OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A financial industry watchdog organization has fined former Nebraska quarterback Jerry Tagge for breaking rules about borrowing money from clients.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fined Tagge $2,500 and suspended him for two months. He went on suspension July 19.

Tagge is executive vice president of Tagge Rutherford Financial Group, which has about $800 million in assets under management. He led the University of Nebraska to consecutive college football national championships in 1970 and 1971.

His attorney, John Shaw, issued a statement that said in part: “We are pleased to reach a settlement which places this matter behind us permanently.”

The authority says Tagge borrowed $125,000 from a customer in 2009, violating authority rules and those of his financial firm. The money’s been repaid.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Seven of nine former Winnebago Tribal Council members charged in federal court with theft of tribal funds have pleaded not guilty.

The seven entered pleas in Omaha’s federal court on Monday. They include former council chairman John Blackhawk and former council members Darwin Snyder, Thomas Snowball Jr., Louis Houghton, Lawrence Payer, Charles Aldrich and Ramona Wolfe. Travis Mallory is scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 24, and arraignment for Morgan Earth has not yet been set.

Prosecutors say they conspired to enrich themselves by siphoning $327,500 over two years from the tribe’s WinneVegas Casino in Sloan, Iowa, in the form of gift certificates and pre-paid debit cards issued by the casino.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Demolition has begun on a 62-year-old auditorium in Omaha that has been the scene of political rallies, graduation ceremonies, concerts and sporting events.

Crews began tearing down the Civic Auditorium on Tuesday morning.

The Omaha City Council approved a $3.1 million contract with Illinois-based DeNovo Constructors Inc. in February to demolish the building.

The project was stalled in March after the contractor encountered financial issues. The city ended the contract and made a claim to the bonding company.

The company that holds the bond then chose St. Louis-based Spirtas Wrecking Co. to perform the demolition.

Omaha’s Parks and Recreation director, Brook Bench, says the building is expected to be completely demolished around the end of the year and that Spirtas will finish grading the ground in the spring.

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) — The U.S. Air Force is investigating the death of an airman at Offutt Air Force Base south of Omaha.

Officials say the body of Airman 1st Class Rhianda Dillard was found Aug. 1 in her base dormitory. A preliminary autopsy report did not say what killed her, but toxicology testing has not been completed.

Offutt spokesman Drew Nystrom would not say Wednesday whether investigators suspect a crime led to Dillard’s death.

An airman suspected of desertion has been interviewed about Dillard. Air Force Office of Special investigations spokeswoman Linda Card said the airman has not been charged with anything related to Dillard’s death. Card says the man is only one of several people being questioned about Dillard.

Dillard had been at Offutt since March 14 and was from Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha has committed $250,000 to continue its fight against a tree-killing insect.

The council approved the $250,000 contract Tuesday with an Underwood, Iowa, company, Holland & McKee, to treat the trees menaced by the emerald ash borer.

Parks director Brook Bench says the city will spend $4.67 per inch of tree up to $250,000. Bench estimated that several thousand trees will undergo the treatment. He says parks employees already have taken down about 1,000 other ash trees.

Officials hope to save up to 5,000 of 11,000 ash trees on city property, including parks and golf courses.

Emerald ash borers are native to Asia and were first spotted in the U.S. in 2002. They’ve killed millions of ash trees since.

COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — An October trial is scheduled for a Columbus woman accused of stabbing her brother.

20-year-old Alicia Martinez has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and a weapons charge. Her trial is set to begin Oct. 11.

Court documents say 33-year-old Rogelio Barrios told officers that when he awoke in his bedroom during the stabbing July 11, he found his sister standing by his bed, holding an 8-inch boning knife. The documents say he was stabbed six times, suffering wounds to his chest, arms, and a hand.

Police say Martinez doesn’t live at Barrios’ home.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Douglas County jury has convicted a 61-year-old man of murder in Omaha.

On Monday James Cotton was found guilty of killing 24-year-old Trevor Bare and of three other crimes. Prosecutors say Cotton shot Bare during an argument outside Bare’s apartment on Aug. 7 last year. Cotton’s attorney says he will be filing an appeal.

Cotton’s attorney had been criticized for temporarily hiring a witness in the case. Cotton told the judge last week, however, that he understood the ramifications of what could be seen as ethical violations by his attorney but said he wanted to continue with the trial.

His attorney, Travis Penn, has said he researched ethics rules and didn’t see that he wouldn’t be allowed to have a business agreement with a witness.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha school board has advanced a measure updating the district anti-discrimination policy to include gender identity or gender expression, weathering a stormy debate.

Community members on both sides of the issue spoke at Monday night’s meeting. Some critics of the proposal said the district was opening a Pandora’s box, asking for more trouble. Others said the transgender students needed safe spaces to go to the bathroom or change clothes for physical education classes.

The district’s policy was written in 2014 and bans discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religion, disability and age. The proposal approved on the board’s first vote Monday would add gender expression and identity to the policy. A final vote is scheduled for next month.

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — Police believe three girls who accidentally drowned in a southern Colorado swimming pool last week jumped into the deep end.

Pueblo police Sgt. Eric Gonzales said Tuesday that a nearby adult heard the young sisters and their teenage babysitter jump into the 8-foot-deep section of a pool at a mobile home park.

He said that an unidentified adult soon saw one of them floating in the water and notified staffers, who tried to save the girls before police arrived.

Other children were in the pool at the time. There was no lifeguard.

Initial autopsies showed that 17-year-old Joo Hyun Lee, 6-year-old Amaya Gandarilla and her 3-year-old sister Azucena accidentally drowned Aug. 8.

Final autopsy reports will be released in about a month following toxicology tests.