The program gives to children in Omaha and neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa, Lincoln and the Hastings and Grand Island areas.

Most Omaha fire stations and police precincts will be accepting public donations of new, unwrapped toys through Dec. 1. Two Men and a Truck will be picking up the donations from all locations beginning Dec. 3.

A map of all toy drop-off locations can be found online.

Donated toys should be for children between birth and mid-teens. The charity cannot to accept realistic looking weapons or gifts with food.

The Omaha district this school year reduced the type of special education services available to nonresident private school students, the Omaha World-Herald reported. The district will now only provide occupational and physical therapy to nonresident students.

The move comes after the district was forced to cut nearly $30 million from its budget earlier this year.

Private schools don’t fall under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, receive special education funding or are required to provide special education services. But public school districts must spend a portion of federal special education funding toward students who attend private schools, which applies to both those living within and outside of the district.

District officials said they were previously providing services beyond what’s required by law.

OPS spokeswoman Monique Farmer said the district needs to be efficient with its spending.

Quinn Fitzpatrick, a first-grader at St. Margaret Mary Catholic School, is among the students affected by the decision. Quinn has trouble hearing so-called “soft sounds” and the Omaha district had helped pay for his speech therapist and microphone system to amplify his teacher’s voice.

Quinn and his family live within the Westside district’s boundaries, but his school is within Omaha’s district.

Quinn’s parents found out just days before school started in August that the district wouldn’t cover his speech therapy services any longer.

“It was definitely a punch in the gut,” said Quinn’s mother, Brooke Fitzpatrick.

The Fitzpatricks said the timing of the notice gave parents and schools little time to figure out alternative arrangements.

“If they had, we could have made plans to move or otherwise deal with the change before it was right upon us,” said Quinn’s father, Jeremy Fitzpatrick. “We weren’t given that chance.”

The student was arrested Friday in a hallway of Papillion-La Vista High School, and the gun was found in his backpack.

Principal Jerry Kalina said in a message to parents that the student recorded the video in a student bathroom and posted it to Snapchat. Another student who saw the video reported it to school officials, and police were immediately called.

Kalina says there was no threat made by the student to other students or staff.

A district spokeswoman says possession of a gun on school grounds results in an automatic expulsion.

The high court on Friday rejected Shanna Golyar’s arguments that evidence presented at her trial was too thin to sustain a guilty verdict and that her trial lawyer was so deficient that she didn’t get a fair trial.

Golyar, of Persia, Iowa, was convicted and sentenced last year for murder and arson in the death of 37-year-old Cari Farver, who was last seen in Omaha in November 2012. Her body has never been found.

Prosecutors say Golyar posed as Farver online and by phone for years after her disappearance and also posed as other people confessing to having killed Farver. An officer testified that Farver had been dating Golyar’s ex-boyfriend for some weeks when she disappeared.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 14-year-old Omaha boy has taken a plea deal and will be sentenced in January for second-degree murder.

Douglas County District Court records say Tyon Wells pleaded no contest Thursday after prosecutors dropped three related counts. His sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 30 — a month after he turns 15.

Wells and a 15-year-old boy were arrested after two 17-year-old boys were shot Feb. 25 when Wells and his friend tried to buy marijuana. Prosecutors say 17-year-old Zachary Parker died of his wounds.

The judge cited Wells’ history of violence and familiarity with weapons in rejecting a motion to have Wells’ case moved to juvenile court.

Prosecutors didn’t charge the 15-year-old for the slaying.

Sioux City, Iowa, television station KCAU reports that the boil order was issued after testing of the city’s water revealed E. coli contamination.

Officials say tap water should be boiled for at least a minute before using it for drinking, brushing teeth, food preparation, washing dishes and making ice.

Residents will be informed when tests show no more contamination.

E. coli, a bacteria found in fecal matter, can be particularly dangerous to infants, young children, the elderly and those with compromised immune systems.

Douglas County District Court records say 23-year-old Alberto Castro-Sanabria was sentenced Wednesday. He’d pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide.

Omaha police investigators say Castro-Sanabria was drunk and driving 90 mph (145 kph) when his car rammed into a parked truck early in the morning of Nov. 25 last year. Police say his passenger and friend, 17-year-old Luis Castillo-Cabrera, was fatally injured.