OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Several Douglas County law enforcement unions have endorsed a judge despite the controversy about bail he set for a man who was released and later charged with drunken driving in a crash that killed a woman.

The Omaha Police Officers Association and the unions representing Douglas County sheriff’s deputies and corrections officers have endorsed Douglas County Judge Jeffrey Marcuzzo, who will be on the Nov. 8 ballot.

Opponents want Marcuzzo off of the bench or punished because they say the $50,000 bail he set for Eswin Mejia (meh-HEE’-uh) was too low. Police say Mejia, who was in the country illegally, collided with another vehicle while street racing in January, killing 21-year-old Sarah Root.

Mejia posted the required 10 percent of his bail and has been missing ever since.

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police say a 21-year-old man has been injured after his car collided with a train.

The Omaha Police Department says the crash happened Thursday night near a southwest area of the city.

Authorities say the man trespassed onto property and his pickup truck was on the shoulder of the train tracks when the vehicle was hit.

The train, which is owned by Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, was able to slow down before impact with the truck.

The man, whose name was not released, has been accused of being combative when paramedics treated him at the scene. He has been sent to a hospital for his injuries and faces charges.

FALLS CITY, Neb. (AP) — A former sheriff’s deputy in Nebraska who accidentally shot himself in 2014 has been found not guilty of child abuse charges.

A jury on Oct. 21 found 28-year-old Joshua Nincehelser not guilty of three felony child abuse charges. He had been accused of sexually assaulting a girl younger than 12.

Nincehelser was a Richardson County Sheriff’s deputy in 2014 when he reported he was shot by a driver he had pulled over near Humboldt. Authorities determined he lied and Nincehelser later told investigators he’d accidentally shot himself and shot at his cruiser to make his story look real.

Nincehelser was sentenced in 2015 to three years of probation and 180 days of community service for felony criminal mischief and misdemeanor false reporting.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police say 8-month-old twin girls are safe following reports they were in a vehicle that was carjacked from a supermarket parking lot.

The Omaha Police Department says the girls’ mother reported the abduction Thursday after 8 p.m. outside a Baker’s in north Omaha. An Amber Alert was issued for the girls and they were later found in the car unharmed. The vehicle was abandoned.

The mother tells police she was putting groceries in the car’s trunk when a suspect jumped in the driver’s seat and drove away with the infants inside the vehicle.

Police say they’re looking for a person of interest recorded on the supermarket’s security video. No arrests have been made.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 54-year-old man has been convicted of murder and manslaughter in the shooting deaths of two people in Omaha.

A Douglas County District Court jury found Michael Nolt guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder in the Oct. 10, 2015, slaying of Malquan King and of manslaughter in the slaying of Arelius Hassell. He was convicted of several other charges but acquitted of attempted murder. Nolt is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 17.

Police say Nolt told his mother he’d killed some people in a botched robbery.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — School officials are trying to quell student behavior problems at an Omaha middle school, where enrollment has nearly doubled with the addition of sixth-graders this year.

Omaha Public Schools Superintendent Mark Evans and two school board members visited Nathan Hale Middle School on Tuesday in response to complaints from parents and staff about the behavior.

Snow says he has talked to teachers about students throwing things, running in the halls and interrupting class. School board member Justin Wayne says teachers are also overwhelmed.

School district spokeswoman Monique Farmer says the problem stems from a small number of students who disrupt the school day.

Omaha Education Association president Bridget Donovan says officials are struggling to keep teachers from leaving the school.

The school district says it’s adding more security guards and two student deans to the middle school’s staff.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Residents walking around Omaha might notice a few messages chalked on the sidewalks urging people to vote.

The League of Women Voters has been busy painting sidewalks across town.

Two chalk messages — “Go Vote, Omaha!” and “Be a Voter!” — were stenciled at high traffic areas across the city. Organizers say the messages are intended to remind people of how important their votes on Nov. 8 are.

Metropolitan Community College art students designed the stencils used in the project.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say firefighters sent to quell flames at a Lincoln house found a body inside.

Firetrucks were dispatched just after 1 a.m. Thursday to the home a few blocks south of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln East Campus. Firefighters say flames were coming from the house roof as they arrived.

Battalion Chief Jim Bopp confirmed the person’s death but couldn’t provide any other information.

The fire cause and the person’s death are being investigated.

WAKEFIELD, Neb. (AP) — Four people have been treated for chemical exposure at a Michael Foods plant in northeast Nebraska.

The Dixon County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that hazardous-materials teams and medics were sent to the Wakefield plant after a 911 call around 11:05 a.m. Wednesday. The four were taken to Providence Medical Center in Wayne. A hospital spokesman says they were treated and released.

The sheriff’s office says the chemical was contained inside the plant and says no evacuation was necessary outside the immediate area.

A Michael Foods spokesman didn’t immediately return a call Thursday from The Associated Press. The company’s based in Minnetonka, Minnesota.