GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — School officials and police say a 7-year-old student was found with an unloaded handgun on a Grand Island school bus.

The bus driver took the gun from the student Wednesday morning and contacted school staff.

Police Capt. Jim Duering says school officials had already seized the gun by the time police arrived. A statement from Grand Island Public Schools say the gun was unloaded and that the student had no ammunition for the gun and that “no students or staff were ever in danger.”

Police say the student was not taken into custody, but officers did take the gun. Duering says a police report has been turned over to the Hall County prosecutor’s office for review.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 22-year-old Lincoln woman accused of causing her aunt’s death by swerving to throw her off a vehicle has pleaded not guilty to motor-vehicle homicide.

Kacie Alatoree filed a written plea before her set arraignment on Wednesday.

Alatoree faces up to seven years in prison if convicted.

Police say 36-year-old Autumn Rodriguez Hernandez died Nov. 12, days after she climbed onto the SUV Alatoree was driving. Police say Alatoree accelerated and swerved left and right to shake Rodriguez Hernandez off the vehicle, causing the older woman to fall and hit her head on a curb. Police say Alatoree then fled the scene.

Police say Rodriguez Hernandez had loaned the SUV to her niece three months earlier and was trying to get it back when she climbed onto it.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Bellevue woman has been charged with child abuse after police say she twisted the genitals of her boyfriend’s 5-year-old son after the boy wet the bed.

Bail was set Wednesday at $30,000 for 48-year-old Hollie Budka, who is charged with felony child abuse in Douglas County. Police say they were called after the boy’s mother noticed marks and bruising on his neck and genitals following the boy’s visit to his father’s house on Jan. 28.

The boy told investigators that Budka twisted his genitals and beat him with a belt after he had wet the bed.

No attorney is listed for Budka in online court documents, and Budka could not be reached for comment Wednesday..

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha Public Schools board has voted to put a nearly $410 million bond issue that would build five new schools on the May ballot.

The board voted unanimously Monday night to approve the project list and price tag for a bond referendum.

The $409.9 million bond proposal would be used to construct 1,500-student high schools at south-central and far northwest Omaha. It would also build two 600-student elementary schools, at eastern Omaha and in Bellevue, and a 1,000-student middle school in south-central Omaha.

The board will still have to draft and approve official ballot language to place the bond measure on the May 15 ballot. The deadline to submit that ballot language is March 1.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Officials have rescued two dogs that were inside a vehicle that crashed and killed the driver.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says its deputies responded Sunday morning to a crash believed to have happened the night before near the Irvington community just north of Omaha. Investigators say 29-year-old Adam Bortle, of Omaha, died when his Jeep went out of control, went airborne and came to rest on its roof in a ditch. Officials say Bortle was either thrown or crawled from the vehicle, and died at the scene.

Rescue workers removed a Rottweiler that was trapped in the car, but uninjured. A mixed-breed dog that had also been in the Jeep was found nearby with an injured leg by a neighbor. The Nebraska Humane Society has taken in both dogs.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man charged in an overnight New Year’s Day crash that killed an Omaha woman has been ordered to stand trial.

A judge on Monday bound 19-year-old Vismar Carmona-Martinez’s case over to district court.

Prosecutors say Carmona-Martinez’s car rear-ended another car around 12:30 a.m. Jan 1. The driver of the car he hit, 67-year-old Ann Smock, died at an Omaha hospital.

Police say Carmona-Martinez’s blood alcohol content was .240 — three times the legal limit to drive. Prosecutors also say Carmona-Martinez is in the country illegally.

He faces up to 20 years in prison if he’s convicted.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A 19-year-old former Nebraska high school football standout has been sentenced to up to 40 years in prison for his role in a sex trafficking case.

DeArch Stubblefield was sentenced Monday to 20 to 40 years after pleading guilty in October to attempted human trafficking, aiding and abetting child sexual assault and child pornography possession.

Prosecutors say he arranged for a man to have sex with a 15-year-old girl and recorded the encounter for money, which he and the girl shared.

Stubblefield, who had been a defensive back on the 2016 state champion Bellevue West team, had sought probation, as he had no criminal record.

The man who had sex with the girl, 41-year-old Jason Gibson, was sentenced last year to six months in jail, followed by five years’ probation.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Two men face murder charges in the death of a Lincoln man whose family reported him missing last summer.

Prosecutors on Friday charged 36-year-old Dominic G. Aguirre and 35-year-old Paul A. Clark with second-degree murder. They also were charged with kidnapping, assault and using a firearm to commit a felony.

They were arrested last week in connection with the death of 35-year-old Phillip Madlock, whose brother reported him missing in July.

Lancaster County prosecutors allege Aguirre and Clark killed Madlock on June 28. They have been jailed since Jan. 12 on marijuana charges.

Police have provided few details about how Madlock died, including whether his body has been found.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 32-year-old man who was driving a speeding van that crashed last year in Omaha, killing a passenger in the cargo area, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Nemias Garcia-Velasco was sentenced Friday in Douglas County District Court. Garcia-Velasco is in the country illegally and faces deportation to Mexico when he’s released from prison.

Garcia-Velasco pleaded no contest in November to vehicular homicide while driving under the influence of alcohol.

Police say the van he was driving July 5 was speeding when it entered a curve at the Interstate 80/680 interchange. The van left the roadway and hit a guardrail and a bridge support, then burst into flames. The crash killed 58-year-old Silvano Torres, who was riding without restraints in the van’s cargo area.

WEST POINT, Neb. (AP) — A fourth person has pleaded not guilty in the case of a northeastern Nebraska man whose body was found in his burned home.

31-year-old Jenna Merrill, of Oakland, Nebraska, pleaded not guilty Thursday to being an accessory to a felony. Her trial is set for May 8.

Investigators say Merrill told police that another man charged in the case, Jody Olson, had been stabbed in a bar fight. Investigators say he was actually wounded in a fight with 64-year-old Ernest Warnock, whose body was found March 11 in rubble of his Rosalie home. He’d been fatally stabbed before the fire.

Olson and his son, Derek Olson, both of Oakland, have pleaded not guilty to murder, arson and related charges in Warnock’s death. Becky Weitzenkamp has pleaded not guilty to first-degree arson and being an accessory.