(AP) — An Omaha man faces up to 20 years in federal prison for robbing a central Iowa bank a year ago.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the northern district of Iowa says 44-year-old Michael Clayton, of Omaha, was convicted Thursday by a federal jury in Sioux City of one count of bank robbery.

Proseuctors say Clayton took more than $11,000 from the Citizens’ State Bank in Fort Dodge on Feb. 7, 2013, with the help of another man, Christopher Anderson, who acted as a getaway driver.

Anderson pleaded guilty last year to being an accessory and faces up to 10 years when he’s sentenced on March 5.

Clayton remains in custody of the United States Marshal pending sentencing, which will be set at a later date.

(AP) — Authorities have identified an inmate who died in southeast Nebraska’s Gage County Detention Center as the suspect in a police standoff earlier in the week.

Deputy Gage County Attorney Amanda Spracklen-Hogan said that 36-year-old Adam Wolken was found unresponsive in his jail cell just before 4 a.m. Saturday and could not be revived. She did not say how he died.

Wolken was arrested early Thursday following a standoff with police at a Beatrice motel. Police say Wolken held two women and a 20-month old child hostage before surrendering.

The Nebraska State Patrol will investigate Wolken’s death. State law requires a grand jury investigation any time a person died in state custody or during in the process of being detained.

(AP) — A University of Nebraska Board of Regents committee is studying the qualifications of 11 search firms interested in finding a replacement for President J.B. Milliken, who is leaving for a new job.

University officials mailed letters to 13 executive search firms across the country on Jan. 28.

NU spokeswoman Melissa Lee says 11 responded by the Wednesday deadline.

The Board of Regents is not required to complete a competitive bidding process to hire a search firm, so the board’s executive committee will narrow the 11 to a short list of firms to be interviewed by the board.

When the firms are narrowed to four, their identities will become public record.

NU hopes to have a firm hired by the end of the month.

(AP) — A replica of the world’s largest snake will go on exhibit later this month at the University of Nebraska State Museum in Morrill Hall.

The 48-foot-long replica is of the Titanboa cerrejonensis, which scientists say weighed up to an estimated 2,500 pounds. The Titanboas lived 60 million years ago.

The museum exhibit will include fossils and bones of Titanoboa and modern reptiles, exhibits on past environments and clips from the Smithsonian Channel documentary, “Titanoboa: Monster Snake.”

For more information go online at http://museum.unl.edu/Titanoboa.

The exhibit opens Feb. 22 and runs through Sept. 7.

(AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of an inmate in southeast Nebraska’s Gage County Detention Center.

Police were summoned to the jail just before 4 a.m. Saturday.

Deputy Gage County Attorney Amanda Spracklen-Hogan has confirmed that a male inmate had died at the jail. She and other authorities are not releasing the man’s name or details on how he might have died pending notification of his family.

Spracklen-Hogan says officials tried to revive the man, but couldn’t.

The Nebraska State Patrol will investigate. State law requires a grand jury investigation any time a person died in state custody or during in the process of being detained.

(AP) — A southeast Nebraska truck driver has been found dead in his semitrailer off Interstate 80 near Giltner.

56-year-old Charles Westwood’s truck was found off the road just before 7 p.m. Friday.

Investigators say Westwood was east of Grand Island when his truck swerved, went off the road and crashed through a fence. There was little damage to the truck, but Westwood was pronounced dead at the scene.

Nebraska State Patrol spokeswoman Deb Collins says Westwood likely swerved off the road because of a medical emergency.

(AP) — Firefighters in eastern Nebraska have found the body of a man inside a burning home.

The fire was discovered before 7:30 a.m. Saturday in a ranch home in Waterloo, just west of Omaha.

Waterloo Volunteer Fire Department Chief Travis Harlow says black smoke was billowing from the home when firefighters arrived. The man, who was alone in the house, was found dead in the living room.

Harlow says the man has not yet been identified. Investigators are working to determine what caused the fire, which burned a hole through the floor of the house but was quickly contained.

Harlow says an autopsy would be done to determine the cause of the man’s death.

(AP) — Police are investigating after shots were fired Friday near a northeast Omaha city park.

An officer parked in the area saw a person fire shots into the air around 10 a.m. Friday near Miller Park.

The officer chased after and arrested the 19-year-old suspect, whom police say has a felony conviction on his record.

The teen was taken jailed on suspicion of unlawfully discharging a gun, possession of an unregistered firearm and obstructing an officer.

(AP) — Omaha police say two officers involved in a recent shooting at a bar have been cleared to return to duty.

Police say Officers Brian Korth and Scott Richter were off-duty and working as security at the Tquila Bar when the shooting occurred Sunday morning.

The shooting happened after officers and the bar’s staff noticed someone prowling the parking lot checking car doors while another man followed in a white truck.

The man roaming the lot was quickly arrested, but police say the man in the truck drove at the officers as he fled, leading to officers to fire on the truck.

Police identified the man in the truck as Juan Sarmiento-Reyes, who turned himself in to police later.

(AP) — Two people will share a $25,000 Crime Stoppers reward for providing tips to police in the slaying of a 5-year-old Omaha girl.

The two will remain anonymous. The Omaha Crime Stoppers program will arrange for them to use code numbers in picking the cash at a bank.

Four men have been arrested and charged in the slaying of Payton Benson on Jan. 15. Police say the girl was eating breakfast in her home when she was struck by a stray bullet fired from a block away.