(AP) — An 89-year-old man has been reappointed to the York County Veterans Committee after being called too old by one of the county commissioners.

The reappointment of Don Jones came up at the Board of Commissioners meeting on July 9. Commissioner Tom Shellington rejected the proposal, saying Jones was “too old” and “not capable.” Commissioners tabled the matter until Tuesday’s meeting.

On Tuesday the county veterans service officer, Don Sandman, and veterans committee member Chuck Byers raised objections to what they viewed as age bias by the board. Byers said “this reeks of age discrimination.”

In response to a question, Shellington repeated that he thought Jones was too old to serve

Shellington’s was the lone vote against Jones when the board voted 4-1 to reappoint him.

(AP) — A Nebraska man has been charged with first-degree murder after a 93-year-old woman he’s accused of beating and raping died from her injuries.

Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine announced the new charge against 19-year-old Sergio Martinez-Perez on Thursday.

Authorities say Louise Sollowin died Wednesday, three days after she was attacked in her south Omaha home.

An officer discovered Sollowin covered in blood in her bedroom Sunday morning. Police say Martinez Perez was naked and passed out on top of the woman.

Prosecutors say Perez admitted to the assault and rape, saying he was mad at women after a night of drinking.

Martinez-Perez remained in jail Thursday without bond. He is scheduled to be arraigned on the murder charge Friday.

(AP) — A judge has sentenced a 62-year-old Omaha peace activist to six month in federal prison for trespassing at Offutt Air Force Base last year.

U.S. Magistrate Thomas Thalken sentenced Jerry Ebner to prison Thursday after he earlier pleaded guilty to trespassing at the base during a Dec. 28, 2012, protest.

Ebner told the judge he’d rather be sentenced to prison than receive probation, saying “I’m not sorry. I’ll do it again.”

Ebner says he’s previously served three years in jail due to civil disobedience.

Although he has heart, kidney, depression and anxiety issues, Ebner says he violated the law to make clear his opposition to U.S. military might.

Ebner was released until U.S. marshals notify him when and where to report to prison.

(AP) — District court Judge Alan G. Gless is retiring after more than 30 years as a judge in the Seward area.

The court system announced Thursday that Gless would retire from his position in the 5th Judicial District on Sept. 1.

He had served as a judge for 33 years.

To fill the position, the Judicial Resources Commission will call a meeting to determine whether his retirement creates a judicial vacancy in the 5th district, made up of Boone, Butler, Colfax, Hamilton, Merrick, Nance, Platte, Polk, Saunders, Seward and York counties. That decision will be based on judicial workload statistics.

(AP) — A company the Environmental Protection Agency hired to remove lead paint from homes in Omaha has agreed to pay $65,450 for failing to take proper precautions.

The EPA says Prudent Technologies of Kansas City, Mo., violated several rules for dealing with lead paint at two properties in Omaha.

For instance, the agency says Prudent failed to cover the ground with plastic sheeting and post signs warning about lead paint around the job site.

Most of eastern Omaha has been considered a super-fund site by the EPA because of the extent of lead contamination, which can endanger children’s health, causing decreased intelligence, slow growth and behavior problems.

(AP) — A Missouri woman has been given 21 months in federal prison for taking another woman from Illinois to Missouri to Nebraska for prostitution.

A news release from the office of U.S. Attorney Deborah Gilg says 27-year-old Jessica Alamina, of St. Robert, Mo., was convicted of transporting someone for prostitution. Alamina must serve three years of supervised after she leaves custody.

Gilg’s office says that in May 2012, Alamina took the woman to Missouri and placed online advertisements. A month later Alamina brought the woman to Omaha. Gilg’s office says Alamina posted advertisements in the escorts section of Backpage.com and took the money from the woman after her “dates” with people who responded to the ads.

(AP) — The University of Nebraska Medical Center is holding a ribbon-cutting to celebrate the naming of the Mary and Dick Holland Regenerative Medicine Program.

The ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday.

Regenerative medicine involves science that enables the body to repair, replace, restore and regenerate damaged or diseased cells, tissues and organs. Regenerative medicine research includes the possibility of repair of damaged heart muscle after a heart attack, replacement of skin for burn victims, and restoration of movement after spinal cord injury.

Dick Holland, of Omaha, and his late wife, Mary, have a long history of philanthropy and support of UNMC.

(AP) — The oldest man in the world is a 112-year-old former musician and coal miner from Grand Island, N.Y.

Guinness World Records says research shows Salustiano Sanchez-Blazquez (sah-luh-stee-AH’-noh SAHN’-chez BLAHZ’-kehz) became the world’s oldest man when Jiroemon Kimura died June 12 at age 116.

The world’s oldest person is a woman, 115-year-old Misao Okawa of Japan.

Salustiano is currently the only man born in 1901 with proof of birth.

He was born June 8, 1901, in the village of El Tejado de Bejar, Spain. He moved to Cuba at 17, then to the United States in 1920 where he worked the coal mines of Lynch, Ky. He eventually moved to the Niagara Falls area of New York, where he still lives.

He has two children, seven grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.

(AP) — Authorities say a 93-year-old Omaha woman has died after being beaten and raped.

Omaha police say she died Wednesday, three days after the attack in her home. According to a police report, an officer who was sent to check on the woman found her covered in blood in a bedroom around 9 a.m. Sunday. The officer reported that 19-year-old Sergio Perez was unclothed and passed out on top of the woman.

Perez remained in jail on Thursday, as prosecutors consider a murder charge. Online court records don’t list the name of Perez’s attorney.

Prosecutors say Perez admitted to the assault and rape, saying he was mad at women after a night of drinking.

Perez had been working as a roofer and has no known ties to Omaha.

(AP) — Lincoln police say they have arrested a 47-year-old man in the stabbing death of another man in an apartment near the city’s downtown.

Police charged Ivan Fourhorns with second-degree murder and use of a weapon to commit a felony.

He’s suspected in the killing of 58-year-old Joseph Solomon Jr. in an apartment just blocks from the state Capitol.

Police say both men were transients and were drinking together in the apartment when they began to argue.

It was the third homicide this year in Lincoln. All of the killings have occurred in the past two months.