COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — A 58-year-old Columbus man convicted of stabbing and assaulting his wife before a standoff with police has been sent to prison.

Alfredo Santistevan was given six to 12 years in prison for assault and terroristic threats. He’d pleaded no contest after prosecutors amended and dropped other charges. He was sentenced on Friday in Platte County District Court.

Santistevan was arrested after the standoff on April 3 and taken to a local hospital to be treated for self-inflicted knife wounds. Court documents say Santistevan’s wife had a knife wound on her hand and swelling of her nose and around an eye.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police say they’ve arrested a 20-year-old man who fled from police before driving his truck toward an officer.

Officer Michael Pecha says the driver pulled over Sunday night before accelerating toward the officer. The chase had topped speeds of 70 mph through several residential neighborhoods.

Pecha says police used a helicopter to track the man before he was arrested.

The suspect was booked on various counts including avoiding arrest and attempted assault of an officer. It’s unclear if he’s been charged.

He is being held at the Douglas County jail on $25,000 bond.

NORTH BEND, Neb. (AP) — A Union Pacific railroad official says the halting of trains because a Nebraska school volleyball team was using tracks for a team photo shows how seriously the railroad takes safety issues.

On Thursday trains were halted near North Bend after rail workers discovered the North Bend Central volleyball team was on the tracks.

Union Pacific spokesman Mark Davis told the Fremont Tribune that U.P. operates about 50 trains a day in the North Bend corridor, “so it’s extremely dangerous to be in and around the tracks, because you just never know when a train’s going to come.”

School district superintendent Dan Endorf says none of the volleyball players has been punished and that no teachers or school administrators were part of the photo shoot.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — More strong storms are rumbling through the Midwest, with the National Weather Service saying a tornado was confirmed in Kansas and other places seeing heavy rains, large hail and strong winds.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the National Weather Service noted hail nearly 2 inches in diameter near the city. It said rain fell at a rate of nearly an inch per hour, raising concerns of flash flooding.

Ameren said about 8,500 people were without power in Missouri. In Oklahoma, regulators said about 9,000 people had lost power near Tulsa.

The Detroit Free Press said two tornadoes hit earlier Monday in northern Michigan. Jim Keysor, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said they damaged property but caused no injuries. To the south, flooding closed some roadways.

ALBION, Neb. (AP) — Officials at Boone Central Schools in Albion are ready to ask voters again to consider a bond issue.

After a $21 million proposal to build a new high school and renovate other buildings failed in 2012, supporters of school improvements regrouped held meetings to set priorities and came up with a $13 million plan that goes before voters on Nov. 4.

Most of the money will pay an addition of a new kitchen and offices to the Albion school campus. A new commons area, gymnasium, locker rooms and fitness center also are included. Additional work would renovate science rooms and upgrade the elementary school to add fire sprinklers. Secure entrances at the middle school in Petersburg would be added.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The public safety director for the city of Lincoln says the city needs to replace its old emergency radio system and should build four fire stations to improve firefighter response time.

Tom Casady, the city’s former police chief who became public safety director in 2011, has long pushed for a new radio system to replace the 21-year-old current system.

Casady also supports building four fire stations to help meet federal standards that say firefighters should respond to any address within four minutes. He says more than 9,700 addresses in the city fall outside that window.

Over the next three months, a committee appointed by Mayor Chris Beutler will examine ways to pay for the projects, expected to cost more than $34 million.

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — The cleanup of wood debris from this year’s storms has proved to be costly and time-consuming for the city of Hastings.

City administrator Joe Patterson said the pickup from the most recent storm last month cost the city an estimated $180,000 in manpower, equipment and landfill expenses.

Patterson says the city has responded four times this year to collect fallen tree debris from residences. Such service required diverting street workers and parks and recreation staffers from their normal duties, such as pavement repairs and grass mowing.

The storm workload was increased by residents who tossed shrubs and other yard debris onto piles with storm debris and by those who tossed their downed tree limbs onto city property.