The accident occurred around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday on U.S. Highway 6 in Sarpy County, near Interstate 80. The Sarpy County Sheriff’s Office says the car collided with the pontoon boat and its trailer as the pickup truck towing the boat was attempting to turn across traffic.

The sheriff’s office says the car driver died at the scene. He’s been identified as 76-year-old Gary Stott, who lived in Papillion (puh-PIHL’-yuhn). The pickup driver and his passenger were not injured. They’ve been identified as Daniel Klaumann and his wife, LuAnn Klaumann, who live in Gretna.

A Lancaster County Sheriff’s deputy found the 2005 Mitsubishi Outlander in a ditch around 1 a.m. Sunday. Authorities say 38-year-old Julie Schmieding died in the crash and 15-year-old Tylea Schmieding was injured.

Investigators aren’t sure why Schmieding’s vehicle veered off the road and struck an electrical box and smashing into the tree.

Tylea Schmieding is a sophomore at North Star High School.

The Nebraska State Patrol says the four range in age from 13 to 17 and were taken into custody last week.

Two will be charged in Greeley County and two in Nance County with three counts each of conspiracy to commit first-degree assault.

A Spalding student first reported threats on Oct. 28. The patrol and school district didn’t elaborate on the nature of the threats.

Reginald Burton has applied to the state’s Board of Medicine and Surgery, which is scheduled to vote Dec. 7 on his application for reinstatement.

In October last year, he agreed to a 20-month suspension after allegations of unprofessional conduct with patients. The suspension was backdated to January.

A petition filed with state regulators listed nearly 20 concerns from Burton’s former co-workers at Bryan Health. Several of the allegations deal with alleged misconduct involving young adult male patients.

His attorney, Wayne Waite, has said the complaint was based “almost entirely on the fear of working with someone with a different sexual orientation,” referring to Burton being a gay man.

The patrol says the first crash occurred around 6:50 p.m. Sunday as the two units were headed east with lights and sirens activated. The first unit collided with a civilian car, and the patrol says that caused a secondary crash between the second patrol vehicle and a small pickup truck.

The patrol says medics were sent to the scene. None of the people involved was taken to a hospital. Their names haven’t been released.

73-year-old Gary Roost was hit while flagging traffic at 11:50 a.m. Thursday on Nebraska Highway 35 near Dakota City, between mile markers 56 and 57. Roost was taken to a local hospital by ambulance.

The Dakota County Sheriff’s Office says the vehicle was driven by 88-year-old Irvin Schlickbernd, of Emerson. Schlickbernd was cited for disobeying a traffic control device and careless driving. He was not injured.

The state’s high court said in its ruling Friday that 77-year-old Gilbert Lundstrom’s license was already inactive and that he voluntarily surrendered his license in September, noting that he had been convicted in federal court of 12 fraud-related felony counts.

Lundstrom was sentenced in 2016 to 11 years in federal prison for his role in the 2010 failure of Lincoln-based TierOne Bank, where he had served as chief executive officer.

Prosecutors said Lundstrom conspired with other bank officers to hide the bank’s troubled finances from regulators and shareholders.

Lancaster County District Judge Jodi L. Nelson ruled Thursday that the liability policies Gage County purchased in 1989 do not cover the county’s mishandling of the so-called Beatrice Six case.

Gage County faces a $28.1 million federal judgment after it lost a lawsuit filed by the six people who were wrongfully convicted and served a combined 75 years in prison for the murder of 68-year-old Helen Wilson.

The six were exonerated by DNA evidence in 2008 and won their lawsuit in 2016. A federal appeals court rejected Gage County’s appeal earlier this year, leaving local officials with few options other than paying the judgment.

The policies in question were purchased through Employer’s Mutual Casualty. Attorneys for the county asked a judge to determine whether a series of liability insurance policies would pay all or part of the damages or legal fees from the case.

Nelson ruled in October that insurance policies Gage County carried through the Nebraska Intergovernmental Risk Management Association, a risk-sharing pool, were not in effect when the six were arrested. That coverage went into effect in 1997. On Thursday, Nelson reached the same conclusion on the Employer’s Mutual Casualty policies, which carried the county’s insurance from Feb. 2, 1989, until Feb. 2, 1990.

The state’s appellate courts have not yet heard the issue.

Nelson said the language of the Employer’s Mutual Casualty policy excluded “any and all professional services,” but did not define what those services were. Attorneys for Gage County argued that law enforcement was an occupation, not a professional service, but Nelson said Nebraska case law defines professional acts and services as those requiring “special learning or attainments of some kind.”

“The allegations in the Beatrice Six complaints involve ‘decision-making based on an officer’s training and experience,'” Nelson wrote. “The Gage County sheriff and his deputies investigated the rape and murder of Helen Wilson by using law enforcement’s specialized decision-making process.”