(AP) — A man has been jailed on charges that he tried to rob an 8-year-old girl who was on her way to buy vegetables at an eastern Pennsylvania market with $5 from her grandmother.

Reading police say the girl was sent to buy carrots for some beef stew when Jackenzy Pierre confronted her at about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. Police say he had a six-inch kitchen knife and said, “Give me all your money.” Instead, the girl ran home and later identified Pierre as her attacker.

Online court records don’t list an attorney for Pierre, who is 18. He faces a preliminary hearing Aug. 23 on charges including threat of robbery, terroristic threats and harassment. Reading police say recently moved to the city from Haiti.

(AP) — Authorities say an eastern Nebraska man has died after crashing his motorcycle in Omaha.

Police say the accident occurred around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday at an entrance to Elmwood Park. The westbound motorcycle failed to negotiate a curve and ran off the road, hitting a metal utility pole.

Police say he died later at Nebraska Medical Center.

He was identified as 22-year-old Fredrick Getzschman IV, of Herman. An autopsy is scheduled for later Wednesday.

(AP) — Authorities say a two-vehicle collision in eastern Nebraska has injured the driver of a motorcycle.

Police say 65-year-old James Garrett, of Papillion, was taken via medical helicopter Wednesday morning to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Authorities say an SUV driven by 25-year-old Jacob Molko turned in front of Garrett’s motorcycle as it traveled in Sarpy County. Molko was not injured.

No citations have been issued at this time. The investigation is ongoing.

(AP) — A former doctor accused of killing four people with ties to an Omaha medical school will stand trial on four counts of first-degree murder.

Douglas County Judge Darryl Lowe ruled Wednesday that there is enough evidence for Anthony Garcia’s case to go to trial.

Garcia, of Terra Haute, Ind., is charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the 2008 deaths of the 11-year-old son of Creighton University pathologist William Hunter and the family’s housekeeper, as well as the deaths in May of Creighton pathologist Roger Brumback and his wife.

Brumback and Hunter had fired Garcia from the Creighton pathology program in 2001.

(AP) — The new chief of police in Aurora rose from the ranks.

Paul Graham assumed the post after Tuesday night’s City Council meeting.

He takes over for Chief Godfrey Brokenrope, who died July 27. His motorcycle crashed two days earlier on Interstate 80 near Seward.

Graham has been the acting chief since Brokenrope’s death and has been on the Aurora force since November 1993.

(AP) — A 22-year-old Lincoln man accused of fleeing police has been given four to six years in prison for stealing a truck.

Online court records say Shawn Brooks was sentenced on Tuesday. He’d pleaded guilty to theft after prosecutors dropped a felony charge that he fled in a vehicle to avoid arrest.

Authorities say Brooks stole a pickup on Feb. 10 when the owner left it running near a drive-thru restaurant. Police say Brooks was captured when he ran following the truck’s crash into a utility pole.

(AP) — Imagine the first day of school, when you don’t even know the language on the wall signs that could guide you to your classroom.

That’s what faced scores of new students who began their classes Tuesday in Lincoln.

More than 2,100 English Language Learners attended Lincoln Public Schools last year. The designation is given students from other countries who can’t speak English proficiently. There were 53 different languages among those 2,100-plus students.

At Park Middle School, 101 English Language Learner students from 15 different countries were bused in on Tuesday. The newest students were helped by others who speak the same native language.

(AP) — A 60-year-old Grand Island man has been fined and given probation for structuring deposits to evade currency reporting requirements.

Federal prosecutors say Randy Evans was given five years of probation, was fined $50,000 and is required to forfeit nearly $33,000.

Prosecutors say Evans owns RCE Investments Inc., which did business as Randy Auto Sales in Grand Island. The prosecutors say that between January 2010 and February 2012, Evans made bank deposits of between $1 million and $2.03 million. Cash in the deposits was kept under $10,000, which prosecutors say showed that Evans was purposely evading laws that require banks to report cash transactions of $10,000 and above.

(AP) — A judge won’t close a preliminary hearing for an Indiana man charged with killing four people with ties to an Omaha medical school.

The preliminary hearing for Anthony Garcia is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Wednesday. The judge decided earlier in the morning to deny a request by attorneys for Garcia. The attorneys argued that news coverage of the preliminary hearing would hurt Garcia’s right to a fair trial.

Garcia is being held without bond on four counts of first-degree murder. Police say he killed the 11-year-old son of Creighton pathologist William Hunter and the family’s housekeeper in 2008, as well as Creighton University pathologist Roger Brumback and his wife in May.

Brumback and Hunter had fired Garcia from the Creighton pathology program in 2001.

(AP) — Authorities have released the name of the second of two men whose bodies were found inside a pickup near a city pool in southeast Omaha.

Omaha police identified him on Tuesday as 26-year-old Juan Uribe-Pena.

The bodies of Uribe-Pena and 29-year-old Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz were found just before 5 a.m. Sunday by a police officer near Spring Lake Park pool.

Police say the deaths are being investigated as homicides but have not said how the men died. No arrests have been reported.