OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 47-year-old man was killed in an early morning shooting in Omaha.

Omaha police say Terry Warren was pronounced dead Sunday shortly after officers arrived at the scene around 5 a.m. Authorities say he was found on the ground in a northeast Omaha neighborhood.

Police offered few other details but urged anyone with information to contact Omaha Crime Stoppers by phone at 402-444-STOP or online at www.omahacrimestoppers.org. Tips leading to the arrest of a homicide suspect are eligible for a $25,000 reward.

Police say they’re still investigating the incident.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln officials say a longtime after-school program is helping suspended students change their behavior and keep up with schoolwork.

Nearly 80 students participated in the Alternative Suspension Program, a pilot project with two high schools and two middle schools that Lighthouse hopes to see continue.

“This is the biggest no-brainer partnership,” said Bill Michener, Lighthouse executive director. “We learned a ton and we know it’s beneficial. We want kids to be successful. Like Lincoln Public Schools, we want them to graduate.”

Lincoln High School has been working to reduce out-of-school suspensions, which last up to five days and can be a hardship on working parents. Michener said students who are suspended often fall farther behind and become more alienated from school.

Lincoln High and Lighthouse worked together with some students in 2015-16 and expanded the program last year to include Southeast High and Lefler and Irving middle schools.

“We found it worked pretty well,” said Jason Shanahan, Irving principal. “While out-of-school suspensions are sometimes necessary, they are not a successful behavior intervention — they don’t solve their problem.”

Nearly half of students who participated in the Lighthouse program came from Irving, where the school’s number of out-of-school suspensions hit a four-year low last year, at 107.

Lighthouse offers a “restorative justice” option that helps each student tell their story, understand who their actions harmed and learn how to keep it from happening again.

“We are all about building relationships,” said Pete Allman, founder and board president of the program. “Nothing can happen unless you have a positive relationship.”

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police in Lincoln say they’ve arrested a 21-year-old man accused of head-butting an officer in the face.

Police say officers were attempting to place Spencer Powell into protective custody at a Lincoln behavioral health facility early Saturday, just after midnight Friday, following a disturbance. Police say Powell became uncooperative and charged at officers after his restraints were removed.

While trying to subdue him again, police say, Powell head-butted an officer before being arrested and booked into the Lancaster County Jail on suspicion of third-degree assault.

The injured officer was treated and released from a local hospital.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — The Grand Island school board has approved provisions for a $10 million donation for a renovation of the district’s Memorial Stadium.

The board voted unanimously Thursday for the provisions. The money from alumnus Lanny Martin will be added to $2 million from district resources for the $17 million project. The remaining $5 million will be sought by a community fundraising campaign.

Martin initially agreed to donate $5 million. He increased his commitment to $10 million as the project scope broadened.

Dan Petsch is the district director of buildings and grounds, and he says the goal is to have design pieces and drawings ready to go out for proposals by the end of the year.

The stadium is more than 70 years old.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former Omaha Tribal Council member has pleaded guilty to misusing federal funds.

The Sioux City (Iowa) Journal reports that Forrest Aldrich entered the plea Thursday in U.S. District Court in Omaha. The charge: misapplication of health care benefit program funds. His sentencing is set for Sept. 20.

Other federal charges were dropped in exchange for his plea.

Morris was one of nine tribal officials charged in a case that accused the officials of misusing federal funds by awarding nearly $389,000 in bonuses to themselves.

Officials say the bonuses were paid from Indian Health Service funds meant to provide health care to members of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska who reside on the

Omaha Reservation in Macy in northeastern Nebraska and in western Iowa.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has suspended for three years the law license of a Wahoo lawyer who was convicted of filing a false federal tax return.

The state’s high court said Friday that 63-year-old Kent Trembly admitted the felony conviction and noted that a referee recommended Trembly be suspended for 18 months. But the high court said that after its review of the case, it concluded a three-year suspension was proper.

Court records show Trembly didn’t report any of the more than $1.1 million in gross receipts from his legal work or work as a veterinarian or investment broker for the 2006 and 2007 tax years. In late 2016, Trembly was sentenced to two years’ probation and ordered to pay more than $110,000 in restitution.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — An eastern Nebraska man accused of knocking down a sanitation worker with his vehicle during an argument has pleaded no contest to third-degree assault.

Omaha television station WOWT reports that Dennis Stenner entered the plea Friday.

Cellphone video recorded by a Bellevue sanitation worker shows Stenner behind the wheel of his sport utility vehicle last year and blocking a garbage truck on a street. Witnesses say he was angry because the garbage truck was blocking a street. Sanitation worker Jesse Witzke got out of the garbage truck and asked Stenner to move. The video shows Stenner briefly backing up the SUV, then lurching forward and hitting Witzke. Witzke suffered only minor injuries.

Stenner drove off and was found at his home down the street.

Stenner will be sentenced Aug. 15.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln’s police chief says the #MeToo movement has propelled an increase in sexual assault reports to his department.

Chief Jeff Bliemeister told The Lincoln Journal Star that one-third of the 128 rapes reported between Jan. 1 and May 23 occurred at least one year before officers were notified. The Police Department’s analysis shows only 11 percent of the reported sexual assaults in 2015 occurred at least one year prior.

The average report in 2018 was made 17 months after the rape occurred, according to the department’s findings.

Bliemeister credited the reporting trend to the dozens of accusers who made sexual misconduct allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and others in the entertainment industry. The #MeToo movement gained momentum in October after journalists documented the allegations, sparking women across the U.S. to speak out about the prevalence of sexual assault and harassment.

“There’s nothing else that had occurred that would lead to that kind of change,” Bliemeister said.

The majority of those coming forward to report rape are women and girls ranging in age from 11 to 25, according to the department’s analysis.

“There are groups who feel they’ve been empowered by this particular awareness movement and they want us to know but they fully recognize from the beginning of their reporting that prosecution could be difficult,” the police chief said.

These cases are being handled by investigators that are specifically trained to handle rape cases in which substantial time has passed, Bliemeister said. Investigators in these cases face challenges such as a lack of physical evidence, lost digital evidence and witnesses who have trouble recalling what happened, he said.

Bliemeister said he’s encouraged by seeing more victims come forward to report these crimes, which have long held a stigma.

Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol have arrested two men and seized 149 pounds of marijuana during a traffic stop on Interstate 80.

At approximately 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 13, a trooper stopped an eastbound 2017 Dodge Caravan for failing to signal near York, at mile marker 353. During the stop, the trooper observed a vacuum-sealed bag of marijuana plainly visible inside the vehicle.

Troopers and deputies from the York County Sheriff’s Office searched the vehicle and discovered 149 pounds of marijuana. The estimated street value of the marijuana is $447,000.

The driver, Robert Rosenwasser, 56, of Florida, and Milton Coore, 53, of Jamaica, were arrested for possession of marijuana – more than one pound, possession with intent to deliver, and no Drug Tax stamp. Both men were lodged in York County Jail.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a Nebraska man is expected to recover from his near drowning on a western Iowa lake.

The Iowa Natural Resources Department said in a news release Wednesday that the man fell into the water Saturday evening at Lake Manawa in Council Bluffs from a personal watercraft driven by his wife. Conservation officer Adam Arnold says another person on a personal watercraft spotted the man and took him to safety on shore. He was soon taken to a Council Bluffs hospital.

The injured man was identified as 54-year-old Lawrence Wieneke. His wife was identified as 59-year-old Geralyn Wieneke. They live in Omaha.