(AP) — The Omaha Tribe, based in Macy, Neb., has christened its new Blackbird Bend Casino in Onawa, Iowa, and is now looking to expand the $12 million complex with amenities such as a hotel, bowling alley, marina and golf course.

The tribe revealed those plans Friday at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the casino.

The new casino was built next to the former Casino Omaha, which had been shut down by historic flooding along the Missouri River in 2011. The casino reopened early last year in a portion of the old casino building that formerly served as the restaurant.

The new structure sits 6 feet higher than the old building to prevent future flooding of the facility.

(AP) — The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s student newspaper will no longer print five daily weekday editions, opting instead to print two days a week to focus on its online content.

Editor-in-chief Hailey Konnath said in an editorial Friday that the newspaper, like many others, is grappling with declining readership and revenue.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports (http://bit.ly/MjMRPj) that the newspaper will focus on digital reporting to expand offerings to students. The student paper plans to publish content online first and focus on interactivity and diverse perspectives.

Konnath said in the editorial that “print is just not the way most college students get news anymore. It’s not as effective and it’s not as fast as opening up the DN app on your phone or following the DN on Twitter.”

(AP) — The man charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of four people in three separate attacks last summer is suing the state prison system and others for nearly $25 million.

Nikko Jenkins says in his lawsuit filed earlier this week that prison officials ignored his pleas for mental illness treatment and that years of solitary confinement in prison led him to mutilate his face and suffer “four large facial wounds.”

The lawsuit was written in hand by Jenkins.

Jenkins has pleaded not guilty in the deaths of Juan Uribe-Pena, Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz, Curtis Bradford and Andrea Kruger, whom prosecutors say were killed by Jenkins and others over a 10-day period. The shooting deaths came within three weeks of Jenkins’ release from prison on July 30.

(AP) — A 35-year-old Omaha man has been sentenced to 40 to 60 years in prison for fatally stabbing his wife last May.

Bobby Wallace Sr. was sentenced Friday in Douglas County District Court.

Police says Wallace stabbed 24-year-old Lavern Eubanks at the home they shared in front of their four children.

Prosecutors also said Wallace also ran after a child to try stab him or her. None of the children were injured.

Wallace was found guilty of second-degree murder, second-degree assault and use of the weapon to commit a felony.

Prosecutors say he will be eligible for parole after 20 to 30 years.

(AP) — A 35-year-old Lincoln man who used a forklift to steal an ATM has been sentenced to prison.

Online court records say Gabriel Muratella made a deal with prosecutors and pleaded no contest to a theft charge and guilty to a charge of fleeing to avoid arrest. Prosecutors dropped two other charges in exchange for Muratella’s pleas.

Muratella was given five to 10 years for the theft and a year on the other charge. The sentences are to be served consecutively.

Prosecutors say Muratella and another man used the forklift on Feb. 28 last year to take the ATM from a Cornhusker Bank branch in Lincoln and load it into a stolen pickup.

(AP) — A man and child have escaped unharmed from a fire that erupted while they were asleep at their Dakota City home in northeast Nebraska.

The fire was reported just before 2 p.m. Thursday.

Dakota City Fire Chief Clint Rasmussen says the man and child were awakened by a popping noise. They got out through a bedroom window. Two dogs and a pet rabbit were killed.

The fire cause is being investigated.

(AP) — A middle-school football coach accused of kidnapping and killing a 10-year-old girl in southwest Missouri is scheduled to make his first court appearance Friday.

Forty-five-year-old Craig Michael Wood is charged with first-degree murder, kidnapping and armed criminal action in the Springfield shooting death of fourth-grader Hailey Owens.

Police say Hailey was snatched off a neighborhood street Tuesday afternoon less than two blocks from her home as she walked back from her best friend’s house. Her body was found in Wood’s basement.

Memories of the child are mixed with anger and shock in Springfield as the community tries to make sense of the brutal crime that took her life. Thousands are expected to attend a downtown candlelight vigil in her honor scheduled for Saturday night.

(AP) — Omaha police say an officer has been injured after an SUV rear-ended his patrol car.

The Omaha Police Department says Officer Lou Tomsu suffered broken ribs following the Thursday afternoon wreck on southwest side of the city. He also received head and back injuries.

Public Information Officer James Shade says Tomsu was investigating an accident when the crash occurred. He is in the intensive care unit of a local hospital, but he is in stable condition.

Shade says the city attorney will decide whether to file any charges against the driver of the SUV, whose name has not been released.

(AP) — A Nebraska lawmaker is trying to make it a criminal offense for a peeping Tom to take pictures up a woman’s skirt.

Sen. Amanda McGill of Lincoln introduced the bill, which was heard by the Judiciary Committee on Thursday.

The bill would make it a misdemeanor for someone to photograph or film an area of a person that would not generally be visible to the public without his or her knowledge and consent.

McGill says the problem of “upskirting” has become more of an issue with advances in technology.

The Nebraska County Attorneys Association testified in support of the bill, but the ACLU of Nebraska had concerns with the way the bill is written.

(AP) — A Nebraska man has been charged in connection with alleges sales of drugs, gun and counterfeit currency on the Silk Road website.

Federal prosecutors in Baltimore say 26-year-old Sheldon Kennedy of Lincoln was arrested Wednesday in Miami. He is charged in a complaint with conspiracy to traffic controlled substances and other offenses. The complaint was filed Jan. 31 and unsealed Thursday.

Authorities say Silk Road, which had nearly 1 million registered users by July, generated more than $1 billion in illicit business from January 2011 through September. The website used Bitcoin, the tough-to-track digital currency, before it was shut down.

According to court documents, undercover agents in Baltimore bought cocaine and a pistol from Kennedy on Silk Road, and he sold counterfeit currency to another person in Maryland.