(AP) — An attorney has surrendered his license to practice law in Nebraska after he was convicted of theft charges in Kansas.

The Nebraska Supreme Court said in a ruling Friday that it has disbarred Kevin K. Stephenson, of Glenwood Springs, Colo.

Stephenson was convicted in February of two counts of theft in Greeley County, Kan., for his role in representing an estate. He was sentenced to 16 months in prison and 24 months of post-release supervision, according to the ruling. He was also ordered to pay $117,400 to the estate.

The court says Stephenson self-reported his conviction to the Nebraska Supreme Court’s counsel for discipline, and did not contest the allegations.

Stephenson was admitted to practice law in Nebraska in October 2006.

(AP) — Authorities say officers in Papillion shot a man after he allegedly pulled out a knife.

Officers were called to an apartment Friday morning to check on a 22-year-old man.

The man had barricaded himself inside his apartment, and officers fired after he displayed the knife.

Sarpy County Attorney Lee Polikov says the man is expected to survive. Police haven’t released his name.

(AP) — Police have arrested two men in a fatal shooting on the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge that connects Omaha with Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Police say 23-year-old Terrece Cox has been arrested on suspicion of homicide, assault and weapons counts, and 27-year-old Billy Kellogg has been arrested on suspicion of being an accessory to a felony. Both were arrested Friday.

Twenty-six-year-old Shamari Richards died Wednesday morning from injuries sustained in the shooting. The other victims, 29-year-old Kevin Jenkins and 19-year-old Jeremy Fejeran, suffered non-life threatening injuries.

The shootings were reported a little after 1:15 a.m. Wednesday. The bridge closes at 11 p.m.

Police say there had been a disturbance at the bridge before the shots rang out. Witnesses told officers that they heard gunshots and then saw a crowd of people scatter.

(AP) — A Texas man on Nebraska’s death row for killing two Grand Island men has filed for post-conviction relief, saying his lawyers were ineffective.

Marco Torres Jr., formerly of Pasadena, Texas, has filed the motion in Hall County District Court and asked for a court-appointed attorney.

Torres was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and other charges in the 2007 shooting deaths of 48-year-old Timothy Donohue and 60-year-old Edward Hall.

Post-conviction relief motions are filed after all other appeals have been exhausted. Last year, the Nebraska Supreme Court rejected Torres’ appeal, in which he claimed some evidence should not have been allowed.

In his latest motion, Torres says his lawyers’ were so inept that it violated his right to a fair trial.

(AP) — Police say a Columbus man was stabbed to death when he resisted an armed robbery.

A sworn police statement says three people went to 51-year-old Steven Jorgensen’s home May 18 intending to rob him, but that the robbery turned violent and Jorgensen resisted. He was then stabbed multiple times with a knife, police say.

Two people — 26-year-old Quentin Critser and 31-year-old Kimberly Henderson — were arrested Wednesday and charged with first-degree murder in the case.

A third person, 30-year-old Eric Henry, also faces charges in the case. He is currently in a Butler County jail on other, unrelated charges.

(AP) — The latest man arrested by Omaha police in an effort to quash gang-related crime first got into legal trouble when he was 13 years old.

Omaha police say 31-year-old Michael Liggins was arrested Friday. A day earlier, local and federal authorities arrested four men as part of a nine-month investigation called “Operation Purple Haze” targeting gang-related activity, including gun and drug trafficking.

In all, 10 men have been arrested in the operation, all in their 20s and 30s.

Police say Liggins is a north Omaha gang leader who has been in and out of jail every year since 1999. In 2002, when he was 19, he was convicted of shooting and killing a friend who was trying to help him steal a car.

(AP) — Authorities have filed a motor vehicle homicide charge against a truck driver who was involved in a 2011 crash that killed a Nebraska toddler.

Lancaster County Attorney Joe Kelly announced the misdemeanor charge Friday against 53-year-old Leamond Pierce, of New Castle, Del.

Pierce was driving a semi-truck that rear-ended a Toyota Camry in December 2011. The crash on Interstate 80 nearly Waverly killed 2 ½-year-old Aidan Curry, of Bellevue.

Curry’s mother, Jennifer Brock, says she was relieved by the decision to charge Pierce.

Pierce faces up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. He is on parole for a 1981 murder in Delaware, and is not currently in custody.

A meteorologist from The Weather Channel is nursing minor injuries after the “tornado hunt” car in which he was riding was thrown some 200 yards by a tornado in Oklahoma.

The SUV that Mike Bettes and two others were riding in was caught up in a storm near El Reno on Friday evening. The Weather Channel said all of the occupants were wearing safety belts and were able to walk away from the banged-up vehicle.

Network spokeswoman Shirley Powell says a Weather Channel team has been in the field for most of May following tornadoes. She says it’s the first time one of the network’s personalities has been injured while being caught up in violent weather it was covering.

Nine people have died in the Oklahoma City area after a violent burst of tornadoes and thunderstorms overnight.

Amy Elliott with the state Medical Examiner’s Office said Saturday morning that nine fatalities have been confirmed, including two children and seven adults. The previous overall total was seven deaths.

Hospital officials said at least 75 people were hurt during Friday night storms that hit at rush hour.

Dozens of tornado warnings were issued across a wide swath of the Midwest, including Oklahoma and Missouri, as a large storm front moved through the region. At least five died and dozens were injured.

Weather service meteorologists said Saturday that crews have to assess the damage before determining whether it was caused by tornadoes or severe thunderstorms. Cars were toppled on an interstate in the Oklahoma City area, and aerial images showed damaged to homes and businesses in the suburbs of St. Louis.

They said they expected to have an estimate by Saturday afternoon.

A cold front will move through the Plains and Midwest today, lessening the chances for severe weather

(AP) — A 26-year-old Lincoln man accused of slamming his 13-week-old baby son’s head into the bottom of a medicine cabinet has been given four to six years in prison.

Online court records say Victor Patterson was sentenced Wednesday by Judge Jodi Nelson in Lancaster County District Court. Patterson had pleaded no contest to attempted child abuse after prosecutors lowered the felony charge.

Patterson was arrested after the boy’s mother took her son to a Lincoln emergency room in March 2012 because the baby kept vomiting. Doctors say the boy had a skull fracture, five broken ribs, a lacerated liver and a broken collarbone.

Police say Patterson threw the baby into a coffee table, accidentally slammed the boy’s head into the medicine cabinet and squeezed him so hard the boy suffered internal injuries.