OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a Lincoln man sentenced to up to 50 years for a fatal home invasion.

Joshua Carr was sentenced in September to 33 to 50 years in prison after pleading no contest to manslaughter, attempted robbery and a weapons charge in the 2014 shooting death of 21-year-old Maurice Williams.

Carr had sought to withdraw his no contest plea based on new evidence, but a Lancaster County District Court judge denied his motion.

Carr appealed, and on Friday, the state’s high court upheld the trial court’s decision to not allow Carr to withdraw his plea. The high court found that the lower court did not abuse its discretion in determining that Carr failed to show the new evidence would likely clear him.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a man charged in the December shooting deaths of a woman and her 2-year-old daughter.

24-year-old Dontevous Loyd appeared in court Thursday and was formally arraigned on the enhanced first-degree murder charges. Prosecutors say they also will file witness tampering charges against Loyd, saying he threatened a witness from jail.

Police say Destacia Straughn, who had dated Loyd on and off, reported to police on Dec. 6 that she was afraid of Loyd, and officers removed him from her apartment. Police say later that night, Loyd kicked in Straughn’s apartment door and began shooting, killing 2-year-old Kenacia Straughn first, then her mother. Three other women visiting were shot and injured.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Investor Warren Buffett has delivered his annual gifts of Berkshire Hathaway stock to five charities as part of his plan to gradually give away his fortune.

The gifts of Class B Berkshire stock that Buffett disclosed Thursday were worth roughly $2.86 billion. More than 19.6 million Berkshire shares were donated.

That’s slightly more than last year’s $2.8 billion donation even though fewer shares are involved because Berkshire’s stock price has increased.

Buffett has been giving away blocks of Berkshire stock since 2006 with the biggest share going to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

He also gave Class B Berkshire shares to his own foundation and to the foundations run by each of his three children.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha has called on the board chairman of a community college in Omaha to resign.

Metro Community College could lose eligibility for millions of federal dollars if Fred Conley stays on the panel.

Last month, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development banned Conley from participating in federal contracts for three years because he failed to disclose a potential conflict of interest while serving on the Omaha Housing Authority board.

Conley has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the department’s action.

The Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid Office told the community college last month that the school must remove any leader who is prohibited from participating in federal contracts in order to maintain its eligibility to receive federal student aid program funds.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 16-year-old has been given 30 to 50 years in prison for killing one man and wounding another in Omaha’s Miller Park.

Shuntayvious Primes-Willis was sentenced Wednesday. Prosecutors say he and two other boys fatally shot Jamymell Ray and wounded Charles Fisher on June 29, 2015. Primes-Willis was 15 then, but he was prosecuted as an adult in district court. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and a weapons count.

Court records say 18-year-old Jamar Milton has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and related charges. He was 17 at the time of the shootings, but he also is being prosecuted as an adult. His trial is to begin Nov. 7.

The other youth involved, now 13, is being treated at Boys Town in Omaha.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 95-year-old woman injured in a Saunders County collision has died.

The crash occurred Sunday on Nebraska Highway 79 near Morse Bluff. The Saunders County Sheriff’s Department says 69-year-old Charlene Mason, of Omaha, was driving east on a county road and didn’t stop at its intersection with the highway. The department says Mason’s vehicle then was struck by a southbound pickup driven by 22-year-old Austin Hines, of rural Morse Bluff.

Both drivers and Mason’s passenger, Lorraine Stapleton, were hospitalized. The department says Stapleton died Wednesday at a hospital.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 17-year-old boy has been accused of shooting to death a Lincoln man and wounding another.

Lincoln police said Wednesday that the boy will be charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder, robbery and other crimes. Investigators say he fatally shot 32-year-old Christopher Coleman and left 21-year-old Jerry Griffis Jr. paralyzed from his wounds on April 18. The Associated Press generally doesn’t name juveniles accused of crimes.

The boy has been in the custody of juvenile authorities on unrelated robbery charges. Three other people have been charged in connection with the robbery and shootings.

BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — A forest near Bellevue has opened a $2 million exhibit containing 13 species of raptors.

Fontenelle Forest held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the exhibit on Tuesday afternoon.

The forest’s director of education Elizabeth Chalen says the Raptor Woodland Refuge gives the public the opportunity to learn about raptors, conservation efforts and the birds’ roles in the ecosystem. The exhibit holds species such as turkey vultures, ferruginous hawks and great horned owls.

Fontenelle Forest’s Raptor Recovery team rescues sick and injured raptors and rehabilitates them before releasing them back into the wild. Chalen says the team treats about 500 raptors each year.

The exhibit was mostly funded through grants, foundations and individual donors.

HARTINGTON, Neb. (AP) — A 61-year-old northeast Nebraska woman who pleaded guilty to Medicaid fraud has paid nearly $8,500 in restitution.

Court records say Esther Larsen, of Hartington, entered the plea Monday in Cedar County District Court to one count of fraudulently obtaining payment on behalf of a recipient of medical assistance. She was ordered to pay the restitution and serve six months of probation.

State authorities say Larsen worked as a personal care aide for three Hartington-area agencies that provided in-home care services to Medicaid recipients. An investigation found that from January 2013 to September 2014, Larsen filed claims for payment that had overlapping times and billed for services she never provided.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A man who pleaded no contest to an April 2015 assault that broke a Lincoln police officer’s thumb has been sentenced to 20 days in jail.

52-year-old Joseph Tyrey was sentenced Tuesday in Lancaster County District Court.

Tyrey had originally been charged with felony assault on an officer, but that count was lowered to a misdemeanor in exchange for his plea.

Prosecutors say an officer was checking on Tyrey’s welfare at the request of a relative when the assault occurred.

Judge Darla Ideus said Tyrey’s lack of criminal history kept her from handing down a longer sentence.