LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The last of five people charged in connection with several Lincoln bank robberies has been sentenced.

Federal prosecutors say 21-year-old Kiana Stabler, of Lincoln, was sentenced Friday to seven years in federal prison. She was also ordered to pay more than $28,000 in restitution.

Stable had pleaded guilty to a 2017 bank robbery at Pinnacle Bank and conspiracy to commit bank robbery at Great Western Bank last year.

Last month, Isreal Holmes was sentenced to 10 years and ordered to pay more than $44,500; Kaylene Stabler was sentenced to five years and $17,500 restitution; and

Crystal Stabler was sentenced to four years and more than $23,260 restitution.

In May, Julian Huffman was sentenced to five years and nearly $4,900 restitution.

They all pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank robbery.

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) – Members of a Nebraska county’s planning and zoning commission are calling for a moratorium on solar energy projects.

The Hastings Tribune reports that the Adams County Planning and Zoning Commission voted 9-0 to recommend the moratorium until June 30, 2019. The recommendation will be forwarded to the Adams County Board of Supervisors.

Commission Chairman Dean Rolls says officials want time to study solar energy generation and see what regulations are needed.

The Hastings City Council approved a similar moratorium in June. The city and the county currently don’t have any regulations for commercial or small-scale solar generation facilities.

Adams County Highway Superintendent Dawn Miller says developers are looking at constructing a solar generation facility near a highly traveled roadway.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say a man hit by a sport utility vehicle in Omaha has died from his injuries.

Police said in a news release Thursday that 49-year-old Michael Hodd, of Omaha, died Wednesday at an Omaha hospital. An autopsy is being performed.

Omaha police investigators say Hodd was hit late Tuesday night in the Field Club neighborhood, just blocks from the Gerald Ford Birthsite and Gardens, as he crossed a street in an area with no marked crosswalk. The 40-year-old driver of the SUV was not injured.

An investigation into the crash continues.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Law enforcement officials say a motorcyclist has died in a crash just southwest of Omaha.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says the crash happened late Tuesday on West Center Road outside of Omaha, when a westbound motorcycle collided with an eastbound pickup truck.

Deputies say Ronald Rowland, of Yutan, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the pickup was taken to an Omaha hospital.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Severe thunderstorms knocked out power to nearly 7,000, disrupted some fireworks displays and injured at least one woman in eastern Nebraska.

The storms moved across the Omaha area around 10 p.m. Wednesday and knocked out power to 6,900 Omaha Public Power District customers.

Electricity was restored to most customers overnight, but about 500 still lacked power Thursday morning.

In Papillion, a 45-year-old woman was struck in the head by a tree branch that fell during the storms. She was taken to the hospital in critical condition.

The weather also prompted the Omaha suburb of Ralston to postpone its fireworks display to Thursday night.

 

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Police are investigating two separate homicides that happened just a few blocks apart in Omaha.

One man died after he was found near 31st and Jackson streets with a stab wound. The second victim, a 19-year-old man, was fatally shot outside an apartment building several blocks away.

The names of both victims were not immediately released, and police didn’t announce any arrests Thursday morning.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission says larvae of the invasive zebra mussel have been found in a water sample taken from Glenn Cunningham Lake just north of Omaha.

Officials say field sampling for adult zebra mussels will be completed on the lake’s boat ramps, rocks and other hard structures over the next several weeks. Until an adult is found, Cunningham Lake will be considered a suspect water body.

The small black-and-white striped mussels are native to eastern Europe and voracious eaters that gobble up plankton many native freshwater fish need to survive.

The mussels can also attach themselves to boat motors, bait buckets and dam mechanisms and cause damage to motors and facilities.

Boaters are urged to clean, drain and dry watercraft to prevent the spread of the mussels.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – A new federal study could speed up the construction of several more lakes in the Omaha area to help control flooding and boost recreation options.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Papio-Missouri River Natural Resources District will reopen a study of the Papillion Creek Watershed that hasn’t been touched since the early 1970s. The federal agency approved the study in June as Nebraska’s only project to receive funding this year.

The decision to resume the decades-dormant study could lead to lakes near the district opening to the public in about 15 years. The lakes were projected to take about 50 years to construct.

The move comes as the latest addition to the Omaha area’s system of flood-control reservoirs, Flanagan Lake, opened last month.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An 11-year-old boy has died more than a week after he was rescued from an Omaha area apartment pool.

The Sarpy County Sheriff’s office says the boy died Monday evening, but his name wasn’t immediately released.

The boy was rescued from the pool on June 23, and had been treated at a local hospital since then.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha school district has agreed to a $175,000 settlement with a former student who says she was abused by a middle school teacher who was later convicted of sexual misconduct.

The Omaha World-Herald reports the school board approved the settlement Monday with a girl who said in a lawsuit the district didn’t do enough when she complained about Shad Knutson’s conduct in 2009.

The girl said in the lawsuit Knutson had touched her inappropriately and persuaded her to expose herself. He has been in prison since 2013 serving a 9- to 14-year sentence.

The district changed its abuse reporting procedures in 2012 to require staff to notify law enforcement within 24 hours of a sexual misconduct allegation from a student.

The district did not admit liability in the settlement.