PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A tow truck driver has been found not guilty for the crash deaths of two people south of Omaha.

A Sarpy County jury in Papillion (puh-PIHL’-yuhn) handed up the verdicts Thursday on 57-year-old James Helbert. He’d been charged with two counts of misdemeanor vehicular homicide.

Investigators say Helbert was driving the tow truck Jan. 5 when he crashed into the parked vehicles in the southbound lane to exit U.S. Highway 75 near Bellevue. Killed were 19-year-old Khalil Jones, of Daytona Beach, Florida, and 47-year-old Shamus Dean, of Papillion. They were outside their vehicles.

Police say Jones was an airman stationed at Offutt Air Force Base south of Omaha and say his car had stalled along the highway. Dean had pulled over to help. Two other people in Jones’ vehicle were injured.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A northeastern Nebraska husband and wife accused of locking a special-needs foster child in a basement storage room have been charged in federal court with kidnapping, child abuse, and false imprisonment.

Federal indictments against Charles and Krista Parker were unsealed Wednesday.

Prosecutors say the 10-year-old boy was found Sept. 15 in the basement room of the Macy home by Omaha Nation Law Enforcement Services officers.

Officials say Krista Parker was drunk and asleep in an upstairs bedroom.

The Parkers told police they only occasionally locked the boy in the room, but officers found the room covered in human feces and urine. The boy, who had been living with the couple for nine months, told officials that the room served as his bedroom, where he ate his meals and slept on the floor.

COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — A phone call to a wrong number in Nebraska delivered just what a man in pain needed: a ride to a hospital.

Lisa Nagengast said a driver for a Jimmy John’s sandwich shop rescued her brother, Greg Holeman, on Saturday night after he called her just as she arrived at the Tampa, Florida, airport. She had been in Nebraska to help Holeman get to his Columbus home after spinal fusion surgery three days earlier in Omaha. He called her in great pain and said he was oozing blood and his left leg had gone numb, Nagengast said.

Her brother is a veteran living on disability and didn’t have Department of Veterans Affairs’ approval to call an ambulance, she said. He also couldn’t afford a taxi to a hospital, she said.

Nagengast was still in the Tampa airport when she tried to call his VA social worker but misdialed and reached what turned out to be a right number: the Jimmy John’s in Columbus and its night manager, Jason Voss. She explained her problem.

“She was a little panicky,” Voss told the Omaha World-Herald on Tuesday. “At that point I figured I should take a minute to think about it. It was obviously not someone making something up; it was an actual situation going on.”

It took Nagengast a little while to realize she hadn’t reached her brother’s social worker.

“I apologized profusely. I was really embarrassed,” she told The Columbus Telegram. “I just told them, ‘Never mind.’ But somehow they found it in their hearts to help.”

Voss called delivery driver Zach Hillmer, who picked up Holeman and drove him to a hospital emergency room. Hillmer, a U.S. Navy veteran, said it was a privilege to help a fellow military man.

Sam Nixon, operating partner of Columbus’ Jimmy John’s, said he was proud.

“Those guys did that on their own accord, and that’s what was so special about it,” Nixon said.

Nagengast said her brother is back at home and doing OK.

NEBRASKA CITY, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a 54-year-old man suspected in a hit-and-run crash in southeast Nebraska that fatally injured a woman and her teenage stepdaughter.

The two died Sunday night after a sport utility vehicle and a pickup truck collided on U.S. Highway 75 near Nebraska City. Authorities identified the two as 32-year-old Rachel Curry and 15-year-old Chloe Curry. They lived in Auburn with Rachel Curry’s husband, 39-year-old Michael Curry, who was driving the pickup He was taken for treatment at St. Mary’s Hospital in Nebraska City.

Authorities say the SUV driver received a ride from the crash scene and was later found in Falls City. He was arrested on suspicion of vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a fatal crash. Court records don’t show he’s been formally charged.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha lawyer who’d helped defend a man who killed four people has pleaded no contest in a child abuse case.

Jeremy Jorgenson will be sentenced in December. Prosecutors had charged the 44-year-old with felony child abuse and witness tampering. Those charges were reduced in exchange for his pleas.

Prosecutors say the 7-year-old son of Jorgenson’s wife threw a toy at Jorgenson on Feb. 19, who then chased him, picked him up by his shirt collar and dropped him. One of the boy’s wrists was broken.

