(AP) — A Wednesday hearing is set on a motion by the defendant to plead guilty to killing four people in Omaha last summer.

Douglas County District Judge Peter Bataillon (buh-TAL’-yuhn) scheduled the hearing and is expected to tell 27-year-old Nikko Jenkins that he is giving up several rights by changing his earlier pleas.

Jenkins filed the motion Friday. He’d previously pleaded not guilty to four murder and eight weapons charges. Earlier last week Jenkins tried to plead no contest to the charges, but Bataillon said he wouldn’t accept the pleas because of the severity of the cases. In February Bataillon ruled that Jenkins was mentally competent to stand trial.

Police say the four victims were shot in the three weeks after Jenkins’ release from prison on July 30, 2013.

(AP) — Police say an Omaha man who was driving too fast for the snowy conditions has died after crashing in his van.

Omaha police say the accident occurred just after 9:45 p.m. Sunday as the van was heading south off westbound Storz Expressway onto U.S. Highway 75.

Police say the van went out of control and struck a guardrail twice, ejecting the driver. Police say he died later at Nebraska Medical Center. He was identified as 58-year-old Roy Tiller, of Omaha.

Officials say an inch or more of heavy, wet snow followed rain that pelted much of eastern Nebraska on Sunday, slickening streets and sidewalks.

(AP) — Some Nebraska elementary students will get a chance to learn good financial habits from someone portraying Ben Franklin.

The Nebraska Treasurer’s office is bringing the Franklin character to 16 elementary schools in eastern Nebraska. First National Bank is also supporting the program.

The Franklin character will visit with students about the importance of saving money.

And every fourth-grader who hears the presentation will get a backpack with more materials.

Treasurer Don Stenberg says he’s proud to help teach children the value of saving and making good financial decisions.

(AP) — A Johnson County jail official says the man accused of killing three people outside of Jewish sites near Kansas City is Frazier Glenn Cross.

The official confirmed that Cross is the suspect in Sunday’s attacks in Overland Park. He spoke on the condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the case publicly.

Public records show that the 73-year-old Cross also goes by the last name Miller. The Southern Poverty Law Center says he has long been an outspoken white supremacist and was once a “grand dragon” of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

The group reports on its website that it spoke to Miller’s wife, Marge, by phone Sunday and she said police told her that her husband had been arrested in Sunday’s attacks.

(AP) — A California-bound Southwest Airlines flight was diverted to Omaha, Neb. after witnesses said a passenger tried to open a door midflight.

The airline said the Chicago-to-Sacramento plane landed on Eppley Airfield Sunday to “have an unruly passenger removed” before continuing on to its destination. The flight with 5 crew members and 134 passengers arrived in Sacramento about two hours behind schedule.

Once on the ground, a doctor onboard told KCRA-TV he and two other passengers tackled the man in the back of the cabin and restrained him until air marshals escorted him off the plane. Scott Porter said the man “was going to do bad things to the plane.”

The airline had no further details about the passenger. A call to the Omaha Airport Authority wasn’t immediately returned.

(AP) — Omaha Police have identified the motorcycle rider who was killed in a weekend crash after failing to negotiate a corner in the road.

Omaha police say 27-year-old David Plassmann of Bellevue died Saturday afternoon while out riding with others.

The accident happened shortly after noon along John J. Pershing Drive near the Missouri River on the northeast edge of the city.

Police say Plassman failed to negotiate a corner in the road, lost control and slammed into a tree.

Some of Plassman’s fellow riders and paramedics tried to revive him, but he died at the scene.

Plassman was wearing a helmet.

(AP) — A longtime Omaha rabbi who became a philanthropist after investing with Warren Buffett in the 1960s has died.

Rabbi Myer Kripke died Friday at the age of 100.

Rabbi Steven Abraham says his predecessor at Omaha’s Beth El Synagogue remains beloved by the congregation he led from 1947 to 1975.

Kripke stayed active in the community long after becoming rabbi emeritus at Beth El, and he often gave talks explaining his faith to non-Jewish audiences.

Kripke was able to become a philanthropist later in life because he invested with his friend Buffett, who he’d met during the 1950s.

One of the bigger gifts Kripke and his wife made was a $7 million donation to the Jewish Theological Seminary he attended in New York City.