OLATHE, Kansas (AP) — A Kansas sheriff’s department says it’s investigating after one of its deputies was kidnapped and sexually assaulted.

The Johnson County Sheriff’s Department says the deputy was abducted late Friday from a parking lot as she headed into work at the detention center in Olathe. It says the deputy, who has been with the department for about six months, did not know her abductors and was not in uniform at the time.

The department says the deputy was released about two hours later in Lee’s Summit, Missouri.

The department on Sunday released video of the car believed to have been used in the abduction, and authorities want to question two men who may have been in the car.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Researchers at the University of Nebraska at Omaha are getting a $1.5 million grant to study a hormone’s role in social behaviors.

The research into the hormone oxytocin may help improve medications for social disorders.

Researchers plan to conduct a series of experiments over the next five years to better understand oxytocin’s role in signaling new behavior.

The UNO researchers will work with colleagues at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Creighton University.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The daughter of a slain Omaha medical school doctor and his wife has taken the stand in the trial of a former doctor accused of killing them.

Audrey Brumback, of San Francisco, testified Friday that she last spoke to her parents via online video on Mother’s Day 2013 — the same day police say they were killed.

Her testimony came in the first-degree murder trial of Anthony Garcia, accused of killing Dr. Roger Brumback and his wife, Mary. Garcia is also standing trial for the 2008 stabbing deaths of the 11-year-old son of another Creighton University School of Medicine doctor and the family’s housekeeper.

Prosecutors on Friday showed a screenshot Audrey Brumback took of her parents during the video call. They were wearing the same clothes they had on when they were killed.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A judge has ruled that the no contest pleas of an Omaha man later convicted of killing four people in the summer of 2013 will stand.

The ruling Friday comes two weeks after the judge found Nikko Jenkins mentally competent enough to go through the sentencing phase. Jenkins faces the death penalty when that sentencing hearing is held on Nov. 14.

Jenkins’ court-appointed public defender, Tom Riley, had sought to withdraw the no-contest pleas Jenkins entered in 2014 while acting as his own attorney. But Jenkins adamantly opposed withdrawing the pleas.

Jenkins was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder for the August 2013 shooting deaths in and around Omaha of Juan Uribe-Pena, Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz, Curtis Bradford and Andrea Kruger.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 19-year-old college student who was accused of sexually assaulting another student in a University of Nebraska-Lincoln dorm has been found not guilty.

Christopher Petersen was acquitted Thursday during his second trial in Lancaster County District Court. His first trial in June ended in a mistrial after the all-male jury deadlocked.

This time, the six men and six women on the jury took less than three hours to acquit him of first-degree sexual assault, a felony that could have meant up to 50 years in prison.

The case centered on whether Peterson’s accuser had done enough to let him know she wasn’t consenting. Petersen is now a student at the University of Arizona.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a Lincoln high school student has caused widespread panic by peering into a classroom wearing a clown mask.

Seven students who were connected to the prank at Lincoln Southwest High School on Thursday have been cited with disturbing the peace.

Lincoln Police Capt. Don Scheinost says the incident contributed to the hysteria about clowns’ presence in the city and country in the weeks before Halloween.

A video taken of the student in the mask circulated on social media, disturbing other students and disrupting classes throughout the day.

Scheinost says none of the seven juveniles were arrested, but their cases have been referred to the Lancaster County Attorney’s Office for prosecution.

PLATTSMOUTH, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a Nebraska man has died after a vehicle rolled on top of him at a home in Murray.

The Cass County sheriff’s office says 63-year-old Wayne L. Gerdes of Johnson was working the vehicle at a home in Beaver Lake on Wednesday. A sheriff’s deputy arrived shortly before 9:30 p.m. and administered CPR until an emergency medical services crew arrived.

Gerdes was taken to the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, where he was pronounced dead.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Four Iowa men and a woman from Nebraska will serve shorter prison sentences after President Barack Obama granted them clemency.

Most of the 102 offenders in Thursday’s announcement committed drug crimes considered nonviolent.

Michael Jay Bertram of Dumont, will serve 14 of 20 years and Nicholas Jolise Deering, of Des Moines, will have served about eight of his 18 ½-year sentence when he’s released in 2018.

Rodger Lee Moran, of Des Moines, was serving life for selling methamphetamine. His sentence was shortened to 20 years and Kenny Siepker of Carroll had six years knocked off his 31 years.

Release for Maria Conchita Marino of West Point, Nebraska, is 2018 after serving half of her 20 years.

Obama has commuted 774 inmate sentences, more than the previous 11 presidents put together.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — Gage County is appealing a $28.1 million civil judgment it faces in a lawsuit filed by six people who were wrongly convicted of the 1985 rape and homicide of a Beatrice woman.

The county is asking the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review the case and block the verdict a federal judge issued this summer.

The appeal should also buy more time for Gage County officials to come up with a plan to raise the money if the judgment is upheld.

Attorney Jennifer Tomka says the county can’t easily pay the judgment if it is affirmed.

The six people who sued spent a combined 77 years in prison in the death of 68-year-old Helen Wilson before DNA testing cleared them in 2008.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln’s tax rate will likely go up next year after the mayor won his lawsuit to force the City Council to fund his budget.

A judge ruled in Mayor Chris Beutler (BYTE’-lur) favor on Wednesday.

Beutler had argued that the council was obligated to pass a tax rate that supports the budget of record for the city.

In this case, Beutler says the budget he submitted before vetoing the council’s revised version is the valid one. The Republicans on the council had said the smaller budget they passed should be considered the legal budget.

Councilman Roy Christensen says he’s disappointed in the ruling, but he and the other Republicans won’t decide whether to appeal until their lawyer reviews the ruling.