OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha school board has approved the purchase of textbooks and other materials that will be distributed for health and sex education classes starting this fall.

The board voted 7-0 Monday night for the purchases recommended by staff, after several people urged the board to wait and take more time to review the material.

In January, the board approved new standards for health and sex education. Parents and community members debated some of the curriculum’s new topics, including gender identity, sexual orientation, abortion and emergency contraception.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a man whose body was found in a Lincoln house is suspected of shooting the two women whose bodies also were found there.

Lincoln Police Chief Jeff Bliemeister said Tuesday that investigators think 50-year-old Ronald Heritage shot 53-year-old Tina Jensen and 55-year-old Norma Voges several times before killing himself. Relatives of Jensen found two of the bodies Sunday afternoon and called police.

Police have said Heritage and Jensen had been in a relationship and that it appears there’d been a disturbance before or when Voges arrived to help Jensen move some items out of Heritage’s home, where Jensen had been living. All three worked for the U.S. Postal Service.

A firearm has been recovered.

OMAHA, Nebraska (AP) — Safety regulators have proposed fining a Minnesota excavation company that was drilling in Omaha’s Old Market area when a natural gas-fueled fire destroyed a building.

Regulators say a crew struck a gas line underneath the sidewalk in front of M’s Pub on Jan. 9. Gas leaked into the basement of the building and exploded. An M’s Pub employee was taken to a hospital with cuts and a firefighter was treated after slipping on ice.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Monday that North Central Service, of Bemidji, Minnesota, didn’t use “safe and acceptable” means to find underground utilities in the area. OSHA is proposing a $4,900 fine.

A company spokesman didn’t immediately return a call Tuesday from The Associated Press.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court’s refusal to release a man serving 65 to 100 years in prison for killing a teenager and her unborn baby.

Bobby Joe Moss was convicted in 2005 of second-degree murder in the 2003 shooting death of 17-year-old Michelle Harlan, who was eight months pregnant at the time of her death. He was also found guilty of a weapons count and of manslaughter for the death of Harlan’s fetus.

In his latest petition, Moss argued that his trial attorney was so ineffective that his constitutional rights were violated. On Tuesday, the appeals court rejected Moss’ argument.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have arrested two men suspected in the fatal shooting of a man in southeast Omaha.

Police say in a news release that 24-year-old Tontavious Montgomery and 21-year-old Alphonso Hall III were arrested Monday. Warrants for their arrests listed charges of first-degree murder and use of a weapon to commit a felony. Online court records don’t list the names of attorneys who could be contacted to speak for either or both of the two men. Montgomery and Hall remained in custody Tuesday.

The two are suspected in the slaying of 22-year-old Terrance Gunn, who was found wounded in a street Sunday night and died later at an Omaha hospital.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska judge has dismissed a charge against a Minnesota man who admitted his intention to buy marijuana in Colorado.

Court records say Judge Susan Strong said in a filing Monday that she had no jurisdiction because Erik Felsheim, of Waseca, Minnesota, committed no crime in Nebraska.

In October 2014, Felsheim and another man were arrested after a traffic stop in Lancaster County. The records say Felsheim told a sheriff’s deputy that $65,000 found in their car was earmarked to buy pot that he intended to sell in Minnesota. Felsheim was charged with possession of money intended for a drug violation and aiding the delivery of a controlled substance.

His attorney argued it is not a violation of Nebraska law to conspire to break the law of another state.

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Two boys from Nebraska and other bystanders including an Arizona man are credited with rescuing and reviving a 5-year-old girl who nearly drowned in a swimming pool at a Rapid City hotel.

Police say 12-year-old Wisdom Bass-Robinson and 13-year-old Btin Spears of Walthill, Nebraska, noticed the girl face-down in the pool at the Best Western Ramkota shortly after 8 p.m. Monday and pulled her from the water.

Rick Volk, of Phoenix, with the help of other bystanders began CPR at poolside and revived the girl. She was taken to a hospital and is expected to be fine.

Authorities did not identify the girl.

MAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police have identified a man found dead in northeast Omaha as 18-year-old Gustavo Soto.

Police say in a written statement that officers responding to a report of a shooting Monday night found Soto’s body in a vacant lot.

A witness reported hearing one shot. Police say two people were seen running north from the scene.

No arrests have been reported, and Omaha Police say they continue to investigate.

Anyone providing information that leads to the arrest and conviction the shooter is eligible for a $25,000 reward through Crime Stoppers.

PLATTSMOUTH, Neb. (AP) — A Cass County man accused of shackling his teenage nephew to a bed has been sentenced to six months in jail.

36-year-old Wade Merry was sentenced Monday. He had pleaded no contest to negligent child abuse without injury as part of a plea agreement.

Police say the 14-year-old boy was shackled to the bed at least a dozen times. A court document says Merry told authorities he restrained the boy while Merry worked overnight shifts at a bakery because he was frustrated with the boy’s behavior.

Police say Merry gave the boy a cup in case he needed to use the bathroom while shackled, and that Merry left the boy a bolt cutter in the room in case of an emergency.

The teen is in state custody.

A police news release identified the man as 22-year-old Terrance Gunn, of Omaha.

Police say officers responding to a report about a shooting found Gunn around 7:20 p.m. Sunday in a street. Police say the Gunn died later at Nebraska Medical Center.

No arrests have been reported.