Southern California authorities say four youngsters could be charged with attempted murder after they beat and critically injured a man with their skateboards.

The Orange County Register says it happened Friday night after a woman bystander tried to break up a fight between two groups at a Huntington Beach skate park.

Police Lt. Chad Nichols says the skateboarders turned on the woman, and her boyfriend intervened and was chased to a nearby coin laundry and beaten with skateboards. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition.

Seven boys under the age of 18 were detained. Four of them were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and were booked at Juvenile Hall.

Authorities say all four were on probation for previous crimes.

A southeast Nebraska man and his former wife have been accused of looting his mother’s accounts.

Lancaster County Sheriff Terry Wagner says that about $156,000 was taken from the 69-year-old woman between April 2011 and this past February.

Online court records say 45-year-old Brian Robinson, of Roca, and 39-year-old Carla Robinson, of Hickman, are charged with felony theft and abuse of a vulnerable adult.

Wagner says the Robinsons violated guidelines of a power of attorney granted by Brian Robinson’s mother.

Nebraska officials are sponsoring a behavioral health conference in Lincoln.

The conference will run from Monday through Wednesday at the Cornhusker Hotel in Lincoln. About 500 people are expected to attend.

Scot Adams, director of the state’s behavioral health division, says the conference will provide information about recovery, peer support services, trauma and emerging trends in behavioral health.

Behavioral health includes mental health, substance abuse and problem gambling issues.

A 15-year-old Nebraska girl who was critically injured in a car accident last week has died.

Officials say Anna Lundberg was taken off life support on Friday night. Police say Lundberg was a passenger in a vehicle that was rear-ended on the West Dodge expressway last Monday.

The Hyundai Elantra that Lundberg was riding in was either slowing down or stopped with its hazard lights on when it was hit by a pickup truck.

Lundberg suffered head and lung injuries in the crash. The Hyundai’s driver, 44-year-old Yesha Lundberg, and the two people in the truck suffered only minor injuries.

James Holmes is asking a judge to allow him to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity in the deadly Colorado theater shootings.

Holmes will seek the new plea at a hearing Monday. He faces murder and attempted murder charges in the July 20 attack, which killed 12 and injured 70.

No motive has emerged, but Holmes’ attorneys have repeatedly said their client is mentally ill.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

The insanity plea carries risks for both sides. Holmes must submit to a mental evaluation by state doctors, and their findings could be used against him by prosecutors.

The plea also makes it harder for prosecutors to get a conviction. They must convince jurors that Holmes was sane at the time of the shootings.

A statue honoring two beloved St. Bernards has been found in Lincoln.

The statue owned by Donna Frye was spotted by her brother-in-law on Friday, just across the street from his home and about a mile from Frye’s residence. The 45-year-old concrete statue was stolen last week.

Frye said she and her husband bought the statue after her dog, Angel, died. She says it also memorialized their second St. Bernard, Brandy, who died in the mid-1990s.

She believes the thief or thieves read about the theft in the Journal Star, panicked, and then dropped off the statue near the home of the wrong Frye family.

 

The man charged with killing four people on an eastern Kansas farm is set to appear in court Monday afternoon.

Twenty-seven-year-old Kyle Flack is being held on $10 million bond. He is charged with capital murder and first-degree murder in the deaths of 18-month-old Lana Leigh Bailey, her mother, 21-year-old Kaylie Bailey, and 30-year-old Andrew Stout. He also is charged first-degree murder in the death of 31-year-old Steven White.

Flack was picked up for questioning early Wednesday in Emporia, where officers found the car that Bailey had been driving when she was last seen.

A body that was believed to be the toddler’s was found over the weekend, and authorities are working to positively identify it. The adults’ bodies were found earlier in the week.

A 21-year-old Nebraska woman and her 18-year-old brother are both facing charges after a family dispute where the woman cut her brother with a knife.

Omaha Police say the incident happened Saturday in northeast Omaha.

Police found Conan Morgan with a cut when they reached the home. Conan Morgan had been arguing with his sister, Alexis Morgan, before officers arrived.

Conan Morgan was taken to a hospital for treatment, and ticketed for misdemeanor assault.

Alexis Morgan was arrested on suspicion of felony assault, using a weapon to commit a felony, destruction of property and an outstanding warrant.

Police say that two of the 18 people shot in New Orleans during a neighborhood Mother’s Day parade were children.

A news release says that the wounded included 10 men, six women, a boy and a girl. The children were both 10 years old.

The release says two people were in surgery Sunday. Many of the victims were grazed and most of the wounds were not life-threatening.

The shooting happened just before 2 p.m. Sunday during a second-line parade organized by the social club called The Original Big 7.  

Police say gunmen opened fire on dozens of people marching in the parade.  Police saw three suspects running from the scene, but there have been no arrests.

The FBI says the shootings appear to be street violence, and not terrorism-related.

(AP) — Federal authorities are offering new reward money for information leading to an additional arrest in the 2011 theft of explosives in southeast Nebraska.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says the $5,000 is not being offered in conjunction with previous reward money that led to the arrest and conviction of two men involved in the removal of the explosives from storage units at the Buckley Powder Company in rural Cass County.

Investigators believe one or more people were involved in the theft, which included 100 pounds of blasting agent.

Authorities say Christopher Bousman helped Travis McQueen get rid of the stolen materials by throwing them into the Missouri and Platte rivers. McQueen was sentenced to 63 months in prison and Bousman was sentenced to 18 months in prison.