LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska corrections officials say an inmate who tried to escape from an Omaha youth facility was caught before he could get out of his housing unit.

Officials say the youth was able to hide in a commons area because a unit caseworker failed to conduct a formal count. Another staff member found the youth, who was placed in a restricted housing unit.

Department officials say the inmate never came close to approaching the facility’s perimeter and the public was never in any immediate danger. The incident is under investigation.

Department director Scott Frakes says the agency will not tolerate failures to adhere to basic security practices.

The Nebraska Correctional Youth Facility is a maximum, medium and minimum security facility.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 29-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting several women in Omaha has pleaded no contest to two counts of sexual assault.

Christopher Ennis reached a plea agreement with prosecutors Monday. He had faced six counts of first-degree sexual assault, one count of attempted first-degree sexual assault and one count of strangulation.

Prosecutors say Christopher Ennis attacked as many as seven women over three years as they walked alone. Ennis is accused of grabbing the women from behind and dragging them behind bushes or buildings before raping them.

Ennis is scheduled to be sentenced in September. He faces up to 100 years in prison.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found in western Omaha.

A Cox Business Services’ employee spotted the body around 6:40 a.m. Monday near an entrance to the Cox building.

A police spokesman could not say whether the woman’s death was being investigated as a homicide. No arrests have been reported.

The woman’s name hasn’t been released.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The widow of a man who killed a police dog during a 25-hour standoff with law enforcement at his Omaha home is seeking money for damage done to the house.

Ann Siewert filed a tort claim notice in the Douglas County Clerk’s Office seeking more than $64,600.

Law enforcement officers had a standoff with Mark L’Heureux on Jan. 22 and 23 after deputies went to the house to serve a Douglas County Board of Mental Health warrant ordering a psychiatric evaluation of L’Heureux. The officers tried to get L’Heureux out of the house by using noise grenades, tear gas and water.

L’Heureux was arrested and died 10 days later. An autopsy report says he died due to water on the brain, low levels of sodium and chloride in his blood.

STANTON, Neb. (AP) — A Stanton woman has been accused of stealing from a youth sports fund in Stanton.

The Stanton County Sheriff’s Office says Elaine Stallbaum has been arrested on felony theft charges. A phone listed for her rang unanswered Tuesday morning. Online court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could speak on Stallbaum’s behalf.

The Sheriff’s Office says Stallbaum is accused of taking more than $17,000 from the Stanton Community youth sports fund that she ran.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Another trial starting date has been scheduled for a former doctor accused of killing four people with ties to an Omaha medical school.

On Monday, a judge set the starting date as Sept. 26 for Anthony Garcia. The 43-year-old has pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder and related charges.

Because of legal wrangling, Garcia has had five trial starting dates since his arrest in July 2013.

Garcia is charged in the March 2008 slayings of Dr. William Hunter’s 11-year-old son, Thomas Hunter, and the family’s housekeeper, Shirlee Sherman, as well as the May 2013 killings of Dr. Roger Brumback and his wife, Mary. Prosecutors say Garcia was motivated by revenge over professional grudges, including his being fired from Creighton University’s pathology department.

HARTINGTON, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a South Dakota man has been fatally injured in a northeast Nebraska collision.

The crash was reported a little after 5:15 p.m. Sunday on U.S. Highway 81 in Cedar County, about 4½ miles south of Yankton, South Dakota. The Cedar County Sheriff’s Office says a northbound pickup collided with a van that was merging from the shoulder into northbound traffic.

The office says the pickup rolled several times, ejecting a passenger. He was pronounced dead later at a Yankton hospital. He was identified as 45-year-old Delwin Chavis, of Hudson, South Dakota.

The pickup driver was identified as 58-year-old Randyl Kruid, 58, of Hudson, and the van driver was identified as 64-year-old Andrea Sudbeck, of Fordyce, Nebraska.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — A woman accused of child abuse in the death of her 4-year-old daughter wants her trial moved out of Madison County.

Lawyers for 21-year-old Carla Montoya last week filed a request for a change of venue. The motion said extensive coverage of the case and online comments by potential jurors would prevent Montoya from having a fair trial in Madison County.

Her trial is scheduled to begin July 11. She’s pleaded not guilty to a charge of intentional child abuse.

Court documents say Montoya told Norfolk investigators that she had tossed her daughter Caylee into her bed three times on March 12. Montoya said she thought her daughter may have hit her head on the bed frame or a wall.

HUMPRHEY, Neb. (AP) — A new memorial is being planned to honor veterans in the city of Humphrey in Platte County.

Nembers of the Humphrey American Legion Foltz-Zuerlein Post 80 are working with an architectural firm from Hawaii to have the memorial built in Heritage Park.

Retired U.S. Army Reservist Geri Wemhoff said the architectural firm is donating its work. According to Wemhoff, the current memorial in the park is small and needs to be upgraded.

Wemhoff said that they hope donations will finance a large portion of the memorial’s construction, which could be completed within one to two years.

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