SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Nebraska man has been sentenced to 10 years in an Iowa prison for the death of his uncle in a Sioux City crash.

The sentence was handed down Tuesday to Jerell Wilson, of Omaha, Nebraska. A Woodbury County jury had found the 24-year-old guilty last month of vehicular homicide and other crimes.

Authorities say Wilson’s car crashed on Nov. 11 last year as he sped away from a sheriff’s deputy who tried to stop him for a traffic violation. Authorities say 38-year-old Djuan Beverly died from head injuries he suffered in the crash.

Officers say they found 29 bags of marijuana inside and outside the crashed car. Wilson’s attorney says the pot belonged to Beverly.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have filed several misdemeanor charges against a former suburban Omaha police chief accused of driving drunk.

Papillion (puh-PIHL’-yuhn) officers stopped their former chief, Leonard Houloose, on Sept. 24 after receiving a tip that he was driving drunk.

Sarpy County Court records say the 58-year-old Houloose is charged with driving under the influence, refusing to submit to DUI tests, carrying a concealed weapon and possessing an open alcohol container in his vehicle.

A phone listed for Houloose in Papillion rang unanswered during several calls Tuesday. Court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for him. His next court date is scheduled for Nov. 8.

Houloose served 22 years with the Papillion force, including 14 as chief.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — One of two men accused of killing another man in northeast Nebraska’s Dakota County has pleaded no contest to attempted murder and accessory to a felony charge.

The Nebraska attorney general’s office says 19-year-old Brayan Galvan-Hernandez entered the plea Tuesday in a deal with prosecutors. Authorities say Galvan-Hernandez and 26-year-old Andres Surber, both of Wakefield, fatally shot 41-year-old Kraig Kubik, of Emerson, on Nov. 1, 2016.

In April, a judge ruled that Surber was not mentally competent to stand trial.

Kubik was shot in the back of the head and his dismembered body was found in a culvert in rural Cedar County four days after he was reported missing. Other parts of his body were found in a car trunk.

NORWOOD, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado prosecutor has charged two women with killing two young girls whose bodies were found on a farm.

Court records say Nashika Bramble and Madani Ceus have been charged with two counts each of first-degree murder on top of previous charges of fatal child abuse.

Attorneys for Bramble and Ceus couldn’t be immediately reached Tuesday.

Police have said the girls were between the ages of 5 and 10. Their bodies were found in mid-September on a farm outside Norwood, about 30 miles (48.2 kilometers) west of the ski resort town of Telluride.

Three other people also face fatal child abuse charges in the girls’ deaths.

It’s not clear how any of defendants were connected to the children. Authorities haven’t released any details about what caused their deaths.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police have arrested a man and a teenage boy in connection with the armed robberies of seven men in Omaha who believed they were meeting a woman they had messaged on a dating application.

The victims’ cellphones and wallets were stolen at gunpoint. Omaha police say they arrested 20-year-old Jordan Kellogg and a 17-year-old. Each is charged with seven counts of robbery and one count of attempted robbery.

Police say each robbery involved two or three assailants. The suspects allegedly posed as a woman online and arranged dates the same day they started talking to the victims. The robberies happened at night between Sept. 19 and Tuesday.

Police say all but one of the victims used the dating application Plenty of Fish.

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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A New Jersey-based company says it plans to open a call center in Lincoln that will employ about 200 people.

iPacesetters, of Montvale, New Jersey, announced Monday it would open a call center at a site where another call center operator closed earlier in the year. That move by catalog and online retailer Dr. Leonard’s resulted in the loss of 170 jobs.

iPacesetters, which says it provides telemarketing services to a number of companies, plans to open Nov. 6 and will hire employees in stages. The jobs will be split between full- and part-time positions.

Lincoln site director Penny Spaeth says the availability of the space used by another call center was a “bonus,” but the company chose Lincoln because of the potential employees.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a corrections officer was treated at a Lincoln hospital after being assaulted by two boys at Lancaster County’s juvenile detention center.

The attack occurred around 8 a.m. Monday, when several of the juveniles refused to leave the dining area and return to their cells. One of the boys began punching the officer and soon was joined by the other boy. The officer later was taken to the hospital and has since been released.

Two other staffers also suffered minor injuries. Authorities say the boys weren’t injured.

The names of those involved in the melee haven’t been released.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska state lawmaker says Gage County has violated the state constitution by housing inmates across the state line in Kansas.

Omaha Sen. Ernie Chambers has asked the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office to issue a legal opinion on a contract approved by the Gage County Board of Supervisors in late September.

The one-year contract reserves 10 beds in the Washington County, Kansas, jail for Gage County inmates, at a cost of $246,000 a year.

Chambers said in a letter Wednesday to the attorney general that it’s a violation of the Nebraska Constitution to transport an inmate to another state for any offense committed in Nebraska.

Gage County Board Chairman Myron Dorn declined to comment on Chambers’ allegation.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Two people have been arrested in connection with a string of robberies of men in Omaha who thought they were meeting with a woman they had messaged on a dating application.

Omaha Police say one of the suspects was linked to the robberies after he sold stolen cellphones at a kiosk and used one of the victims’ credit cards.

The second suspect was arrested after a search warrant was served. Several items linked to the robberies, including two guns were found.

The suspects have both been charged in connection with seven robberies and one attempted robbery.

Court documents say all but one of the victims used the dating application called “Plenty of Fish.” But instead of a woman, they met robbers.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A December sentencing is scheduled for a former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service worker who’d been charged with burglarizing the service office in Wood River.

Court records say 59-year-old John Cochnar, of Grand Island, pleaded no contest Thursday to two counts of theft after prosecutors dropped two burglary counts. His sentencing is set for Dec. 8.

Authorities say he broke into the service’s field office at the Crane Trust Nature and Visitor Center on March 21 to steal property. Authorities also say he took $508 from the visitor center’s donation box.