OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Court of Appeals has reversed the kidnapping and rape conviction of a Lincoln man, finding that the misconduct of a Lancaster County prosecutor unfairly swayed the jury in his case.

Frederick McSwine was convicted by a jury of kidnapping, first-degree sexual assault and other counts for allegedly forcing a woman from her apartment at knife-point and raping her in October 2012. He was sentenced in 2013 to 57 to 85 years in prison.

On Tuesday, the state appeals court found that the Lancaster County prosecutor in the case knowingly providing false information to the jury during his closing arguments in the case.

Because of that, and the failure of McSwine’s defense attorney to object, the appeals court determined that a new trial must be held.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 36-year-old English teacher at a west Omaha high school has been charged with sexually assaulting a student at the school.

Bryan Black, of Omaha, also is charged with enticement by electronic communication device and visual depiction of explicit sexual conduct. All three charges are felonies.

Prosecutors say Black began a relationship with a Millard North High School student in September. The girl made her allegations on Friday, a day before Black was arrested. On Tuesday a judge set bail at $250,000 and scheduled a preliminary hearing for March 31.

Black’s attorney, Joseph Howard, has said Black will be pleading not guilty.

The Millard district has placed Black on paid administrative leave.

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — Fremont students would have to learn more about the world and personal finance in order to graduate, under a proposed revision of district requirements.

The school board rendered its preliminary approval of the measure on Monday.

Darin Kelberlau is executive director of curriculum, instruction and assessment, and he told the board the revision is predicated in the district’s social studies state standards.

The proposed changes will affect the graduating class of 2019, which will be next fall’s freshman class. The revised policy wouldn’t include drastic changes for graduation, but it would require every student to take a couple of courses that previously could have been electives.

BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — The Bellevue City Council has rejected a proposed “Citizen Code of Conduct.”

The council took the action Monday night, following public criticism and a lawsuit warning by the American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska.

City administrators had said they wanted a policy that would help the city deal with residents who cause problems for city staffers.

Council President Paul Cook said at Monday’s meeting, however, that the city instead can do better by training staff and developing internal procedures to deal with people whom city employees determine consume too much staff time.

The ACLU’s Amy Miller said in a letter to the city that the proposed policy was unconstitutionally vague and would have covered speech that is protected by the First Amendment.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Allied Insurance is giving employees lots of notice about job cutbacks at its regional office in Lincoln.

140 jobs will be eliminated in claims and customer service between 2017 and 2020. That will slice the Lincoln workforce in half.

Eric Hardgrove is a spokesman for Nationwide Insurance, which owns Allied, and he says the company wanted to give employees plenty of time to find other jobs, either with Allied or Nationwide or elsewhere.

Hardgrove says the jobs will be eliminated by attrition as much as possible, and employees who don’t find other jobs will be offered severance.

He says the Lincoln jobs likely will be consolidated to either Des Moines, Iowa, where Allied is based, or Columbus, Ohio, where Nationwide is based.

INMAN, Neb. (AP) — A 56-year-old O’Neill woman has died after crashing off U.S. Highway 20/275 in northern Nebraska.

The accident occurred west of Inman on Saturday. The Holt County Sheriff’s Office says Debra Christensen’s westbound vehicle crossed the center line and eventually slid sideways into a roadside ditch and rolled, landing on its top.

Christensen, who was ejected, was taken to an O’Neill hospital and then flown to Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City, Iowa. Mercy Medical Center spokeswoman Dianne Krier (kreer) said Tuesday that Christensen died around 5 p.m. Sunday.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A prison official says an Iowa work release inmate who’s been on the loose since Jan. 1 has been apprehended.

Corrections Department Assistant Director Fred Scaletta said Tuesday that Timothy Denney was caught somewhere in Nebraska. Denney was placed on escaped status after he didn’t return to the work release center in Sioux City on New Year’s Day.

Denney was sentenced in August 2004 to 15 years in prison on convictions for robbery and going armed with intent. He’d been transferred to work release on Oct. 8.