LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 34-year-old man accused of raping two Lincoln women has been given 36 to 40 years in prison.

Online court records say Jaime Villasenor (HEYE’-may vee-uh-sehn-YOR’) was sentenced Tuesday in Lancaster County District Court. He’d pleaded no contest to two counts of attempted forcible sexual assault. Prosecutors had lowered the original charge in exchange for his pleas.

Court documents say he raped one of the women in November 2006 and raped the other in January 2007. Both women told investigators their attacker held a knife to their throats and threatened to cut them if they struggled.

Authorities say Villasenor returned to Lincoln after serving federal prison time for being in the country illegally. Authorities say a DNA sample taken from him matched DNA evidence found in the Lincoln cases.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man accused of defrauding his mother and others out of more than $911,000 has been sent to prison and ordered to pay back the money.

Prosecutors say 61-year-old James Kappler Jr., of Topeka, Kansas, was sentenced Tuesday to 63 months for wire fraud.

Prosecutors say Kappler had told his mother that he had contracted the staph infection MRSA, which is resistant to many antibiotics. He falsely told her he was involved in a drug study that would pay him $5 million eventually, but he needed help paying for medical care in the meantime.

Prosecutors say that when her money ran out, she sought more from her sister and friends. Prosecutor Jan Sharp said Wednesday Nebraska gained jurisdiction over the case because some of the people who helped wired money from Nebraska.

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — Trials have been set for a Hastings woman and man accused of child abuse.

Online court records show 23-year-old Brittany Hatch pleaded not guilty Monday. Her trial is scheduled to begin May 15. The records also show 32-year-old John Brown pleaded not guilty to two counts of child abuse and one of being a habitual criminal. His trial is scheduled to begin April 24.

Police say they found the baby unresponsive after a call in November. A doctor later found that the baby had methamphetamine in her system. The doctor also found bruises, cuts to the baby’s mouth and burns on her feet.

Authorities say Brown is Hatch’s fiance but not the baby’s biological father.

GREELEY, Neb. (AP) — A South Dakota man has pleaded guilty to burglarizing the home of the late Sam Foltz’s brother when he was in Lincoln honoring the Nebraska football player.

Online court records say 38-year-old Scott Davis, of Lennox, South Dakota, pleaded guilty to burglary and theft after prosecutors dropped two other charges. He also pleaded guilty to theft from a construction site on the same day. Sentencing is scheduled for April.

Authorities say Davis broke into the home of Jordan Foltz on Sept. 3 as the Foltz family attended a memorial for Sam Foltz at the Huskers’ home opener.

Davis was arrested in York County on Sept. 4 on suspicion of driving drunk, and officers say they found items in his car believed to have been stolen from Jordan Foltz.

PLEASANT DALE, Neb. (AP) — A 41-year-old driver has been killed in a rollover crash in rural Seward County.

The accident was reported a little after 8:45 a.m. Sunday, about 3½ miles south of Pleasant Dale. The Seward County Sheriff’s Office says the westbound car didn’t halt at a stop sign and then ran into a roadside ditch before rolling several times into a field.

The office says Soe Doh Moo, of Crete, was pronounced dead at the scene. He was traveling alone.

MADISON, Neb. (AP) — A 28-year-old Norfolk man has been sent to prison for beating up his grandfather.

Brandon Schoen was given six to nine years at his sentencing Monday in Madison. He’d pleaded guilty to the Sept. 27 assault.

Court records say the victim was 79 at the time. He told officers that his grandson began to “freak out” after an altercation with another family member. The grandfather says Schoen threw the grandfather’s walker into a television before knocking him down and punching him repeatedly in the face.

Prosecutors say the older man had to undergo reconstructive facial surgery afterward.

VALLEY, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a woman killed after her sport utility vehicle collided with a semitrailer hauling cattle near Valley in Douglas County.

The crash was reported around 6:30 p.m. Sunday on U.S. Highway 275. Authorities say the SUV was headed toward Fremont when it crossed the median and collided with the truck.

The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. The Sheriff’s Office identified her as 19-year-old Tyler Cherrington, who lived in Ralston. The truck driver wasn’t injured. He’s been identified as 59-year-old Kreg Mitteis, of Orchard.

Authorities say none of the cattle was killed. They were loaded into another truck to continue their journey.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Southeast Community College is finding out that location matters to students, their communities and their employers.

SCC currently operates campuses in Lincoln, Beatrice and Milford, with some educational offerings across the rest of its 15-county service area.

Amy Chesley, SCC’s dean of continuing education, says an initiative to place learning centers in six more communities is seeing progress.

Three of the new centers have opened, in York, Nebraska City and Plattsmouth. Sites in Hebron, Falls City and Wahoo are pending.

Chesley says the centers will offer classroom spaces with connectivity back to one of SCC’s main campuses and include a mobile computer lab. The centers will also offer classes, including general education for adult learners, English as a second language, and non-credit workforce development courses.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say deputies have seized around 55 pounds of cocaine found in a truck along Interstate 80 after it was pulled over on the west side of Lincoln.

The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office says deputies stopped the truck around 5:30 p.m. Sunday for several traffic violations. The Sheriff’s Office says the driver consented to the deployment of a drug-detecting dog, and it soon alerted deputies to the presence of drugs.

Chief Deputy Todd Duncan says the cocaine has an estimated street value of $750,000.

The driver was arrested on suspicion of possession of cocaine for sale. Online court records don’t show that he’s been formally charged. The 56-year-old is from San Gabriel, California.