LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln police say a man was killed after his car hit a bridge’s support beam.

Capt. Jeff Bucher says the driver was traveling eastbound on State Fair Park Road when his car left the road and hit the beam around 6 p.m. Thursday. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. His identity isn’t being released until his family is notified of his death.

Investigators are still trying to determine why the car left the road. The driver was alone in the car at the time of the wreck.

Bucher says there wasn’t any structural damage to the beam or overpass.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 75-year-old man has been given 30 days in jail for the crash death of an Omaha motorcyclist.

Online court records say Robert Tedford was sentenced on Thursday. He’d pleaded no contest and was convicted of misdemeanor vehicular homicide.

Omaha police have said 21-year-old John Neal, of Omaha, was traveling north on North 30th Street last September when his motorcycle collided with a southbound van making a left turn. The force of the collision caused Neal to go through the side window of the van, which was being driven by Tedford.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man has been charged with sexual assault after a woman staying at his home claimed he raped her.

43-year-old Ricky Lee Jackson was charged Wednesday with first-degree sexual assault. He remained in custody Thursday.

Police say Jackson allowed a woman he knows to stay at his apartment in November after she had gone out drinking with her friends. The woman told police she fell asleep several times and continuously woke up to Jackson performing sexual acts on her.

Officer Michelle Jochum says the woman reported the alleged sexual assault the next morning. Police say they interviewed Jackson about the incident Tuesday after months of investigation. He told officers he didn’t hear the woman tell him to stop.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will become the fifth state to allow its residents to carry concealed firearms without a permit throughout the state.

Republican Gov. Sam Brownback on Thursday signed a bill ending the permit requirement. The change takes effect July 1.

The National Rifle Association says Kansas joins Alaska, Arizona, Vermont and Wyoming in having such a policy. The NRA says Montana and Arkansas have concealed carry without a permit, but not everywhere.

Kansas still will issue permits for gun owners who want to carry concealed in other states that recognize Kansas permits. A person seeking a Kansas permit must undergo eight hours of firearms training.

Brownback said gun owners have shown they are responsible.

But Democratic state Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau of Wichita said the state still should require some training.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 40-year-old man has been accused of fraudulently overbilling Lancaster County and his employer for his services as a mental health counselor.

Jason Christensen, of Hickman, surrendered to Lincoln police on Thursday. Officer Katie Flood says Christensen was booked into jail on suspicion of felony theft. It’s unclear whether Christensen has an attorney. Online court records don’t yet list the case.

Flood says Christensen billed Lancaster County’s mental health program and his employer, Counseling Affiliates of Nebraska, for hundreds of hours he didn’t work between February and June of last year. The total was more than $17,600.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 30-year-old man has been sent to jail for recording images of his female employees changing clothes in a locker room at a Lincoln restaurant.

Online court records say Dustin Lindgren, of Milford, on Wednesday was sentenced to 180 days in jail and five years of probation. Lindgren had pleaded no contest and been convicted of two counts of unlawful intrusion. A third count was dropped in a deal with prosecutors.

Authorities say Lindgren was manager of the Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery when he used a cellphone hidden in a jacket pocket to record at least 12 women in January and February 2014. One of the women noticed the phone and notified police.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Four Lincoln companies are merging into one marketing firm with more than 200 employees who will be providing a wide variety of services.

The four who joined for the Wednesday announcement are Firespring, Cornerstone Print & Marketing, Snitily Carr and 42. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed.

The companies will operate under their names until the end of May. Then they’ll consolidate under the Firespring name and move into Firespring’s office in southwest Lincoln. Officials say all the employees are being retained.

Among the four firms’ clients are Duncan Aviation, Union Pacific, Cabela’s, Cargill, GE and Honeywell.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Fremont man is scheduled to be sentenced in July for the traffic death of an off-duty Omaha firefighter.

Online court records say 31-year-old Jonathan Mumm has pleaded no contest and been convicted of misdemeanor vehicular homicide. Investigators say Mumm’s pickup struck a motorcycle driven by 37-year-old Scott Petersen around 12:20 a.m. on May 30 in western Douglas County.

Mumm faces up to a year in jail. His sentencing hearing is set for July 2.

 

MONROE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say three people were injured in a multi-vehicle wreck near Monroe.

The Platte County Sheriff’s Office says all three drivers in the Tuesday morning crash were taken to Columbus Community Hospital. Their conditions weren’t immediately known.

The drivers were alone in their vehicles at the time of the accident, which occurred near the intersection of Nebraska Highway 22 and 310th Avenue.

The Sheriff’s Office says the wreck occurred after two vehicles had stopped at a railroad crossing. Another vehicle struck one of the two vehicles from behind, causing it to hit the vehicle in front of it.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A grieving father has rented space on two Omaha billboards, hoping they will help authorities find and prosecute whoever killed his daughter and a man with her.

Johnnie Wofford said the billboards and the messages they carry are in northeast Omaha, not far from where his daughter, 23-year-old Johnnesha Brown, and 27-year-old Stephen Arps were shot in November.

Wofford says he hopes the billboards will “get Johnnesha and Stephen some type of justice; let both families, the Arps and the Woffords, get some type of closure.”

Authorities have not arrested and charged anyone with killing the couple.