HAYS, Kan. (AP) — A man who voted illegally in both Kansas and Nebraska in 2012 has been fined $5,500.

Michael L. Hannum now lives in Omaha, Nebraska, and pleaded guilty Thursday in Johnson County, Kansas, to three misdemeanors. The convictions are the third under a new state law that gives Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach the power to prosecute election fraud allegations. Kobach says in a news release that the fine will “deter others.”

Hannum said earlier this year that he was traveling regularly at the time between a home in Johnson County, Kansas, and Omaha, Nebraska, to visit family following his 83-year-old father’s death in early 2011.

He said authorities previously told him they closed their investigations and wouldn’t file charges because they didn’t believe the double voting was deliberate.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha Public Schools says it’s reviewing its severe weather procedures after parents were told they couldn’t take shelter inside an elementary school during a tornado warning.

Principal Adriana Vargas reportedly told parents of Castelar Elementary students that they would have to wait the storm out in their vehicles Wednesday around 4 p.m.

The action disturbed parents such as Jennifer Lang, who says she huddled outside the school entrance with about two dozen other parents during the storm.

District spokeswoman Monique Farmer says Vargas and other principals at crowded schools had concerns about letting more people in when space was tight inside storm shelters.

The district’s current storm guidelines don’t address what to do with people outside the school during severe weather.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 75-year-old woman has confronted a man who was cruising around an Omaha park in her stolen motorized wheelchair.

Reva Murrell told said her chair was stolen Monday from her senior citizens home. Viewing security recordings later, Murrell saw a man enter through a door that’s normally secure, get in her chair, drive around for time and then roll out.

A friend of hers spotted the chair and a man a few hours later at Adams Park. Murrell says she and her friend then went to the park and found him. She says she told him, “Hey, that’s my chair! You stole my chair!”

Murrell says the man stood up and didn’t say a word while she called police. He was arrested on suspicion of theft.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The National Weather Service says it’s confirmed that a second, weaker tornado touched down briefly in northwest Omaha.

The service said in a web posting Friday the EF0 twister alighted at 3:49 p.m. Wednesday onto a pond and lifted within a minute. An EF0 tornado carries winds from 65 to 85 mph. No damage or injuries have been reported.

The first tornado was rated an EF1, packing winds of 86 to 110 mph. The service says the tornado stayed on the ground for about eight blocks and seemed to bob up and down after it struck around 3:45 p.m. It toppled a few trees, damaged others and knocked down some fences before dissipating about four minutes later. No injuries have been reported.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police say a Lincoln school bus has been involved in an accident with a sports utility vehicle.

The SUV driver lost control of her vehicle Thursday morning and hit the front of a Lincoln Public Schools bus carrying four students and two adults. Police say the collision happened on 14th street, near Cornhusker Highway in Lincoln.

Rescue workers had to remove the SUV’s driver-side door to remove the driver. She was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and ticketed for negligent driving.

No other injuries were reported and another bus picked up the students.

School officials say the bus was taking students to Beattie Elementary School.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled that a transportation company which serves people with disabilities can expand its operations in Lincoln despite objections raised by taxi services.

The court on Thursday ruled that Golden Plains Services Transportation can proceed despite a number of consumer complaints. The ruling upholds an earlier decision by the Nebraska Public Service Commission.

Complaints against the firm include instances where a van arrived late and the customer missed a doctor or other medical appointment.

The company’s owner, Kirby Young, has said the complaints are few compared to the 48,000 trips it provided between Mary 2014 and March 2015.

The cab companies argued that the company isn’t fit to provide the service. They also argued the commission should have considered complaints against another company owned by Young.

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — A staffer at a memory care facility in Fremont has been charged in connection with the death of a patient who was burned after he fell asleep next to a fireplace.

Fremont police say in a news release that 23-year-old Anne Pavlik, of Arlington, was arrested Tuesday on a warrant listing felony abuse of a vulnerable adult. Online court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could be contacted to comment for her.

A court document says Pavlik acknowledged that she didn’t check on the patient Feb. 13 after he nodded off too close to the fireplace at Edgewood Vista. He was taken to a hospital, where he died.

Police say an autopsy showed a combination of natural causes and the burns killed the man.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha man accused of stealing a gay pride rainbow flag and burning it has been found guilty.

24-year-old Cameron Mayfield was found guilty Wednesday of arson. Prosecutors said that the charge was prosecuted as a felony, not a misdemeanor, because the incident was investigated as a hate crime.

Mayfield was accused of taking the flag from the porch of a lesbian couple who lived near him, setting it on fire and waving it in the middle of the street in March 2015.

James Martin Davis, who is Mayfield’s attorney, argued the act was a drunken prank and not a hate crime. Mayfield had testified that he thought the flag was a spring ornament, not a gay pride flag, and that he had no idea that the his neighbors were gay.

Mayfield faces up to two years in prison.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The National Weather Service says a tornado that skipped along a few blocks of northwest Omaha was rated EF1, packing winds of 86 through 110 mph.

The service says the tornado stayed on the ground for about eight blocks and seemed to bob up and down after it struck around 3:45 p.m. Wednesday. It toppled a few trees, damaged others and knocked down some fences before dissipating about four minutes later. No injuries have been reported.

Golf ball-size hail fell near Valley and other Douglas County spots.

Downpours accompanied the storms that developed Wednesday from the same system that brought rain Tuesday. The service has issued an alert for possible flooding along the Missouri River for Cass and Otoe counties. A flood warning was issued for Nemaha and Richardson counties.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say a child has been shot in north Omaha and taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Omaha police Lt. Matthew Lippold says a child who is thought to be 1-year-old was shot around 5 p.m. Wednesday and taken to the Nebraska Medical Center.

Police did not provide any additional details, saying it was still early in the investigation.

A person was seen being led by police in handcuffs shortly after 5 p.m.

The shooting happened on 34th Street, next door to the home where 71-year-old Merlin Prinz was killed Monday.