(AP) — The state of Nebraska says an Exeter husband and wife who run a gun shop in Exeter have failed to pay sales taxes and owe the state back incomes taxes.

Rob and Hope Androyna each face five felony charges in Lancaster County Court.

The Nebraska Revenue Department says the Androynas collected nearly $200,000 in local and state sales taxes through their Exeter Arms business from 2009 through 2012 but didn’t remit the money to the state. The state also alleges the Androynas didn’t report profit, income or wages from their business until October 2013.

A home phone listed for the Androynas rang unanswered on Monday. Their attorney didn’t immediately return a call from The Associated Press.

(AP) — The case against a Nebraska man accused of killing his girlfriend’s father and cutting up the body will move forward.

A judge decided Monday that there was enough evidence for a trial in 35-year-old John Moniz’s case. He is charged with first-degree murder, possessing stolen property and failing to register as a sex offender.

Prosecutors say Moniz killed Delbert Freemont Jr. The 52-year-old’s torso and legs were found Dec. 9 in a Washington County ravine.

Authorities found significant blood spatters on the ceiling and walls of Freemont’s home, and tests confirmed the blood was Freemont’s. Moniz and his girlfriend had been living with Freemont until shortly before his death.

Another man is charged with being an accessory after the killing.

Moniz is being held without bond.

(AP) — Women are invited to learn self-defense skills at a Beyond Becoming an Outdoors-Woman workshop in Lincoln.

The workshop is for beginners ages 16 and up. It will provide verbal, nonverbal and physical techniques for preventing assaults. There will be interactive training and situational examples.

The registration deadline is Feb. 10 for the Feb. 15 workshop. To download a registration form, go online at NebraskaBOW.com and then click on Outdoor Workshops. The workshop fee is $24.

(AP) — An off-duty Lincoln fire captain revived a 6-year-old after a woman jumped into a motel pool and rescued the little girl.

The incident happened during a birthday party at the AmericInn in north Lincoln on Saturday afternoon.

One of the partygoers’ moms saw the girl on the pool bottom and jumped in. LeAnn Holexa says she began yelling for Lincoln Fire Capt. Guy Pinkman when she and the girl surfaced. Pinkman’s son was at the party.

Pinkman says the girl didn’t have a pulse, but he soon revived her with CPR. The girl was taken to a hospital but was expected to recover from her ordeal.

(AP) — Less than a year after lawmakers rejected Medicaid expansion in Nebraska, supporters are turning to a new group of allies: Low-income people who now realize that don’t quality for coverage.

While signing up for health care on the federal website, many learned that although they’re poor, they aren’t poor enough to qualify for coverage. Now, they’re coming forward and preparing to push for a revised measure along with advocacy groups and supportive state lawmakers.

The Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee will hear from people Wednesday who would have qualified for Medicaid under the expansion proposal.

The hearing sets up another expected debate in the Legislature between Democrats and some moderate Republicans who support Medicaid expansion, and conservatives who have aligned with Republican Gov. Dave Heineman to oppose expansion.

(AP) — Authorities say a Nebraska man died after a Union Pacific freight train struck his truck Sunday morning.

The accident happened in Belvidere in southeast Nebraska around 2:30 a.m. The town is about 45 miles south of York and just off of U.S. Highway 81.

Authorities say 24-year-old Bryant Mussman tried to cross the railroad tracks at a closed crossing before the accident happened.

Mussman was not wearing a seatbelt. The Ohiowa man was engaged to be married, and he is survived by a son, two brothers and his parents.

(AP) — Minimum-wage increase proposals are getting the maximum push from Democrats in more than half of U.S. states, highlighting the politically potent income inequality issue this year.

A national review by The Associated Press finds that lawmakers in at least 30 states are sponsoring or are expected to introduce wage hike measures. They hope to notch state-level victories as President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats remain stymied in attempts to raise federal minimum wage. The president is expected to mention minimum wage in his State of the Union address Tuesday.

Even in Republican-dominated capitals where the bills are longshots, the measures still give Democrats a chance to hammer home the popular theme of fair wages in what is an election year in most places.

(AP) — Firefighters are battling a grass fire in northeast Nebraska that forced some evacuations in Battle Creek.

Strong winds fueled the fire Sunday in a field just west of the town of about 1,200 people. Firefighters from several area cities — including Norfolk, Madison and Tilden — were helping battle the fire.

Some homes on the western edge of Battle Creek were evacuated because of the fire, but it wasn’t immediately clear whether any were damaged.

Rev. Richard Snow leads St. John Lutheran Church in south-central Battle Creek. He told the Norfolk Daily News that it didn’t appear that the town was in danger, but it was unsettling to have ashes falling in town and thick black smoke hanging in the air Sunday afternoon.