MACY, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha Tribe’s effort to preserve its native language is getting a boost from a $100,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

The tribe, which is centered in Macy, Nebraska, just south of Sioux City, Iowa, has more than 7,000 members.

The tribal council estimates fewer than 150 know parts of the language, but elders and teachers say only 12 remain fluent.

The tribe hopes to revive its language by teaching it in schools.

The grant will help create an introductory textbook on the language and an audio CD that will be distributed to all schools on the reservation.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Several Nebraska churches have strengthened security around weekend worship services, and some have even added armed guards, because of worries about church shootings that have happened elsewhere.

Church leaders say they are taking precautions and aren’t responding to any specific threats. Shootings in recent years give church leaders reason to be wary.

Jim Nichols is security director at King of Kings church in west Omaha. He says any church’s worst fear is a mass shooting.

At King of Kings, security team members wear uniforms and an armed guard stands near the back of the worship hall in west Omaha. Another volunteer monitors security cameras.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha attorney has been disbarred for mishandling a client’s money.

The Nebraska Supreme Court issued the disbarment Friday for Omaha attorney Doug Lederer. In its order, the state’s high court said that Lederer voluntarily surrendered his license in early October.

Lederer has been practicing law in Nebraska since 2005. He acknowledged that he deposited clients’ advance fees into his personal checking account before earning them.

Lederer declined to comment when reached by The Associated Press.

WAHOO, Neb. (AP) — Officials say Wahoo State Bank — a cornerstone building of downtown Wahoo — has been gutted by fire.

Firefighters from Wahoo and surrounding communities responded Friday morning after a fire was discovered on the bank’s roof.

A rubber membrane on the roof kept water from reaching the fire, and strong winds whipped the flames.

Bank executive vice president Cindy Hohl says about 16 employees scrambled to secure deposits and documents in bank vaults, then safely fled the two-story building.

The cause of the fire has not been determined, but Hohl says patching work had been done on the roof the day before.

Hohl and her brother, bank CEO and President Greg Hohl, are the fourth generation to run Wahoo State Bank.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha landlord and his secretary have been indicted for allegedly bribing two employees of Omaha’s public housing agency.

Lafi Jafari and MaryLou Gruttemeyer were indicted in U.S. District Court on Tuesday on conspiracy to commit bribery and six counts of paying a bribe to an Omaha Housing Authority agent. Jafari was also indicted on one count of making false statements to special agents.

Online records do not list attorneys for Jafari or Gruttemeyer.

Prosecutors say Jafari and Gruttemeyer bribed or offered to bribe OHA employees to steer prospective tenants their way and to not refer complaints to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Inspector General.

The housing authority employees weren’t named in the indictment, which says there was a total of $2,100 in payments made.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha teenager has been arrested on suspicion causing a fatal crash while drunk earlier this month.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Department says 18-year-old Emily Standley was arrested Thursday on suspicion of felony motor vehicle homicide and DUI causing serious bodily injury.

Investigators say Standley was driving Nov. 4 when she ran a red light just north of Omaha and was hit by a pickup.

The crash killed 18-year-old man Jason Hald, who was a passenger in the backseat of Standley’s car. Standley and another passenger, 19-year-old Myles McIntyre, were injured.

Investigators say Standley’s blood alcohol content was .113 — more than the legal driving limit.

Standley remained jailed Friday and could not be reached for comment. It was unclear whether she had an attorney.

BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska State Patrol has ticketed a newly elected Bellevue city councilman for an electrical license violation.

The investigation stems from a complaint filed by DC Electric of Bellevue against councilman Pat Shannon. Shannon was elected to the council in this month’s election.

Dave Compton, the company’s owner, says Shannon hired his firm to install electric panels in a newly renovated building. Compton says that once the work was done more permits were issued to DC Electric without his knowledge. Compton says he didn’t want his company liable for workers he did not hire.

Shannon says he paid the company about $50,000 for services. He says he met with the patrol and was told it was “no big deal.”

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities are searching for a missing week-old baby after her mother was found fatally shot in Wichita, Kansas.

A relative found the woman dead Thursday in her apartment. Sgt. Nikki Woodrow says the woman’s daughter, Sofia Victoria Gonzalez Abarca, is “considered missing and endangered.”

Police want to talk to anyone with a relationship to the victim. Police sent out an alert Thursday night saying the driver of a purple Cadillac who was a person of interest in the case has been found and questioned. He is not considered to be a suspect.

Woodrow says the child’s father also isn’t considered a suspect.

Police didn’t immediately return phone or email messages from The Associated Press.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A teen has been convicted for his role in the 2015 killing of one man and the wounding of another in Omaha’s Miller Park.

A Douglas County jury found 19-year-old Jamar Milton guilty Thursday of second-degree murder, assault and a weapons count. Prosecutors say Milton and two other boys fatally shot 31-year-old Jamymell Ray and wounded Charles Fisher on June 29, 2015.

Milton was 17 at the time of the shootings, but he was prosecuted as an adult. Another teen, 16-year-old Shuntayvious Primes-Willis, was sentenced in July to 30-50 years in prison for his role. The other youth involved, now 13, is being treated at Boys Town in Omaha.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police are looking into the possibility that three sex assaults around midtown Omaha could have been carried out by the same man.

Police say the first attack happened April 3, when a 26-year-old woman was grabbed from behind and groped under her clothes as she entered her apartment building at 37th and Jackson streets. The second took place two days later when a 20-year-old woman was grabbed and groped outside her Creighton University dorm.

The third attack also happened on the Creighton campus, when a 19-year-old woman reported being grabbed Nov. 5 outside her dorm.

Police are asking anyone with information to call CrimeStoppers.