PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — Sentencing for a former Bellevue city administrator has been postponed to give him time to continue anger management counseling for another month.

Judge Robert Wester on Thursday postponed Dan Berlowitz’s sentencing until Dec. 9. He said he’d likely give Berlowitz a fine at that time.

Berlowitz pleaded no contest earlier this year to disturbing the peace, a misdemeanor, after an altercation at a dentist’s office in June. He was placed on administrative leave by the city of Bellevue and then fired.

A police report says Berlowitz poked the Bellevue dentist in the chest and pushed the dentist. Berlowitz’s attorney, James Schaefer, has said Berlowitz felt threatened and that Berlowitz denied assaulting the dentist.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — Norfolk officials have acknowledged that the U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into a zoning dispute with a Norfolk church.

An Oct. 24 letter sent to Norfolk Mayor Sue Fuchtman by the federal agency says it has initiated an investigation into how the city’s zoning laws treats religious land uses. The agency says it also will review the city’s rejection of a building permit for renovations to a former beer distributing building now owned by Our Savior Lutheran Church in Norfolk.

City attorney Clint Schukei says a request to rezone the property was rejected because it came from a leasing company. He says city law requires rezoning application to come from a property’s owner.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A January sentencing has been scheduled for an Omaha woman accused of helping an escaped inmate who fled to Omaha.

Court records say 51-year-old Wanda Minor pleaded no contest last week in Douglas County District Court to a charge of being an accessory to the escape. Her sentencing is set for Jan. 23.

The judge has sealed an arrest affidavit that contains information about what she is alleged to have done.

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.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — Gage County supervisors have signed a contract with a Lincoln law firm that offers bankruptcy services.

Supervisors took the action Wednesday as they continue to struggle with a $28.1 million lawsuit judgment awarded six people who were wrongfully convicted for the 1985 murder of a Beatrice woman. County officials have said the county doesn’t have the financial resources to pay the judgment.

Gage County asked the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday to delay execution of the judgment, saying it far exceeds the $18.4 million the county spent on governmental operations last year.

The county’s private attorney said in her motion that bankruptcy “would cause serious harm to the taxpayers of Gage County, as well as the county’s other creditors.”

CRETE, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man who served in the Army in Vietnam is trying to honor other veterans by collecting their names on his 1946 Chevrolet Sedan Delivery as part of a rolling memorial.

Sam Aughe of Crete has gathered 1,300 names since just before Veterans Day 2015. Almost all of the names signed with a black marker are of people who served in the U.S. military, but the vehicle is adorned with the names of a few police officers, firefighters and members of the Mexican Army and Australian Air Force as well. Some people have signed for their loved ones who were killed in action, are still missing or have since died.

Aughe hasn’t placed his own name on the olive green vehicle with a white star on each door and a red, white and blue grill and fenders.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Students have staged a walkout at an Omaha high school, saying they’re protesting the election of Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States.

Hundreds gathered Friday morning on a sidewalk and onto the grounds of Central High, a school with a diverse student population that sits a few blocks west of downtown Omaha. No incidents of violence have been reported.

Several students carried signs. Among them: “Love Trumps Hate” and “We Are Stronger Together.”

Officials stationed along the curb kept students from spilling onto a busy street.

Administrators held an assembly Thursday to talk to students about the election and the students’ political and social concerns. Hillary Clinton had won a mock election at the school.

A downtown Omaha anti-Trump protest Wednesday ended with two arrests.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A Nebraska man has pleaded guilty to amended Iowa charges of indecent contact with a child and has been given a suspended six-year prison sentence and two years of probation.

50-year-old Michael Robinson, of Omaha, Nebraska, entered the plea Tuesday, the day before his trial was set to begin.

Robinson had originally been charged with several counts of third-degree sexual abuse stemming from several incidents spanning from 2007 to 2012.

Council Bluffs police say that at that time, Robinson was in a relationship with a relative of the victim. Another relative reported her suspicions of sexual abuse to Iowa Child Protective Services in March 2015.

Authorities say Robinson inappropriately touched the girl from the time she was about 10 until she was 15.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is ordering Nebraska Railcar Cleaning Services to do a better job handling the crude oil, ethanol and other wastes it generates in Omaha.

Regulators said Thursday that the company could face substantial fines of $14,023 per day if it doesn’t comply with the rules for handling waste.

The EPA says the company has been keeping crude oil and ethanol in open, unmarked containers that could lead to fires.

In April 2015, two Nebraska Railcar workers died after an explosion inside a railcar they were cleaning.

Company officials said Thursday that no one was available immediately to comment on the EPA statement.

TAMA, Iowa (AP) — Law enforcement officials say a 23-year-old central Iowa mother who vanished in 2000 is believed to be a homicide victim.

The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation announced Thursday that agents have concluded Cora Okonski’s “disappearance was not voluntary.”

The agency says it’s reclassifying the Tama woman’s disappearance as a homicide rather than a missing person, and that her apparent death is under investigation. No suspects were identified.

Tama is about 60 miles northeast of Des Moines.

Okonski’s ex-boyfriend, Tait (tayt) Purk, has long faced police scrutiny since he was with her the night she disappeared and the two had a volatile relationship. He’s set to be released from federal prison on unrelated drug and gun charges in April.

Purk has denied involvement, telling police Okonski never returned home after walking to the store to buy cigarettes.

WEST POINT, Neb. (AP) — Federal safety regulators have proposed nearly $527,000 in penalties against the operators of a northeast Nebraska grain facility where a worker was fatally injured.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said in a news release Thursday that it cited Prinz Grain & Feed in West Point for three willful, 15 serious and two lesser violations. In May the worker was buried by corn as he attempted to clear crusted corn from the insides of a grain bin.

Company co-owner Dave Prinz told The Associated Press that talks with OSHA officials have begun, but he declined to comment further.

OSHA says Prinz Grain has been placed in OSHA’s Severe Violator Enforcement Program, which focuses on employers that commit willful or repeat violations or fail to correct problems noted by inspectors.