OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A jury has been empaneled in the case of former doctor Anthony Garcia, accused of killing four people with ties to an Omaha medical school.

Garcia is accused in the March 2008 slayings of 11-year-old Thomas Hunter and his family’s housekeeper, Shirlee Sherman, as well as the May 2013 killings of Dr. Roger Brumback and his wife. The boy was the son of Dr. William Hunter, who worked with Roger Brumback at the Creighton University School of Medicine’s pathology department. Prosecutors say Garcia was seeking revenge against the doctors over their firing him from the pathology residency program in 2001.

It took five days to whittle down a jury pool of more than 100 to six men and six women. The four alternates consist of three men and one woman.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Six Omaha Central High cheerleaders followed in the footsteps of three University of Nebraska football players and other athletes across the country who have silently knelt during the national anthem.

The girls said they took a knee to protest racial injustice and recent police shootings.

The girls say they made the decision to kneel shortly before the game, which pitted Central against Lincoln High. Football players were not on the field during the anthem.

Said junior Taichelle Butler, “We don’t hate America. We want America to be greater.”

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities in Nebraska say a teen accused of tossing a baby she had secretly delivered out of her second-story bedroom window has been charged as an adult with felony child abuse resulting in death.

Omaha police say the 16-year-old girl was booked Saturday. The Associated Press generally doesn’t name juveniles charged with crimes.

Officers were called to the apartment shortly after 4 a.m. Friday, where they found a woman administering CPR to the infant. The baby and 16-year-old were taken to a hospital, where the baby was pronounced dead.

Investigators say the teen was alone in her bedroom when she went into labor and gave birth to the premature baby. Police say she then threw the infant out the window and told her mother.

Police expect autopsy results next week.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln attorney has filed a lawsuit against the city over 2014 sewer backups that damaged hundreds of homes.

Attorney Vince Powers filed the lawsuit on behalf of his client, Susan Dermer. On Friday, Power amended the lawsuit seeking class-action status.

The lawsuit says Dermer suffered more than $10,000 in damages for cleaning and restoration of her basement. The suit says the city failed to have a sewer system that would accommodate heavy rainfall, among other problems.

The city says the storm was responsible for the backups, not city negligence.

Even so, it set up a $1 million cleanup fund, limiting property owners to $5,000 per property. Those who participated agreed not to sue the city.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former Omaha teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a former student of his is scheduled to be sentenced next month for sex assault.

Online court records say 36-year-old Brian Robeson made a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to sexual assault of a minor. Prosecutors had lowered the charge and dropped another in exchange for Robeson’s plea. His sentencing is set for Oct. 11.

Robeson was a math teacher at Davis Middle School. Authorities say the relationship began when the girl was 13.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities in Gage County say a man has been killed in a tractor accident.

Officers and medics were dispatched around 7:45 p.m. Thursday to the scene seven miles east-northeast of Beatrice. Authorities say the tractor had rolled over and pinned the man. He was pronounced at the scene.

The man’s name hasn’t been released.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say the coach of an Omaha youth football team was ticketed after the coach grabbed a 10-year-old player from a team that had just overwhelmed the coach’s team.

Boyd Waldmann was cited for assault. Prosecutor Matt Kuhse says Waldmann also might be cited for disorderly conduct. Waldmann didn’t immediately return a call Friday from The Associated Press. Court records don’t list an attorney for him.

Witnesses told officers the teams were exchanging high-fives after the lopsided flag football game Saturday when Waldmann grabbed an opposing player by the shirt and lifted him nearly off his feet. Waldmann later said he was angry because the boy slapped his hand too hard.

A league official says the coach has been banned from league events.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the jury award of more than $100,000 to a woman who successfully argued that Omaha’s Metropolitan Utilities District discriminated against her.

The opinion Friday came in the case of Kristina Hartley, who successfully sued the gas and water utility for gender discrimination. The jury last year agreed with Hartley that MUD wrongly passed her over for promotion to give the job to a less-qualified man.

MUD appealed, arguing that the evidence was insufficient to support the jury’s verdict and that the trial court should have allowed post-promotional performance evaluations of Hartley. It also said attorney fees of nearly $57,000 awarded to Hartley were excessive.

But the state’s high court dismissed those arguments Friday, adding that Hartley presented lots of evidence the jury found compelling.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police investigating the death of an infant say the baby girl was tossed from a second-story apartment window immediately after her teen mother gave birth to her.

Police say they were called to the eastern Omaha apartment shortly after 4 a.m. Friday, where they found a woman administering CPR to the infant. The baby and 16-year-old were taken to a hospital, where the baby was pronounced dead.

Investigators say the teen was alone in her bedroom when she went into labor and gave birth to the premature baby. Police say she then threw the infant out the window and told her mother.

The woman ran outside, found the baby in the grass and called 911.

Police say autopsy results are expected in several days, and that charges are pending.

LOUISVILLE, Neb. (AP) — A county prosecutor says an unarmed 23-year-old Louisville man killed by a Cass County deputy during a traffic stop last week had charged the deputy before he was shot.

Cass County Attorney Nathan Cox said in a written release Thursday that 25-year-old Deputy Tyler Reiff shot Austin Baier five times on Sept. 21 after Baier ignored Reiff’s commands to stop.

Cox says the deputy had stopped Baier’s vehicle in Louisville shortly after 7 p.m., because it matched the description of a vehicle being driven recklessly. A Nebraska State Patrol investigation says Baier got out of his car and ran at Reiff.

Cox says Baier wasn’t holding a weapon, but that a hunting knife was found on the dashboard of his car.

The deputy remains on administrative leave.