DENVER (AP) — A mix-up in paperwork by a prosecutor has once again postponed a hearing for a northern Colorado nurse charged with inappropriately touching six women under his care in Colorado and three more in Nebraska.

Thomas Moore was due in court Thursday for a preliminary hearing. The hearing is now scheduled for Aug. 22.

A public defender for Moore did not return a phone call seeking comment.

Moore faces eight felony and three misdemeanor counts of sexual misconduct.

It was another delay in a case after his public defender in June cited problems meeting with Moore.

The investigation raised questions about gaps in licensing and screening processes for those hired to work with vulnerable patients.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An investigative report from the State Fire Marshal’s Office says Metropolitan Utilities District workers didn’t mark the natural gas line that was breached and sparked a massive fire that destroyed a building in downtown Omaha.

The report is the basis of a June 23 letter notifying the district that the Marshal’s Office is preparing to conclude that the utility violated state pipeline-safety regulations.

The report says that the underground excavators who hit the pipe while drilling in the area couldn’t have known of its existence without the markings of nearby gas lines.

The district has previously said that it properly marked the lines.

The “notice of probable violation” letter is marked “draft.” Both the district and the Marshal’s Office say the investigation is continuing.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln police say an officer has been left with broken ribs after a fight with a suspect.

Police say the incident occurred Wednesday afternoon when officers responded to reports of a man lying on the ground outside a Lincoln apartment complex. Police say when the first officer arrived, the 27-year-old suspect ran inside the complex’s clubhouse, then punched and struggled with the 59-year-old officer, who called for backup.

The man was arrested on suspicion of assaulting an officer, trespassing, resisting arrest and failing to comply with a police order.

The injured officer was taken to a Lincoln hospital, where doctors found he had two broken ribs.

STANTON, Neb. (AP) — A man sought in a Kentucky slaying has been found in northeast Nebraska.

Authorities say 34-year-old Maurice Candies, of St. Louis, was taken into custody around 11:15 p.m. Wednesday on a Warren County, Kentucky, arrest warrant. He was found hiding in a cabinet at a trailer home in Stanton, Nebraska, where he’d been staying.

He’s suspected in the shooting death of a man in Bowling Green, Kentucky, earlier this month. It’s unclear whether Candies has an attorney who could comment for him.

He’s being held in Madison County Jail, awaiting extradition.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln bank branch employee is suspected of stealing more than $74,000 from a customer’s account.

Online court records say 24-year-old Holliann Casey is charged with felony theft. On Thursday jail records said Casey remained in custody. Online court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could be contacted to comment for her. Casey’s next court hearing is set for Aug. 31.

Police say suspicious transactions prompted an audit of the customer’s account at the Pinnacle Bank branch. Police say the audit showed Casey withdrew $74,150 from the account between Oct. 27, 2014, and Aug. 1, 2016.

Authorities say the bank has reimbursed the customer.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — More than 70 Lefler school district educators recently participated in a role-play event hosted by the Food Bank of Lincoln to experience the kind of poverty that 56 percent of their students live every day.

Lefler is the first school to go through the simulation. Organizers hope other schools will soon do the same.

Lefler Principal Jessie Carlson had his staff participate in the exercise as part of a five-year effort to reduce the gap in both achievement and discipline rates for students living in poverty.

Teachers said the exercise put them in the shoes of struggling children and teens, and gave them a new perspective on why parents aren’t involved at school, and why kids act out, or forget their pencils.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have identified a woman killed when a motorcycle she was on collided with a semitrailer in western Douglas County.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says 18-year-old Madeline Fitzpatrick was riding on the motorcycle, operated by 36-year-old Jason Matthews, that collided with the semi Tuesday evening at the intersection of Highway 92 and 264th Street.

Investigators say Fitzpatrick was pronounced dead at the scene. Matthews was flown to an Omaha hospital in critical condition.

The sheriff’s office says the truck driver, 47-year-old Michael Green, wasn’t injured.

Authorities are still investigating the cause of the crash.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 69-year-old western Colorado man has been sent to a Nebraska prison for having around 515 pounds of marijuana in his pickup.

Steven McElmury was sentenced Tuesday to 18 to 36 months. He’d pleaded guilty to possession for sale.

Prosecutors say McElmury, who lives in Cedaredge, Colorado, was pulled over on eastbound Interstate 80 near Lincoln on Jan. 21. A drug-sniffing dog taken to the scene alerted officers to the scent of drugs, and the pot was found in heat-sealed bags stuffed into four boxes, four duffel bags and a tote.

The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office estimated the pot’s resale value at more than $2.5 million.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — A Beatrice woman who authorities said should have prevented a man from having sex with her teenage foster child has been given two years behind bars.

Thirty-four-year-old April Dils was sentenced Tuesday in Gage County District Court in Beatrice. She’d pleaded no contest to two counts of negligent child abuse after prosecutors lowered the charge.

Prosecutors say a friend of Dils’ boyfriend developed a sexual relationship with the 14-year-old girl when the friend stayed at Dils’ home after a night of drinking. The friend, 27-year-old Jose Salinas, in May was sentenced to 16 to 20 years in prison on his convictions for attempted sexual assault of a minor.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say one person was killed and one injured when a motorcycle collided with a semitrailer in western Douglas County.

The wreck occurred around 5:45 p.m. Tuesday, about a mile and a half east of the Platte River. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says one of the people on the motorcycle was pronounced dead at the scene. The other was flown to an Omaha hospital.

The Sheriff’s Office says the truck driver wasn’t injured.

The names of those involved and other details about the collision haven’t been released.