(AP) — A former Beatrice State Developmental Center worker charged with abusing developmentally disabled adults has reached a plea deal.

The state and attorneys for Matthew Pangborn reached an agreement Friday. Details of the deal have not been released.

Pangborn was convicted in July 2012 of four counts of abusing a vulnerable adult and several other charges. He was sentenced to 15 to 23 years in prison.

The Nebraska Supreme Court later ordered a new trial after it determined a chart of Pangborn’s alleged abuses should not have been presented to jurors.

Pangborn will be in Gage County District Court Tuesday for re-arraignment.

Sixteen center employees were fired or suspended following an investigation into the alleged abuses. Five were charged, but most entered pleas to reduced charges.

(AP) — Authorities say five people are dead after a single-vehicle rollover crash in Adair County.

The Iowa State Patrol says 29-year old Alex J. Paz-Lobo, of Grand Island, Neb., was traveling eastbound Friday night on Interstate 80, south of Menlo, when the car crossed the median and entered the westbound lanes. It then rolled into a field.

Atlantic radio station KJAN reports passengers in Paz-Lobo’s car were killed; 41-year old Javier Martinez-Martin; 25-year old Denis Juvenal Sorto-Martinez; and 21-year old Jose B. Martinez. All were from Grand Island.

A fifth passenger was also killed. The male’s identity has not been released.

(AP) — A Gretna woman facing tax evasion charges in Sarpy County for allegedly embezzling money now faces felony charges in Douglas County.

54-year-old Caroline Richardson was booked Friday on three counts of felony theft in connection with the embezzlement case. Additional information was not available.

Richardson is accused of embezzling more than $4 million between 2010 and 2011 from the tobacco and candy business she worked for. Colombo Candy and Tobacco Wholesale Co declined to press charges against her, but the Nebraska Department of Revenue and the Sarpy County attorney pursued the tax evasion charges.

Investigators say Richardson manipulated inventory and financial records to hide transactions into three personal bank accounts.

A message left for Richardson’s attorney was not immediately returned Saturday.

(AP) — A public school in Fremont is participating in a research study that aims to curb childhood obesity.

The KidQuest program, which has been tested out in South Dakota and some other Nebraska cities, will be evaluated on a larger scale through 700 students at Johnson Crossing Academic Center in Fremont.

The study involves changing how and where fifth- and sixth-grade students receive health-related education. South Dakota State University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are partnering together for the study through a federal grant.

Researchers hope a six-month follow-up will measure what students have learned, and whether education given this way increases physical activity. The data will be used to refine the KidQuest program and for scientific journals.

(AP) — Omaha police have arrested a man in connection with an October assault that’s being investigated as a hate crime.

Police say 35-year-old Gregory Duncan was arrested Friday and charged with third-degree felony assault. The charge was enhanced from a misdemeanor to a felony because the attack is being investigated as a hate crime.

Ryan Langenegger says he was punched in the face during the early hours of Oct. 27 in the Old Market area. He says he was hit by a man who, with some other men, allegedly used derogatory names regarding his sexual orientation and those of his two friends.

Police say Duncan hit Langenegger. Additional information about the case has not been released.

Court records do not list an attorney for Duncan.

(AP) — Colorado officials think a difference of one-hundredth of a mile will be enough to stop thieves from stealing the mile marker 420 sign along Interstate 70.

Amy Ford of the Colorado Department of Transportation says the “MILE 420” sign near Stratton was stolen for the last time sometime in the last year, and officials replaced it with a sign that says “MILE 419.99.”

Ford says it’s the only “420” sign to be replaced in the state that recently legalized recreational marijuana. Most highways aren’t long enough to need one.

The number “420” has long been associated with marijuana, though its origins as a shorthand for pot are murky.

Mile 419.99, about 25 miles from the Kansas border, isn’t the only place in Colorado with a fractional mile marker. Cameron Pass in Larimer County has a “MILE 68.5” sign after frequent thefts of the “MILE 69” sign.

(AP) — Prosecutors say they’ve dropped murder and assault charges filed against a man after a shooting on the pedestrian bridge that connects Omaha with Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said Thursday that witnesses were evasive or otherwise uncooperative with investigators and prosecutors, so the case against 24-year-old Terrece Cox became impossible to prosecute. Cox’s trial was scheduled to begin on Monday. He has maintained his innocence throughout the investigation.

Cox was charged with second-degree murder and other charges after the May 29 shooting death of 26-year-old Shamari Richards on the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge. The other people were wounded.

Billy Kellogg was charged with being an accessory to a felony. It’s unclear whether his charges will be dropped as well.

(AP) — An Omaha woman has been sentenced to 11 years in prison after being convicted of pulling a gun on a paramedic.

Twenty-four-year-old Justine Dubois received the sentence Friday in Douglas County District Court. She must serve more than nine years before she is eligible for release.

As part of a plea bargain, Dubois pleaded no contest in November to several charges in relation to the July 1 shooting.

Prosecutors say Dubois faked a seizure while being arrested for allegedly stealing a car. In an ambulance taking her to a hospital, she pulled a gun and started making threats. Police say two shots were fired as Dubois and a paramedic struggled over the gun.

One shot hit Dubois in the leg. The other shot caused minor wounds to the paramedic’s abdomen.

(AP) — Two prison inmates have been accused of fighting while being transported near Lincoln.

The Lincoln Police Department says the fight occurred Friday morning as a private company transported seven inmates. The vehicle was forced to stop on Interstate 80.

Two guards called for help after one inmate allegedly choked another inmate with his restraints. Additional information has not been released.

The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office says it is investigating the incident.