BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — Officers, dispatchers and others have been working through the disruption caused by installation of new heating and cooling equipment in the Beatrice Police Department building.

The $155,000 project began about two weeks ago. Officer work stations have been moved and interview areas and technology have been altered to accommodate the process, which is expected to last until February.

Staffers hope they won’t have to spend too much time in the cold when the switchover to the new equipment is made. Public properties director Mark Pethoud says he hopes the transition will take only a day or two.

YORK, Neb. (AP) — A 35-year-old man who was convicted of stealing more than $1,400 from the York Jaycees has been given two years of probation and conditional jail time.

Travis Stuhr was sentenced earlier this week on four misdemeanor counts of theft. He’d pleaded no contest after making a deal with prosecutors. In addition to the probation, Stuhr was given 180 days in jail, which can be waived by a judge if Stuhr abides by the terms of his probation.

Prosecutors say Stuhr, of York, had access to the Jaycees checking account because he was supposed to pay bills from a demolition derby the group sponsored. York County Attorney Candace Dick says Stuhr wrote four checks to himself totaling $1,430. She also says restitution has been paid.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The presence of two little girls may have thwarted a carjacking in Omaha.

Police say a man loaded the two 6-year-olds in the back seat of a car a little after 7 p.m. Thursday and was preparing to drive them away when he was approached by three men. Police say the three men pulled the man away from the running car and one got in behind the wheel and sped off. The two other men ran away.

Police say the man driving the car stopped less than a block away after noticing the girls. He got out and fled on foot, leaving the girls in the car, unharmed.

SEWARD, Neb. (AP) — The new Seward home for the Nebraska National Guard State Museum is slowly taking shape as it’s transformed from its previous mission as a Guard armory.

The Nebraska National Guard’s state historian, Gerald “Jerry” Meyer, said the museum’s nearly 11,000 items provide him with “a treasure hunt every day.”

The museum’s former home was in the State Arsenal building on what was the state fair location in Lincoln. The National Guard moved the museum to make way for the Nebraska Innovation Campus, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln research park being built on the former fairgrounds.

The Guard hopes to have the Seward building and grounds ready for visitors during Seward’s Fourth of July celebration next year.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska family whose home was damaged by a fire says they are thankful for the love and support of their community.

Marshal and Stacy Hardy and their three children escaped their Norfolk home about six weeks ago after it caught on fire.

The family says they have received numerous offers of housing and many people have given them gift cards so they could buy clothes and other necessities. They are now living in a rental property while they work with the insurance company and contractors to repair their house.

The cause of the fire has not been determined.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say a 28-year-old Omaha man has died after a collision on the east side of the city.

The accident was reported a little before 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Police say a westbound vehicle driven by Zachary Redden crossed into oncoming traffic and struck a vehicle driven by 22-year-old Zachary Dunn, also of Omaha.

Police say Redden died later at a hospital and that Dunn and a passenger in his vehicle was treated at a hospital and released.

Officers suspect Redden had been drinking and are awaiting autopsy results.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The man convicted of first-degree murder in four 2013 shootings shortly after he was released from prison has filed another lawsuit accusing the state of failing to adequately treat his mental illness.

Nikko Jenkins is seeking $1.7 million in damages because he says his mental health deteriorated during more than two years in solitary confinement.

The 28-year-old Jenkins made some similar claims in two other handwritten lawsuits filed against officials earlier this year, but those cases were dismissed because of technical problems.

A spokesman for the Department of Correctional Services, James Foster, declined to comment on the lawsuit filed Tuesday.

Jenkins shot and killed four people in Omaha in a 10-day period in August 2013, and was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder in April.

HOMESTEAD, Pa. (AP) — A 12-year-old girl saved her 4-year-old sister by carrying her out of their burning home in the Pittsburgh suburbs.

Laniyah Coller (lah-NY’-ah KOH’-ler) said her mom hollered that the family’s Homestead residence was on fire about 6 a.m. Wednesday.

Laniyah was upstairs with her little sister, Angel-Lynn, and grabbed the still-sleeping girl.

Angel-Lynn says, “The first thing when I woke up, my sister was carrying me. I saw the fire all up there,” she added, pointing to her badly damaged home.

Laniyah says she asked her mother whether to jump out a window, and was told instead to hurry downstairs.

Laniyah says, “That’s when I grabbed my sister. I just skipped the steps. All the smoke was in my eyes.”

The fire’s cause was still being determined.