OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 64-year-old Omaha man has been given five years of probation for health care fraud.

James Holt was sentenced on Wednesday. He’d pleaded guilty nine federal misdemeanors.

James Holt and his company, UMOJA, provided mental health services. Authorities say Holt and his company stole money by billing Nebraska Medicaid for services that weren’t actually provided. Investigators say 231 false claims were submitted for payment.

Holt and the company must make total restitution of more than $15,500.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A police officer has been credited with alerting residents about a fire at a Lincoln apartment building.

Police say Sgt. Tom Ward spotted the nine-unit apartment building on fire early Wednesday. He radioed for help and banged on the doors of three garden-level units.

Ward was unable to reach the second and third floors so he threw rocks at windows to alert sleeping residents.

Responding firefighters used truck ladders to reach trapped residents. Officer Katie Flood says four people were injured in the fire.

Investigator Ken Hilger says a microwave inside one of the units started the fire. He estimated the fire caused $150,000 to $175,000 in damages.

PILGER, Neb. (AP) — The middle school in Pilger that was heavily damaged by a tornado last month will be torn down on Friday.

The school and most of the town of 350 people was severely damaged by a tornado on June 16. Two people were killed in the storm.

The Wisner-Pilger school board decided the middle school building in Pilger couldn’t be salvaged.

The district plans to put up three portable classrooms for the middle school’s 75 students near the district’s elementary school in Wisner.

Residents and alumni will be able to keep a brick from the school as a keepsake if they request one.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha man accused of raping multiple women over several years has been sentenced to up to 140 years in prison.

A judge sentenced Anthony Vaughn on Wednesday to 110 to 140 years in prison. The 42-year-old won’t be eligible for parole until he’s at least 96 years old.

In April, Vaughn made a last-minute deal with prosecutors and pleaded no contest to two counts of first-degree sexual assault and other charges. Several charges were dropped in return.

Vaughn was accused of a series of rapes between 1999 and 2009. A DNA sample taken in 2011 after a burglary conviction linked him to the crimes.

One victim said she was relieved by the sentence.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The mother of a Texas 18-year-old who fell from a sixth-floor hotel window in Lincoln expects to take her daughter home this week.

Lynn Hamilton said her daughter, Brittany Turner, is “doing much, much better.”

On June 28 Turner fell from the broken window on the Embassy Suites sixth floor onto the second-story roof and was critically injured. Turner was in Lincoln with other Houston high school students for the International Thespian Festival.

On Tuesday Hamilton said Turner isn’t ready to talk about what happened before her fall.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The city of Lincoln has evicted a Little Free Library from a spot near a church in the Indian Village neighborhood.

A city official told the church, New Visions Community-Southminster site, that the little library can’t sit in a public right of way.

George Finley lives across the street from the little library, and he says he’s seen children go to it, grab a book and sit down on nearby grass to start reading.

Public Works Director Miki Esposito says she and neighborhood association president Barbara Arendt have talked about moving the library to private property, but that probably won’t be done until after Thursday’s deadline. She’s also working with Arendt to delay the possible city fine of up to $500.

PIERCE, Neb. (AP) — More than 200 Nebraska farmers say they lost $9.7 million when the Pierce grain elevator failed earlier this year, and regulators say many of them won’t recover much.

Officials with the state Public Service Commission say they expect to raise $4.7 million from selling the grain the elevator held when it closed. The business also had $880,000 in bonds that will help pay claims.

But the amount of compensation farmers receive will vary based on their situation.

John Fecht, who oversees the commission’s Grain Warehouse Division, says farmers who can prove they were storing grain at the elevator will get most, if not all, their money back.

Farmers who sold $4.2 million in grain to the elevator will be lucky to receive 10 cents on every dollar they are owed.