LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Lincoln Electric System has decided to end its contract to buy power from one of the Nebraska Public Power District’s plants near Hallam.

LES spokeswoman Rachel Barth says the utility decided it wouldn’t need the electricity Sheldon Station generates because its predicted customer demand appears smaller than expected.

The Lincoln utility is also in the middle of reviewing its electricity generating portfolio to ensure it has the right mix of power sources.

To end the contract with NPPD at the end of this year LES will pay $10.5 million.

GRETNA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a motorcyclist died at a hospital after crashing in Sarpy County on the southwest side of Omaha.

The accident occurred around 3:50 p.m. Tuesday on Nebraska Highway 370, just east of Gretna. The Sarpy County Sheriff’s Office says 75-year-old Robert Swanson lost control of his three-wheel motorcycle. He was thrown off after it ran across the traffic lanes into a roadside ditch. The Sheriff’s Office says in a news release that Swanson died at 9:45 p.m. at Nebraska Medical Center.

Witnesses say a wheel may have fallen off the motorcycle before the accident.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A man accused of shooting two sheriff’s deputies, one fatally, in an Iowa jail escape has been returned to that state to face charges.

Officials say 24-year-old Wesley Correa-Carmenaty was picked up from an Omaha, Nebraska, jail Wednesday and taken to the Pottawattamie County Courthouse in Council Bluffs for his initial hearing. He was denied bail as he awaits prosecution on murder, attempted murder and other counts. He’ll be held at a jail in Sioux City. His attorney hasn’t returned a call.

Authorities say Correa-Carmenaty had just been sentenced to 45 years in an unrelated case May 1 when he grabbed a deputy’s gun, shot him and another deputy, and escaped in a jail transport van.

Authorities say Correa-Carmenaty was recaptured after he carjacked a woman’s car and drove to Omaha.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln woman has entered a plea and been convicted of misdemeanor motor vehicle homicide in a fatal December crash in Grand Island.

35-year-old Sheri Jindra pleaded no contest Wednesday in Hall County Court for the Dec. 11 crash that killed 41-year-old Melissa Brown.

Grand Island police say Brown was driving an SUV east on Husker Highway when she was hit by Jindra’s southbound minivan. Police say Jindra ran a red light.

Brown was pronounced dead at a hospital; her husband, a passenger in the SUV, received minor injuries.

Jindra faces up to a year in prison when she’s sentenced July 7.

NEBRASKA CITY, Neb. (AP) — A July sentencing has been scheduled for a former Nebraska City teacher accused of debauching a minor.

Court records say 27-year-old Emily Lofing pleaded no contest Monday to an amended charge of contributing to the delinquency of a child. Her sentencing is set for July 17.

Lofing was accused of arranging a meeting last summer to have sex with a 16-year-old boy. She has resigned her position at Nebraska City Middle School.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former Winnebago Tribal Council member has pleaded guilty to his role in stealing from the tribe’s casino in Iowa.

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

As part of his plea agreement with prosecutors in U.S. District Court in Omaha, Payer admits only to misapplying funds belonging to an Indian gaming establishment. Conspiracy and other charges against him will be dropped if the court accepts the plea agreement.

Prosecutors have recommended that Payer be sentenced to five years of probation and be ordered to repay any money he illegally obtained from the casino.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police say medics broke out a window in a sweltering van to save a 3-year-old child, and the driver has been cited for child neglect.

Police say a woman called 911 Monday morning after hearing the child crying in the van in a northeast Omaha neighborhood. Police say medics first on the scene broke out a window to pull the child out. Police say the temperature inside the van was 115 degrees. The child was taken to a hospital.

Police say the driver of the van had picked up the child and others that morning to drop off at her sister’s Bellevue day care. She says she returned home and locked up the van after looking in her rearview mirror and not seeing any children.

OMAHA, Nebraska (AP) — Voters in Omaha are not just deciding the city’s mayor, but whether a Democrat who opposes abortion rights can give the party some hope in the conservative heartland.

Democrats around the country have focused on their party’s candidate Heath Mello, some looking to the 37-year-old former state senator as an independent future party leader and others shaking their heads at his anti-abortion record.

In that way, the election Tuesday in this mid-sized Midwestern city has become a symbol for the out-of-power party’s struggle for the way forward after crushing defeat across the country last year.

Mello faces incumbent Republican Jean Stothert, a 63-year-old Republican elected in 2013.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A man has been given three days in jail and three years of probation for a crash death in Hall County.

37-year-old Jeremiah Roberts, of Ravenna (ruh-VEH’-nuh), was sentenced Friday for misdemeanor vehicular homicide.

The accident occurred about 5:30 a.m. Jan. 21, 2016, on Nebraska Highway 2, about 4 miles (7 kilometers) southeast of Cairo (KAY’-roh). The Hall County Sheriff’s Department says Roberts was headed east on Highway 2 when he lost control of his sport utility vehicle on the slippery roadway and struck an oncoming car.

The car driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The department identified him as 43-year-old Leopoldo Martinez.