SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Nebraska man has been found guilty of second-degree murder in northwest Iowa for the death of his estranged wife.

A Woodbury County jury was in its second day of deliberation when it found 29-year-old Rogelio Morales, of Hubbard, Nebraska, guilty Thursday afternoon.

Prosecutors say he killed 21-year-old Margarita Morales on April 19, 2015, in his car near a Sioux City residence.

Court documents say Morales told investigators a fight broke out when his wife told him she no longer wanted to be in a relationship and that she was seeing another man. Defense attorney Mike Williams said in his closing arguments that there’s no doubt Morales killed the woman but said Morales “is guilty of voluntary manslaughter, not murder.”

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped charges of child sexual assault against a 46-year-old former Omaha schoolteacher but will still try him on other counts related to the case.

Daryl Clark was charged last year with three counts of child sexual assault.

But prosecutors dropped those charges Thursday after they were unable to show that the girl had been younger than 16, the age of sexual consent in Nebraska.

Douglas County prosecutors are now charging Clark with child enticement and sexual assault by electronic device, possession of child pornography and visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct.

Clark also has another case pending for improper conduct with a minor.

At the time of his arrest last year, Clark had been a business education teacher at Monroe Middle School and a girls’ softball coach in Papillion and Bellevue.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man has pleaded no contest to second-degree murder and a weapons count in the shooting death of a motorist in an Omaha road-rage incident.

Darwin Johnson pleaded no contest Thursday in the October death of 32-year-old Cristian Pastrana-Marin.

Johnson faces 21 years to life in prison when he is sentenced in August.

Police say Pastrana-Marin and Johnson’s 18-year-old girlfriend got into a dispute in which Pastrana-Marin honked at her after one car cut off the other on U.S. Highway 75 near downtown Omaha.

At a red light, Johnson got out of Green’s vehicle and fired seven times at Pastrana-Marin, hitting him once in the head. Pastrana-Marin died seven days later.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A man already in custody has been accused of killing another homeless man in Grand Island.

Police say 23-year-old Ahmed Said is charged with second-degree murder in the April 13 slaying of 41-year-old Abdulma Khamis. Police say Khamis was fatally struck with a blunt object April 13 and was found unresponsive a couple blocks west of Pier Park.

Said’s attorney in an unrelated assault case didn’t immediately respond to a message Wednesday from The Associated Press.

COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — A powerful thunderstorm has left a trail of downed trees and power lines in eastern Nebraska.

The storm struck around 8 p.m. Tuesday, packing winds reaching 75 mph at Columbus airport. Authorities say a semitrailer was blown over north of Columbus, near Humphrey.

Lightning set a Columbus house aflame and firefighters also responded to minor grass and tree fires just outside of town.

No injuries have been reported.

Tennis ball-size hail was reported north of Atkinson and on the west side of Hastings.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A nonprofit is providing veterans with disabilities in the Omaha area with new flags and flagpoles.

Cliff Leach and his family founded the organization 13 Stripes 50 Stars last year. So far, the group has given flags to 14 veterans.

Flags and poles are funded solely by donations and business sponsorships. Leach says he and his wife install the poles themselves.

In exchange, Leach asks that the Pledge of Allegiance be said after raising the flag and that he get at least 10 minutes of the veterans’ time to listen to their experiences.

He says many veterans who were previously reluctant will open up to him about their stories of war and sacrifice.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Law enforcement in southeastern Nebraska say a traffic stop on Interstate 80 led to the discovery of 118 fraudulent credit cards.

Lancaster County Sheriff Terry Wagner says a sport utility vehicle driven by a 49-year-old Hollywood, Florida, was stopped around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday on the interstate in Lincoln on suspicion of speeding.

Deputies say they searched the SUV and found the credit cards inside a bag hidden in the wheel well.

The driver and a 31-year-old passenger from Grand Island were arrested on suspicion of criminal possession of a financial transaction device.

Wagner said the investigation is ongoing and deputies are trying to determine to whom the card accounts belong.

BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A 15-year-old boy in the Denver area has been charged with killing a 10-year-old girl and could be tried as an adult.

Adams County District Attorney Dave Young said Wednesday after a closed hearing that the boy was charged with first-degree murder with intent to kill after deliberation, and first-degree murder of a child under 12 by someone in a position of trust.

Young said he intends to prosecute the boy as an adult. Authorities have not released the boy’s name.

Kiaya Campbell of Thornton was found dead June 8 after her family reported her missing the previous night.

WOOD RIVER, Neb. (AP) — The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing a Nebraska bank it says violated federal law by paying a woman less than it paid a man for the same work.

The lawsuit says Heritage Bank in Wood River paid Christine Schwieger and another woman, both relationship managers who sold insurance at bank branches, a salary of $30,000, plus commission, from 2010 to 2013.

The lawsuit says that in 2014, a man hired to replace the other woman, who had quit, was paid $40,000 plus commission for the same job.

The EEOC says that the bank did nothing when Schwieger complained, violating the Equal Pay Act of 1963.

A message left late Tuesday afternoon for a bank official seeking comment was not immediately returned.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A 70-year-old man who said he robbed a Kansas City, Kansas, bank so he could get away from his wife blamed his actions on depression.

A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced Lawrence John Ripple to probation.

Ripple went to the Bank of Labor — a block from police headquarters — last September. He gave a note to a teller saying he had a gun and was demanding money. After he was given it, Ripple waited for police.

Court records indicate Ripple wrote the robbery note in front of his wife and told her he would rather be in jail than at home.

Ripple told the judge Tuesday that heart surgery left him depressed and unlike himself before he robbed the bank.