OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say a 15-year-old driver involved in a crash that killed a teenage passenger in his car has been charged as a juvenile with felony motor vehicle homicide.

Omaha police say that the 15-year-old boy was arrested and booked Tuesday night into Douglas County Youth Center. Investigators say he was driving recklessly before the crash that killed 14-year-old Kevin Ramirez-Cabrera. The Associated Press generally does not name juveniles charged with a crime.

Police say the crash was reported around 2:25 a.m. Saturday, and first responders found that the car had been speeding, lost control and hit a utility pole. Ramirez-Cabrera, who had been in the back seat, was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died. Investigators say he was not wearing a seat belt.

HICKMAN, Neb. (AP) — A southeastern Nebraska child care provider is in hot water after authorities say a child in her care tested positive for the psychoactive drug in marijuana.

The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office says deputies were called to a Lincoln hospital emergency room for a 2-year-old girl brought in for being lethargic. Doctors discovered the toddler was suffering from exposure to THC.

After questioning from investigators, the child’s 31-year-old in-home day care operator in Hickman said she had baked marijuana brownies and used the same pan to bake cookies for the children in her day care.

The Sheriff’s Office ticketed the woman on suspicion of child abuse. The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, which licenses her day care, issued an emergency order Wednesday closing the day care.

Officials have recommended other children at the day care be tested for the drug.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a man was slain and two other people wounded outside a convenience store in northeast Omaha.

The shooting occurred a little after 10 p.m. Tuesday. Police say the man was pronounced dead at the scene outside the B & T store. Another man and a woman were taken to a hospital.

The names of those involved and other details about the incident have not been released. It’s unclear whether the shooting was related to two other shootings reported in the area Tuesday night.

No arrests have been reported.

MADISON, Neb. (AP) — A woman who stole nearly $37,000 from her Norfolk employer has been sentenced to 90 days in Madison County Jail.

At her hearing Monday in Madison, Tonya Pearson also was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to pay nearly $1,200 in restitution. The 40-year-old pleaded guilty to unauthorized use of a financial transaction device after making a plea agreement with prosecutors.

Court records say Pearson used an Allied Tour & Travel credit card to make nonbusiness-related purchase.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Douglas County officials have agreed to pay $40,000 to a convicted killer who said he was injured by a fall while in county custody.

The county Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to settle the lawsuit filed by Avery Tyler shortly after his sentencing in 2014 to life in prison. He’d been convicted of fatally shooting 24-year-old Delayno Wright in September 2012.

Tyler said in his lawsuit that he was cuffed and shackled in a van when he was taken back to jail after a courthouse hearing. The lawsuit said the chains that bound his feet caught on a latch on the van floor, causing him to fall as he tried to exit the van. The lawsuit said the fall severely injured Tyler.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A judge has found a former doctor convicted of killing four people connected to an Omaha medical school is competent to face an upcoming death penalty hearing.

Douglas County District Judge Gary Randall agreed on Tuesday with a state psychiatric evaluation that found Anthony Garcia competent to go through the sentencing phase of his case. The judge had ordered the evaluation earlier this month after Garcia refused to answer questions at a competency hearing.

In October, Garcia was convicted of killing the 11-year-old son and a housekeeper of Creighton University faculty member William Hunter in 2008 and killing pathology doctor Roger Brumback and his wife in 2013.

Prosecutors say Garcia blamed Hunter and Brumback for his 2001 firing from Creighton’s pathology residency program.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — Sarpy County officials are planning to switch control of the jail from the sheriff’s office to a civilian corrections staff and director.

Past talks about the transition have been revived now that county officials are weighing costly jail expansion options. Deputies currently manage the 148-bed Papillion facility.

The jail has frequently exceeded capacity since the 1990s. The county has paid other jails to house its inmates, but has struggled recently to find space nearby.

Options include doing nothing, expanding the current jail or building a new one.

County Deputy Administrator Scott Bovick says all options require increased staffing, so the transition should begin now.

County Board member Brian Zuger says the staff change would save the county money without negatively impacting public safety.

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — A Fremont man has been given six years in prison for beating up and choking his girlfriend.

Jacob Booze was sentenced Monday in Dodge County District Court. Booze had pleaded no contest to felony strangulation and false imprisonment. Authorities say he choked and suffocated the woman early in the morning of Nov. 1, after she returned home from a night out with a friend. Authorities say he stomped on her face, menaced her with a shower curtain bar and threatened to kill her.

She was treated later at a hospital for facial fractures.

WALTHILL, Neb. (AP) — A police sergeant has been killed in a northeast Nebraska highway crash.

The Nebraska State Patrol says Sgt. Curtis Blackbird was responding to a call Sunday morning in Walthill when he ran into a construction crane. The patrol says the crane was obscured by thick fog in a work zone on Nebraska Highway 94.

The 59-year-old Blackbird was an officer for the Omaha Tribe Law Enforcement.

Walthill sits about 67 miles (108 kilometers) north-northwest of Omaha.

HICKMAN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have released the names of the drivers involved in a fatal collision in southeast Nebraska.

The accident occurred around 7 a.m. Monday on U.S. Highway 77, at a rural road intersection about six miles (9.65 kilometers) south of Lincoln. Lancaster County Sheriff’s Capt. Ben Houchin says a westbound car that didn’t halt at the intersection was struck by a northbound car, which then struck a south-facing pickup truck waiting to turn east onto the rural road.

Houchin says the westbound car driver died at the scene. She’s been identified as 87-year-old Laverda Baehr, who lived in Hastings. The other car’s driver was hospitalized in Lincoln. He’s been identified as 26-year-old James Rivers III, of Beatrice.

The pickup driver wasn’t injured. He’s been identified as 64-year-old Jim Jinings, of Macedonia, Iowa.