The Nebraska State Patrol says the four range in age from 13 to 17 and were taken into custody last week.

Two will be charged in Greeley County and two in Nance County with three counts each of conspiracy to commit first-degree assault.

A Spalding student first reported threats on Oct. 28. The patrol and school district didn’t elaborate on the nature of the threats.

Reginald Burton has applied to the state’s Board of Medicine and Surgery, which is scheduled to vote Dec. 7 on his application for reinstatement.

In October last year, he agreed to a 20-month suspension after allegations of unprofessional conduct with patients. The suspension was backdated to January.

A petition filed with state regulators listed nearly 20 concerns from Burton’s former co-workers at Bryan Health. Several of the allegations deal with alleged misconduct involving young adult male patients.

His attorney, Wayne Waite, has said the complaint was based “almost entirely on the fear of working with someone with a different sexual orientation,” referring to Burton being a gay man.

The patrol says the first crash occurred around 6:50 p.m. Sunday as the two units were headed east with lights and sirens activated. The first unit collided with a civilian car, and the patrol says that caused a secondary crash between the second patrol vehicle and a small pickup truck.

The patrol says medics were sent to the scene. None of the people involved was taken to a hospital. Their names haven’t been released.

73-year-old Gary Roost was hit while flagging traffic at 11:50 a.m. Thursday on Nebraska Highway 35 near Dakota City, between mile markers 56 and 57. Roost was taken to a local hospital by ambulance.

The Dakota County Sheriff’s Office says the vehicle was driven by 88-year-old Irvin Schlickbernd, of Emerson. Schlickbernd was cited for disobeying a traffic control device and careless driving. He was not injured.

The state’s high court said in its ruling Friday that 77-year-old Gilbert Lundstrom’s license was already inactive and that he voluntarily surrendered his license in September, noting that he had been convicted in federal court of 12 fraud-related felony counts.

Lundstrom was sentenced in 2016 to 11 years in federal prison for his role in the 2010 failure of Lincoln-based TierOne Bank, where he had served as chief executive officer.

Prosecutors said Lundstrom conspired with other bank officers to hide the bank’s troubled finances from regulators and shareholders.

Lancaster County District Judge Jodi L. Nelson ruled Thursday that the liability policies Gage County purchased in 1989 do not cover the county’s mishandling of the so-called Beatrice Six case.

Gage County faces a $28.1 million federal judgment after it lost a lawsuit filed by the six people who were wrongfully convicted and served a combined 75 years in prison for the murder of 68-year-old Helen Wilson.

The six were exonerated by DNA evidence in 2008 and won their lawsuit in 2016. A federal appeals court rejected Gage County’s appeal earlier this year, leaving local officials with few options other than paying the judgment.

The policies in question were purchased through Employer’s Mutual Casualty. Attorneys for the county asked a judge to determine whether a series of liability insurance policies would pay all or part of the damages or legal fees from the case.

Nelson ruled in October that insurance policies Gage County carried through the Nebraska Intergovernmental Risk Management Association, a risk-sharing pool, were not in effect when the six were arrested. That coverage went into effect in 1997. On Thursday, Nelson reached the same conclusion on the Employer’s Mutual Casualty policies, which carried the county’s insurance from Feb. 2, 1989, until Feb. 2, 1990.

The state’s appellate courts have not yet heard the issue.

Nelson said the language of the Employer’s Mutual Casualty policy excluded “any and all professional services,” but did not define what those services were. Attorneys for Gage County argued that law enforcement was an occupation, not a professional service, but Nelson said Nebraska case law defines professional acts and services as those requiring “special learning or attainments of some kind.”

“The allegations in the Beatrice Six complaints involve ‘decision-making based on an officer’s training and experience,'” Nelson wrote. “The Gage County sheriff and his deputies investigated the rape and murder of Helen Wilson by using law enforcement’s specialized decision-making process.”

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit Thursday against El Vallarta, a Mexican restaurant in Gretna.

The lawsuit says the teen was subjected to repeated, inappropriate comments about her body when she worked at the restaurant between 2016 and 2017. It alleges the manager, Hector Barron, knew about the harassment and grabbed the teenager’s buttocks at work.

The agency alleges that when the teen reported Barron’s conduct, he showed up unannounced at her home several times and tried to confront her.

A man who answered the restaurant’s phone said he was busy and asked a reporter to call back later.

The high court on Friday rejected Benjamin Thompson’s appeal arguments to suppress evidence and also upheld his 12-to-15 year sentence for a fifth-offence drunken driving conviction.

But it said Thompson’s trial court erred in sentencing him to a total of 10 years on other counts — including negligent child abuse and failure to render aid — because it didn’t give a minimum and maximum range as required by state law.

Police say Thompson was drunk and had his three daughters in the car when he ran a red light and collided with another vehicle in October 2016. He sped away and was later found dumping alcohol containers in a trash can. His three injured daughters were still in the car.

The crash left his then 8-year-old daughter in a persistent vegetative state.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 28-year-old Omaha mother has been charged in the bathtub drowning last month of her 9-month-old baby.

Hanin Alnajjar appeared in a Douglas County courtroom Thursday to face a charge of negligent child abuse resulting in death.

Prosecutors say Alnajjar’s 9-year-old daughter told police that her mother left the baby and a 2-year-old in the bath alone with the water running. Police say the baby was found face up in the tub. Alnajjar’s daughter told police the water was running onto the baby’s face.

Alnajjar’s surviving children have been taken from her custody. Alnajjar is being held on $250,000 bail.