LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man convicted of shooting a bald eagle and a rough-legged hawk earlier this year has been given eight months in prison.

U.S. Attorney Deborah R. Gilg said Monday that 45-year-old Lamar Bertucci’s sentence will be followed by one year of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $6,500 in restitution.

Bertucci pleaded guilty this year to violating the Bald and Golden Eagle Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. He is accused of shooting the bald eagle in February. An investigation into his activities yielded the rough-legged hawk.

Bertucci had objected to the method used for valuing the birds. A report placed a $10,000 value on the bald eagle and $1,750 on the hawk. In the end, a judge determined $6,500 in restitution.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln woman has been accused of using her car to hit a pedestrian following a dispute over a parking spot.

Police say 36-year-old Kimberly Ann Pankratius was waiting for a parking spot outside a Wal-Mart Saturday night when she allegedly yelled at a couple for taking the space.

Pankratius is accused of driving her car toward the couple and hitting the woman in the arm with a side mirror. The woman later refused treatment.

Police say Pankratius drove away but the couple took down her license plate information. She was arrested a short time later.

Pankratius faces charges of second-degree assault and using a deadly weapon to commit a felony. Court records do not list an attorney.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The former doctor accused of killing four people with ties to an Omaha medical school is challenging his arrest and some of the initial searches police conducted.

Attorneys for Anthony Garcia, or Terre Haute, Indiana, argued Monday the arrest was improper because the warrant wasn’t issued until several hours afterward.

Prosecutors defended the warrants, and they maintain all the affidavits filed in court were valid.

Garcia is charged with first-degree murder in the 2008 deaths of the 11-year-old son of Creighton University pathologist William Hunter and the family’s housekeeper, as well as the May 2013 deaths of Creighton pathologist Roger Brumback and his wife.

Authorities say Garcia was motivated by revenge for being fired from Creighton’s pathology department in 2001. He has pleaded not guilty.

COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska State Patrol says eight people have been taken to the hospital after a five-car pileup near Columbus.

Sgt. Tim Salmen says a crash caused a chain reaction on Sunday evening on Highway 81. He says a car was stopped and waiting to turn when another vehicle rear-ended it. All of the vehicles involved were traveling south.

The injured people were taken to a Columbus hospital. Salmen says their injuries weren’t life threatening.

He says one of the vehicles caught fire after the accident but it was quickly extinguished.

The accident is under investigation.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A southeastern Nebraska county treasurer wants state officials to be more transparent about fees charged to people who make payments on the Department of Motor Vehicles website.

Lancaster County Treasurer Andy Stebbing said his office charges a lower convenience fee to people who use credit or debit cards in person or over the phone compared to people who make payments on the state’s DMV website. Stebbing says his office charges 2.49 percent as a convenience fee, while the state’s website charges a 3 percent fee.

He also says that the state charges a flat $3 fee to customers who make online payments using electronic checks. Stebbing says his office charges half of that.

Stebbing recently sent a letter to Nebraska’s Secretary of State, requesting he order a review of the convenience fees.

WATERLOO, Neb. (AP) — A 27-year-old Fremont man has been killed in a rollover crash in eastern Nebraska’s Douglas County.

The accident occurred around 4:15 p.m. Sunday near the intersection of U.S. Highway 275 and West Maple Road on the north side of Waterloo. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says a westbound car went out of control on a curve, crossed the median and another roadway and then rolled several times.

The driver, Jonathan Craig, was pronounced dead at the scene. His passenger, 26-year-old Alana Kaiser, was flown to an Omaha hospital. She also is from Fremont.