OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Court of Appeals has revived the lawsuits of two women who say that Omaha’s Metropolitan Utilities District discriminated against them by passing them over for a job that went to a less qualified man.

Kristina Hartley and Sherri Meisinger sued the utility in 2011 after applying for a supervisory position. Although each had worked for the utility for 20-plus years and met educational and other requirements of the job, the position was given to a man they said did not meet the posted educational requirements who had only four years’ experience.

The appeals court found Tuesday that a judge improperly dismissed Meisinger’s case. It also ordered a new trial for Hartley, saying the judge wrongly excluded the testimony of two other women who accused MUD of discrimination.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say icy roads have caused several accidents in eastern Nebraska and at least one fatal crash.

The freezing drizzle arrived at a bad time for travelers and morning commuters Tuesday, especially for people driving down residential streets headed to major thoroughfares and highways.

Authorities say a crash reported around 6:45 a.m. on the northwest side of Omaha left one person dead. The victim’s name and other details haven’t been released.

The National Weather Service issued a freezing rain advisory for eastern Nebraska and western Iowa that was scheduled to expire later Tuesday morning.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma would become the first state to allow the execution of inmates using nitrogen gas under a bill that overwhelmingly passed the House of Representatives.

The House voted 85-10 on Tuesday for the bill by Oklahoma City Republican Rep. Mike Christian, who described the method as humane, painless and easy to administer. There was no debate against the bill, which now heads to the Senate.

Christian says the nitrogen would be administered to the inmate either by a “tent or some kind of secure mask.”

Christian began studying alternative methods after a botched lethal injection last spring that has led to the U.S. Supreme Court considering whether Oklahoma’s current method is constitutional.

He says prison officials in several other states are interested in his proposal.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A tiny boy born on his parents’ way to a Nebraska hospital is struggling for life as they mourn his twin sister.

Kaleb and Savannah Clark arrived early on Feb. 5 as their parents, 39-year-old Kevin and 36-year-old Laura Clark, headed to Lincoln from their home in Barnes, Kansas. Kevin Clark had to stop alongside U.S. Highway 77 on the south side of Lincoln because one baby already had arrived.

Laura Clark’s cousin Mary Crevier said two days after the twins were born, Savannah died after blood vessels burst in her head and lungs.

Crevier says Kaleb weighed about 2 pounds at birth. He’s since gained about 10 ounces and been taken off a breathing tube.

She says Kaleb’s “a little fighter.”

YORK, Neb. (AP) — After historically only housing boys, the Epworth Village in York will open a home for girls in two month.

Harrietta Reynolds, Epworth Village CEO, says that the agency has been in rebuilding mode for the last eight months. According to Reynolds, girls will be housed in an empty building on Epworth’s campus, and that they will each have their own room. The target date for the arrival of the first group of girls is May 1.

Epworth will initially take in five girls between the ages of 14 and 18 from the state’s probation system.

The agency is looking to hire eight behavioral interventionalists for the new group of residents.

The last time the United Methodist agency provided temporary residential services for girls was 1990.

UNDERWOOD, Iowa (AP) — A teacher at an Iowa middle school has been arrested on charges related to a claim that he sexually abused a former female student.

Pottawattamie County officials say 45-year-old Barret B. Glasnapp turned himself in Monday on an arrest warrant of four counts of sexual abuse, one count of felony sexual exploitation by a school employee and five misdemeanor counts of sexual exploitation by a school employee.

Authorities say Glasnapp’s interaction began in 2011 when the student was 14, after her eighth-grade year, and continued until October. She was a student of Glasnapp from 2009 until 2012.

According to an affidavit, an investigator assigned to follow up on a report of a sexual assault at Underwood Middle School in December found that Glasnapp had resigned from his post in November.

A traffic stop of a vehicle being operated in a reckless manner on Interstate 80 just west of Lincoln led to the arrest of a Seward woman for Driving While Intoxicated.

On Monday morning, March 2, the Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) Headquarters Troop-Lincoln was conducting traffic enforcement in the Pleasant Dale area. Around 9:00 a.m., the NSP aircraft clocked a black vehicle traveling 116 mph on westbound I-80 near the Milford Exit. A trooper stopped the vehicle, a 2015 Ford Fusion, one mile west of the Milford interchange.

The driver of the vehicle, Andree D. Cable, 39, of Seward was taken into custody and lodged in the Seward County Jail on charges to include, Driving While Intoxicated 2^nd Offense, Willful Reckless Driving and Speeding.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is slated to host a debate on the effects of regulating carbon emissions.

The forum is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Lied Center for Performing Arts in downtown Lincoln.

A pair of experts will debate the pros and cons of carbon regulation through taxation, cap and trade and other measures at the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues. The forum will examine the global, environmental and financial effects of proposed regulations.

The debate will feature Marlo Lewis Jr. of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Gilbert Metcalf of Tufts University. The debate will be moderated by Susan Poser, dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police say a 23-year-old man is facing a criminal charge after stealing a rainbow flag from a lesbian couple’s home and setting it on fire.

Cameron Mayfield of Omaha is charged with arson and resisting arrest in the Saturday incident. Police say Mayfield tried to run away from officers when they showed up at his residence to speak with him.

The flag hung on the front porch of couple’s home and had been replaced with a new one by Sunday afternoon. The couple says they have never been confronted by Mayfield before, who lives about 10 houses away from them.

Mayfield was being held in a Douglas County jail as of Monday. Online jail records didn’t list an attorney for him.