OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A northeast Nebraska man who stole from a casino in Winnebago has been ordered to pay more than $12,000 in restitution.

Mark Hannan, of South Sioux City, also was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Omaha to five years of probation. In August he’d pleaded guilty to theft by an employee of a gaming establishment on Indian lands.

Court documents say that from Nov. 1, 2015, through Feb. 15 this year, Hannan stole the money while working at the Native Star Casino, which is owned and operated by the Winnebago Indian Tribe of Nebraska.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police have identified a man shot to death at a southeast Omaha apartment complex.

The shooting was reported around 4:40 a.m. Tuesday at the Southside Terrace apartments. Police say 23-year-old Lamond Strong was shot in a leg and in his back, and he was later pronounced dead at Nebraska Medical Center.

Police haven’t released any other details about the shooting. No arrests have been reported.

Investigators with the Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) have arrested a 40-year-old Aurora man for First Degree Sexual Assault.

On Thursday, October 20, NSP investigators responded to a victims’ report of a sexual assault. The female victim provided investigators with information about a male who identified himself as “Brandon” who she met on a social media site.

The victim indicated the two had been corresponding for a couple of weeks and that she had agreed to meet with “Brandon”. The victim was to drive to Aurora, where she would meet him at a park. He indicated he would be in a white car.

Upon her arrival at the designated location, the victim indicated she found a man waiting in a white car, but that she did not recognize him as “Brandon”. The man told her “Brandon”, was at a house in Aurora and he was to drive her there. The victim rode with him to the house. She then went inside the home with the man.

Once inside he informed her “Brandon” was not there. While in the home, the victim was sexually assaulted by the man. After the assault the man drove her back to her car.

The victim then returned to her home, where she reported the sexual assault.

Using information provided by the victim, investigators identified Ross Carstensen, 40, 190 Dongle Road as a suspect in the sexual assault.

On Tuesday, November 1, a search warrant was served at his residence, where computers, other electronic devices and additional evidence was seized.

Carstensen, who was home at the time, was taken into custody without incident and lodged in the Hamilton County Jail on a charge of First Degree Sexual Assault.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A long-shuttered meat processing and cold storage facility in the heart of the former Omaha Stockyards will see new life as a center for area small businesses, startups and community activities.

The first phase of the construction for the Las Americas Global Market project is expected to start in the spring. The entire project could take four or five years to complete.

Marta Sonia Londono Mejía, executive director of the Midlands Latino Community Development Corp., says the market will support businesses and startups in a neighborhood that has a high rate of poverty and unemployment.

More than 17,000 square feet of the building’s third floor will be renovated, including a 4,400-square-foot commercial kitchen for use by local restaurants, caterers, and other businesses. A 2,000 square-foot space will also be developed for a clothing manufacturer.

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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a man whose body was found inside a home by Lincoln firefighters.

Lincoln police identified the man as the home’s occupant, 57-year-old David Spinar.

Firetrucks were dispatched just after 1 a.m. Thursday to the home a few blocks south of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln East Campus. The fire cause is being investigated.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man who was run over after falling out of a vehicle has died.

Alan Jurgens died from injuries he sustained when he fell out of the vehicle on Thursday.

Beatrice Police say the Plymouth man was arguing with his wife in the car when he fell out of the vehicle and was run over by another vehicle.

Police Lieutenant Mike Oliver says the incident happened in south Beatrice.

Officers are investigating the incident, and an autopsy will be performed on Jurgens.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln Airport will begin charging a new $4.50 fee Tuesday on any ticket out of town.

Officials say it’s up to the airlines to decide whether they’ll raise ticket prices to cover the fees. The fees won’t be assessed on tickets already purchased for travel Tuesday or later.

The fee can be used to pay for federally approved local projects directly related to air travel and is charged by more than 80 percent of U.S. commercial airports. Nebraska airports in Grand Island, Kearney and Scottsbluff have the fee. Omaha’s Eppley Airfield does not.

Lincoln Airport officials expect the fee will bring in about $675,000 a year in new revenue.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have identified the 48-year-old man whose body was pulled from a southwest Omaha lake last Friday, but police say the death is not considered suspicious.

The man was identified as Brad Gladwell.

Gladwell’s body was found after someone saw it floating in Lake Zorinsky and called 911. He was found near the South 168th Street entrance.

Court records show that Gladwell had been arrested in September on suspicion of electronic enticement of a teenage girl. Lincoln Police said Gladwell tried to meet an underage girl to have sex.

A hearing in that enticement case was scheduled for Nov. 21.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A former flower shop owner who sexually assaulted and tortured a Texas man in the basement of his Wayne store has been granted parole.

The Nebraska Board of Parole granted 69-year-old Roger Van parole on Friday.

Van has been in prison since 2003 after being convicted of sexual assault, false imprisonment and other counts. He was sentenced to up to 30 years for sexually assaulting, torturing and holding a Texas man captive in the basement of his Wayne flower shop in 2001.

Board member Teresa Bittinger told Van she voted to release him mainly because she wanted officials to be able to monitor him. If he had reached his mandatory release date in 2018, he would be subject to no oversight.