SEWARD, Neb. (AP) — A Florida man has been given 90 days in jail and two years of probation for possessing 198 pounds of marijuana in Nebraska.

Jonathan Snyder, of Jacksonville, Florida, was sentenced Monday in Seward. Snyder had pleaded no contest.

Prosecutors say a Nebraska state trooper found the pot in Snyder’s truck after pulling him over in July for speeding and other traffic violations on Interstate 80 in eastern Nebraska.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A court hearing is scheduled Wednesday for a former Lincoln police officer accused of driving drunk and speeding through downtown Lincoln.

Court records say 30-year-old Brian Nicholson is charged with driving under the influence and speeding. A public phone listing for him couldn’t be found Tuesday. The court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for him.

He was stopped around 2:15 a.m. Jan. 29 by a state trooper who later said Nicholson was driving 67 mph in a 35 mph zone. A criminal complaint says Nicholson’s blood tested out more than twice the legal alcohol limit to drive. Police Chief Jeff Bliemeister says Nicholson wasn’t on duty at the time.

The chief says Nicholson quit his job Feb. 13.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha tax preparer has been imprisoned for falsifying documents for several clients.

Prosecutors say 42-year-old Lisa Holmes was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison, one year of supervised release when she leaves custody and was ordered to pay restitution of nearly $49,000. She’d pleaded guilty in December to tax fraud.

Prosecutors say Holmes inflated income figures for some business clients, which resulted in their receiving higher tax refunds than they should have.

BROWNVILLE, Neb. (AP) — Federal regulators will inspect Cooper nuclear power plant next week to determine why a key heat-removal system and its backup were both offline at the same time last month.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says it will conduct a special inspection at the plant owned by the Nebraska Public Power District to determine what led to the error.

Regulators say that on Feb. 5 workers discovered a problem with a system that would help remove heat from the plant during an accident. That system may have been offline for months.

During the time that system was disabled, workers did maintenance work on a back-up heat-removal system, and it was offline for about 72 hours.

Cooper sits along the Missouri River in southeast Nebraska near Brownville about 80 miles south of Omaha.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska officials have announced plans to cut 39 jobs at a Beatrice facility for people with developmental disabilities and transition residents out of a state program in Hastings.

The staff reduction announced Tuesday will affect workers at the Beatrice State Developmental Center who aren’t considered front-line staff, such as laundry and maintenance employees. Officials say the change came after a review found that some employees were performing duplicative tasks.

In an unrelated decision, state officials plan to move six residents out of homes run by the Bridges program in Hastings.

The change comes because the Bridges program violates federal rules designed to keep residents with developmental disabilities out of institution-like settings. Courtney Miller of the Department of Health and Human Services says plans will be made for each resident.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — Two people have been killed and two injured in the rollover crash of a vehicle in northeast Nebraska.

The crash occurred early Sunday morning on U.S. Highway 81, about two miles south of Norfolk. The Madison County Sheriff’s Office says the vehicle was speeding when it crashed, ejecting all four occupants. None was wearing a seat belt.

The two people pronounced dead at the scene were identified as 18-year-old Dasavor Rodrigues and 17-year-old Shawn Falk. Both of them lived in Norfolk. The two injured people were identified as 18-year-old Schauntel Niehoff and 18-year-old Dru McMahon. They were taken to hospitals for treatment of serious injuries.

BATTLE CREEK, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a Norfolk man died after he was pinned under a skid loader in an offshoot of the Elkhorn River.

Emergency workers were sent to the scene at Kelly’s Country Club west of Norfolk around 12:45 p.m. Friday. The Madison County Sheriff’s Department says 89-year-old Vince Kirby was working with the skid loader when it went into the water, pinning Kirby under it. He was rescued from beneath the machine and taken to a Norfolk hospital.

Madison County Attorney Joe Smith says Kirby died later at the hospital.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lancaster County is planning to implement two supervision programs for nonviolent offenders in order to ease the jail population.

County commissioners approved the programs Thursday. The county jail has been nearly filled up since June, prompting officials to find alternative programs so as to avoid spending more to house inmates in neighboring county jails.

The first program, starting this month, is aimed at young adults ages 18 to 25 who are arrested for drug distribution like marijuana or prescription pills. The offenders would be supervised in the existing drug court program.

The second program, still under development, will be aimed at people with multiple convictions for driving drunk. Enrolled offenders will take Breathalyzer tests twice daily, receive random drug tests and potentially wear monitors testing their sweat for alcohol.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police say a woman was hospitalized after she was struck by an officer’s patrol vehicle in a Lincoln crosswalk.

The woman was hit just after 9 p.m. Friday. An accident report says Officer Patrick Wingfield was headed north before turning left to head west on Normal Boulevard. The report says Wingfield reported that he saw the woman in the north-south crosswalk too late to swerve. He was on his way to a call but was not using his flashing lights or siren.

Police say low visibility and the woman’s black clothes may have been contributed to the accident.

No citations have been issued. A police spokeswoman says the accident will be reviewed by the department’s safety committee to determine whether Wingfield should be disciplined.