OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Twitter account that has been criticizing about a southeast Nebraska school district since last fall disappeared shortly after the district filed a lawsuit seeking the critic’s identity.

The person behind the anonymous @friend_bulldog account on Twitter posted another critical comment about the Friend School District Tuesday morning, but the account was gone by midday.

The school district filed a lawsuit last week because officials want to learn who is behind the account. The district’s lawyer, Justin Knight, said the site has made false and defamatory statements about Superintendent David Kraus and other school officials.

Knight says the district plans to continue pursuing the lawsuit .

A Twitter spokeswoman didn’t immediately respond to questions about whether the social media company had removed the account.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former pharmacy director has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $4.6 million from an Omaha hospital.

Federal prosecutors said Monday that 49-year-old Lisa Kwapniowski, of Omaha, pleaded guilty to committing wire fraud. She’s scheduled to be sentenced April 29. The prosecutors say Kwapniowski will be ordered to pay restitution as part of her sentence.

Court records say that sometime before 2010, Kwapniowski submitted to Children’s Hospital & Medical Center fraudulent invoices from legitimate pharmaceutical suppliers. She later submitted reimbursement requests utilizing fraudulent invoices from a company she fraudulently created.

Prosecutors say she also submitted fraudulent invoices that appeared to come from a legitimate drug vendor and used fraudulent means to obtain payments.

She was fired in June after accusations arose.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A southeast Nebraska school district wants a court to help it learn who is behind a Twitter account that has targeted the district and superintendent.

Friend Public Schools says the unknown person behind the Friend Bulldog account has made false, libelous and defamatory statements accusing Superintendent David Kraus or the district of public indecency and other offenses. The account has been active since last fall.

In a Jan. 7 post, Kraus’ face was positioned over actor Jim Carrey’s in a poster for Carrey’s movie “Liar Liar.” Another post from September of last year compared Kraus to Adolf Hitler.

The district’s attorney, Justin Knight, also said in the lawsuit filed last week that the Twitter account might be mistaken for the district’s official one because it uses a picture of the Friend Bulldog mascot.

“The goal is to clear the reputations of the individuals that have been targeted in the account,” Knight said.

District officials made other efforts to contact the online critic and resolve the issue — including an open invitation from the school board — but those weren’t successful. Knight said the district didn’t decide to file the lawsuit until after several other district employees were singled out. The district in Friend, Nebraska, is about 40 miles southwest of Lincoln.

The Lincoln Journal Star reported on the lawsuit first.

On Saturday, the person behind the Twitter account posted, “The name’s Doe, John Doe.” The individual later added, “I can’t believe you guys guessed my real name!”

The person didn’t immediately respond to a Twitter message that The Associated Press sent Monday seeking comment.

A spokeswoman for Twitter said Monday she was looking into the case and couldn’t immediately comment. But the social media company describes online how it handles legal requests for user information. Twitter says it tries to notify users about a request and then reviews the request before deciding whether to comply or object to it.

RALSTON, Neb. (AP) — Police have issued a murder warrant for an Iowa inmate in connection with the 2013 killing of a woman whose body was found in her apartment in an Omaha suburb.

Police in Ralston said Monday they had issued the first-degree murder warrant for Ricardo Paul Escobedo Jr., who was serving time in the Iowa State Penitentiary for a drug charge.

He’s charged in the Oct. 28, 2013, killing of Aimee Kearns, who was shot-to-death in her apartment, apparently because she owed money for illegal drugs.

Police say the arrest came after authorities matched DNA from blood found at the Ralston apartments to Escobedo’s DNA.

The 27-year-old Escobedo is expected to be transferred to the Douglas County jail.

Authorities say one or two others could be involved in the killing.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities are investigating a fatal shooting in Omaha.

Police were called to Creighton University Medical Center-University Campus a little before 10 p.m. Sunday after the wounded person arrived at the hospital. Police say he died after he was transferred to Creighton University Medical Center-Bergan Mercy.

