(AP) — A judge has given final approval to a $2 million state settlement with the family of a Lincoln woman who was struck and killed by a state prison van driven by an inmate.

The settlement will go to the husband and son of 47-year-old Joyce Meeks, who was killed in the crash on June 25 in Lincoln. Last month legislators approved the payment as part of the state’s annual claims bill.

The inmate driver, Jeremy Dobbe, was seen speeding and swerving erratically before he struck Meeks’ vehicle. Dobbe was driving to transport inmates as part of a state work-release program.

The lawsuit by Meeks’ husband, Leonard Meeks, and son, Martell Buchanan, alleges that Dobbe was under the influence of alcohol, drugs or some other intoxicating substance.

(AP) — A Nebraska man has been given 25 years in prison for sexually abusing girls ages 7 and 8 in western Iowa.

64-year-old John Schondelmeyer, of Bellevue, Neb., was sentenced on Monday. He’d been found guilty of two counts of sex abuse and two counts of lascivious acts with a child.

The Mills County Sheriff’s Office says Schondelmeyer was in the process of moving to Fayetteville, N.C., when he was arrested Oct. 17, 2013, at his Nebraska home.

Schondelmeyer will be transferred to Nebraska, where he faces more child sex charges.

(AP) — Lincoln council members have approved a new ordinance that will require all outdoor clothing donations boxes and huts to list the names of every nonprofit organization and private company that receives money or clothing from the donations.

The disclosure ordinance adopted Monday will provide some information without violating First Amendment rights of the companies or nonprofits.

Last May the council banned for-profit donation boxes after Linc-Drop Inc. placed about 70 donation huts in Lincoln. The company gives 10 percent of the clothing sales proceeds to the March of Dimes.

Linc-Drop filed a lawsuit, saying the ordinance violated its free speech rights. In February a federal judge said the lawsuit likely would succeed and barred the city from enforcing the ordinance passed in May.

(AP) — Authorities say an 18-year-old has been fatally shot at a park across a street from Omaha’s Benson High School.

An Omaha police news release says officers were sent around 9:10 p.m. Monday to investigate shots at the Gallagher Park pool parking lot. They soon were advised that two people with gunshot wounds had arrived at Methodist Hospital.

One of the wounded men was pronounced dead a short time later. He’s identified as Tielor (TYE’-lur) Williams, of Omaha. The other man is identified as 22-year-old Joshua Schmitt, also of Omaha.

No arrests have been reported.

(AP) — First Lieutenant Kelly Requa (REE-kwa) is breaking new ground at Fort Bragg.

She’s one of a small number of female lieutenants brought into the 3rd Battalion of the 321st Field Artillery Regiment to lead a cannon platoon at the North Carolina base.

For the women, the integration into the once men-only artillery platoons means more pressure and scrutiny. For the men, it means more training for sexual-assault prevention and awareness, and more lectures on respect, team building and moral character.

By January 2016, the U.S. military must open all combat jobs to women or explain why any must remain closed. The Army in November began assigning female officers to lead the cannon platoons and plans to open other jobs, including those of crew members within field artillery units.

(AP) — Authorities in eastern Nebraska say two men tried to steal more than a dozen televisions from a hotel under construction.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says the men were arrested Sunday near a Marriott hotel, after an intrusion alarm was triggered.

Deputies say 19-year-old Tanner Pohlmeier was taken into custody at a nearby car dealership, after he was spotted running from the hotel. Another man, 21-year-old Juan F. Garibay, was stopped in a vehicle about two blocks away. Authorities say he was seen driving away from the scene.

The televisions were recovered.

Pohlmeier faces charges of burglary and obstruction. Garibay faces charges of burglary, carrying a concealed weapon, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Court records do not list attorneys.

(AP) — A Lancaster County Board member says he is sorry for driving under the influence.

Brent Smoyer said in a written statement Monday that he takes full responsibility for the incident.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln police say the 32-year-old Smoyer was stopped early Friday morning for making an illegal turn. Police say Smoyer told an officer he had been drinking alcohol earlier. He appeared impaired during a field sobriety test and his blood alcohol content was above the legal limit to drive.

Smoyer was cited for driving while intoxicated and failure to obey a traffic control device. He called the incident embarrassing.

Smoyer, a Republican, is running to represent northeast Lincoln in the Nebraska Legislature.

(AP) — A 27-year-old woman has been fatally injured in a car crash off an icy road in southeast Nebraska’s Lancaster County.,

The accident occurred about 3:20 a.m. Monday. Lancaster County Sheriff Terry Wagner says the car spun out of control and into a ditch after it ran onto some ice a few miles southwest of Lincoln.

A woman in the back seat was thrown out. Wagner says she was flown to a Lincoln hospital, where she was pronounced dead. She was identified as Jessica Lyons. Her husband, John, and the car driver, 45-year-old John Norbert, were injured.

(AP) — An elderly couple have died after a collision on a snowy spring day in northeast Nebraska.

The Wayne County Sheriff’s Office says the accident occurred around 3:25 p.m. Sunday about two miles east of Hoskins on Nebraska Highway 35.

The office says an eastbound pickup driven by 85-year-old Virlyn Lukens, of Emerson, went out of control on the slick roadway and was struck by an eastbound sport utility vehicle. Lukens and his wife, 77-year-old Marvel Lukens, were killed.

The SUV driver was identified as 45-year-old Robbi Johnson, of Norfolk. Johnson was taken to a Norfolk hospital.