OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A woman has been given two years of probation for helping an inmate flee to Omaha after he escaped a Lincoln prison.

Court records say 51-year-old Wanda Minor was sentenced Monday in Omaha. She’d pleaded no contest to being an accessory to the escape.

Inmates Timothy Clausen and Armon Dixon escaped the Lincoln Correctional Center on June 10 by hiding in a laundry truck. Authorities have said the two ripped a hole in the truck’s roof, climbed out and jumped off for a brief span of freedom. Dixon was caught the next day. Clausen was captured at an Omaha apartment on June 15.

Authorities have said Minor drove Clausen to Omaha.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha school board has voted in a new president and vice president, breaking a deadlock that had led to 125 board votes on the presidency at its last meeting.

The board voted just once Monday, selecting Lacey Merica to replace Lou Ann Goding, who was seeking another term. Marque Snow, who’d also sought the board presidency, was voted in as vice president.

Goding says it was time for someone else to lead.

Merica says she and Snow will be partners in building bridges to district staffers, parents and other school board members.

The board president sets meeting agendas, leads meetings and works with the superintendent’s executive council on district issues.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — Two men tried to escape from a treatment center for sex offenders in northeast Nebraska over the weekend, but neither left the facility’s grounds.

The Nebraska State Patrol says the two men jumped out of separate windows at the Norfolk Regional Center early Saturday. The attempted escape was reported around 2 a.m.

Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Julie Naughton says one of the men was injured in a fall from a third-story window. That man was remained hospitalized Monday in Omaha with non-life-threatening injuries.

The second man remains at the Norfolk Regional Center hospital.

Naughton declined to identify the men who tried to escape because of health privacy laws.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha school board members are scheduled to take another whack or two or maybe more Monday night at deciding who will become the board president.

Two weeks ago the board voted 125 times but couldn’t provide the winning five votes from the eight members present for either Lou Ann Goding or Marque Snow, who both want the post. The voting was finally tabled after the meeting into the wee hours of Jan. 10.

The board president sets meeting agendas, leads meetings and works with the superintendent’s executive council on district issues.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Under a proposed city ordinance to create entertainment districts in Omaha, residents would be able to drink alcohol outdoors in some parts of town.

The City Council will vote Tuesday to create entertainment districts, where many eateries open into a common area for dining and drinking. Assistant City Attorney William Acosta-Trejo says that the project will be similar to Lincoln’s Railyard.

Representatives of Aksarben Village and the Capitol District say their areas will apply to become entertainment districts if the proposed ordinance passes.

Project Extra Mile policy and research coordinator Chris Wagner says entertainment districts could lead to underage drinking and binge drinking. Nebraska Liquor Control Commission chairman Bob Batt says the possibility of binge drinking is not concerning because the districts won’t promote it.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a 25-year-old woman killed in a Lancaster County crash.

The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office identified the woman as Melissa Vifquain, who lived in Lincoln.

The crash was reported around 7:30 a.m. Saturday, just east of Denton. Sheriff’s Office says Vifquain was alone in her car when it went out of control, ran down an embankment and rammed a tree. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Sheriff’s Office says crash investigators suspect Vifquain had been drinking alcohol.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — New Warren Buffett documentary will be shown in billionaire investor’s hometown of Omaha.

The Omaha premiere comes one week ahead of when the film will debut on HBO. Buffett and his family is expected to attend the Omaha event at the Holland Performing Arts Center Monday night. A similar event was held in New York last week.

The “Becoming Warren Buffett” documentary uses Buffett’s own words and interviews with friends and family members to explore what allowed him to become so successful at picking stocks and companies to buy.

The documentary discusses Buffett’s fascination with math and some of the experiences that helped shape his approach to investing.

Buffett also discusses his decision to give his fortune away to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and four Buffett family foundations.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Authorities are trying to determine what caused a minivan to veer off Interstate-80 in central Nebraska this weekend and kill two people.

A mother was travelling with two teenagers when the crash happened near the Wood River exit on Saturday afternoon. The 47-year-old woman and a teen girl died.

The Hall County Sheriff’s department says a 17-year-old boy was taken to a Grand Island hospital for treatment after the wreck.

The sheriff’s department says the 2005 Dodge Caravan swerved off the road and rolled several times in a ditch on the north side of the interstate.

Authorities didn’t immediately identify the people involved in the crash.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A former BNSF Railway employee has won more than $1 million in a wrongful termination lawsuit.

Daniel Monohon, of Ottumwa, Iowa, was fired from a Lincoln branch of Fort Worth, Texas-based BNSF in 2014 for what the railroad said was insubordination.

Monohon says he was fired after he questioned BNSF’s policy of requiring employees to wear seatbelts while driving a vehicle that can operate both on rail tracks and a conventional road. Monohon’s attorneys, Corey Stull and Jeanette Stull of Lincoln, argued that his firing was a violation of the whistleblower provisions of the Federal Railroad Safety Act.

A federal jury in Iowa agreed and awarded Monohon $1,031,000 in lost pay and other damages.

BNSF says it will ask the court to set aside the verdict and will appeal.

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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lancaster County Sheriff’s officials are investigating a fatal single car crash near Lincoln.

The sheriff’s office says an emergency call was made around 7:30 a.m. Saturday for a crash on West Denton Road. Investigators say a car went out of control, into the north ditch, down an embankment and hit a tree, killing the driver. No one else was in the car at the time of the crash.

Authorities are not yet releasing the victim’s name, pending notification of family members.

The investigation into the crash in ongoing.