(AP) — A 46-year-old Omaha woman has been charged in a two-count federal indictment with fraudulently getting and using Social Security supplemental income payments.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says Latosha Bolton was indicted this week. She faces one count of receiving a Social Security check through the mail based on false representations. She faces a second count of stealing money from the Social Security Administration.

Prosecutors say Bolton filed for the payments for her daughter, shortly after the girl was born in 1993, saying the girl lived with her. But authorities say the girl did not live with Bolton, and Bolton did not spend the payments on the girl. In all, prosecutors say, Bolton fraudulently collected nearly $125,000.

Bolton faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted.

(AP) — A 53-year-old Nebraska man has pleaded not guilty to a charge that he robbed a northwest Iowa bank last fall.

Richard Shaffer, of Omaha, Neb., made his plea on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Sioux City. Shaffer is accused of robbing Heritage Bank in downtown Sioux City on Oct. 12.

Police say a robber gave a teller a note demanding cash and escaped with more than $3,700. The robber didn’t appear to be armed.

Shaffer’s trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 7.

(AP) — Police in Spokane, Wash., say they have arrested one of two teens suspected of fatally beating an 88-year-old veteran of World War II who had survived the Battle of Okinawa.

Authorities say the two young men, between 16 and 19 years old, approached Delbert Belton in his car Wednesday night outside an Eagles Lodge as he was waiting for a friend.

Belton was found by police with serious head injuries and died in the hospital Thursday.

Spokane Police say they have surveillance images of the attackers.

The Spokesman-Review reports Belton was born and raised in Spokane before he joined the Army. Friends say he was shot in the leg during the Battle of Okinawa, where thousands of American soldiers died.

After the war, he spent 33 years working for Kaiser Aluminum, before retiring in 1982.

(AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of an Omaha man convicted of second-degree murder in a 2010 shooting at a south Omaha auto shop.

Shawn McGuire was sentenced to 105 to 125 years in prison for murder and two other convictions. Authorities say McGuire was the getaway driver in the slaying of 36-year-old Cesar Sanchez-Gonzalez, who was a government drug informant.

In his appeal McGuire alleged several errors by the trial court. Among them, he said the trial judge’s should not have accepted McGuire’s waiver of conflict of interest after his former lawyer began working for the prosecutor’s office.

The high court disagreed in its ruling issued Friday, saying there is no evidence to show district court’s decision to accept the waiver was erroneous.

(AP) — A Philadelphia woman has turned up alive nearly two weeks after her family held a funeral and burial.

50-year-old Sharolyn Jackson showed up at a mental health facility last Friday.

A body found July 20 on a Philadelphia street had been identified as Jackson. A spokesman for the Philadelphia Health Department says Jackson’s son and a social worker who knows her viewed pictures of the body and identified it as being hers.

Services for Jackson were held Aug. 3.

The now-buried body will be exhumed in hopes of correctly identifying the remains.

(AP) — Omaha’s police chief says a man accused of killing his girlfriend spoke to a police detective just hours earlier.

19-year-old Mikael Loyd called Omaha homicide detective Teresa Negron on Aug. 14 after he was released from an Omaha mental health assessment center. Loyd had been held at the center for several days after police questioned his mental stability.

News of the call comes after police said Wednesday that the center’s staff did not alert police of Loyd’s release. Police are trying to determine why Loyd wasn’t arrested immediately after his release on a warrant accusing him of assaulting his girlfriend.

Police have said Loyd killed 19-year-old Melissa Rodriguez hours after his release and dumped her body in a freshly dug cemetery grave.

(AP) — The second of three suspects in a Columbus stabbing death has pleaded not guilty.

26-year-old Quentin Critser entered his pleas this week. He’s charged with first-degree murder and use of a weapon in the slaying of Steven Jorgensen at Jorgensen’s Columbus home on May 18. Critser’s trial is scheduled to begin Dec. 16.

Authorities say the three intended to rob the 51-year-old Jorgensen, but the robbery turned violent when Jorgensen resisted.

The two other defendants, Eric Henry and Kimberly Henderson, both 31 and from Columbus, face the same charges.

Henry’s pleaded not guilty and is scheduled to begin trial on Oct. 28. Henderson’s attorney, Nathan Sohriakoff, said Thursday that he expects she’ll plead not guilty at her arraignment on Sept. 19.

(AP) — A 75-year-old driver has died after a collision near O’Neill in northern Nebraska.

The Holt County Sheriff’s Office says the accident occurred Wednesday afternoon, less than a mile east of O’Neill.

The office says Thomas Schneider halted at a stop sign and then turned east onto Nebraska Highway 108. But he apparently turned too wide and went into the oncoming lane. His vehicle struck a westbound vehicle driven by 52-year-old Gerald Kemp, of Niobrara.

Schneider was pronounced dead at the scene. The Sheriff’s Office says Kemp suffered no visible injuries.

(AP) — A former city councilman has pleaded guilty to stealing water from the city of Ashland in eastern Nebraska.

Chad Yochum entered the guilty plea Thursday morning. He was ordered to pay a $100 fine and $100 in restitution and court costs.

Ashland police say Yochum disconnected the water meter at his home to avoid being charged for using city water. He was charged with theft and originally pleaded not guilty.

Yochum, who was elected to the city council in 2010, has since resigned. He cited work-related issues.

Lorene Garrett, Yochum’s neighbor, has also been accused of stealing water. She has pleaded not guilty to theft and a pre-trial hearing is scheduled in September.

(AP) — One of the world’s most famous whiskey-makers is getting a $100 million shot in the arm.

The parent company of Jack Daniel’s announced a $100 million-plus expansion of its Tennessee distillery Thursday. The investment by Louisville, Ky.-based Brown-Forman Corp. is the largest single production expansion in the 147-year history of Jack Daniel’s. It will add stills and barrel warehouses and about 90 jobs at the Jack Daniel Distillery in Lynchburg, Tenn.

Expansion work will begin this fall and is expected to wrap up within two years.

Overseas demand for American whiskey and bourbon is booming. Jack Daniel’s sales have soared in the past decade as the venerable brand spreads to more countries.