OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A woman has pleaded no contest to helping her boyfriend dump his mother’s body in southeast Omaha.

Gabriela Guevara pleaded no contest Monday to being an accessory by helping her boyfriend, Roberto Martinez-Marinero, transport and dump his mother’s body in 2015.

Martinez-Marinero pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his mother, 45-year-old Jesus Ismenia Marinero, and his 4-year-old half brother, Josue Ramirez-Marinero. He was sentenced to life in prison.

After killing his mother, Martinez-Marinero took her two youngest children in an attempt to eliminate witnesses. He dumped his then-11-month-old half brother in a La Vista dumpster. The child was found later, bruised but otherwise uninjured.

He threw the older boy off a bridge to his death.

Guevara will be sentenced in October.

LYONS, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska State Patrol says a 54-year-old motorcyclist has died after a collision with a pickup.

The patrol says the collision occurred just before noon Saturday on U.S. Highway 77 on the east side of Lyons in Burt County. The patrol says the northbound pickup was turning west when it collided with the southbound motorcycle.

The patrol says the motorcyclist was pronounced dead at a hospital in Oakland. He was identified as Bruce Dannelly, who lived in Bellwood. The pickup driver was treated at the hospital and released. The patrol identified her as 63-year-old Elaine Climer, who lives in Lyons.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Authorities say a 45-year-old man was struck by lightning and killed in Colorado.

Chad Trover of Arvada died Friday during a severe thunderstorm northwest of Fort Collins.

Larimer County Chief Deputy Coroner Dianne Fairman says Trover was staying at a cabin in the mountainous Crystal Lakes area and was standing between trees when the lightning hit.

She says first responders temporarily revived Trover and he was taken to a hospital, where he died about six hours later.

Colorado is one of the top states for lightning deaths over the past decade. Last month, another man was struck and killed by lightning on a suburban Denver golf course.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The father of a toddler killed by an alligator at Walt Disney World last June reached into the animal’s mouth in an attempt to free his son’s head from the reptile’s jaws.

A final report on the death released Monday by Florida’s wildlife agency says that the 7-foot alligator bit 2-year-old Lane Graves’ head as the boy bent down at the edge of a lagoon at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission report says the boy died from a crushing bite and drowning.

The report says Lane did nothing to provoke the alligator and that the death is classified as a predatory attack.

The report says the alligator may have had a diminished fear of people by being in an area with lots of humans.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — State Sen. Heath Mello will run for Omaha mayor next spring and challenge incumbent Jean Stothert.

Mello announced his campaign Sunday. The Democratic lawmaker says he’ll offer a new vision for Omaha to address its infrastructure problems and try to retain talented young residents.

Term limits will force Mello to leave the Legislature at the end of this year. He has represented south Omaha and led the Legislature’s appropriations committee.

Mello is a Democrat will face the Republican Stothert in next spring’s election although the mayor’s race is officially nonpartisan.

Stothert is completing her first term as mayor after being elected in 2013. Before that she served on the Omaha city council and Millard school board.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man has been sentenced to 50 to 60 years in prison for sexually assaulting and beating a woman in August 2014.

52-year-old J.C. Thomas was sentenced Friday in Lancaster County District Court as a habitual offender.

District Judge Susan Strong called Thomas “every woman’s worst nightmare” in handing down the sentence, noting he was on parole when he committed the crime.

Prosecutors say Thomas lured four women to his car and beat or raped them. In a deal with prosecutors, he pleaded guilty to just one count of first-degree sexual assault.

Thomas has two prior felony convictions — one in Tennessee and another in Arkansas — and prosecutors say he has spent most of his life in prison.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The works of cats, camels, chickens and more are now on sale at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo’s semi-annual Animal Art event.

The one-of-a-kind critter creations on canvas feature the works of dozens of animals.

In all, 116 works are to be sold.

The zoo’s Ryan Gross says paintings at last winter’s event sold so quickly and demand was so high that the zoo decided to make Animal Art a biannual event — late summer and late fall.

All of the money raised will go toward caring for zoo animals over the winter.

Prices for the paintings range from $30 to $400 and come in various sizes. Each painting comes with a photo of the artist at work and a certificate of authenticity.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 58-year-old jail inmate has died at an Omaha hospital.

The woman became unresponsive around 4:15 p.m. Wednesday in one of the Douglas County Jail housing units. Lt. Dan Scherer says staffers began CPR and called 911 for help. Scherer says the woman died at 11:10 p.m. at Creighton University Medical Center.

Scherer identified the woman as Sheryl Bentley, who was serving a 30-day sentence for drunken driving. Her sentence began on Aug. 11. She lived in Omaha.

Bentley’s death is being investigated. State law requires such investigations whenever someone dies in custody or while being taken into custody.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Colorado man has been sent to prison for setting fire to a hotel room in the Nebraska capital of Lincoln.

Online court records show 34-year-old Joshua Berney, of Thornton, Colorado, was sentenced Wednesday to four to eight years. He’d pleaded no contest to felony arson after prosecutors dropped a charge of criminal mischief.

Authorities say he reported the blaze from his room at the Holiday Inn Express just before 4 a.m. on April 6 last year. Fire sprinklers helped contain the flames to just his room on the second floor, but smoke escaped into hallways.

Thirty-five hotel guests were evacuated during the fire. Berney was taken to a hospital to be checked for smoke inhalation.