OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have released the names of an Omaha officer and a driver who were injured during a struggle in which a shot was fired.

Officers stopped a car Thursday afternoon on U.S. Highway 75 in northeast Omaha. Police say an officer struggled with the driver and the gunshot rang out. Police have not said whether the driver, the officer or someone else fired the shot.

Police say the driver fled in the car and soon crashed. He was taken to a Nebraska Medical Center.

Police said in a news release Thursday that he’s been identified as 21-year-old Micah Taylor, who suffered a minor gunshot wound to his neck area. The officer’s been identified as 49-year-old David Staskiewicz, who was treated for a minor injury not caused by a gunshot.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A suspect has been arrested in the slaying of a man outside an Omaha convenience store.

Omaha police say 29-year-old Forrest Cox III was arrested Thursday. Court records say he’s charged with first-degree murder and two weapons counts. Online court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for him. He’s being held in Douglas County Jail.

Cox is accused of shooting 25-year-old Laron Rogers on March 6 last year. Police say Rogers died 16 days later.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man who robbed a bank with the goal of receiving medical treatment in prison has been asked by a judge to consider probation instead.

Terry L. Bailes, 54, appeared in Gage County District Court on Wednesday to be sentenced for attempted robbery. He had pleaded no contest in the case.

Bailes developed a hand condition that prevents him from doing simple tasks, court records said. Because of the condition, he lost his job at Landoll Corporation and eventually lost his home, Bailes said.

Bailes asked a teller to call authorities when he demanded money from a Great Western Bank in October, court records said. He didn’t have a weapon and left the bank with $10. He then purchased cigarettes and waited for authorities to arrive.

Bailes said he has no family, and that going to prison might be the only way he could get medical attention.

“I felt as though my back was against the wall,” Bailes said. “I know it was a poor judgment. This way, I think I can get medical care.”

Bailes has other theft convictions in his criminal history, the most recent from 2005, said Judge Rick Schreiner.

Schreiner delayed the sentencing Wednesday and encouraged Bailes to consider probation. He also suggested Bailes to reach out to a friend who could support him. The judge said he doesn’t “believe prison is for the poor and homeless.”

“There may be some people who disagree with me,” Schreiner said. “You committed a bank robbery. I know that and people may say ‘That judge is soft, all bank robbers should go to prison.’ Those people haven’t read your presentence investigation and those people aren’t the ones tasked with this obligation.”

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A western Iowa woman has been sentenced in Nebraska to five years’ probation for being an accessory to a 2016 road-rage shooting death.

19-year-old Page Green, of Council Bluffs, was sentenced Wednesday. She had pleaded no contest to being an accessory to a homicide in the shooting death of 32-year-old Cristian Pastrana-Marin.

Last year, 21-year-old Darwin Johnson of Omaha was sentenced to up to 60 years in prison for the fatal shooting.

Police say Pastrana-Marin and Green got into a dispute in which Pastrana-Marin honked at her after one car cut off the other on U.S. Highway 75 near downtown Omaha. At a red light, Johnson got out of Green’s vehicle and fired seven times at Pastrana-Marin, hitting him once in the head.

DORCHESTER, Neb. (AP) — A former schoolteacher in southeast Nebraska has pleaded not guilty to one sexual assault and two sexual abuse charges.

Court records say 41-year-old Matthew Hoffman, of Dorchester, entered the pleas Wednesday in Saline County District Court. No trial date has been set, but a pretrial conference is scheduled for May 2.

Law enforcement accounts that led to Hoffman’s arrest have been sealed from public view.

Hoffman is chairman of the Dorchester village board of trustees. He resigned his Crete High School position last month.

YORK, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say two young men have died in a collision at an intersection near York in eastern Nebraska.

The accident occurred around 10:40 p.m. Wednesday about a mile (2 kilometers) east of York. Sheriff’s Lt. Paul Vrbka says an eastbound pickup truck hit a northbound car that didn’t halt at a stop sign.

The York News-Times reports that the two men in the car were pronounced dead at the scene. Vrbka identified the driver as 19-year-old Dylan Quast, of Columbus. His passenger was identified as 18-year-old Jacob Barnett, of Stromsburg.

Vrbka says the pickup driver was taken to York General Hospital for treatment of injuries not believed to be life-threatening. He’s been identified as 19-year-old Braxton Nunnenkamp, of York.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say a 5-year-old boy has died after a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 80 in Omaha.

Police say the crash happened around 5:15 a.m. Tuesday when a car was rear-ended by a semitrailer on the interstate near 72nd Street.

The crash critically injured 5-year-old Cameron Philpott, who had been in the back seat of the car. The boy later died at a hospital of his injuries, and an autopsy has been scheduled.

Police say neither the driver of the car nor the driver of the semi was hurt.

The crash is still under investigation.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The second trial of a former public address announcer at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln has begun with his lawyer saying no crimes were committed.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports that Patrick Combs’ attorney, Bob Creager, said during his opening statement Tuesday in Lincoln that, “There is simply no crime here whatsoever.”

Prosecutors say Combs took thousands of dollars from an elderly widow suffering from Alzheimer’s before her 2015 death. Combs has countered that the woman and her husband thought of him as a son and encouraged him to spend estate money earmarked for him in their will — money that would otherwise be taxed.

The 52-year-old Combs’ first trial on theft and other charges ended in a mistrial.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 35-year-old man has been convicted of beating and stabbing to death his aunt in Omaha more than 10 years ago.

A jury found Charles Simmer guilty Monday of first-degree murder in the slaying of 50-year-old Joy Blanchard in her home in November 2007.

Authorities say he’d been a suspect since her death, but prosecutors weren’t able to assemble a convincing case until additional DNA tests in 2016 further implicated him. Also, a high school friend of Simmer told police after Simmer was arrested that he’d told her in 2008 that he’d killed someone.

Simmer’s conviction brings a life sentence.

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — Another of the three people suspected in the slaying of a Hastings man has pleaded not guilty.

Court records say 19-year-old Deante Mullen, of Lincoln, entered his pleas Monday in Adams County District Court to charges of first-degree murder and to use of a firearm. His next court appearance is scheduled for April 9.

Mullen and 21-year-old Daniel Harden, of Hastings, are accused of shooting to death 19-year-old Jose “Joey” Hansen on Sept. 11 during a robbery attempt. Hansen’s body was found by a couple out for a walk.

Mullen’s girlfriend at the time, 21-year-old Katherine Creigh, of Hastings, faces an accessory charge. She’s accused of helping Mullen and Harden avoid arrest after the shooting. Her next hearing is scheduled for April 16.