OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a man who was shot while trying to break into a northeast Omaha home has died.

Police say the home’s lone resident shot the man in the chest around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday. The wounded man was found by officers on a sidewalk a few blocks from the home. Police say he died later at an Omaha hospital. He was identified as 41-year-old Lee Harvey.

The resident told police the man had tried to get in through the front door, and Lt. Catherine Milone told the Omaha World-Herald the door was “pretty banged up where he was trying to get in.”

The resident’s name hasn’t been released.

 

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Authorities in northwest Iowa say several schools are no longer on lockdown after a 16-year-old student suspected of bringing a gun to his school was taken into custody.

The Woodbury County Sheriff’s Office says the student was captured Wednesday afternoon without incident. Additional information was not released.

Authorities placed Siouxland Community Christian School in Sioux City and two other schools on lockdown following a search for the student. He’s suspected of bringing a handgun to Siouxland Community Christian on Tuesday and making threats.

Officials at the nearby Kingsley-Pierson Community School District also placed their facilities on precautionary lockdown.

Sheriff’s Maj. Todd Wieck says the student was considered armed and dangerous because the handgun was unaccounted for at the time of the search. It has since been recovered.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska woman charged with bigamy has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.

35-year-old Laura McIntyre-Goins of Yutan took a plea deal with prosecutors on Monday. She pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace in exchange for dropping the bigamy charge, which alleged she was still married to her second husband when she married her third husband, Phillip Kapsa.

McIntyre-Goins was ordered to pay a $100 fine and $2,500 in restitution to Kapsa.

The former couple was married last fall in Rapid City, South Dakota. Kapsa tells police he became suspicious when the couple discussed their tax filing options. He had the marriage annulled last month.

McIntyre-Goins says she thought she was divorced from her second husband. They separated in 2007.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 65-year-old Nebraska woman has been charged with a felony after police say she stole $56,000 from a nursing home resident suffering from dementia.

Linda Frain faces up to five years in prison if convicted of abusing a vulnerable adult. Police say she used her power of attorney to steal from 88-year-old Dorothy Palleck.

A Nebraska Adult Protective Services employee told police in March that Frain withdrew the money from Palleck’s bank account during a 13-month period. Officers say she transferred the money for personal use.

Frain was released from jail after posting $1,000 bond. It wasn’t immediately clear if she has an attorney.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Lincoln Public Schools superintendent says gender identity handouts given to teachers will be removed from district campuses.

Steve Joel made the announcement at the Lincoln Board of Education meeting Tuesday night. He said the handouts weren’t appropriate, purposeful or clear.

District officials spoke with school leaders before the academic year began to help them better understand issues transgender students face. The handouts suggested words to replace gendered terms like “girls” and “boys.” School officials have stressed that they were suggestions and not mandates.

Some parents have decried the handouts at the last two meetings. They say the district promoted one view of gender over another and hasn’t been transparent.

LOUISVILLE, Neb. (AP) — An eastern Nebraska woman has been released from the hospital after suffering burns in what authorities believe was a mobile methamphetamine lab explosion.

The 43-year-old woman was discharged Tuesday after suffering burns to her face, neck and arms on Sunday.

Cass County Sheriff’s Capt. Dave Lamprecht says the woman ran into her home near Louisville after a fire started in her car. He says investigators found a bottle with tubing in the passenger seat that they believed was used to make meth.

The Nebraska State Patrol dismantled the equipment.

Authorities are investigating. No charges have been reported.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha woman has pleaded not guilty to embezzling nearly $9,000 from a church where she worked.

32-year-old Michaela LeColst is charged with a felony count of theft by deception. Police say she stole the money between September 2013 and February 2014 while working in the business office at Lifegate Church.

Executive senior pastor Mike Ballard says LeColst was fired July 2. He didn’t say why she was fired or how long she worked at the church. Ballard says church employees examined payroll records after she was fired and discovered that money was missing.

LeColst and her attorney declined to comment when contacted by the newspaper. She faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The closure of Lincoln Airport’s main runway has forced larger planes that usually use it to use the airport’s other, smaller runway.

That’s resulted in louder planes flying relatively low across south Lincoln and downtown.

The smaller runway points in a different direction than the main runway, which closed in July for the construction work. The larger planes had stayed well west most of Lincoln to use the main runway.

Airport Executive Director David Haring said he’s received several calls from people wondering about the noisier planes. Haring says the pavement work should finish in two or three weeks, which will result in planes being able to use the main runway.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man charged with fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend in Nebraska has been accused of attacking his attorney while in court.

The murder trial of Robert Grant was placed on hold Tuesday after he allegedly lunged and punched assistant public defender Doug Johnson in the head. A second public defender was knocked over in the scuffle.

Several officers entered the courtroom to subdue Grant. The court is now in recess until Wednesday morning.

Grant is also accused of punching a deputy in the head three times during a court appearance Monday.

Prosecutors say Grant stabbed 43-year-old Trudy McKee more than 40 times at an apartment last year. He has pleaded not guilty.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 92-year-old Omaha woman whose chair collapsed under her at a polling place in 2012 will receive $25,000 as part of a settlement.

The Douglas County Board approved the settlement Tuesday. The City Council will not review the settlement because the amount is less than $35,000.

Kathryn Johnson was at the pavilion of the Steve Hogan Golf Course to vote in the 2012 general election when she tried to sit down on a chair and it collapsed.

She later sued the county, the city of Omaha and Hogan’s Junior Golf Heroes Foundation. She claimed treatment for her injuries cost nearly $10,000.

The county and the golf foundation each will pay $10,000. The city will pay $5,000.