COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — A 20-year-old Columbus woman has been accused of stabbing her brother while he was sleeping.

Police report arresting Alicia Martinez on Wednesday evening. She’s charged with attempted murder and a related weapons count. Her attorney didn’t immediately return a call Friday from The Associated Press.

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 in his chest, arms and a hand.

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

OAKLAND, Neb. (AP) — A $38.5 million bond measure will be presented to voters as part of a merger plan by two northeast Nebraska school districts.

School boards for the Oakland-Craig and Tekamah-Herman school districts voted Monday to put the measure on the Nov. 8 ballot.

The boards also approved a reorganization plan for state school authorities and authorized an option agreement to buy 80 acres of land for a high school that would be built a half-mile north of Craig.

The merger would take effect Jan. 1.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha man has filed a complaint in U.S. District Court that challenges the constitutionality of a Nebraska law that prohibits some criminals from possessing deadly weapons.

54-year-old Wa’il Muhannad filed the complaint last week. He had a halal meatpacking business in Dodge County until he discovered he couldn’t legally have a knife with a blade longer than 3.5 inches because he’s a felon.

Current state law prevents convicted felons, anyone with an arrest warrant, anyone who has violated a protection order or anyone who has been convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor within the past seven years from carrying deadly weapons.

Muhannad’s attorney, Travis Penn, asked a federal judge to stop Nebraska from enforcing the statue and to order state Attorney General Doug Peterson to ensure the statute’s effects are eliminated.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — About 250 suicide prevention signs soon will be going up in 12 city and five University of Nebraska-Lincoln parking garages.

The city and a community coalition have been working on the prevention effort since November, after a student died in a fall from a downtown garage. Authorities say several people have jumped or fallen from downtown parking garages over the past three years.

The first signs went up in the Que Place garage downtown and in Lincoln hospital garages. This week city officials approved posting around 50 signs in the top floors of the remaining 12 downtown parking garages. About 200 signs will go into the five university parking garages.

The coalition intends to provide suicide prevention training to university police and dispatchers.

NEBRASKA CITY, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska City 18-year-old has been given 50 to 80 years in prison for running over and killing another woman.

Shyanne Parrott was sentenced Wednesday in Otoe County District Court. She’d pleaded guilty to second-degree murder after making a plea deal for a lower charge.

Prosecutors say Parrott was 17 when she and 20-year-old Amber Shipley argued over a boy on Sept. 14, 2015, at the Nebraska City library. Prosecutors say Parrott left, returned driving a pickup and then ran down Shipley near the library.

YORK, Neb. (AP) — York County is preparing an agreement to share its veterans service officer with neighboring Fillmore County.

The York County officer, Nick Wollenburg, told York County commissioners Tuesday that Fillmore County veterans reported problems last year with their county’s veterans service officer, who eventually was ousted. A new officer started work this past April, but he quit after a few weeks.

Fillmore County officials then contacted the York County veterans office to ask whether it could serve Fillmore County’s veterans. Wollenburg told commissioners that he thinks the task is doable, especially considering Fillmore County intends to hire an assistant for him.

The commissioners told Wollenburg to draft the agreement, which will be reviewed by both county attorneys, both county boards and both veterans service committees.

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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A woman jogging on a bike path in Lincoln has reported to police that a man exposed himself to her on the trail.

The incident happened Monday night near the 200 block of West South Street.

The woman told police that the man was heavyset and in his 20s or 30s.

Capt. Bob Farber says the woman jogged away until she reached a phone and called police.

Police searched the area, but did not find a suspect.

MADISON, Neb. (AP) — The case of a woman accused of kidnapping her newborn son from a hospital earlier this month has been sent on to felony court.

34-year-old Lacee Tuttle, of Pierce, is set to be arraigned in Madison County District Court on Aug. 19.

Tuttle is charged with kidnapping her 2-day-old son from Faith Regional Health Services in Norfolk on July 10. The baby’s disappearance from the hospital triggered a statewide Amber Alert. The baby and Tuttle were found hours later.

Officials say the infant had been removed from Tuttle’s custody after his birth and placed in the care of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services for safety reasons.

Tuttle remained jailed Wednesday and could not be reached for comment.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 45-year-old Lincoln man accused of killing his roommate has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.

Trenton Reiner appeared by video from the jail Wednesday for the arraignment in Lancaster County District Court.

Police say Reiner killed 35-year-old Robert Leazer sometime after May 7 in the mobile home they shared. An autopsy showed Leazer died of blunt-force trauma to the head.

Police were called to the Contempo Lincoln Mobile Home Park on May 26 to check on reports that Trenton Reiner was breaking the windows of his car. Officers found Leazer’s decomposing body inside the home.