(AP) — A northwest Ohio sinkhole has swallowed a car traveling down a street and briefly trapped the driver, who climbed out after authorities gave her a ladder.

Toledo police Sgt. Joe Heffernan says a water main break beneath the road may have caused the sinkhole Wednesday. The hole is estimated to be at least 10 feet deep.

Police say driver Pamela Knox didn’t appear hurt but was shaken up and was taken to a hospital as a precaution.

Heffernan says Knox saw the vehicle in front of her start to slip into the hole but drive beyond it. He says Knox couldn’t avoid it.

Officials used a crane to pull the car from the hole. Repairs to the road are expected to take days.

(AP) — A watchdog group is alleging that a Nebraska state senator failed to disclose travel expenses while visiting a tar sands mining area in Canada.

The Wisconsin-based Center for Media and Democracy filed a state ethics complaint Tuesday against Sen. Jim Smith, of Papillion.

Smith was one of nine U.S. state lawmakers on the trip, sponsored by the American Legislative Exchange Council. The tour included visits with TransCanada Inc., developer of the Keystone XL pipeline.

The complaint alleges Smith failed to disclose roughly $1,467 for a charter flight to a remote mining area.

Smith says he consulted with state disclosure officials before he took the trip, and he believes all expenses were properly reported. He says he paid for his own commercial airfare to Canada and for a hotel room.

(AP) — Omaha police say the woman whose gun discharged inside an ambulance on Monday had been arrested in connection with a stolen car shortly beforehand.

Police provided new details of the incident Wednesday.

Police say 24-year-old Justine Dubois was searched and handcuffed in a police cruiser Monday after officers confirmed she was driving a stolen vehicle.

Then Dubois appeared to have a seizure in the back of the police car, so paramedics were called. Dubois was cooperative with paramedics and asked to be taken to the hospital, so she was placed in the ambulance without handcuffs.

During the trip to the hospital, Dubois unbuckled herself, stood up and pointed a gun. A struggle ensued and two shots were fired, wounding Dubois and the paramedic.

(AP) — Prosecutors in Southern California say a father from Nebraska has been convicted of murdering a man who got into a fight with his daughter.

District attorney’s spokeswoman Farrah Emami (FAHR’-uh ee-MAH’-mee) says 41-year-old Cesar Marta of Omaha was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder.

Prosecutors say Marta, of Omaha, was visiting family in 2010 when he beat 27-year-old Cesar Gutierrez-Hernandez as he was leaving his Santa Ana home, a month after Hernandez fought with Marta’s daughter.

An unknown accomplice of Marta’s held Hernandez’s friends back at knifepoint then stabbed Hernandez, who later died at a hospital.

When Marta was identified as a suspect, he was in federal custody in Council Bluffs, Iowa on immigration charges. He was extradited to California to face trial.

He is due for sentencing Aug. 9.

(AP) — A Spirit Airlines passenger accused of groping a flight attendant as she walked by has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault.

Court documents made available Tuesday show Evan Nathaniel Castle, of Thornton, Colo., was sentenced to two years of probation. He also was ordered to attend alcohol counseling and pay a $250 fine.

According to court documents, Castle had several alcoholic drinks on Flight 562 from Las Vegas to Denver on April 8. A flight attendant said Castle told her she was beautiful, then later grabbed her buttocks when she passed by his row.

(AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of appeal by an Omaha man convicted of wire fraud.

David Musk was sentenced last year to four years for a scheme to collect money for background checks. Prosecutors say Musk charged customers $600 to do what he called “Interpol” and “FBI” background checks.

Musk testified at his trial that he using public search engines for the background. When pressed during cross-examination on other matters, Musk tried to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, but the judge determined he waived that right by testifying.

On Tuesday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the lower court that Musk had no right to invoke his Fifth Amendment right once he took the stand.

(AP) — Animal health company Zoetis is planning to expand its Lincoln plant, so it can take over production of a drug currently made by another company.

The expansion should add up to 30 jobs in Lincoln once the 19,000-square-foot addition is done in 2014.

Zoetis was spun off from Pfizer Inc. earlier this year. The company already employs more than 500 at its Lincoln plant.

Zoetis spokesman Bill Price says this project will allow the Lincoln plant to take over production of Synovex. That product is a growth hormone for beef cattle.

The Madison, N.J., based Zoetis is the world’s biggest maker of medicines for pets and farm animals.

(AP) — Authorities are investigating a two-vehicle crash just northwest of Omaha that killed a 17-year-old girl.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s office says the girl from Bennington was died in the Tuesday evening crash.

A 2006 Ford F-350 pickup truck struck the 2001 Mitsubishi Eclipse the girl was driving. Officials say the girl failed to stop completely at a stop sign.

The girl’s name was not immediately released because her family was still being notified.

The truck’s driver was not hurt.

(AP) — Police have arrested a Southern California high school teacher two weeks after she allegedly gave birth to a student’s baby.

Redlands police spokesman Carl Baker says 28-year-old Laura Elizabeth Whitehurst was arrested Monday night for allegedly having unlawful sex with a 16-year-old.

Officials at Citrus Valley High School in Redlands contacted police on Monday, acting on a tip from the boy’s mother.

Police say the sexual relationship began last summer and continued for nearly a year. The boy is now 17.

Whitehurst gave birth to a child June 18.

 

(AP) — A Lincoln man accused of making a bomb and keeping it in a bag at his mother’s home has been given jail time.

32-year-old Aaron Finnell was sentenced Tuesday to 300 days in jail. He will serve about two weeks because of credit for good time and time he’s already served since his February arrest.

Authorities say Finnell told his mother in February that he wanted to kill himself and anyone that came near him. His mother contacted police, and authorities confiscated a bag at the home that belonged to Finnell. It had a homemade bomb that an explosives technician had to render safe.

Finnell pleaded no contest to possession of a destructive device. His attorney says his client made the bomb for fun.