(AP) — Omaha police have issued a warrant for second-degree murder in the death of a man whose body was found at a motorcycle club.

Police announced Tuesday they had issued the warrant for 47-year-old Jay Witt.

Police are seeking Witt in the killing of 48-year-old William Furlong, of Omaha.

His body was found July 14, when police were called to the Hells Angels’ Motorcycle Club in southeast Omaha.

Police haven’t released how Furlong died.

Police ask that anyone with information call the department’s homicide unit.

(AP) — Student loan company Nelnet says it plans to hire 250 customer service representatives in Omaha.

Nelnet officials plan to hold a news conference about the new jobs on Wednesday morning.

In May, Nelnet announced plans to hire 311 people in Lincoln, and company officials said they were in a rapid-hiring mode because its federal student loan servicing business is growing.

At the end of 2009, Nelnet’s workforce in Lincoln had fallen to about 700 after eliminating 800 jobs during the recession. Nelnet had grown back to 1,350 employees by the end of last year.

Nelnet officials say the company’s share of federal student loan servicing went from 16 percent in the 2011-12 academic year to 30 percent in 2012-13.

(AP) — Federal regulators are proposing $45,500 in fines for what they say were two safety violations at a grain elevator in the southeast Nebraska town of Wilber.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration said in a news release Tuesday that it’s seeking to fine the Farmers Cooperative elevator in Wilber. Farmers Cooperative is based in Dorchester and has facilities in 40 Nebraska and Kansas communities.

OSHA says the violations included allowing grain bin dust to accumulate on surfaces past allowable standards, increasing the potential of a grain dust explosion, and a repeat violation for fall hazards involving unguarded ladders.

Ron Velder, president of Farmers Cooperative, said Tuesday that the cooperative just received notice of the alleged violations and is in the process of responding.

(AP) — Arson is suspected in three Fremont fires that occurred within an hour.

Fremont Police Department Sgt. Bob Buer said firefighters received a call about a blazing bus at 5:11 a.m. Tuesday Just a few seconds later a call came in about a car in flames.

Buer says firefighters then responded at 6 a.m. to a call about a shed on fire behind a church.

No injuries have been reported.

Buer says all three fires are being treated as arson and are being investigated by state authorities.

(AP) — Powerful thunderstorms packing winds of up to 70 mph have raced through eastern Nebraska, knocking out power to thousands of people.

The storms headed into western Iowa Tuesday morning after dropping heavy rain and knocking down trees and damaging houses and other buildings.

No injuries have been reported.

Nearly 4,700 Omaha Public Power District customers lost electricity in Washington and Dodge counties, which are adjacent to Douglas County and Omaha.

Around 2.75 inches of rain was reported in Scribner, 43 miles northwest of Omaha, and wind gusts of 70 mph were reported in Blair, which sits 23 miles from Omaha.

One-inch hail was reported in Fremont.

(AP) — A 39-year-old Grand Island man faces sentencing next month on convictions for sexually assaulting his two stepdaughters.

The man had pleaded no contest to two counts. Another count was dropped in exchange for the man’s plea. The Associated Press is not using the man’s name, in order to protect the girls’ privacy.

Prosecutors say the assaults began in 2008. One of the girls is 13 now; the other is 8.

The man is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 30.

(AP) — Initial autopsy results show a man whose body was found on the edge of a Hastings street died of natural causes.

Police also have released the man’s name. He was identified as 51-year-old David Chapman, of Hastings.

The autopsy results were released Monday. Chapman’s body was spotted by a passing motorist early on Sunday morning.

(AP) — Authorities are providing more details about a weekend shooting of a man by Council Bluffs police.

The Department of Criminal Investigation identified the man as 52-year-old Michael Hannum.

The incident began Sunday afternoon when a woman told officers Aaron Gutierrez and Jason Burleigh that a man was at a Wal-Mart construction site who was bleeding from his hands.

Officers found Hannum at the site. They say he became aggressive and displayed a sharp instrument.

Burleigh used a stun gun but it was ineffective. Gutierrez then shot Hannum twice.

Hannum was taken to an Omaha hospital, where he was in critical but stable condition Monday.

The DCI says Hannum was listed as a fugitive from a Federal Bureau of Prisons center in Council Bluffs.

The officers were put on paid leave.

(AP) — A judge has sentenced a Council Bluffs man to prison his part in a 2011 killing in Omaha.

Douglas County District Court Judge Joseph Troia sentenced 42-year-old Corey Brooks to a minimum of 56 years in prison in the shooting death of 50-year-old James Asmus. The sentence means Brooks will be eligible for parole in 28 years.

Brooks was convicted of manslaughter in the killing as well as drug and gun charges.

Before he was sentenced, Brooks apologized to the Asmus family and asked the judge for leniency.

Two other men were charged in the shooting.

Asmus was found shot to death on Sept. 2 in a south Omaha garage. Prosecutors say a plan by Asmus to rob Brooks may have prompted the shooting.

(AP) — Authorities say three young brothers are dead after a minivan and a car collided in southwest Phoenix.

Phoenix police say a 16-year-old boy didn’t have a driver’s license but was driving six of his siblings to various schools Monday morning.

The names of those killed haven’t been released, but police say the boys were ages 5, 8 and 11.

They say it appears none of the children in the minivan were wearing seat belts at the time of the 7 a.m. crash.

At least three of the children were ejected after the minivan collided with a sedan and then rolled.

Police say three other children remain hospitalized, including a 4-year-old girl who’s in critical condition.

The man in his 40s who was driving the sedan also is in critical.