COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Police say a Council Bluffs mother has been charged after leaving her 12-year-old son on a roadside when he threw a tantrum.

The 33-year-old woman is set to be arraigned Feb. 20 on child endangerment and abandonment charges.

An officer found the boy walking along an Interstate 80 ramp at 6:30 a.m. in the morning last fall. The boy said his mother left him after he got out of the car over an argument about which shoes to wear to his school in Omaha, Nebraska.

Police say the boy had no phone, money for food or a key to the hotel room.

Police say the mother initially verified the boy’s account, asking officers, “What am I supposed to do? Be late for work?”

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Police say officers found two stolen ATMs at a Grand Island home where nine people — including an officer and six firefighters — were exposed to carbon monoxide.

Police say the two belonged to Five Points Bank and had been taken from break rooms at the local JBS Swift plant. Authorities say one of the home’s residents, who died later at a hospital, worked at the plant. He was identified as 38-year-old Joshua Swaim.

Another person at the home Tuesday afternoon and the seven first responders were treated for carbon monoxide poisoning.

Firefighters say they spotted the ATMs as they responded to the medical call and then told officers about what they’d found.

Authorities blamed the carbon monoxide buildup on unvented space heaters.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Prosecutors say an Omaha real estate agent accused of angrily running down a store clerk with his truck confided his involvement in the killing to others.

A judge denied bond for 45-year-old Dirk Blume on Friday and set his preliminary hearing for Feb. 10 on charges of second-degree murder and use of a deadly weapon.

At the hearing, assistant Douglas County Attorney Ryan Lindberg told a judge that witnesses came forward to report that Blume “made admissions” to hitting Hansen with his pickup on Jan. 7. The incident resulted in Omaha’s first homicide of 2017.

Prosecutors say surveillance video that captured the fatal hit-and-run also showed Blume and Hansen arguing before the Hansen is run down in the parking lot of the store where he worked.

AURORA, Neb. (AP) — An Aurora has been sentenced to up to 100 years in prison for trying twice to hire someone to kill his wife.

Robert Honken was sentenced Friday to 45 to 50 years in prison on each of two counts of conspiracy to commit murder.

Authorities say Honken paid Derrick Shirley to kill Honken’s wife. They say Shirley did surveillance around the woman’s Hamilton County home, but never tried to kill her. Authorities say Honken also tried to hire another person, but that man turned out to be an undercover officer.

Shirley was sentenced in December to 16 to 20 years in prison for his role.

EDGEMONT, S.D. (AP) — BNSF Railway has released the names of two employees who were struck and killed by a train in South Dakota.

The railroad on Thursday identified the victims as 35-year-old gang foreman Richard Lessert and 58-year-old motor vehicle operator Douglas Schmitz. Lessert had 10 years of service with BNSF while Schmitz was employed by the railroad for 39 years.

BNSF says the two were headquartered at Edgemont, near where the accident happened Tuesday morning.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating.

Edgemont is about 60 miles southwest of Rapid City.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha mother and her 9-year-old daughter have been seriously hurt after being run over by the family’s minivan.

Police say the mother had started the van and put her daughter in the front passenger seat. The mom then went to get her other two children when the 9-year-old apparently put the van in reverse and it began to roll.

When the mother tried to pull the 9-year-old from the moving vehicle, they were both pulled under the van, which ran other them.

Both were hospitalized with serious injuries but are expected to recover.

SPRINGFIELD, Neb. (AP) — Authorities in Sarpy County are investigating the death of a man who may have been involved in an exchange of gunfire with a family member.

Deputies found his body in the front yard of a farmhouse near Springfield after the shooting was reported around 4 p.m. Wednesday. None of the three other people at the house were injured. Deputies have not released any of their names but say all four were related.

Two guns have been recovered. Capt. Monty Daganaar of the Sarpy County Sheriff’s Office says investigators aren’t sure whether someone shot the man in self-defense or he died defending himself. No arrests have been reported.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — The parents of a 4-month-old child are accused of injuring the little boy in Council Bluffs.

Police say 30-year-old Jacqueline Short and 28-year-old Jack Williams are charged with child endangerment resulting in serious injury. Williams’ attorney didn’t immediately return a call Thursday from The Associated Press. Online court records don’t list an attorney for Short.

Suspicions about the child’s injuries were raised after he was taken from a Council Bluffs motel to Jennie Edmundson Hospital on Jan. 12. Medical staffers told police his injuries were consistent with those seen in physical abuse cases.

The child’s been transferred to a hospital in Omaha, Nebraska.