(AP) — A federal judge has ordered Creighton University in Omaha to pay nearly $500,000 in legal fees for a deaf medical student who successfully sued the school for discrimination.

Michael Argenyi (ar-GEN’-ee) sued Creighton in 2009, after leaving medical school when Creighton refused his requests for interpreters — even though he offered to pay for them himself. Last year, a federal judge ruled that Creighton must provide Argenyi with special equipment and interpreters to allow him to finish medical school. The judge did not require the university to reimburse Argenyi for $110,000 he had already spent for interpreters and special equipment.

In March, Argenyi’s lawyers filed a motion seeking nearly $621,000 in legal fees. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp ordered $478,000 in attorney and legal fees.

(AP) — A Colorado man who was released from prison 90 years early due to a clerical error has returned to serve the rest of his sentence.

Rene Lima-Marin was free for nearly six years due to the mistake. He had a child, married his former girlfriend and held a job.

But a prosecutor noticed the mistake in January, and a judge immediately ordered Lima-Marin back to prison.

A judge in 2000 sentenced Lima-Marin to serve back-to-back sentences on eight convictions, for a total of 98 years. But a court clerk mistakenly wrote in his file that the sentences were to run at the same time. Corrections officials depend on that file to know how long an inmate should serve.

The case draws more attention to how clerical errors have let criminals evade prison time.

(AP) — A competency hearing is scheduled to be held Friday for a former doctor accused of killing four people with ties to an Omaha medical school program from which he was fired in 2001.

The hearing for Anthony Garcia, of Terre Haute, Indiana, comes after he spent three months undergoing psychological evaluation at the Lincoln Regional Center. His attorneys asked for the evaluation in February after becoming concerned about his mental state.

Garcia is charged with first-degree murder in the 2008 deaths of the 11-year-old son of Creighton University pathologist William Hunter and the family’s housekeeper, as well as the deaths last May of Creighton pathologist Roger Brumback and his wife.

Authorities say Garcia was motivated by revenge for being fired in 2001. He has pleaded not guilty.

(AP) — One person has been killed in the collision of a pickup and semitrailer near Louisville (LOO’-is-vihl) in eastern Nebraska.

The accident occurred around 4 a.m. Friday on Nebraska Highway 50, north of the Platte River. Authorities say the pickup ran a stop sign and was hit by the big rig.

A passenger in the pickup was pronounced dead at the scene. The pickup driver was trapped in the wreckage for a time before being freed for medical treatment. The semitrailer driver was taken to an Omaha hospital.

The names of those involved haven’t been released.

Traffic on Nebraska Highways 50 and 31 was diverted.

(AP) — A July trial has been scheduled for a Grand Island man charged with the crash death of his fiancee.

30-year-old Johnny Alvarez pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to vehicular homicide and had already pleaded not guilty to drunken driving, third offense.

Authorities say Alvarez was driving on West Old Highway 30 on Aug. 11 when his car went out of control and left the roadway, hitting a guy wire and eventually stopping when it hit a tree.

His passenger, 33-year-old Jamie Lohman Sandate, died at the scene. She also was known as Jamie Lohman Sandate Alvarez.

Johnny Alvarez was hospitalized for about four months after the crash. His trial is set to begin July 7.

(AP) — An 18-year-old woman charged with fleeing from a fatal Omaha collision has been given four to five years in prison.

Justice Wiggins, of Omaha, was sentenced on Wednesday in Douglas County District Court in Omaha. Court records say she pleaded guilty to failing to stop and render aid and to misdemeanor vehicular homicide.

Police say Wiggins’ car had struck some property on Jan. 19 and she was speeding away when she ran a stop sign and struck a sport utility vehicle, killing its driver, 23-year-old Brycel Jackson.

(AP) — Officials say a 5-year-old pit bull has died in Omaha after being left inside a vehicle during hot weather.

The Nebraska Humane Society says the dog died after being left in the parking lot of a discount store Wednesday. The temperature inside the car was 130 degrees.

The dog’s owner told Humane Society officials he was gone for 35 minutes. The National Weather Service says temperatures in Omaha on Wednesday reached more than 95 degrees.

The dog owner was cited, but additional information was not available. Officials say a boxer puppy also inside the car survived.

(AP) — The utilities that own Nebraska’s two nuclear power plants plan to examine flooding hazards at the plants which sit on the banks of the Missouri River.

Officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission plan to meet with the representatives of Nebraska and Omaha Public Power Districts on Friday.

The utilities are re-evaluating flood risks at Fort Calhoun and Cooper nuclear power plants as part of the industry’s response to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.

Part of Friday’s meeting where the utilities will discuss when they can complete their flood review will be public. But part of the meeting that focuses on interim measures that might be taken to improve flood defenses at the plants will private.

(AP) — Authorities say a firefighter received a minor injury while battling a fire in Lincoln.

Lincoln Fire and Rescue Deputy Chief Pat Borer says the firefighter hurt his knee Thursday while working on the blaze at a house on the city’s northeast side. He is expected to report to work in a few days.

Authorities believe a cigarette started the fire. A resident at the house was seen using a garden hose to try to contain the fire. Firefighters stopped it within 15 minutes of arriving.

The fire caused $50,000 in damages. The American Red Cross is assisting a family of four who lived at the home.