Amber Benson’s lawsuit follows two others filed by Lincoln Fire and Rescue employees alleging their bosses retaliated against them for reporting harassment of female firefighters.

Benson alleges that Capt. Shawn Mahler arbitrarily placed her on 18 months’ observation, though he didn’t require the same of male firefighters. The lawsuit also says Mahler discouraged Benson in 2014 from rotating onto the firetruck because “typically women are less mechanically-minded.”

City Attorney Jeff Kirkpatrick said Tuesday he hasn’t received the lawsuit. He says the Nebraska Equal Opportunity Commission already investigated Benson’s case and didn’t find evidence of discrimination or retaliation.

Margaret Markland said she and her husband, Cal, were on U.S. Highway 6 in northeast Lincoln when she told him to pull over. The baby was arriving.

Cal Markland stopped their vehicle and called 911 for help, but the youngster wouldn’t wait. Cal Markland says a dispatcher coached him through the delivery, and his wife says she didn’t panic because her husband “was calm and collected, even though it was kind of hectic.”

They say little Jason Scott Markland is doing well and already has met his big brother and sister.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An August sentencing is scheduled for a Lincoln woman accused of causing her aunt’s death by swerving to throw her off a vehicle.

Lancaster County District Court records say 22-year-old Kacie Alatoree pleaded no contest Monday to vehicular homicide. In exchange, prosecutors dropped a charge of failing to stop and render aid. Her sentencing is set for Aug. 7.

Police say 36-year-old Autumn Rodriguez Hernandez died Nov. 12, days after she climbed onto the SUV Alatoree was driving. Police say Alatoree accelerated and swerved left and right to shake Rodriguez Hernandez off the vehicle, causing the older woman to fall and hit her head on a curb. Police say Alatoree then fled.

Police say Rodriguez Hernandez had lent the SUV to her niece three months earlier.

Lancaster County Court records say 38-year-old Andrea Christensen is charged with failure to pay sales tax, three counts of income tax evasion and one of failing to remit income tax withholding. A Lincoln phone listed for Christensen rang busy during several calls Tuesday. Her attorney in the consumer protection case didn’t immediately return a call from The Associated Press.

The tax charges arose from a state investigation into the Christensen’s now defunct businesses, Pixi Chix and State 51 Wear. In 2016 state attorneys sued her and her companies alleging that she’d violated the Nebraska Consumer Protection Act and Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act, among other laws. In April Christensen and her businesses admitted no wrongdoing but agreed to pay $7,500 in a settlement.

The crash was reported around 9 p.m. Monday, about a mile and a half northwest of Firth. The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office says the southbound car ran into the west ditch and rolled several times.

The sheriff’s office says the driver was pronounced dead shortly after being flown to a Lincoln hospital. She’s been identified as 33-year-old Stephanie Leard, who lived in Hickman.

The crash is being investigated.

Milton Felder was sentenced Tuesday to 36 to 40 years after earlier pleading no contest to manslaughter and a weapons count in the May 2017 shooting of Brandon White.

Prosecutors say Felder and three teens had planned to rob White and another man during a marijuana deal when the shooting happened outside McMillan Middle School.

Another adult, 19-year-old Allana Smith, has also pleaded no contest to manslaughter and a weapons count. Two other teens charged as adults have pleaded no contest to lesser felonies. All three await sentencing.

NioCorp Developments said Tuesday the proposed niobium mine near Elk Creek won’t need an expensive water line to the river, and the project won’t need two federal permits.

The change is possible because NioCorp recently determined that the proposed mine will produce significantly less bedrock water.

NioCorp CEO Mark Smith says this change will reduce the environmental impact of the proposed mine.

The U.S. currently imports nearly all the niobium that’s used in this country to harden steel and make it more heat-resistant for industrial uses.

NioCorp is based in Centennial, Colorado.

Dr. Farid Karimi of Lincoln Regional Center is suing the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services and two former supervisors, Stacey Werth-Sweeney and Dr. Roger Donovick.

Karimi alleges that he reported procedural and medical violations several months after he started working at the center in February 2016. The lawsuit states that Werth-Sweeney and Donovick didn’t take any action to correct violations and instead retaliated against Karimi. The two employees left him out of meetings, made false accusations against him and negated his orders, according to the lawsuit.

Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Julie Naughton declined to comment on pending litigation, which is being handled by the Nebraska Attorney General’s office.

Werth-Sweeney, formerly the center’s chief operating officer, was fired in June and Donovick, the psychiatric director, left the center last year. Werth-Sweeney said Karimi has a troubling resume and history of service at the center. She said she expects “the evidence to disclose serious, persistent problems with Dr. Karimi’s practice, including his attendance at work and patient records.”

Patients may be sent to the facility by court order or by local mental health boards. The lawsuit lists alleged violations such as changing patient orders, following outdated policies, denying patient visitation rights and moving patients against court orders. Karimi also alleges that the facility failed to use passive restraints on patients who needed to be on highly restrictive status, which resulted in repeated assaults on staff.

Karimi seeks unspecified damages and the removal of all disciplinary actions from his record. He claims that the defendants damaged his reputation in the community and workplace.

New York-based MetLife said Tuesday that it expects the center to open in downtown Omaha by the end of the year. The global financial services company provides insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management.

A unit of MetLife earlier this year said it would move its legal domicile to Nebraska. Insurance experts say companies can save money in Nebraska because of the state’s relatively low tax rate on insurance premiums.

The state requires companies moving their domiciles to Nebraska to maintain operating offices here, carrying out functions such as claims processing or customer relations services.