OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former ultrasound technician accused of fondling patients will serve four to five years in prison.

A judge sentenced Kevin W. Ryan to eight to 10 years in prison, a term cut in half under state law.

Ryan won’t have to register as a sex offender because he wasn’t convicted of a sex crime in connection with the alleged assaults at Midwest Cardiology in September, October and December 2011.

Two women over 50 said Ryan digitally penetrated them during ultrasound exams on veins and arteries in their legs. A 17-year-old patient said he fondled her breasts during a chest exam.

A plea bargain dropped Ryan’s misdemeanor fondling charge and reduced his two first-degree sexual assault counts to one count of second-degree assault.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Classes and other operations are expected to resume Wednesday at Creighton University in Omaha, where a power outage emptied two dorms and forced some class cancellations.

Creighton spokeswoman Cindy Workman says power was restored overnight to all buildings affected by Tuesday’s outage, which started around 10 a.m.

Cots were set up in the university’s Sokol Arena for the 675 students displaced from the two freshman dorms. Students from the Omaha area were asked to just go home for the night.

University officials blamed two failed circuits for the outage.

sarpBELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say the wrong-way driver who was killed in a Bellevue freeway crash was a 61-year-old man from Iowa.

The Sarpy County Sheriff’s Office says the man has been identified as Richard Wilcoxson, of Bedford, Iowa. He died early on Feb. 24 when his sport utility vehicle ran into a semitrailer on the Kennedy Freeway, which also is known as U.S. Highway 75. The truck driver was not injured.

Authorities say the SUV had been spotted earlier heading south in the freeway’s northbound lanes.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police have arrested a man in connection to an August shooting that killed an Omaha teenager.

The Omaha Police Department announced that 26-year-old Marcus Short was arrested Tuesday on charges of first-degree murder and use of a weapon to commit a felony in the death of 19-year-old Garion Johnson.

Police found Johnson with multiple gunshot wounds in north Omaha on August 8. He was taken to a hospital, where he died.

Authorities say Short is being held at the Douglas County Jail.

Court records do not list an attorney who could be reached for comment.

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — A Norfolk man is scheduled to be sentenced in April for forging checks on his grandfather’s closed account.

Prosecutors say 26-year-old Daniel Wetherell also opened accounts at other retailers and services by using his grandfather’s Social Security number. Online court records say Wetherell pleaded no contest Monday to a charge of forgery. His sentencing is set for April 18.

Wetherell also most pay nearly $4,000 in restitution to a Fremont bank branch.

An investigation into a murder-for-hire plot has led to the arrest of two men on charges of Conspiracy to Commit Murder.

On Friday, Feb. 26, the Nebraska State Patrol was contacted by the Aurora Police Department reference an Aurora man who had solicited another individual to kill his estranged wife.

The case investigation continued through the weekend and on Monday, Feb. 29, a Nebraska State Patrol undercover investigator made contact with the suspect identified as Robert S. Honken, 37, of Aurora.  During the contact, Honken arranged to pay the undercover investigator to kill his estranged wife. He provided the undercover investigator, with a cash deposit for the murder of his estranged wife, with the remainder of the agreed upon price to be paid after the murder was completed.

After completing the deal, Honken who was under surveillance by NSP investigators and the NSP Aviation Support Division drove away. His vehicle was then stopped by a Nebraska State Patrol trooper and he was taken into custody. Honken was lodged in the Hall County Jail on a charge of Conspiracy to Commit Murder.

A second suspect, Derrick Shirley, 30, of Bradshaw was also taken into custody in conjunction with the investigation.  Shirley had made a previous arrangement with Honken in which he was also paid cash to kill Honken’s estranged wife.

Shirley was lodged in the Hamilton Jail on a charge of Conspiracy to Commit Murder.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A fourth University of Nebraska-Lincoln fraternity member charged in the alcohol death of another member has pleaded no contest to procuring alcohol to a minor.

According to court records, Vance Heyer entered his plea Monday.

Deputy Lancaster County Attorney Bruce Prenda said that Heyer was 21 and vice president of the FarmHouse Fraternity when he purchased bottles of vodka for an off-campus party on Sept. 4, 2014. Eighteen-year-old Clayton Real was found dead the next morning in his room at the fraternity house. Affidavits in the case say Real died of acute alcohol intoxication.

Twenty-year-old Thomas Trueblood, 23-year-old Ross Reynolds and 23-year-old Cory Foland pleaded no contest to procuring alcohol to a minor in February.

All four men are scheduled to be sentenced April 25.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A man has sued Lancaster County, saying the county doesn’t have as many commissioners as required by state law.

Gary Aldridge filed the lawsuit last week, seeking to force the five-member board to add two more commissioners. The county’s chief administrator declined to comment about the lawsuit.

The law requires counties with populations of more than 300,000 to have seven commissioners within a year after reaching that figure. The lawsuit cites U.S. Census Bureau estimates that say the county reached 300,000 in population by December 2014.

In January Sen. Matt Hansen, of Lincoln, introduced a bill that would increase the population threshold to 400,000 and make it effective only after a general census. The next is scheduled for 2020.

SYRACUSE, Neb. (AP) — A Tecumseh man has died in a head-on collision on a highway south of Syracuse.

Otoe County Sheriff’s office says 24-year-old Ryan Dela Cruz drove his southbound car over the center line on U.S. Highway 50 and collided with a semitrailer just after 8 a.m. Monday.

Dela Cruz’s sedan was knocked back toward a road intersection, and the semitrailer went into a ditch east of the highway.

Dela Cruz was pronounced dead on the scene. Investigators say he wasn’t wearing a seat belt. The semitrailer driver was wearing a seat belt and had minor injuries.