(AP) — A former guard at a Nebraska corrections facility has been convicted of sexually abusing a parolee.

Anoroy Loyuk was convicted last week. State law bars corrections employees from having sex with inmates or parolees, even if both parties agree.

He and the woman had met while Loyuk was working at the Community Corrections Center in Lincoln. It’s a residential center for work release and other inmates.

Loyuk’s lawyer told the court that the pair’s relationship didn’t begin until more than a month after she was paroled and was being supervised by a parole officer.

He’s quit his job and the two are engaged.

Loyuk is scheduled for sentencing on Sept. 9.

(AP) — Authorities have released the name of a Nebraska City man who died after his car rammed a light pole in southeast Lincoln.

Lincoln police identified him as 28-year-old Matthew McCall.

The accident occurred around 5 a.m. Monday at the intersection of South 70th Street and Nebraska Highway 2.

Police spokeswoman Katie Flood says the car missed a slight curve and ran off the roadway into the pole. The car burst into flames before rescue workers arrived.

 

(AP) — A San Francisco Bay Area TV station has apologized after reporting bogus names of the four pilots aboard Asiana Airlines flight 214 that were a play on Asian names.

KTVU-TV co-anchor Tori Campbell read the racially offensive names on the air Friday. The report was accompanied by a graphic with the phony names listed alongside a photo of the burned out plane.

After a break, Campbell apologized for the error. She said a National Transportation Safety Board official confirmed the names to the station.

Neither the station nor the NTSB commented on where the names originated.

The NTSB also apologized and said a summer intern “acted outside the scope of his authority” when he erroneously confirmed the names of the flight crew.

Flight 214 crashed Saturday at San Francisco International Airport, killing three and injuring dozens.

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(AP) — An initial synopsis on an Arizona wildfire that began with a lightning strike and caused little immediate concern shows how the blaze quickly turned into an inferno due to extreme weather and wind.

The fire began June 28 outside the small town of Yarnell about 60 miles northwest of Phoenix. It destroyed more than 100 homes before it was fully contained on July 10. Nineteen members of an elite Hotshot firefighting crew died when they were overtaken by flames.

A national team of investigators is working to understand more about the firefighters’ deaths and is expected to finish an initial report in about two months.

The synopsis, released Monday, spells out how the blaze grew from a mere acre to a fast-moving inferno within 36 hours, trapping the firefighters and cutting them off from their safety zone.

(AP) — A 40-year-old man has been arrested, accused of shooting to death his father in the eastern Nebraska town of Gretna.

Steven Braesch is in Sarpy County Jail, awaiting prosecution on charges that include second-degree murder in the slaying of 69-year-old William Braesch.

Sarpy County Attorney Lee Polikov said Monday that a family argument led to the shooting around 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

Online court records don’t list the name of Steven Braesch’s attorney.

(AP) — Police are investigating the theft of copper worth thousands of dollars from a power station run by the Omaha Public Power District.

Officers responded to the power station Friday afternoon following a report of a burglary.

A report says a hole was cut into the northeast corner of the fence and a lock was cut on the west gate.

The copper was valued at $3,000. The additional damage was estimated at $350.

(AP) — Omaha police are looking for the driver of a stolen vehicle who rammed into a police cruiser to avoid arrest.

Omaha Police Officer Michael Pecha says the incident happened shortly before 7 a.m. Monday.

Pecha says patrol officers recognized a vehicle at a gas station near I-80 in eastern Omaha as a possible stolen vehicle.

Once officers confirmed the vehicle was stolen, they pulled into the parking lot. Then the stolen vehicle rammed the police cruiser and backed into a tree.

When officers exited their vehicle, the stolen vehicle hit the cruiser again and fled.

The vehicle was located later in Council Bluffs, and a passenger was arrested, but officers are still looking for the driver.

(AP) — The number of confirmed cases of a rare food-borne illness in Nebraska has climbed to 48 as state and federal public health agencies try to figure out where it’s coming from.

An outbreak of cyclosporiasis (sy-kloh-spor-EYE’-uh-sis) is confined mostly to Douglas County in eastern Nebraska and is likely linked to Iowa where 71 people were confirmed sick as of Monday.

Nebraska Epidemioloist Dr. Thomas Safranek says fresh vegetables are likely the culprit but the investigation continues.

Consumers should wash fruits and vegetables to reduce the risk of getting the illness, which causes diarrhea lasting an average of 57 days. It’s caused by a parasite carried primarily in human feces that contaminates food.

The illness is rare in Nebraska. No cases were reported in the last four years.

(AP) — An Indiana doctor has been arrested in the unsolved deaths of four people linked to the Nebraska medical school he attended before being fired in 2001.

Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer says 40-year-old Dr. Anthony Garcia was arrested Monday in Illinois.

Schmaderer says Garcia has been linked to the May slayings of Creighton University professor Roger Brumback and his wife, Mary, as well as the 2008 stabbings of 11-year-old Thomas Hunter and his family housekeeper, Shirlee Sherman.

Roger Brumback and Thomas Hunter’s father worked in Creighton’s pathology department. They fired Garcia for erratic behavior in 2001, when he was a pathology resident.

Schmaderer declined to discuss evidence against Garcia, who lives in Terre Haute, Ind. Garcia doesn’t have a listed phone number, and information about his attorney wasn’t immediately available.

 

(AP) — A judge at a hearing for a 16-year-old California boy charged with murder in the death of his 11-year-old half brother said the suspect has a history of violent outbursts.

Riverside County district attorney’s spokesman John Hall said Monday the juvenile court judge cited the outbursts and delayed a detention hearing until September at the request of defense attorneys.

Hall says the boy must remain in custody until then. Hall says he could not elaborate on the outbursts.

The disappearance of Terry Dewayne Smith Jr. set off a huge search before a body was found last week matching his description behind the house he shared with his mother and half brother.

The Associated Press is not naming the suspect because he is a juvenile.

A message for defense attorneys was not immediately returned.