PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a Sarpy County inmate smuggled drugs into the jail and gave some to another inmate, and both now face new drug possession charges.

The Sarpy County Sheriff’s Office said a 24-year-old inmate smuggled methamphetamine into the jail when she was booked Wednesday.

The next day, deputies learned that the woman and another inmate — a 20-year-old woman — had drugs. A search turned up meth in a shampoo bottle.

In a strip search room, the 20-year-old pulled a small wrapper containing meth from a body cavity and said she got the drugs from the other inmate.

Authorities say the other inmate ate meth in an attempt to hide it, then tried to spit it out. She was still hospitalized Friday.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A judge has denied a request for freedom by a 51-year-old man serving life for having his grandmother killed in 1984, despite the new testimony of two doctors who say she most likely died from a lung disease, not suffocation.

Lancaster County District Judge Steven Burns on Friday denied James Saylor’s motion for post-conviction relief.

Prosecutors say he hired another man, Michael Sapp, to kill 83-year-old Lena Saylor for a $25,000 inheritance. Sapp, who prosecutors say smothered the woman, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 13 to 40 years. He has since been released.

Burns said the doctors’ testimony did not outweigh other evidence in the case — including Saylor’s recorded admission that he had hired someone to kill his grandmother.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s Lymphoma Walk will be held next month at Mahoney State Park near Ashland in eastern Nebraska.

The free event is hosted by the Lymphoma Research Foundation and will begin at 10 a.m. April 18, with registration at 9 a.m. at the park pavilion.

Although the event is free, vehicles must buy a $5 park permit at the park gate.

Proceeds from the non-competitive event benefit Nebraskans through research grants and patient services. The five past walks have raised $418,000 through walk participants and sponsors.

About 450 new cases of lymphoma are diagnosed in Nebraskans each year.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s dismissal of post-conviction claims by an Omaha man sentenced to life for the 2000 killing a 19-year-old college student.

Richard Cook was convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of Amy Stahlecker, who was killed after her car suffered a flat tire west of Omaha. Stahlecker’s bullet-riddled body was found under an Elkhorn River bridge.

The high court on Friday affirmed a lower court’s refusal to hold an evidentiary hearing for a slew of claims by Cook. Among those claims was that former Douglas County crime lab chief David Kofoed planted evidence in Cook’s case.

Kofoed was convicted in 2010 of evidence tampering in an unrelated murder case.

The high court said Cook offered no facts to back up the claims.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A judge has found the mother of an Omaha man convicted of killing four people guilty of being an accessory.

On Friday Judge Peter Bataillon (buh-TAL’-yuhn) found 48-year-old Lori Jenkins guilty on two counts. He’d heard the case without a jury.

Her son, Nikko Jenkins, is awaiting a June death penalty hearing. He was convicted of first-degree murder for shooting to death Juan Uribe-Pena, Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz, Curtis Bradford and Andrea Kruger in the 10 days after his release from prison in July 2013.

Prosecutors say Lori Jenkins concealed evidence about the purchase of ammunition her son used and helped dispose of clothing that had gunshot residue on it. She was acquitted of a third count.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha attorney who pleaded guilty last year to helping run a Ponzi scheme has agreed to give up his Nebraska law license.

The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday accepted the voluntary surrender of Michael Kratville’s law license.

Kratville is one of three people indicted for operating a Ponzi scheme that swindled 100 people out of $4 million. He was found guilty in December of wire fraud. Prosecutors are seeking no more than seven years in prison for Kratville when he’s sentenced in April.

Authorities say Kratville and two other men operated two companies that guaranteed large returns and low risk to investors. Prosecutors say the men actually lost money and fraudulently hid their losses from investors.

YORK, Neb. (AP) — The York County Sheriff’s Department has denied allegations that local jail staffers have been eavesdropping on phone conversations between inmates and their attorneys.

In a warning letter sent Thursday to police, American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska’s legal director Amy Miller says her office has received complaints from attorneys and detainees who are concerned that the department is monitoring their phone conversations. Miller requested that the department review procedures to ensure the staff understands those calls and visits are confidential.

York County Sheriff Dale Radcliff denies that his department has ever listened to exchanges between inmates and attorneys.

The sheriff has turned the letter over to the county attorney’s office.

Two people are in jail and five pounds of meth seized after a search warrant is served at an Omaha home.

The Nebraska State Patrol along with allied agencies in the Omaha metro area served the search warrant around 6:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 18 at 4513 S. 40^th Street, Omaha. The search led to the seizure of five separate packages containing five pounds of methamphetamine. The methamphetamine has an estimated street value of $50,000.

The occupants of the residence, Wendy A Flores, 36, of Tolleson, Arizona and Luis Guillermo Sanchez- Fraijo, 27, of Omaha, were both lodged in the Douglas County Corrections each on a charge of Possession  of Methamphetamine with Intent to Deliver.

GRAFTON, Neb. (AP) — The Fillmore County sheriff says a 60-year-old Grafton man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in the shooting of his 62-year-old brother.

Sheriff William Burgess says the 60-year-old man was taken into custody on Thursday afternoon, after calling 911 to report the shooting that happened at his home’s driveway in Fillmore County.

Burgess says the brothers had gotten into an argument before the shooting, though it’s unclear what it was about.

Grafton authorities found the suspect’s brother with two gunshot wounds. The 62-year-old was taken to the Fillmore County Hospital and then transferred to a Lincoln hospital.

The sheriff says he was out of surgery Thursday night, but an update on his condition wasn’t immediately available.

An investigation is ongoing.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha real estate agent accused of running a sports bookmaking operation has temporarily lost his real estate license.

The Nebraska Real Estate Commission voted Thursday to suspend the license of 44-year-old Todd Bartusek for 18 months. Bartusek will have 18 months of probation after the suspension. During probation he’ll be allowed to practice real estate as long as he doesn’t commit any more violations.

In February Bartusek was sentenced to three years of criminal probation for federal tax evasion. Prosecutors say an Internal Revenue Service investigation determined that Bartusek worked as a bookie from 2007 through 2010 and didn’t report his income of at least $735,000 from the operation during that time.