(AP) — Those huge list prices charged by hospitals are getting attention, but a federal law that limits what financially vulnerable patients can be billed seems to have shifted to the back burner.

A provision in President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul says most hospitals have to charge uninsured patients no more than what people with health insurance are billed.

But consumer groups that lobbied to get the provision are disappointed.

The law applies only to nonprofit institutions — about 40 percent of hospitals are exempted.

There isn’t a clear formula to determine which patients qualify for help, and the Internal Revenue Service has yet to issue final rules explaining how the provision would work.

The administration says it expects hospitals to comply, but it can’t say how many are doing so.

(AP) — The jury in the George Zimmerman murder trial is beginning its sequestered life.

Sequestration started this weekend, with attorneys set to make opening statements Monday. The 28-year-old Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in last year’s shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

The trial is expected to receive extensive media coverage, and the judge and attorneys don’t want jurors exposed to it.

Court officials are mum on details, but past cases can provide examples. Jurors probably won’t be allowed to read newspapers or access the Internet. They’ll do almost everything as a group. In hotel rooms, TV news channels will be inaccessible, and landline telephones likely will be removed. Deputies will keep jurors’ cellphones and give them back once a day for calls to loved ones and friends.

(AP) — Authorities say a colossal wildfire near a popular summer retreat in southern Colorado continues to be driven by winds and fueled by dead trees in a drought-stricken area.

The conditions have prevented fire crews from making containment lines around the blaze, which grew overnight to 108 square miles, up from 100 on Saturday.

No structures have been lost in the fire, and no injuries have been reported.

Officials say the fire burning near South Fork is the largest the region has seen. They say it is doubtful fire crews could establish any containment lines until there’s a break in the weather, possibly Tuesday.

Officials remain optimistic they can protect the town, however.

The blaze’s rapid advance Friday prompted the evacuation of hundreds of visitors and the town’s 400 permanent residents.

(AP) — Four workers have been injured after a building frame collapsed at an $80 million Texas A&M University equestrian complex that’s being constructed.

The College Station Fire Department says three workers are in critical condition. The barn frame collapsed shortly before 11 a.m. Saturday. Twisted metal beams could be seen at the site, where ground was broken last fall.

All four were transported to a hospital. Their names weren’t immediately released.

Texas A&M spokesman Lane Stephenson says the center is about a mile from the College Station campus.

Authorities are trying to determine what caused the collapse. University police did not immediately return calls.

 

(AP) — The list of federal charges against a former University of Nebraska-Lincoln student accused of hacking into a database of more than 650,000 student, alumni and employee records is growing.

A grand jury added to the charges against 23-year-old Daniel Stratman earlier this week. He was already charged with recklessly damaging a protected computer during the breach that happened in May 2012.

Now Stratman also faces nine charges of exceeding his authorized access to a computer and two charges of knowingly transmitting a program that damaged computers owned by the University of Nebraska and Nebraska State College Systems.

Stratman’s initial appearance on the new charges is set for July 2.

Stratman was a senior at UNL at the time of the breach and listed an Omaha address.

(AP) — The state is warning people not to swim or drink water Lone Star Lake in Fillmore County.

The warning from the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services is the first of the year. Officials began conducting weekly tests at 50 public lakes across the state in early May, and the tests will continue throughout the summer.

Officials say Lone Star Lake has a high level of microcystin, a toxin released by strains of blue-green algae.

Skin exposed to the toxin can develop rashes and blisters. Someone who drinks water containing the toxin is at risk for headaches, nausea and muscular pain.

Lone Star Lake will remain under alert for at least two more weeks because it must have two consecutive weeks of safe tests before the alert is lifted.

(AP) — Eight people have submitted their names for consideration of a county judgeship in eastern Nebraska.

The Judicial Nominating Commission for county judge in the 5th Judicial District will hold a public hearing on July 10 to consider the qualifications of those who have applied.

Those applying are: Steven Fillman and Kevin Schlender, both of York; Thomas Klein, of Wahoo; Christina Marroquin, of Seward; James Stecker, of Columbus; Stephen Twiss, of Central City; Nancy Waldron, of Exeter; and Rodney Wetovick, of Fullerton.

The judgeship will be based either in Merrick County’s Central City or York in York County. The opening was created by the retirement of Judge Curtis Evans.

The 5th Judicial District is composed of Boone, Butler, Colfax, Hamilton, Merrick, Nance, Platte, Polk, Saunders, Seward and York counties.

(AP) — Omaha Police have identified the man suspected of killing two people and critically wounding two others last weekend before he was killed by police.

Police said Saturday that 25-year-old Jorge Abraham Zarazua-Rubio was the suspect in the June 15 shooting.

Authorities say Zaruzua-Rubio targeted his first shooting victim, 31-year-old Aaron Anderson, before going on to shoot three other people he encountered that afternoon.

Anderson and 46-year-old Angel Cabrera were critically wounded in the shootings, but 25-year-old Anthony Vazzano and 25-year-old Pascual Bautista-Raymundo were both killed.

Officer Coral Walker exchanged gunfire with the suspect and killed Zaruzua-Rubio.

Police say they are still looking for someone who may have witnessed the first shooting. That person may be driving a 1995 Ford Thunderbird with Iowa license plate BBH-574.

(AP) — Authorities say a Creighton University professor found dead in his Omaha home last month was shot, and his wife was stabbed to death.

The Douglas County coroner reported Friday that 65-year-old Roger Brumback died of a gunshot wound, and his wife, 65-year-old Mary Brumback, died of stab wounds. Their bodies were discovered May 14.

Omaha police have been trying to determine if the killings are related to another double-homicide five years ago. Eleven-year-old Thomas Hunter and his family’s housekeeper, Shirlee Sherman, were found dead inside the Hunter home in March 2008. The case remains unsolved.

Both sets of murders have a connection to the Creighton Pathology Department, where Thomas’ father was a colleague of Roger Brumback.

(AP) — A judge has fined a Bellevue man and ordered him to pay restitution after he pleaded no contest to assaulting a referee at his son’s church league basketball game earlier this year.

Joseph Stephans must pay a $300 fine and $2,396 in restitution for the Feb. 3 incident.

Last month, Stephans pleaded no contest to misdemeanor assault and apologized for his actions.

Prosecutors say Stephans grabbed referee Carlos Bradford’s glasses and broke them before briefly struggling with the referee at St. Margaret Mary Catholic School, where Stephans’ son was playing in a seventh-grade basketball game. Other parents broke up the confrontation.