DAVID CITY, Neb. (AP) — A June sentencing has been scheduled for a woman who took a plea deal in a Butler County crash death case.

Court records say 55-year-old Diane Hitz pleaded no contest Tuesday to felony vehicular homicide after prosecutors dropped related drunken driving and reckless driving counts. Her sentencing is set for June 13.

Prosecutors say the Columbus woman was drunk and was driving nearly 100 mph (161 kph) on May 2, 2015, when her vehicle rammed the rear of a motorcycle on U.S. Highway 81, about 5 miles (8 kilometers) south of Columbus. The collision killed 51-year-old Michael Gross, who lived in Duncan.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Deputies have arrested a driver after marijuana was found in his vehicle along Interstate 80 on the west side of Lincoln.

The vehicle was pulled over just after 4 p.m. Tuesday. A Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office dog alerted deputies to the presence of drugs, and deputies say they found 164 pounds (74 kilograms) of pot in the vehicle’s compartments.

Online court records don’t yet show that the man has been formally charged.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A pair of Canada geese has built a nest inside a flower pot near an Omaha hospital’s emergency room doors.

Security officer Tom Stock says the geese, Ralph and Alice, have nested near Lakeside Hospital every spring since 2005. Hospital staff is confused why the pair chose such a busy location this year when they’ve selected quieter sites near the Healing Garden or the Sleep Lab in past years.

Vice president of patient care Inglish Camero watches the geese from outside her window.

Security supervisor David Milliman says the hospital doesn’t want “a whole lot of people coming out here just to see the geese.” Signs ask visitors to neither feed nor disturb them.

Security escorts the family to the nearby lake when the goslings hatch.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A candidate for Omaha City Council has a criminal past that he says shouldn’t be held against him in May’s general election.

D’Shawn Cunningham came in a distant second to incumbent Councilman Chris Jerram in Tuesday’s primary.

The 30-year-old Cunningham has pleaded guilty to a reduced misdemeanor charge of third-degree assault after prosecutors say he threatened his mother and other family members in an August letter. The mother was granted a protection order, and Cunningham’s sentencing is set for the day before the May 9 election.

Cunningham is also wanted in Iowa’s Monona County on an arrest warrant in a marijuana case.

Cunningham says despite the conviction, he is not a violent person. He has been an advocate for ending excessive use of force by police.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — The Beatrice City Council has approved a measure to pave the way for the construction of new housing.

The council on Monday approved the demolition of the old Beatrice Community Hospital.

Excel Development Group plans to build 10 ranch-style homes where the southern third of the old hospital and its parking lot currently stand. A subsidiary of Excel also plans to build eight duplex units that will be managed senior homes on the same property.

The city estimates the demolition will cost about $1 million, with about $250,000 of that used for asbestos removal. Because the property is a part of a redevelopment area, Excel and its subsidiary can apply for state tax credits and loans to be used for the demolition.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota man has been jailed on $1 million cash bond after prosecutors charged him in the death of his wife.

Forty-three-year-old Irving Jumping Eagle appeared in court Wednesday following his arrest in the death of 33-year-old Alicia Jumping Eagle. She was found dead in the couple’s Sioux Falls apartment Monday.

Irving Jumping Eagle is charged with first-degree murder, second-degree murder and four counts of manslaughter. His public defender did not return a phone call for comment.

Police allege Irving Jumping Eagle had blood on himself Monday afternoon while at a gas station about 300 miles away near Streeter, North Dakota. The Argus Leader (https://argusne.ws/2oE5HYP ) reports the car he was driving hit a bridge pillar Tuesday morning in Deuel County, in eastern South Dakota. He was taken to a hospital and then jailed in Sioux Falls.

LYONS, Neb. (AP) — Northeast Nebraska authorities say a man has died six days after he was shot by his brother, who then killed himself.

The Burt County attorney’s office says 53-year-old Charles Hayes died in an Omaha hospital Saturday. He lived in Naha on the Japanese island of Okinawa.

Lyons Police Chief Jim Buck says Hayes was shot four times March 26 by 49-year-old Kevin Hayes at Kevin’s home in Lyons. Buck says officers found Kevin Hayes’ body when they responded to a report about the shooting. Buck says the brothers’ mother was at the home at the time but was not injured.

Buck says the case has been closed as a murder-suicide.

Lyons is a city of about 850 people.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Douglas County prosecutor says gun play seems to have led to the death of a 20-year-old western Iowa man in Omaha, and two men have been arrested.

Police say 20-year-old Scott Evans, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was found dead early Sunday inside a home in north Omaha home. Officers were called the house for a report of a shooting.

Officials say an 18-year-old Omaha man has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and a weapons count, and a 19-year-old Council Bluffs man has been arrested on suspicion of being an accessory.

Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine says Garbez and Gaytan appeared to have been using a gun in a game similar to Russian roulette, and Evans was shot in the head.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say a chain-reaction crash on Interstate 80 in Omaha damaged two police vehicles and seriously injured an officer.

Police say it happened shortly after 9 a.m. Tuesday on the westbound lanes of I-80 near Q Street. A preliminary investigation shows two police cruisers were on the shoulder as part of a traffic stop when a car hit a cargo van, sending the van into both police cruisers.

Police say Officer Brian Vanderheiden was taken to a hospital with serious injuries, but is expected to survive. The driver of the van was also taken to a hospital with injuries not believed to be life-threatening.

The westbound lanes of the interstate were closed for more than an hour.