BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — One of six people wrongly convicted of murder and awarded more than $28 million has asked authorities to garnish the wages and seize property of two law enforcement officials who helped convict him.

James Dean, one of the so-called Beatrice Six, filed a request late last week asking that the wages of Gage County Reserve Deputy Wayne Price and former Deputy Berdette Searcey be garnished. Dean also asked the U.S. Marshals Service to seize property from them.

A federal jury in July awarded $28.1 million to Dean and five others wrongly convicted of and imprisoned for the 1985 killing of Helen Wilson, of Beatrice.

Dean’s share of the award is $2.7 million.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Lincoln Public Schools superintendent has apologized after administrators asked some students not to fly American flags on their vehicles from holders they made in class due to worries about the potential for disagreements.

Several welding students at Career Academy had flown the flags for Veterans Day with the permission of Career Academy officials. The request was prompted by an incident Friday at Southeast Community College when someone removed one of the flags from a holder and placed it in the bed of an adjacent pickup.

The person who removed the flag hasn’t been identified.

Superintendent Steve Joel said Thursday officials respect the rights of students to display their flags and that the decision to ask students not to fly them was an error.

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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Yutan man sentenced to life in prison in the 1999 slaying his wife, a popular high school volleyball coach, has been denied parole.

Mark Schnabel was convicted of beating 40-year-old Sandy Schnabel, placing her under the wheel of the family minivan and setting the vehicle on fire. Authorities say Schnabel tried to stage her death as an accident.

Schnabel pleaded no contest to second-degree murder. He was denied parole Thursday.

Judge Mary Gilbride had intended to sentence Schnabel to life in prison without parole, but failed to include a minimum sentence in her order. Gilbride tried to amend her sentenced but the Nebraska Supreme Court rejected the attempt in 2000, making Schnabel eligible for parole after 10 years in prison.

The Nebraska Board of Parole didn’t grant Schnabel a hearing until this year.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A three-judge panel has found enough aggravating factors for the death penalty to apply to a man convicted of killing four people in 2013.

Now, the panel will weigh mitigating factors — such as the mental fitness of the defendant — presented by the public defender to determine whether Nikko Jenkins will be sentenced to death. That decision will be determined at a later date.

The aggravating factors found by the panel Wednesday include that Jenkins killed multiple people and has a history of violence.

Jenkins pleaded no contest to the August 2013 shooting deaths in and around Omaha of Juan Uribe-Pena, Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz, Curtis Bradford and Andrea Kruger. The shotgun deaths in three separate attacks occurred over a 10-day period just weeks after Jenkins’ release from prison.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 36-year-old man who is charged with driving drunk when his 8-year-old daughter was critically hurt last month is fighting an effort to remove her from life support.

Another hearing will be held in December because Benjamin Thompson objected to the plan to remove Kazlynn Thompson from life support.

Kazlynn Thomson was one of three children injured in the Oct. 24 wreck, and her head injuries were the most severe.

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services had asked the court to approve ending Kazlynn’s life support. The other children, ages 6 and 1, have been in state custody since the crash.

Thompson remains jailed in lieu of $1 million bond. He is charged with fifth-offense drunken driving and three counts of child abuse.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska football team has signed an 8-year-old boy with a genetic disorder to grant his A Make-A-Wish foundation request to be a Cornhusker for a day.

Jack Johnson, a second-grader, signed a letter of intent Tuesday and became an honorary member of the team during a school assembly at Norfolk Catholic High School.

Jack was born with Menkes disease, which affects distribution of copper in the body and the development of bones and muscles.

He’ll get to be an honorary member of the team Saturday and get to take the field with players before watching the home game against Maryland from a skybox.

He will also get to tour the stadium, eat lunch with members of the team and participate in warm-up drills.

DENVER (AP) — Denver has approved a first-in-the-nation law allowing people to use marijuana in bars and restaurants.

Denver voters weighed in on Proposition 300 as eight other states legalized marijuana for medical or recreational purposes last week.

The city measure allows bars and restaurants to apply to allow marijuana use. Patrons could use pot inside as long as it isn’t smoked, with the possibility of outside smoking areas.

Colorado law does not currently allow nor ban public marijuana use. The result is a hodgepodge of local ordinances related to marijuana clubs. Denver is the first city to allow bars and restaurants to permit marijuana use, though patrons must bring their own weed.

Supporters claimed victory Tuesday and opponents conceded, even as an election official said some ballots were uncounted.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 34-year-old man has been sentenced to up to 20 years in prison for causing a crash that killed a motorcyclist and seriously injured another.

Joseph Madej was sentenced Tuesday to 19 to 20 years for motor vehicle homicide and three years for driving under the influence and causing injury. The sentences are to be at the same time.

Police say Madej ran a stop sign in April, killing 48-year-old Daniel McDonald and seriously injured his wife, Patricia, who was a passenger on the motorcycle McDonald was driving.

Prosecutors say Madej was under the influence of a number of drugs at the time.

BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — Police say a young girl found unconscious in a bathtub over the weekend has died, so additional charges may be filed against the 24-year-old Bellevue man who was caring for the toddler.

Bellevue Police say Armond Floyd was watching the girl, who would have turned 2 on Friday, and an infant while their mother worked.

Investigators believe the child’s injuries were not accidental. Police have not detailed the injuries.

At the time of his arrest, Floyd already faced charges of child abuse and other counts for an Oct. 12 incident involving the child’s mother.

He was being held at the Sarpy County Jail on Wednesday. Public Defender Thomas Strigenz, who represents Floyd in the October charges, said Floyd is now scheduled to appear in court on the new charges Thursday.

SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) — City officials continue working with a company to eliminate a horrible odor that forced some residents of a South Sioux City neighborhood to leave their homes.

On Monday, the City Council approved an agreement with a company to begin testing for hydrogen sulfide in the homes affected by the odor.

The odor originates from the nearby Big Ox Energy plant and has spread through sewer lines beneath area homes.

A company official says about 60 homes have signed up for the testing, which will begin Thursday.

A long-term solution for the odor includes installing a separate industrial waste line, which would isolate the residential areas from industrial wastewater.

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