces — will be on display at Indigo Bridge Books in Lincoln through Oct. 31.

The exhibit, “Captive Creativity: Dispatches from Tecumseh,” features the works of nine inmates from the maximum security Tecumseh State Correctional Institution.

Becca Ross, of Lincoln, helped organize the display. She says about half will be for sale, with proceeds directly supporting the artists.

In addition, donations will be collected for a books-to-prisoners project.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Iowa firm has won a $1.9 million contract to complete work on a section of the Missouri River in southeast Nebraska.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently awarded the contract to Western Contracting Corporation of Sioux City, Iowa.

The contract calls for widening out the top of the river to create an area about 200 feet wide. Sixteen new concrete structures will be built along river as well.

The work is expected to begin this fall and be completed in the fall of 2017.

OLATHE, Kansas (AP) — A Kansas sheriff’s department says it’s investigating after one of its deputies was kidnapped and sexually assaulted.

The Johnson County Sheriff’s Department says the deputy was abducted late Friday from a parking lot as she headed into work at the detention center in Olathe. It says the deputy, who has been with the department for about six months, did not know her abductors and was not in uniform at the time.

The department says the deputy was released about two hours later in Lee’s Summit, Missouri.

The department on Sunday released video of the car believed to have been used in the abduction, and authorities want to question two men who may have been in the car.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Researchers at the University of Nebraska at Omaha are getting a $1.5 million grant to study a hormone’s role in social behaviors.

The research into the hormone oxytocin may help improve medications for social disorders.

Researchers plan to conduct a series of experiments over the next five years to better understand oxytocin’s role in signaling new behavior.

The UNO researchers will work with colleagues at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Creighton University.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The daughter of a slain Omaha medical school doctor and his wife has taken the stand in the trial of a former doctor accused of killing them.

Audrey Brumback, of San Francisco, testified Friday that she last spoke to her parents via online video on Mother’s Day 2013 — the same day police say they were killed.

Her testimony came in the first-degree murder trial of Anthony Garcia, accused of killing Dr. Roger Brumback and his wife, Mary. Garcia is also standing trial for the 2008 stabbing deaths of the 11-year-old son of another Creighton University School of Medicine doctor and the family’s housekeeper.

Prosecutors on Friday showed a screenshot Audrey Brumback took of her parents during the video call. They were wearing the same clothes they had on when they were killed.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A judge has ruled that the no contest pleas of an Omaha man later convicted of killing four people in the summer of 2013 will stand.

The ruling Friday comes two weeks after the judge found Nikko Jenkins mentally competent enough to go through the sentencing phase. Jenkins faces the death penalty when that sentencing hearing is held on Nov. 14.

Jenkins’ court-appointed public defender, Tom Riley, had sought to withdraw the no-contest pleas Jenkins entered in 2014 while acting as his own attorney. But Jenkins adamantly opposed withdrawing the pleas.

Jenkins was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder for the August 2013 shooting deaths in and around Omaha of Juan Uribe-Pena, Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz, Curtis Bradford and Andrea Kruger.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 19-year-old college student who was accused of sexually assaulting another student in a University of Nebraska-Lincoln dorm has been found not guilty.

Christopher Petersen was acquitted Thursday during his second trial in Lancaster County District Court. His first trial in June ended in a mistrial after the all-male jury deadlocked.

This time, the six men and six women on the jury took less than three hours to acquit him of first-degree sexual assault, a felony that could have meant up to 50 years in prison.

The case centered on whether Peterson’s accuser had done enough to let him know she wasn’t consenting. Petersen is now a student at the University of Arizona.