OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska community college is one of nine schools nationwide that will receive part of $1 million in grants to recruit and train veterans to drive.

The federal Transportation Department recently announced the grants to help train veterans to be commercial truck drivers or school bus drivers.

Metropolitan Community College in Omaha will receive $47,614 to support its program.

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx says veterans who may have driven large vehicles during their military service are excellent candidates to become commercial drivers.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police have charged three people in connection with the death of man in a south Omaha neighborhood.

The arrests Friday came after an investigation into an early morning shooting Saturday that left 23-year-old Jose Fabila dead.

Police say in a news release that 24-year-old Kevin Mejia was charged with 2nd degree murder and use of a weapon to commit a felony.

Officers also charged 24-year-old James Vega with shooting at an occupied dwelling and 21-year-old Jessica Gusman with accessory to a felony.

They were being held in the Douglas County jail.

It wasn’t clear whether they have attorneys.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has again denied a request for freedom by a woman sentenced to life in prison for the 1998 group slaying of a teenage friend in Bellevue.

Niccole Wetherell was among six people between the ages of 16 and 20 involved in the murder of 19-year-old Scott Catenacci, who was stabbed at least 57 times in a city park. Wetherell, now 34, pleaded no contest to first-degree murder in 1999. She lost her direct appeal in 2000.

The high court later denied her first appeal for postconviction relief. After losing her second postconviction motion, she appealed, arguing that the lower court should have appointed an attorney for her and that her life sentence is unconstitutional.

On Friday, the Nebraska Supreme Court found no merit to her arguments.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A couple of German balloonists who landed in a Nebraska soybean field have learned why Nebraskans are considered nice.

Heinz-Otto and Marion Lausch had been flying a gas air balloon as one of seven teams participating in an international ballooning competition earlier this month. They departed from New Mexico with their sights set on Kentucky, traveling for more than 45 hours until bad weather forced them to land in a soybean field in Nebraska.

Marion Lausch went looking for help, but couldn’t find anyone at a nearby farmhouse.

Soon, deputies with the Cass County sheriff’s office arrived. The field’s owner had called police after spotting the balloon dropping onto her land around midnight. The next morning, she came out and apologized, inviting the couple and their crew in for coffee and homemade cookies.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man has been given eight to 16 years in prison for forging checks he’d stolen.

Online court records say Clyde Frampton Sr. was sentenced on Thursday. In August Frampton pleaded guilty to two counts of forgery.

Lincoln police say Frampton stole the checks from his landlord and made them out to himself. The checks added up to nearly $8,100.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha man is scheduled to be sentenced in December for stabbing a police officer.

Online court records say 30-year-old Gary L. Jackson made a deal with prosecutors, who dropped a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. Jackson was convicted of assault on an officer and being a felon in possession of a weapon. His sentencing is set for Dec. 16.

Police say that on June 26, Jackson stabbed the officer, Sophia Jordan, who responded to a report of a trespassing at a convenience store in northeast Omaha. Jordan was hospitalized for three days.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man has been given 10 to 15 years in prison for shooting his ex-girlfriend in February.

Lancaster County District Judge Steven Burns sentenced 32-year-old Paul Boye on Thursday on a second-degree assault charge. He will be eligible for parole in five years.

Boye shot 25-year-old Andrea Eberspacher on Feb. 1. She survived but the bullet went through her kidney.

The couple initially told authorities they were partying at their house when the shooting occurred and she didn’t know who did it. An affidavit says a witness later told investigators that Boye told others he shot Eberspacher. Eberspacher later said Boye shot her after he began yelling at her.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The owner of a medical waste company says it was an improperly secured truck door that sent hundreds of confidential medical records onto an Omaha street.

Cellphone video taken Wednesday by Omaha business owner Jason Bucsis shows thousands of pages blowing on and around a southwest Omaha street. Bucsis says a back door of a Medi-Waste Disposal truck was open as it traveled, sending boxes of records into the street.

Good Samaritans scrambled to try to help the driver recover the records, even reaching into sewers to grab papers.

Medi-Waste Disposal owner Ryan Funk says he believes most of the records were recovered. He says new policies will be put in place to try to keep such an accident from happening again.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say several University of Nebraska-Lincoln students in a fraternity face felony charges in the alcohol-related death of a freshman.

University police say four FarmHouse Fraternity members were arrested Thursday on suspicion of procuring alcohol to a minor resulting in death. Three other students, including another fraternity member, face citations.

Eighteen-year-old Clayton Real was found dead at the fraternity house near campus in September. Affidavits show Real’s cause of death was acute alcohol intoxication.

The affidavits also say fraternity members threw a party the night before and provided alcohol to underage attendees, including Real.

Sgt. Jerry Plessel says the arrested students are in custody at the Lancaster County jail. A hearing is scheduled Friday. University spokesman Steve Smith says the school has suspended the fraternity chapter indefinitely.