COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A former Nebraska jail employee has been found guilty in western Iowa of child sex and pornography counts.

A Pottawattamie County jury found Shawn Beu guilty Friday on all 10 counts related his sexual abuse and video recording of young girls.

Prosecutors say videos of Beu sexually abusing a young girl and of young girls taken on a hidden camera in Beu’s bathroom were found in his home. The 37-year-old Beu had claimed he did not take the videos.

Beu, who lives in Council Bluffs, was a corrections sergeant at the Douglas County Jail in Omaha when he was arrested in March. He faces up to 100 years in prison when he’s sentenced Nov. 30.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Events this weekend will go on as planned at Omaha’s Holland Performing Arts Center, despite a city bus crashing through its glass-walled exterior.

The crash happened Friday night after police say an SUV ran a red light and hit the bus. That sent the bus into the downtown Holland Center.

Police say the driver of the bus was taken to a hospital. Her medical condition was not known Saturday.

Officials say the crash happened after crowds had left the Holland concert hall for a Friday night symphony performance. No one was injured outside the bus or in the center.

SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) — A foul odor tied to a sewage line in South Sioux City has sickened some residents and forced some to flee their homes as officials look for a remedy.

South Sioux City administrator Lance Hedquist tells the Sioux City Journal (https://bit.ly/2esC7lr ) that the odor is coming from 15 houses in a five-block area of a neighborhood where about 40 people live.

Hedquist says there’s also a “horrific” odor coming from the Big Ox Energy plant, which recently started operations in the city’s Roth Industrial Park about two miles from the affected houses.

Big Ox, a Denmark, Wisconsin-based renewable energy firm, converts organic industrial waste into methane gas.

Hedquist said Friday that the new plant and the homes share the same sewer line.

DECATUR, Neb. (AP) — The occupants of all but one northeast Nebraska house have been allowed to return to their homes days after they were evacuated because of an anhydrous ammonia leak that killed a local farmer.

Magellan Midstream Partners, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, made that announcement Saturday.

Magellan has been repairing an 8-inch-diameter pipeline that carries anhydrous ammonia, used as a farm fertilizer. When released from a tank or pipe, it becomes a lethal gas that can cause severe chemical burns and damage the tissue of the eyes, nose, throat and lungs.

Authorities have said 59-year-old Phillip Hennig, of Tekamah, was killed by the fumes Monday night while checking on the leak.

Magellan says it is conducting additional air quality testing at each residence as occupants return to ensure safe air quality.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Two Illinois men have been convicted in Nebraska of possessing 128 pounds of marijuana for sale.

31-year-old Ali Khalil, of Oak Lawn, Illinois, and 30-year-old Issa Abu-Serieh, of Burbank, Illinois, were found guilty after a nonjury trial. They’re scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 23.

Lancaster County sheriff’s deputies say they stopped cars being driven too closely by the two on Jan. 25, 2015, near Lincoln on Interstate 80. The sheriff’s office says the two seemed to be traveling together. A police dog taken to the scene alerted officers to the odor of drugs.

Attorneys for the two later argued the evidence should be suppressed because the traffic stop was merely a pretext to search the vehicles.

 

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln’s police chief says there are many challenges in recruiting good candidates, illustrated by the fact that only 16 out of 335 applicants since April made it to training.

Chief Jeff Bliemeister will be looking for a deeper and more diverse pool of applicants in the future.

According to Bliemeister, recruitment challenges include making sure applicants meet certain qualifications, such as not having criminal convictions with sentences of a year or more, a written test of basic education and the physical fitness test.

Bliemeister says the department is working with the city’s Human Resources staff on recruiting ideas and that law enforcement clubs have been started in high schools.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A state panel has dismissed a complaint alleging that Nebraska Sen. Ernie Chambers misused public resources when he ridiculed another lawmaker with drawings and poems on state letterhead.

The Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission voted 7-0 on Friday not to investigate the complaint by Andrew Sullivan, a conservative activist from Omaha.

Chambers has released more than two dozen memos calling attention to state Sen. Bill Kintner’s use of a state computer to have cybersex with a woman he met online. Kintner was fined $1,000 for misuse of state property. The memos, dubbed “Kintner-grams,” include unflattering drawings of Kintner and rhymes mocking his indiscretion.

Commission member Jeff Peetz says he doesn’t condone Chambers’ memos, but notes that Kintner’s behavior was a matter of public concern.

NEBRASKA CITY, Neb. (AP) — A convicted sex offender has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl less than a year after he left a Nebraska prison.

Online court records say 23-year-old Nebraska City resident Preston Boehnke pleaded guilty Tuesday in a deal with prosecutors. A second count was dropped in exchange for Boehnke’s plea. A sex offender specific psychological evaluation will be completed before his sentencing, which is scheduled for Jan. 10.

Boehnke was sentenced in 2013 to three to five years in prison for possession of child pornography. He was released from custody in July 2015. Court records say the sex assault occurred April 1 this year.

DECATUR, Neb. (AP) — More northeast Nebraska residents are being allowed to return to their homes days after they were evacuated because of an anhydrous ammonia leak that killed a local farmer.

Magellan Midstream Partners, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, said Friday that it is still not allowing people who live within a mile from where the pipeline leak occurred to return home. Magellan says only four homes fall within the mile radius.

Magellan has been repairing the 8-inch-diameter pipeline that carries the liquid fertilizer. When released from a tank or pipe, anhydrous ammonia becomes a lethal gas that can cause severe chemical burns and damage the tissue of the eyes, nose, throat and lungs.

Authorities have said 59-year-old Phillip Hennig, of Tekamah, was killed by the fumes Monday night while checking on the leak.

DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government is confirming another death due to the rupture of an air bag made by Takata Corp.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says a 50-year-old woman died Sept. 30 in Riverside County, California.

Honda Motor Co. confirmed the woman’s death and said she was driving a 2001 Civic.

This is the 11th known U.S. fatality attributed to Takata air bags.

The air bags can inflate with too much force, which causes their metal interior to rupture and spew shrapnel into the vehicle.

The problem touched off what is now the largest auto recall in U.S. history. More than 69 million inflators have been recalled in the U.S. and more than 100 million worldwide.