He was identified as 28-year-old Robert Williams Jr.

No arrests have been reported.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Florida-based company that is looking into building a wind farm in Nebraska is beginning to research the viability of solar projects in the state too, according to a company spokesman.

NextEra Energy Resources spokesman Bryan Garner told The Lincoln Journal Star that the company is looking into a potential 423-megawatt solar farm in northeast Nebraska. The potential project would be the largest solar project in Nebraska and the Midwest.

The amount of available land in Nebraska makes the state attractive for projects, Garner said.

NextEra has already taken steps to move forward with the project, Garner said. The company has signed a lease for 2,500 acres in Pierce County and is also seeking an interconnection agreement with the Southwest Power Pool, which operates a regional electric grid and wholesale market.

Construction on the solar project could begin in 2022 if it’s found to be feasible, Garner said.

NextEra is already operating multiple wind farms in Nebraska, including the 75-megawatt Steele Flats wind farm near Diller and the 90-megawatt Cottonwood wind farm in Webster County. The company is also constructing a 160-megawatt Sholes wind farm in Wayne County, and is exploring expanding its wind generation efforts to southern Lancaster and northern Gage counties.

The Pierce County project would be the company’s first solar installation in Nebraska. NextEra has more than 30 solar projects in the U.S. and Canada.

YORK, Neb. (AP) — A May trial is scheduled for a York County woman accused of using a cigarette to burn an 8-year-old child.

District court records say 28-year-old Ashley Eckard pleaded not guilty last week to felony intentional child abuse. Her trial is set to begin May 14.

The records say Eckard, of McCool Junction, used the cigarette Sept. 15 to burn her daughter three times on a hand. The records also say her mother told the girl to say the wounds occurred while playing in a bouncy house.

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) – Authorities have released the names of a woman and her three sons who were killed in a collision just west of Fremont in eastern Nebraska.

They were identified as 32-year-old Maria Menjivar and her 10-year-old son Julian, 8-year-old Adrian and 7-year-old Angel. The four lived in Schuyler.

The three-vehicle crash happened Saturday evening in heavy fog just west of Fremont on U.S. Highway 30. Authorities say a pickup truck struck from behind a car that was stopped and waiting turn. The pickup then veered into oncoming traffic and stuck a sedan that Menjivar was driving.

The drivers and occupants of the other two vehicles are expected to survive their injuries.

The collision is being investigated.

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — Authorities are investigating a weekend crash in foggy conditions near Fremont that killed a pregnant mom and her three sons.

The Omaha World-Herald reports the three-vehicle crash happened Saturday evening just west of Fremont on U.S. Highway 30.

At the entrance to Westlake Mobile Home on Highway 30, a Dodge pickup struck a Ford Mustang that was stopped and waiting turn. After that impact, the truck veered into oncoming traffic and stuck the Ford Taurus the mother was driving.

Authorities say the 32-year-old mom and sons aged 7, 8, and 10 all died. The family is from Schyler, Neb.

The drivers and occupants of the other two vehicles were also injured, but they are expected to survive.

Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) have arrested two people and seized 189 pounds of marijuana during a traffic stop on Interstate 80 in Sarpy County.

At approximately 8:20 a.m. on Thursday, January 31, a trooper observed a 2012 Dodge Durango following too closely to the vehicle ahead of it near Gretna at mile marker 437 on I-80. During the traffic stop, the trooper detected the odor of marijuana coming from inside the vehicle.

A search of the vehicle revealed 189 pounds of marijuana contained in heat-sealed packages. The packages were hidden under a blanket in the cargo area of the vehicle. The marijuana carried an estimated street value of $750,000.

The driver, Herbert Vazquez, 65, of Oroville, California, and passenger, Mayira, Jurado-Lopez, 40, of Hanover Park, Illinois, were arrested for possession of marijuana with intent to deliver and no drug tax stamp. Both people were lodged in Sarpy County Jail.