OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Douglas County prosecutors say a teenage driver will be charged with homicide as a juvenile for the deaths of four people in a three-vehicle collision.

A news release from the office of Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine says the 17-year-old boy will face four misdemeanor counts of vehicular homicide. The Associated Press generally doesn’t name juveniles accused of crimes.

The accident occurred around 8:30 p.m. on April 5 northwest of Omaha. Authorities say the boy was driving a pickup north and didn’t halt at a stop sign at an intersection with Nebraska Highway 36. The pickup knocked an eastbound vehicle into oncoming traffic, where it was struck by a westbound vehicle. The four killed were in the eastbound and westbound vehicles.

The boy and his teenage passenger were hospitalized.

NEBRASKA CITY, Neb. (AP) — Staff members at Arbor Day Farm have been busily packaging and shipping thousands of seedlings to help others celebrate Earth Day and Arbor Day.

April is the busiest month for the Nebraska City farm, which is owned by the Arbor Day Foundation City, due to the volume of trees ordered from them for the two environmentally friendly holidays.

According to Adam Howard, the farm’s director of mission engagement, about 250,000 gift seedlings will be packaged and shipped this year. About half of the work will be completed this month.

Howard says about 2.5 million trees are shipped annually to the foundation’s 1 million members.

Many of the 12 species of seedlings that are packed and shipped are grown on Arbor Day Farm. If demand exceeds supply, the foundation relies on outside suppliers.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The lawyer for a Lincoln teacher accused of having sex with one of his teenage students says his client will plead not guilty.

Twenty-two-year-old Jackson Hedrick is charged with two felonies: sexual assault of a minor and enticement by electronic means. Attorney Nancy Peterson commented on Hedrick’s intention on Wednesday.

Prosecutors say the first-year teacher at Irving Middle School exchanged sexually explicit texts with a 14-year-old girl and engaged in sexual activity with her. Peterson declined to comment on the specific accusations. Under Nebraska law, people 19 and over cannot have sexual contact with people under 16.

Lincoln school officials say Hedrick is no longer employed by the district.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say two Omaha officers were injured when the driver of a stolen vehicle attempted to flee a parking lot.

The incident occurred Wednesday night in northwest Omaha when the officers approached the vehicle and tried to take the driver into custody. Police say he started to drive away, striking one officer, dragging another and hitting two other vehicles. One of the officers was able to reach in and put the vehicle into park.

Police identified the driver as 20-year-old Tanner Marcoe, who was booked into Douglas County Jail on suspicion of assault, theft and other crimes. It’s unclear whether Marcoe has an attorney who could be contacted to comment on his behalf.

Marcoe and the officers were treated for minor injuries.

TECUMSEH, Neb. (AP) — A former teacher in southeast Nebraska has been sentenced to a week in jail for providing alcoholic beverages to minors.

A news release from the office of Johnson County Attorney Julie Smith says 42-year-old Steven Nolte, of Tecumseh, pleaded no contest on Wednesday and was convicted of two counts of procuring. Nolte was fined $500 in addition to the jail time.

Smith’s office says Nolte was a teacher for Johnson County Central Public Schools and a sports referee. The release says Nolte provided an alcoholic beverage to a 16-year-old student in May 2014 and to a 19-year-old former student this past January.

Smith’s office says Nolte has resigned from his teaching job and has stopped refereeing.

HUMPHREY, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 70year-old man has died after becoming trapped in a grain bin in eastern Nebraska.

The Platte County Sheriff’s Office says the accident was reported a little before 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at a farm southeast of Humphrey. The man’s body was removed from the bin shortly after emergency workers arrived.

The man’s name and other details haven’t been released. The accident is being investigated.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 31-year-old man has been given 35 to 40 years in prison for running into and killing a Creighton University professor while driving drunk in Omaha.

Pedro Diego-Antonio had pleaded guilty to a felony charge of vehicular homicide with a prior conviction for driving under the influence. He was sentenced on Wednesday in Douglas County District Court.

Authorities say Diego-Antonio had drunk more than a dozen beers last June and was driving down Dodge Street when his car struck Dr. Edward Horowitz, who was in a crosswalk, crossing with the proper signal. Horowitz was a physician and an associate professor of medicine at Creighton.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Government scientists say more than a dozen regions in the United States have experienced a rise in man-made earthquakes in recent years.

A report released Thursday found that 17 areas in eight states have seen small quakes triggered by oil and gas drilling. They include parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas.

The U.S. Geological Survey says most of the shaking is caused by the oil and gas industry injecting wastewater deep underground, which can activate dormant faults. A few cases stemmed from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

The agency plans to study how often man-made quakes are expected to occur in the next year and how much shaking they would produce.

Scientists released the report at an earthquake meeting in Pasadena, California.

DENVER (AP) — Colorado Republicans have advanced legislation to make the killing of a fetus a homicide in response to the case of a woman accused of cutting into the belly of an expectant mother to claim the baby.

A GOP-led state Senate committee voted 3-2 along party lines Wednesday to advance the bill to the full Senate.

Prosecutors say under current law they can’t pursue murder charges in the attack against the Colorado pregnant woman because a medical examiner found no evidence the infant was alive outside the womb.

The suspect faces charges that could send her to prison for life if she is convicted of all the counts.

Republicans say that doesn’t do the case justice.

Democrats contend the bill infringes on abortion rights by extending certain protections to unborn children.

Republicans insist the measure has exceptions to protect abortion rights.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Prairie grass at the Nebraska State Fairgrounds has been cleared through prescribed burning.

Dave Carr, the prescribed burn coordinator for the Central Platte Natural Resources District, burned grass at the fair grounds on Tuesday. Prescribed burns are conducted to kill cool-weather grasses while promoting the growth of native prairie grasses, flowers and plants.

Carr says native grasses make excellent habitats for birds, which can roost in the tall stems as they look for insects to eat. He also says the native grasses make good cover for small wildlife species.

The coordinator says Tuesday’s prescribed burn was requested by the Groundwater Guardians, which received grants to help develop the native grass area known as the Outdoor Learning Center.