OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha Police Department is holding its third Gun Amnesty Day to collect unwanted or illegal guns and ammunition.

The latest event runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in south Omaha. Police guns may be dropped off with no questions asked, but police will document all firearms. If a gun is linked to a crime or reported stolen, police will investigate.

Police have held similar collections in the past to keep guns off Omaha streets. Last month, 47 firearms and 900 pounds of ammunition were turned in.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Grand Island man charged with sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl has been sentenced in a separate federal pornography case.

Federal prosecutors say 26-year-old Abraham Richardson was given 20 years in prison at his sentencing on Thursday in Lincoln. Richardson had pleaded guilty to receiving and distributing child pornography between October 2008 and February last year.

Richardson has pleaded not guilty to the state charges, and his trial has been delayed. Richardson is accused of abducting the girl from a Grand Island apartment last October and sexually assaulting her.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Authorities in Grand Island are on the lookout for a thief with a sweet tooth.

Hall County deputies say a man has been stealing doughnuts delivered in the morning and put in a lock box at a convenience store.

It has happened three times in the past few weeks at the Pump & Pantry. Sgt. Quinn Webb says each time the man has stolen 56 doughnuts, which are worth about $36.

Surveillance cameras show the man parking a car and walking up to the lock box. He breaks the lock and swipes the doughnuts.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — University of Nebraska Medical Center officials say it’s unusual for the integrity of a research study to be questioned, but they don’t know yet if there is a problem.

Sheila Wrobel is chief compliance officer at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She says the 60-day inquiry that began in late July will determine whether a full investigation is warranted.

The initial inquiry could also confirm the validity of the research.

Wrobel says the university has an obligation to check out the allegations and make sure the science is valid.

The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine raised questions about a study it published online in February. The study was done jointly by UNMC and researchers from Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle says he’s ready to get back to work after suffering a mild stroke.

The 68-year-old mayor told reporters on Thursday that he was given a clean bill of health by his doctors, but he’ll cut back on his schedule and pay more attention to his diet and exercise.

Suttle was discharged from an Omaha hospital on Wednesday. He was admitted on Monday after returning to Nebraska from an economic tour of Europe. He was hospitalized last week in Ireland.

Suttle says he plans to be at City Hall on Monday.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A 39-year-old Grand Island man accused of hitting his 9-week-old daughter has pleaded no contest to two misdemeanor counts of child abuse.

Michael Valdez made a plea deal with prosecutors, who reduced the original felony charge. Valdez now faces up to a year behind bars on each count instead of up to 50 years under a felony charge.

His sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 12.

Prosecutors say Valdez hit his baby girl in the head on April 18 last year and between April 1 and April 10 last year. The baby was treated for retinal hemorrhaging and fluid and blood on her brain.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 20-year-old woman found lying in a north Omaha driveway with a gunshot wound last weekend has died.

Omaha police say Valencia Hogan was found by police on Saturday afternoon after witnesses in the area reported gunshots. She was taken to a local hospital, where she underwent surgery.

Police say Hogan died of her injuries on Thursday.

No arrests have been made in the shooting.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A judge has ordered the University of Nebraska at Omaha to release records relating to its decision to drop the football and wrestling programs in 2011.

Omaha attorney Mike Degan filed a lawsuit in April on behalf of 13 student-athletes who were seeking documents through a public-records request. UNO, chancellor John Christensen and athletic director Trev Alberts were named as defendants.

The lawsuit contended UNO set unreasonable conditions for the release of records, and Douglas County District Judge Leigh Ann Retelsdorf agreed in Wednesday’s ruling. She gave UNO 30 days to comply.

Degan has said his clients want to know if officials planned to drop football before they signed recruits to letters of intent in February 2011.

A UNO spokesman said the university’s general counsel is reviewing the order.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska has begun investigating questions raised about the integrity of a study conducted by University of Nebraska Medical Center researchers.

The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine published the study online in February. Questions have been raised since about the study and its data.

The study was done by five researchers from the Nebraska medical school and two from Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. They studied the role of some proteins involved in a lung complication associated with the AIDS virus.

The journal issued an “expression of concern” on Aug. 1 and says print publication has been delayed.

Jim Turpen is associate vice chancellor for academic affairs at the Nebraska school, and he declined to comment.

 

BLAIR, Neb. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a toddler found in a backyard pool at an in-home day care in Blair.

Authorities say the accident occurred a little before 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.

The 17-month-old girl was found in about 4 feet of water. She was pronounced dead at a hospital. An autopsy has been ordered.

Her name has not been released.

She was one of a half-dozen children at the state-licensed day care. The pool is gated, and a deck connects it to the house. Police say there was an adult on the premises.

The Blair Police Department and the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services are investigating.