LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police have arrested several teens who are suspected of being involved with a string of car thefts in Lincoln.

The Lincoln Police Department says five teens were found in a stolen vehicle Tuesday afternoon in the parking lot of an apartment complex near Leighton Avenue and 86th Street. The car had been reported stolen Monday night.

Four teens in the vehicle were referred to juvenile court for possession of a stolen car. The driver was cited on charges of fleeing to avoid arrest and reckless driving. Two of the five also face additional charges on suspicion of stealing two other cars.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Douglas County prosecutor says an Omaha man accused of killing his older brother sliced his throat to make sure he was dead.

Prosecutor David Wear said Wednesday that 23-year-old Stephen Russell used a knife to saw his brother’s neck for a minute. The body of 27-year-old Jonathan Russell was found by his mother Saturday at the family home. He died of multiple stab wounds and from his throat being slit.

Stephen Russell was charged with first-degree murder and use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony after turning himself in to authorities.

A judge has ordered that Stephen Russell be held without bail. Online court records don’t list an attorney to request comment on his behalf.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A livestock feed company has agreed to pay $78,000 in penalties related to last year’s collapse of International Nutrition’s Omaha plant that killed two workers.

The Labor Department’s Occupational Health and Safety Administration announced the settlement Wednesday. Originally, regulators had sought nearly $121,000 in penalties.

As part of the agreement, International Nutrition agreed to hire a consultant to ensure the new plant it is building will comply with all OSHA standards. The company makes nutritional products that are added to livestock and poultry feed.

Federal safety investigators determined that overloaded storage bins on the roof of the plant caused the January 2014 collapse, killing 47-year-old David Ball and 53-year-old Keith Everett. Several other workers were injured, and four were trapped in the rubble and had to be rescued by firefighters.

WOOD RIVER, Neb. (AP) — The executive director of a program to enhance habitat for endangered waterfowl says that his organization’s Platte River island work did not cause flooding along a road in Wood River.

Jerry Kenny spoke to the Hall County board Tuesday, two weeks after the board heard testimony from landowners who live along Shoemaker Island Road. The landowners say nesting islands created by the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program is responsible for the ice jam flooding that damaged road, pastures and cropland in February.

Kenny said the program’s work, which has been testing whether certain waterfowl need nesting ground in the river as opposed to along it, was permitted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Some of the landowners who were at Kenny’s presentation and board members questioned the program’s choice of location for the nesting islands and its alteration of the river.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Douglas County jury has found a man guilty of first-degree murder in the 2012 slaying of a 16-year-old Omaha girl.

Tracy Parnell was convicted Tuesday in the drive-by shooting that killed Eriana Carr and injured Nakia Johnson.

Police had said that Parnell threatened Johnson at gunpoint a few days before the October 2012 shooting, because she had invited a rival gang member to the apartment she shared with Parnell’s girlfriend.

Parnell’s sentence hearing has been scheduled for June.

YANKTON, S.D. (AP) — Authorities are continuing to search for a 6-year-old southeastern South Dakota boy believed drowned in the Missouri River on Easter.

Lincoln Hilt, of Hurley, went missing Sunday night while fishing with family from the docks at a city park in Yankton. He had received a fishing pole in his Easter basket Sunday morning.

Yankton Police Chief Brian Paulsen says South Dakota and Nebraska officials taking part in the search are using several boats and will use airplanes weather permitting.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Students, parents and alumni of an Omaha Catholic high school are among the thousands who’ve signed an online petition calling for the school to reverse its decision to fire a teacher over his same-sex relationship.

The change.org petition seeks to save the job of Matthew Eledge, an English teacher and Skutt Catholic High School’s speech team coach. His team recently won its fourth straight state championship.

According to petition organizer and Eledge’s assistant coach, Kacie Hughes, Eledge was told his contract would not be renewed if he went ahead with plans to marry his partner. Eledge was traveling Tuesday and could not be reached for comment.

The petition launched Tuesday morning had 9,000 signatures by midafternoon.

Skutt President John McMahon declined to comment, citing the school’s personnel confidentiality policy.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha man acquitted of first-degree murder in a fatal shooting will spend at least 15 years in prison in a separate case.

25-year-old Anthony Floyd was sentenced Tuesday to 25 to 35 years in prison on a charge of being a felon in possession of a weapon. He must serve 15 years before being eligible for parole.

Floyd was found not guilty in December in the shooting death of 31-year-old Rodney Hunt in October 2013. He was also acquitted of use of two weapons charges.

At the sentencing hearing, a judge called Floyd “extremely dangerous.”

In April 2014, while awaiting his murder trial, Floyd had his testicles partially detached during a fight with another inmate. He underwent surgery to reattach them.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Grand Island police say a 42-year-old officer was injured when his cruiser collided with a minivan.

The accident occurred around 6:50 a.m. Tuesday on East Highway 30. The Hall County Sheriff’s Office says Officer Wesley Tjaden (JAY’-dehn) was driving west when his marked cruiser collided with an eastbound minivan that was turning left to enter a business parking lot.

Tjaden was taken to St. Francis Medical Center for treatment and soon was released. Sheriff’s Sgt. Quinn Webb says the van driver wasn’t injured but was cited for failure to yield.

The Sheriff’s Office handled the accident investigation because a police officer was involved.