LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The role women play as leaders in their communities will be examined next month in a conference at the University of Nebraska’s College of Law.

The conference will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on March 3.

The Law College’s assistant dean Molly Brummond says the conference will offer a chance to learn from women who have had remarkable success.

Students can attend free. The price for others is $50.

More details about the event are available online at https://law.unl.edu/womenlead2017 .

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Afghan family became among the last refugees to land in Omaha before President Donald Trump’s executive order freezing all refugee resettlements took full effect.

Rahimullah Rahimi, his wife and three young children arrived at Eppley Airfield on Wednesday after flying from halfway around the globe.

Lacey Studnicka, who helps coordinate refugee resettlement for Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska, says the group had a lot of families scheduled to come in February, but that it received cancellation notices.

The president’s order suspends all refugee resettlements for 120 days and bars for 90 days any travel into the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries. It also indefinitely barred Syrian refugees and cut the number of refugees that will be accepted this year from 110,000 to 50,000.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana and federal officials have reached a deal that allows the mass slaughter of wild bison migrating from Yellowstone National Park, while sparing 25 animals that American Indians want.

The Associated Press obtained details of the agreement Thursday.

The spared animals will be kept at a government research facility to monitor for disease and later relocated to Montana’s Fort Peck Reservation.

A dispute over their fate had stalled the park’s plans to kill up to 1,300 bison this winter to curb the species’ migration into Montana.

Park administrators last year proposed relocating a small group of bison to the reservation as an alternative to slaughter.

When Montana livestock officials objected over disease concerns, park officials said they would kill the animals. Gov. Steve Bullock temporarily halted all slaughters on Jan. 19, lifting that order Thursday.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 23-year-old Lincoln man has been sentenced to four to eight years for causing a motorcycle crash that killed his girlfriend in 2014.

Tyler Wilson was sentenced Thursday in Lancaster County District Court. Wilson pleaded no contest in December to manslaughter in the case.

Wilson was driving his motorcycle with his 21-year-old girlfriend, Jessie McCain, on the back of the bike in July 2014. Prosecutors say he was traveling at more than 80 mph on a street where the speed limit was 40 mph when he hit a Jeep, killing McCain.

Wilson had faced up to 20 years in prison.

WAHOO, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a boy died after he was struck by a pickup truck while walking near his school in Wahoo.

Saunders County Sheriff Kevin Stukenholtz says the boy was struck about 3:45 p.m. Wednesday at a street corner near Wahoo Elementary as he was walking home from school. He was pronounced dead later at Saunders Medical Center in Wahoo.

Authorities identified the boy as 11-year-old Mason Triplett. The pickup driver’s name hasn’t been released.

The accident is being investigated.

SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) — Officials say Big Ox Energy will stop paying motel bills next week for South Sioux City residents displaced by sewer odor.

The renewable energy company’s spokesman, Evan Zeppos, on Wednesday said Big Ox is working with the residents on individual remediation plans. The company has been covering the bills since late October.

As many as two dozen residents were originally displaced. As of last week a dozen remained at motels or at the homes of friends and family.

The source of the hydrogen sulfide that caused the smell in the homes is still being investigated. Last week Big Ox Energy released a report that pointed at plumbing issues in the majority of the homes instead of discharges from the Big Ox plant.

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha police chief says the shooting of a man who’d shot an officer was justified.

Chief Todd Schmaderer (SHMAH’-dur) said in a news release Tuesday that the shooting by Officers Jill Schillerberg, who was wounded in her lower left leg, and Matthew Skradski was in direct response to the actions of 20-year-old Monroe Evans III.

Evans was hospitalized after Monday afternoon’s incident several blocks west of downtown Omaha.

The officers told members of an internal investigation that Evans matched the description of a man reported to have been looking in windows. They say he refused orders to take his hands out of his sweatshirt pockets and eventually pulled out a handgun and fired once, hitting Schillerberg. She fired back once and Skradski fired 11 times.

O’NEILL, Neb. (AP) — A 38-year-old O’Neill man has been given 75 years to life in prison for killing his wife.

Court records say Eduardo Barajas Quintero was sentenced Monday. He’d pleaded no contest to a charge of second-degree murder.

Prosecutors say he fatally stabbed 37-year-old Guadalupe Verdin Quintero on Feb. 20. A Nebraska State Patrol investigator said in an arrest warrant affidavit that Eduardo Quintero told him that he stabbed his wife because he suspected she was having an affair with another man. Quintero said he used a different knife to cut his own wrists.

Investigators counted 34 stab wounds on the body of Guadalupe Quintero.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man has been imprisoned for sexually assaulting a teenage girl he met when he was a Cub Scouts den father.

40-year-old Matthew Towle was sentenced Tuesday to 13 to 25 years in prison. Towle had pleaded no contest to charges of sexual assault and pornography possession. He was credited with 340 days already served.

Lincoln police say Towle met the 15-year-old girl at a Cub Scouts summer camp in 2015. The two later exchanged sexual texts and Facebook messages. Under Nebraska law, people 19 and over cannot have sexual contact with people under 16.