SEWARD, Neb. (AP) — Seward has lifted restrictions on drinking water, now that health officials have determined the water is safe.

The city made the announcement Wednesday afternoon.

The water system lost pressure and integrity after a water main broke under an area flooded by the Big Blue River. Officials were concerned about contaminants entering the system, so they posted the warnings.

The system repairs have been made, and state officials say water samples submitted Monday and Tuesday tested out safe to drink.

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska school district is reviewing its policies after a 4-year-old girl was left unattended on a bus at the district’s bus garage.

The girl didn’t get off the bus for her preschool Tuesday at Hawthorne Elementary School, in Hastings.

Hastings Public Schools Superintendent Craig Kautz says the girl stayed on the bus and rode back to the facility where buses are housed. She got off the bus after the driver left. A passer-by saw the girl outside the facility and called 911. Authorities eventually took her to the school.

Kautz and police spokesman Brian Hessler said Thursday that they haven’t determined how long the girl was outside the facility before she was seen.

SEWARD, Neb. (AP) — A boy orphaned at 3 by a Nebraska car accident has returned as a man to the town that cared for him and the people who haven’t forgotten him.

Ron Rissel was a child in 1965 when he and his family got into an accident driving home to Pennsylvania. Five people died including Rissel’s parents.

More than 50 years later, Rissel has returned to visit Seward, a town that had taken care of him for about six weeks after the accident until he was healthy enough to return to Pennsylvania.

People such as nurses and community service members who cared for him gathered Sunday at the Seward Civic Center to reminisce about Rissel’s stay. Rissel says the visit helps “close a chapter.”

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PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A 33-year-old La Vista woman has been sentenced to prison for sexual abuse of a teenage boy.

Michelle Monasmith was sentenced Wednesday in Sarpy County District Court to 10 to 20 years in prison.

Prosecutors say Monasmith performed a sex act on the 15-year-old boy.

Police learned of the crime when the boy’s father found photos on the boy’s phone of Monasmith in various stages of undress.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 27-year-old former gymnastics coach accused of secretly capturing images of girls and women has had his bail set at $500,000.

Prosecutors say Bryce Fogg photographed and videotaped females without their knowledge while he worked at a gym in Omaha. Police reports say he’d recorded images of a 14-year-old girl and 22-year-old woman in “private compromising positions” without their consent.

He was arrested in July in Emporia, Kansas, where he’d moved for another coaching job.

Fogg now faces two counts of visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct of a child.

His preliminary hearing has been set for Sept. 25.

PENDER, Neb. (AP) — A woman has pleaded guilty to stealing from her employer in northeast Nebraska.

Court records say 36-year-old Hollie Koopman is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 4 on one misdemeanor and two felony counts of theft, which occurred from 2009 into 2016.

The records say Koopman’s already agreed to pay $100,000 in restitution to Emerson Manufacturing in Pender. Court records say she used Emerson’s money to pay credit card bills and make personal purchases.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former council member for the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska has been given probation for theft from the tribe’s Iowa casino.

Court records say 70-year-old Louis Houghton was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Omaha to five years of probation. He also was ordered to pay back $36,500 to the tribe.

Houghton is one of nine former council members accused of a conspiracy to siphon more than $327,000 from the WinnaVegas Casino in Sloan, Iowa.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A Bellevue man accused of causing the death of his 5-month-old daughter has pleaded guilty.

22-year-old Camron Ludi entered the plea Tuesday in Sarpy County District Court to a charge of negligent child abuse resulting in death. He had been charged with intentional child abuse resulting in death. He’s scheduled to be sentenced in October.

His daughter, Cassidy, died in July last year. Court records say Ludi told investigators that he put the baby on his bed and went outside to smoke a cigarette. He says she was crying on the floor when he returned. She died hours later at a hospital.

A pathologist testified at a hearing that Cassidy’s injuries were inconsistent with a 30-inch fall onto a rug.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a Creighton University student and resident of Minnesota traveling in Nebraska to see a total solar eclipse has died in crash on Interstate 80.

19-year-old Joan Ocampo-Yambing, of Rosemount, Minnesota, was in the back seat of a car on Interstate 80 in Omaha on Monday morning when a semitrailer slammed into the back of the car, causing a four-vehicle pileup. Ocampo-Yambing died in the crash. Three other Creighton students in the car and two people in another car were seriously injured.

More than 800 people filled a church on the Creighton University campus in Omaha on Monday evening to mourn Ocampo-Yambing.

She was a computer science major who would have started her sophomore year at Creighton this week. She was a dean’s fellow at the university and also was involved in campus ministry, helping to tend to students’ spiritual and religious needs.

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BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — Classes have begun at a new high school in eastern Nebraska where teachers will serve more as mentors who challenge and engage students instead of lecturing.

Nearly a dozen ninth-graders from Omaha and Bellevue started school Tuesday at Next Generation Learning Academy on Bellevue University’s campus. Academy Chief Learning Officer Ray Ravaglia says all students are on scholarships.

The academy uses student-driven curriculum developed by nonprofit Opportunity Education. It’s designed to move away from lecture- and memorization-based lessons and toward comprehension-focused ones. Students work on projects individually or with a mentor instead of listening to a teacher speak to the class.

The school is the first NGL Academy to open in the country and will be followed by another school in California next month.