Jorgenson was part of the defense team for Anthony Garcia, who was convicted of killing four Omaha residents. Prosecutors say Garcia was seeking revenge for his firing from a Creighton University medical school program. Jorgenson handled much of the questioning of DNA experts in the Garcia case.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln woman has been sentenced to two years in prison for her role as the getaway driver following a fatal shooting earlier this year.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports that 18-year-old Americle Fuqua was sentenced Tuesday in Lancaster County District Court. With credit for time already served, Fuqua is expected to be released in about six months.

Fuqua was one of four young people charged in the March 26 shooting death of 22-year-old Edgar Union Jr. One of those is a teenager who has been charged with second-degree murder after being arrested in April in Gulfport, Mississippi.

Police say the shooting happened after a confrontation involving more than 20 people from rival Lincoln gangs. Union died on the porch of a Lincoln home.

HOLTON, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a woman involved in a collision that killed three people in Kansas has been captured in Nebraska.

Jackson County, Kansas, Sheriff Tim Morse says in a news release that 49-year-old Maria Perez-Marquez, of Omaha, was arrested by U.S. Marshals Tuesday in Nebraska. Details of where she was arrested were not immediately released.

Perez-Marquez is charged in Kansas with three counts of involuntary manslaughter after a crash in November near Holton that killed the mother, sister and uncle of two Kansas high school football players shortly after the family watched the boys’ Sabetha team win a state football championship. Two other people were injured.

Perez-Marquez failed to appear in Jackson County District Court in October.

Morse says Perez-Marquez is being held in Omaha awaiting an extradition hearing.

NEBRASKA CITY, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a woman and a teenager died in a highway collision near Nebraska City in southeast Nebraska.

Station KNCY reports the two died Sunday night on U.S. Highway 75 when a sport utility vehicle and a pickup truck collided. Authorities identified the two as 32-year-old Rachel Curry and 15- or 16-year-old Chloe Curry.

It’s unclear how or whether they were related to each and the pickup driver, 39-year-old Michael Curry, of Auburn. He was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital in Nebraska City. The Otoe County attorney didn’t immediately return a call Monday from The Associated Press.

Authorities say the SUV driver was later found in Falls City. The driver was taken into custody and treated for injuries. His or her name hasn’t been released.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — Gage County’s insurance policies from a risk-sharing pool of companies don’t cover $28.1 million that a jury awarded to six people who were wrongfully convicted in the 1985 rape and killing of a woman, a judge ruled.

Judge Jodi Nelson, of Lancaster County District Court, dismissed the county’s claim earlier this month, saying Gage County officials acted wrongly before the policies went into effect, the Lincoln Journal Star reported.

The 2016 verdict was awarded to the so-called Beatrice Six for their wrongful convictions in the 1985 rape and killing of a 68-year-old Beatrice resident, Helen Wilson. They spent more than 75 years, combined, in prison before DNA evidence cleared them in 2008. Wilson’s death has since been linked to a former Beatrice resident who died in 1992.

The six alleged in a lawsuit that law enforcement officials recklessly pushed to close the case despite contradictory evidence and coerced false confessions.

After the 2016 verdict, attorneys for the county sued the Nebraska Intergovernmental Risk Management Association, a risk-sharing pool that offers insurance to most counties in the state. It began covering Gage County in 1997. Employers Mutual Casualty carried the county’s insurance from Feb. 2, 1989, until Feb. 2, 1990.

The county argued that the triggering incidents by county officials occurred after the March and April 1989 arrests of the six and after the Aug. 2, 1989, date the policies took effect.

Last week, the judge ruled that Westport Insurance, American Alternative Insurance, United National Insurance and Travelers Indemnity — companies that contracted with Gage County through the risk management association — weren’t responsible for paying the judgment.

“The Beatrice Six were injured when Gage County’s employees charged and arrested them,” Nelson wrote. “This occurrence — an event resulting in damage — involved acts, errors, or omissions of Gage County’s employees.”

In July a federal appeals court upheld the jury award. County officials still hope the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn it, but the county board approved a plan last month to raise taxes to help pay the award.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A former Lincoln businessman who moved to Houston, where he was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission for an alleged Ponzi scheme, has now been indicted on federal charges in Nebraska.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports that a grand jury had indicted Frederick Alan Voight on 16 counts of mail fraud, two counts of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering. His first court appearance is set for Nov. 1 in Lincoln’s federal court.

Prosecutors say that between 2004 and 2015, investors who gave money to Voight and his businesses — including F.A. Voight & Associates and Daystar Funding — lost $40.9 million.

The SEC charged Voight in 2015 with defrauding more than 300 investors. That civil case has been settled.