(AP) — A 31-year-old Lincoln man is scheduled to be sentenced next month in a case involving checks stolen years ago.

Joshua Fehlman changed his plea to no contest after York County prosecutors lowered the theft charge to a lesser felony.

Court documents say that in October 2011 a local bank discovered three false deposits of checks made out to Fehlman. The checks totaled $1,700 and had been written on an account that had been closed for seven years.

The man who had opened the account told investigators that he’d been burglarized several years ago and had closed the account.

Fehlman’s sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 19.

(AP) — Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and heir to a ketchup company fortune, is in critical condition at a Boston hospital.

A spokesman for John Kerry says the 74-year-old Heinz Kerry was flown to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston Sunday night after doctors at a hospital on Massachusetts’ Nantucket Island stabilized her. The secretary of state was with his wife as an ambulance transported her to the island hospital, and also during her transfer to the Boston facility.

A spokesman for Nantucket Cottage Hospital says Heinz Kerry arrived in critical condition, but doctors were able to stabilize her. Neither the family nor hospital officials released any more details about her condition Sunday night.

In late 2009, doctors treated Heinz Kerry for breast cancer.

(AP) — A 27-year-old man who was found injured on June 29 has died after being taken off life support.

Lincoln Police Capt. Jim Davidsaver says David Mueller, of Lincoln, died at 2 p.m. Sunday.

It’s unclear what caused Mueller’s head injury. Davidsaver says an autopsy is scheduled for Monday.

A passer-by spotted Mueller on a sidewalk near 14th and Benton streets around 3:30 a.m. on June 29. Mueller’s cellphone and wallet were missing, but Davidsaver says it’s not certain that Mueller was robbed.

Doctors told police they believe Mueller’s injuries were more severe than what would have resulted from a fall.

(AP) — A woman accused of firing a gun during a struggle inside an Omaha ambulance has been released from the hospital to face several charges.

Omaha Police Officer Michael Pecha said Sunday that 24-year-old Justine Dubois is now in the Douglas County jail.

Dubois was arrested last Monday because she was driving a stolen car, but then she appeared to have a seizure in the police car.

While paramedics were taking Dubois to a hospital, she pulled a gun and started making threats. Both Dubois and an Omaha firefighter were wounded in a struggle.

Dubois faces charges including assault, terroristic threats, using a gun to commit a crime and stealing a car.

(AP) — Douglas Dayton, who founded big-box retailer Target Corp. has died. He was 88.

Dayton’s wife, Wendy Dayton, confirmed his death Sunday. She says the resident of Wayzata (why-ZED’-ah) died Friday after a long battle with cancer.

Douglas Dayton’s father founded the Minneapolis department store Dayton’s in the 1940s.Douglas was the youngest of five brothers to take over the business, and was charged with leading the effort to expand into a discount retailer chain.

The first four Target stores opened in Twin Cities suburbs in the early 1960s and since expanded nationally and into Canada.

The Dayton family is no longer involved in the company’s leadership.

Douglas Dayton is the uncle of Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton, who called his uncle “an extraordinary businessman, philanthropist and leader of our family.”

(AP) — Omaha police are investigating three different weekend shootings that injured six people.

Omaha police Officer Michael Pecha says none of the injuries are expected to be life threatening. All three shootings happened early Sunday.

The first shooting happened around 3 a.m. on Interstate 80 after one vehicle nearly struck a slow-moving car. Thirty-seven-year-old Ray Robinson Jr. was wounded after the occupants of both vehicles argued.

About 4:15 a.m., 22-year-old Dejuan Tipler was found with a gunshot wound inside an SUV that collided with a tree.

A few minutes later, gunshots were reported in northeast Omaha, and four people came to the hospital. The injured people were 29-year-old Braylon Hardeman, 27-year-old Darnell Matthews, 23-year-old Delvonne Cross and 31-year-old Rodney Landrum.

(AP) — An Osceola man has been sentenced to up to 35 years for sexually assaulting a child.

Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning announced this week that 37-year-old Jeffrey Gomez was sentenced 20 to 35 years in prison on one count of first-degree sexual assault of a child in Polk County District Court.

Gomez also received sentences of four to five years each for two counts of third-degree child sexual assault and two counts of child abuse. Those sentences are to be served at the same time at his first-degree assault sentence.

Gomez was convicted of the charges on May 20.

Bruning says Gomez sexually assaulted the victim for about five months during 2011, starting when she 13-years-old.

(AP) — Omaha police are a hosting metro-area amnesty day for fireworks and firearms.

Police will accept and dispose of guns, ammunition, fireworks and other explosive devices on July 20, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Drop-off areas will be available at the Ambassador Workshop Center and Seymour Smith Park.

Police say Thursday was the last day of the summer season to legally use consumer fireworks in the city. Police say residents can turn in items on the amnesty day with no questions asked.

(AP) — The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Entomology Department has started a program to teach high school students how to use radio tracking technology to learn about queen bees.

The project, which started in May, is tentatively called “Bumble Boosters 2.0,” a reboot of one that ran from 1999 to 2002.

Doug Golick, is an assistant professor in entomology at UNL and was a student during the original “Bumble Boosters.” That original program simply had high school students collect bumblebees to track the different species in the area.

But Golick and his colleagues are now trying to attach radio tracking devices to bumblebee queens.

The goal is to see where they decide to start a nest and where they go between emergence and finding a nest.

(AP) — A teenage girl who survived a crash that killed one of her friends and injured two others says she took the keys from the other driver before he could flee the scene.

Council Bluffs police say 17-year-old Chrishaun Moten, of Council Bluffs, was a back seat passenger in a car that was hit early Friday on Veterans Memorial Highway by a van driving the wrong way.

Two other teens were hospitalized for their injuries. One passenger, 16-year-old Jessilyn Eisman, suffered minor injuries. She said that she crawled out of the wreckage to see the driver of the van trying to leave, so she took his keys.

Police arrested 31-year-old Hilberto Velasquez-Ramirez, whose last known address was in Nashville, Tenn., on suspicion of drunken driving and other counts.