LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The second trial has begun in the lawsuit filed against Gage County by people wrongfully convicted in a 1985 rape and slaying.

In his opening statement Tuesday in a federal courtroom in Lincoln, defense attorney Jeff Patterson told jurors that “we’re here to right the wrong of the worst miscarriage of justice in Nebraska history.”

The six people — James Dean, Kathleen Gonzalez, Debra Shelden, Ada JoAnn Taylor, Thomas Winslow and Joseph White — were wrongly convicted in the killing of Helen Wilson in Beatrice and served a combined 77 years in prison before DNA testing cleared them in 2008.

The first trial last year ended in a mistrial.

Known as the Beatrice Six, they’ve argued that Gage County investigators labored to close the case despite contradictory evidence.

NELIGH, Neb. (AP) — Another wind farm has been approved for Antelope County, over objections from some residents.

The county Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to let a Chicago-based company erect 160 turbines near Neligh (NEE’-lee). The company, Invenergy, already operates a wind farm in the Elgin area.

The supervisors imposed several conditions on the project, such as increased setback distances and completion of a noise analysis within 24 months after the structures are erected. Eight turbines in the original proposal were dropped because of potential conflict with flight space around the Neligh airport.

Opponents have cited concerns about noise and sought tighter restrictions on setback distances. People who favored the wind farm have said it could increase jobs and tax revenue and provide clean energy.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man has been sentenced to five years’ probation after pleading guilty to felony theft of more than $37,000 from an Omaha church.

Douglas County District Judge Thomas Otepka ordered 42-year-old Jeffrey D. Bomberger, a former employee at Dundee Presbyterian Church, to pay $6,000 in restitution and receive treatment for a gambling addiction.

Douglas County Attorney’s Office investigator Lance Ivener says Bomberger, the former director of operations at the church, admitted to using the church’s funds to gamble at keno parlors.

In November 2015, church leaders discovered Bomberger was using a church account to purchase credit cards that he said were being used for charitable donations.

Bomberger’s attorney, Jim Hoppe, says most of the church’s losses were covered by insurance.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — State authorities say an Omaha man convicted of killing four people has faked suicide attempts in an effort to get out of solitary confinement.

But the lawyers for Nikko Jenkins disagreed at a hearing Tuesday, saying only doctors for the prosecution have concluded that Jenkins is faking.

The issue Tuesday was whether Jenkins is competent to face a death penalty hearing. Judge Peter Bataillon (buh-TAL’-yuhn) will rule later.

If Jenkins is declared competent, Bataillon will set a death-penalty hearing, the fourth time he has done so. Jenkins would then go before a three-judge panel that will decide whether his crimes merit the death penalty.

Jenkins was convicted in 2014 of first-degree murders for shooting four people over a 10-day period in August 2013, within weeks of leaving prison.

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — Company and public officials have scheduled several special public meetings to discuss issues surrounding a proposed chicken plant in Fremont.

The meetings on June 20 and 21, June 27 and 28 will include official business regarding annexation and zoning changes. Costco Wholesale and other officials will be on hand to answer questions.

The retailer is working with Lincoln Premium Poultry, a Georgia chicken processor, to build and operate a plant to provide poultry for Costco stores.

Opponents have raised concerns about low wages, corporate livestock ownership and the potential for diseases such as avian flu. They also cite the potential impact on schools, housing and roads. Backers have said the plant would create 1,100 new jobs and provide other financial benefits to the area.

LYNCH, Neb. (AP) — A South Dakota man has died after a crash in northern Nebraska.

The Nebraska State Patrol says the wreckage was found around 5 p.m. Saturday along Nebraska Highway 12, between Lynch and Monowi in Boyd County. The patrol says 74-year-old Verne Grosz, of Scotland, South Dakota, was alone in his vehicle when it ran off the roadway and struck a tree.

The accident is being investigated.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — A Canadian company has selected Beatrice as the site for a $6 million turkey hatchery.

Hybrid Turkeys, of Kitchener, Ontario, announced Monday that it expects the hatchery to be running by July 2017, employing 25 full-time workers.

Gage Area Growth Enterprise Executive Director, Walker Zulkoski says Hybrid Turkeys is part of Hendrix Genetics, a Netherlands-based company.

Once the eggs are hatched, the young turkeys are vaccinated and shipped to growing operations within 24 hours, all around the country.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man and woman have been sent to prison for the fatal shooting of their victim during a robbery at an Omaha park.

Twenty-seven-year-old Anthony Hollins had pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and to a weapons charge in the slaying of 46-year-old Ray Patterson on Jan. 25, 2015, at Norwick Park. On Monday Hollins was given 55 to 80 years in prison.

His accomplice, 21-year-old Janessa Arias, had pleaded no contest to conspiracy to commit robbery. She was given 20 to 30 years.

In court Hollins offered his regrets to Patterson’s family.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a woman has died after falling from a balcony in west Omaha.

Police say the accidental fall occurred shortly after 5:30 p.m. Sunday from the third floor of an apartment complex in west Omaha.

Police say the woman died at a hospital Monday morning. She’s been identified as 63-year-old Colleen McMahon.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln officials say the city has amassed enough funds to build a permanent hazardous waste facility that could open by fall 2017.

Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department Director Judy Halstead says the city can move forward with design and construction plans after collecting $320,000 from the Nebraska Environmental Trust, $300,000 from the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality and $600,000 in city tax dollars.

The building will store household and small business hazardous waste until the city’s national contractor collects it. Hazardous waste that will be collected include pesticides, car fluids, cleaning agents, and items that contain mercury and oil-based paint.

Halstead says there will be no permanent staff at the facility, which will be built near the city’s landfill transfer station.