PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A 42-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for shooting to death his father at the family home in Gretna, a western suburb of Omaha.

Steven Braesch was sentenced on Monday in Sarpy County District Court. He’d been convicted of first-degree murder, a weapons charge and three counts of negligent child abuse. Investigators say Braesch shot his dad, 69-year-old William Braesch, five times within the clear view of three children under the age of 7. They are the slain man’s granddaughters.

Defense attorneys argued that their client should have been charged with manslaughter because the slaying occurred during a heated argument. They also argued that Steve Braesch’s mental health problems contributed to his mental state.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man has been arrested after police say he sexually abused his 13-year-old foster daughter.

The 38-year-old man has been charged with five counts of first-degree sexual assault. He is being held at the Douglas County Correctional Center without bond.

The Associated Press isn’t naming the man to protect the identity of the victim.

Prosecutors say he abused the girl during a six-month period this year. She tells authorities that they had sex multiple times.

The man and his wife became foster parents for the girl and her 10-year-old sister in September 2013. The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services removed the girls from the home in June.

CHICAGO (AP) — A large study of gay brothers adds to evidence that genes influence men’s chances of being homosexual. But the results aren’t strong enough to prove it.

Some scientists believe several genes might affect sexual orientation. Researchers who led the new study of nearly 800 gay brothers say their results bolster previous evidence pointing to genes on the X chromosome.

They also found evidence of influence from a gene or genes on a different chromosome. But the study doesn’t identify which of hundreds of genes located in either place might be involved.

Smaller studies seeking genetic links to homosexuality have had mixed results.

The work was published Monday by the journal Psychological Medicine. The National Institutes of Health paid for the research.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police say a woman who was sexually assaulted and set on fire in a Wichita park is in critical condition.

Lt. James Espinoza said Monday that police have been unable to interview her at the hospital due to her medication and condition.

Firefighters responding to a grass fire at the park Friday night found the 36-year-old woman with severe burns to 55 percent of her body and cuts on her head. Espinosa calls it a heinous and cruel act.

No one has been arrested. Espinoza says the woman gave a brief description of her assailant at the scene.

The attack occurred near Wichita State University, but the victim was not a student.

Police have been contacting area residents and are asking for witnesses to contact authorities.

RIVERTON, Wyo. (AP) — Authorities say a pack of dogs attacked and killed a woman on an American Indian reservation in central Wyoming.

Mark Stratmoen, chief deputy Fremont County coroner, said in statement Monday that 40-year-old Deanne Lynn Coando (CO-Ando) died last week at a hospital in the city of Riverton.

Preliminary autopsy results show Coando died of hypothermia and loss of blood from serious injuries she suffered Wednesday when multiple dogs attacked her on the Wind River Indian Reservation south of Riverton. Stratmoen says no one witnessed the attack.

Officials are urging the public to watch for any aggressive dogs. They’re encouraging residents to report problems to a law enforcement agency.

Stratmoen says Coando, of Ft. Washakie, was a member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe.

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say an autopsy will be done on the body of a 16-year-old Fremont boy who’d been found outdoors in bone-chilling cold.

Lt. Kurt Bottorff (BAHT’-orf) said Monday that 16-year-old Jaime Valdez was spotted a little before 7:30 a.m. Sunday by a city worker who was doing snow removal on the southwest side of the eastern Nebraska community. National Weather Service records say Fremont’s temperature then was 2 degrees, with a wind child of minus 16.

Bottorff says some relatives found the boy and took him to Fremont Health hospital before officers arrived at the scene. The boy was transferred to an Omaha hospital, where he was pronounced dead later Sunday.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A legislative panel says Nebraska needs to do a better job tracking mental health data for inmates and the amounts of time that inmates spend in segregation.

The committee said in a report Monday that mental health information for specific inmates is not always up to date. The Performance Audit Committee also says it’s impossible to calculate how much total time some inmates have spent in segregation.

Sen. John Harms of Scottsbluff, the committee chairman, says the Department of Correctional Services should submit to an independent audit of its electronic data system.

The review was prompted by the case of Nikko Jenkins, an inmate who was released in 2013 despite begging for mental health treatment. Jenkins later killed four people in Omaha.