PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A former treasurer for a volunteer fire association in Nebraska was sentenced to probation for stealing roughly $50,000 from the group.

Forty-five-year-old Michael Stubbs, who is the former treasurer for the La Vista Volunteer Firefighters Association, will serve two years of probation after he pleaded no contest to theft and tax evasion charges. Television station WOWT reports a judge on Monday sentenced Stubbs to two years of probation for each felony charge, but they will be served at the same time.

The association’s president, Joe LaPuzza, contacted La Vista police in January 2015 after noticing changes in the group’s financial books.

Stubbs was also ordered to pay over $8,000 in taxes to the Nebraska Department of Revenue and assigned to have a mental health evaluation.

CENTRAL CITY, Neb. (AP) — A “buffalo soldier” will be getting a headstone in Central City 71 years after his death.

Benjamin Jackson’s grave at Central City Cemetery has been unmarked since his death in 1945. An American Legion post will provide military rites on Memorial Day.

Military records show Jackson was a buffalo soldier who served in the U.S. Army from 1881 to 1886. Buffalo soldier was the name Indians gave to African-Americans in the army.

Merrick County Historical Society President Bill Bolte says that when the society applied for a government-issued headstone, it learned that a relative has to sign the application. The society found great-grandson Jimmie Jackson, who works in Grand Island. He signed the application, and the headstone arrived in February.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — Two workers have been injured in a plant accident in southeast Nebraska.

Firefighters and medics were sent to the Continental Carbonic Inc. plant a little after 9 a.m. Sunday. The plant sits about five miles northwest of Beatrice. Beatrice Fire Capt. Craig Fisher said some type of blast or pressure release of carbon dioxide injured the two people.

One of the workers was flown to a Lincoln hospital. The other was taken to a Beatrice hospital. Their names and conditions haven’t been released.

A company representative didn’t immediately return a call Monday from The Associated Press. The company makes dry ice products.

NORTH LOUP, Neb. (AP) — A North Loup woman is scheduled to be arraigned Monday, accused of child abuse in the death of her 4-week-old daughter.

Online court records say 24-year-old Jocelyn Nordin is charged with intentional child abuse resulting in death. The records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for her.

She originally was charged with intentional child abuse causing serious injury, but that charge was changed with the death of her daughter on May 9.

Valley County prosecutors say Nordin called 911 May 2 and reported that her baby wasn’t breathing. The baby eventually was flown to an Omaha hospital. Doctors say the infant had suffered a broken skull and other injuries.

Authorities say the baby had been dropped on her head twice and violently shaken.

crimeLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have released the names of three people whose bodies were found inside a Lincoln home.

On Monday police identified the three as 53-year-old Tina Jensen, 50-year-old Ronald Heritage and 55-year-old Norma Voges. Police say Heritage and Jensen were in a relationship and shared the home. Voges was a longtime friend of both.

Officers were called to the scene Sunday afternoon by relatives of Jensen.

Police say a firearm had been found as well as evidence that it had been fired inside the northeast Lincoln residence. Spokeswoman Katie Flood said police need autopsy results before she can say whether investigators suspect a double murder-suicide had occurred.

Police have said there’s no threat to the public.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The bodies of two women and one man have been found inside a Lincoln home.

Lincoln Police Capt. Danny Reitan says authorities were called to the home in northeast Lincoln around 1:15 p.m. Sunday when one body was found.

Paramedics and police arrived and found all three bodies inside the home. Reitan says it wasn’t immediately clear how long the people had been dead before their bodies were found.

Investigators are not looking for any suspects in the deaths, and Reitan says there is not a threat to the public.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say two people were injured in an industrial accident at Nucor Steel in Norfolk.

Firefighters were called Thursday night to the plant. Norfolk Fire Chief Scott Cordes says the two people were injured in what first responders described as an industrial accident that resulted in burns.

Cordes says one person was flown to a Lincoln burn hospital and the other was driven to Faith Regional Health Services in Norfolk.

Officials have not released the identities of the victims or their medical conditions. A Nucor spokesman acknowledged that an accident had occurred, but decline to provide the newspaper any details of the accident.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The mother of an 11-year-old girl partially scalped when her hair got caught in the gears of a carnival ride is calling for stricter regulation of such rides.

Virginia Cooksey says her daughter remains in intensive care in an Omaha hospital, but is talking and drinking water. She says that while her daughter is improving, the girl will no doubt be traumatized by the incident and has already undergone several surgeries to repair her damaged scalp.

Cooksey said Friday that carnival rides should have seat belts and more maintenance.

The Nebraska Labor Department earlier this week found no indication that the spinning carnival ride was malfunctioning when the girl’s hair was caught, ripping her scalp.

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — Midland University in Fremont has added more than two dozen programs to its sports roster since 2009. Next year, it’ll add one more: video gaming.

The school already has a video game club team. Now, it plans to field a varsity-level team in the fall, complete with a coach and scholarships.

Known as eSports, video game competitions have jumped in popularity at campuses nationwide. Hundreds of schools have club teams, and a small but growing number are offering gaming as a varsity sport with scholarships.

Midland spokesman Nate Neufind says the school of about 1,400 students 30 miles west of Omaha wanted to “create one more opportunity for students to pursue their passion at the college level.”