GERING, Neb. (AP) – A 32-year-old Gering woman who pleaded no contest to stealing from her employer has been given 18 to 36 months in prison.
Linda Carrillo had pleaded no contest to two counts of unlawful taking and one of unauthorized use of a financial transaction device. She was sentenced on Wednesday.
Carrillo must pay more than $17,000 in restitution to her employer, an attorney.
Prosecutors say that in one case, Carrillo wrote a fraudulent check on her employer’s account. In another case, Carrillo had used her employer’s credit card to buy an iPad 2.
Court records say Carrillo also is known as Linda Cerillo, Linda Cerrillo-Mendoza, Linda Rivas and Linda Mendoza.

ALLIANCE, Neb. (AP) – One person has been treated after a fire heavily damaged a rural home in the Nebraska Panhandle.
Eagle Radio station KCOW says firetrucks from Hemingford were dispatched around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday to a residence nine miles northeast of Alliance. Alliance firefighters soon joined the battle.
Hemingford Fire Chief Mark Klemke says it took more than six hours to knock down the flames and eliminate hot spots.
Klemke says one person was in the home when the fire was reported. That person was taken to Box Butte General Hospital to be checked for smoke inhalation.
The fire cause is being investigated.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Federal regulators have approved a Nebraska list that raises the number of impaired waters to 330 in the state.
The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality submitted a list that removed 21 bodies of water and added 92, bringing the total to 330.
The list is required of each state by the federal Clean Water Act. The act requires the EPA to review the state lists to determine whether the states reasonably considered available water quality data.
The EPA says the lists set priorities for reducing sources of water pollution.
A Nebraska water body is placed on the list when pollutants prevent the lake, river or stream from being used for recreation, agricultural water supply and maintaining aquatic life.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Nebraska lawmakers will end their session Wednesday with an updated state budget, reforms to help stabilize the lives of foster children, and a tax cut package championed by Gov. Dave Heineman.
They also will attempt to override four bills that Heineman has vetoed. And in an unusual step, the Republican governor said he does not plan to deliver the traditional end-of-session speech to lawmakers.
One measure would allow machine bets on previously run horse races. Another would allow cities to increase their sales tax rates with voter approval. A third would create a grant program for schools to create health centers.
And the fourth -the one expected to generate the most debate – would restore taxpayer-funded prenatal care to low-income women, including illegal immigrants.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) – A Cheyenne man is credited with helping save the life of a 2-year-old who ended up on Interstate 80 after being thrown from a wreck.
Travis Daniels and his father Ray Daniels were driving on I-80 near Pine Bluffs on Tuesday when they saw a car seat in the middle of the highway. The girl was still strapped to it.
Ray Daniels said his son moved the girl out of traffic and he called for help.
The Wyoming Highway Patrol says the car the toddler was in drifted off the side of the highway and rolled three times.
The driver, Cindy Sprey, was in critical condition and passenger, Clay Holmes, of Gering, Neb, was in good condition Tuesday.
The toddler’s condition wasn’t known.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) – A 21-year-old Grand Island man has been given three years in federal prison for not reporting a methamphetamine sale.
A news release from the office of U.S. Attorney Deborah Gilg says Alejandro Robles also must serve a year of supervised release when he gets out of prison.
Robles had pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony, meaning he knew a crime was committed but didn’t report it. Prosecutors say Robles was one of the people present during a meth sale.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – The Salvation Army in Omaha and University of Nebraska at Omaha students are joining forces to help feed the homeless.
Members of UNO’s Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity will sleep in cardboard boxes at an Omaha mall this week through Friday night as part of a food drive and as a way to raise awareness of the plight of homeless people.
The students will collect monetary and food donations throughout the week for The Salvation Army food pantry. Demand for food pantry assistance has risen by more than 36 percent compared with last year. The goal this year is to collect 50,000 food items.
On Thursday afternoon, UNO students will be collecting donations at a Hy-Vee grocery store in southwest Omaha.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) – A 29-year-old Beatrice man who was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving also is accused of trying to bribe his way out of trouble.
Aaron Lawson was pulled over on Saturday night in Beatrice.
The officer says he suspected Lawson was drunk, but Lawson refused to take any sobriety tests. Court documents say Lawson told the officer he could “hook him up with anything” and later offered the officer $2,000 to let him go without charges.
Lawson faces felony charges of third-offense drunken driving and of bribery.
A public phone listing for Lawson could not be found. Online court records don’t list the case yet. Lawson’s lawyer from a 2011 case said Tuesday that he knows nothing about the new allegations.

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (AP) – Authorities have released the names of a man who was killed and another man who was injured when their car crashed into a canal north of Scottsbluff.
The accident at the Pathfinder Irrigation Canal was reported Monday afternoon.
The dead man was identified as 20-year-old Taylor Gulley, of Scottsbluff. The car driver was identified as 19-year-old Matthew Merryfield, of Scottsbluff. He was flown to a Scottsbluff hospital and is expected to survive his injuries.
Authorities say Gulley’s body was found inside the vehicle when it was pulled out of the water.
Scotts Bluff County Sheriff Mark Overman says Merryfield reported that he lost control of the car while driving north on County Road 23. The car veered off the roadway and landed upside down in the canal.

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (AP) – A judge has denied a defense motion for a mental evaluation on the alleged victim in a child sexual assault case against a Kimball city councilman.
Scott Haun is accused of sexually assaulting a mentally disabled teenage boy. He was charged last October with first-degree sexual assault on a child more than 12 years of age but less than 16. His
trial in Scotts Bluff County District Court is in May.
A judge has denied a motion for a mental evaluation, saying there’s insufficient evidence to warrant the assessment. The judge also denied a motion to suppress statements Haun made to police during two interviews. Haun, who has been on the Kimball City Council for a total of 12 years, says he won’t resign.