LOUISVILLE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a man was flown to Omaha for treatment after he was wounded in a shooting.

Cass County Sheriff William Brueggemann said in a news release that deputies responded Tuesday night to a report of a possible accidental shooting at a home in Louisville. He said 24-year-old Andrew Urban was handling his rifle inside the home’s living room when it fired. The bullet penetrated a wall and hit the side of the garage door opening.

The release says it appears debris from the bullet exiting the door opening struck Urban’s roommate, 24-year-old Lawrence Schram. He was flown to Nebraska Medical Center for treatment of his chest wound.

The case is being investigated.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say a man has died in a three-vehicle crash in north-central Omaha.

Police say the crash happened Wednesday morning at Maple and 94th streets when a sport utility vehicle began weaving, went over a curb and crossed two lanes of traffic and across a center median before hitting a pickup truck and a car travelling the opposite direction.

Forty-nine-year-old Kenneth Evans of Omaha, who was driving the SUV, was pronounced dead at the scene. Police are investigating whether a medical condition suffered by Evans led to the crash.

The driver of the pickup suffered a knee injury, and the driver and a passenger in the car were uninjured.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former Omaha Tribal official who admitted using federal funds to give himself a bonus has been sentenced to probation and ordered to pay restitution.

Former council member Doran Morris Jr. was given five years of probation at his sentencing Friday in U.S. District Court in Omaha. Morris was ordered to pay restitution of more than $13,400. He’d pleaded guilty to misapplication of health care benefit program funds.

Prosecutors say nine former and current officials misused federal funds by awarding themselves nearly $389,000 in bonuses. Officials say the bonuses were paid from Indian Health Service funds meant to provide health care to members of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska, who reside on the Omaha Reservation in Macy in northeastern Nebraska and in western Iowa.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln’s mayor says the city didn’t win $1 million grant it wanted for an autonomous shuttle project but will continue looking for ways to pay for the idea.

Mayor Chris Beutler said Monday that Nebraska’s capital was not among the nine cities awarded $1 million by Bloomberg Philanthropies in its 2018 Mayors Challenge.

Under an earlier $100,000 Bloomberg grant , Lincoln refined its shuttle idea and tested driverless shuttles on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Innovation Campus. More than 1,500 riders participated and provided feedback for the project team.

Beutler says the city is still in the running for a $5 million grant from a U.S. Department of Transportation program.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha school district has built an “ACT culture” to aid students in doing well on the college entrance exam.

The Millard Public Schools district already was giving the test to all students before the state dropped a battery of assessment tests in favor of the ACT.

Heather Phipps is the district’s associate superintendent for educational services and she told the Omaha World-Herald that the district is “several years into building what we are calling an ‘ACT culture.'”

When Millard first started giving the ACT, teachers took old ACT exams so they knew what the tests look like and what kind of questions students were being asked. Phipps says the goal was not to teach to the test but rather to ensure teachers understood.

The district has also brought in an ACT preparation consultant who emphasizes the rewards of high scores and gives test-taking tips such as running around during test breaks to get the students’ blood flowing.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Jurors at the trial of a former Omaha police officer charged with assault stemming from a deadly encounter with a mentally ill man will not learn that it led to the officer’s firing, a judge ruled.

Scotty Payne, 39, is charged with felony assault and use of a weapon in the June 5, 2017, death of Zachary Bearheels. Police said Bearheels, 29, was acting erratically at an Omaha convenience store and fought officers’ efforts to take him into custody. He lived in Murdo, South Dakota.

At a pre-trial hearing Thursday, Judge J. Russell Derr ruled that jurors won’t hear that Payne was fired for violating procedures, including the barred use of a stun gun on a handcuffed person. Derr also barred testimony about why Payne’s police body camera wasn’t turned on and why he rode in the ambulance with Bearheels, the Omaha World-Herald reported.

Police cruiser video shows Payne using the stun gun on Bearheels and Officer Ryan McClarty dragging Bearheels by his hair and repeatedly punching him in the face. McClarty is due to stand trial in January on a misdemeanor assault charge.

Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said he decided against more serious charges because a coroner could not directly link the officers’ actions to Bearheels’ death. The coroner determined that Bearheels’ cause of death was excited delirium and other factors, including the stun gun jolts. Medical experts say excited delirium is characterized by agitation, aggression, acute distress and sudden death.

The judge barred the two sides from mentioning any possible link between the stun gun shocks and excited delirium, but the coroner will be able to testify about other issues, including whether Bearheels suffered pain from Payne’s actions.

The trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 26.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Sioux City man accused of ramming police cars on a chase that began in Nebraska has been sentenced to five more years in an Iowa prison.

Woodbury County court records say 43-year-old Larry Johnson II pleaded guilty to felony eluding after prosecutors dropped an assault charge. His plea agreement says the sentence must be served after the remainder of his 15-year sentence for forgery. He was on parole when the chase occurred July 6.

The Nebraska State Patrol says a Nebraska trooper tried to stop Johnson’s pickup truck being pursued by South Sioux City police. Officials say the truck rammed the trooper’s car before crossing into Iowa.

Officials say the truck again rammed both the trooper’s car and a sheriff’s vehicle before becoming stuck on a median.

His Nebraska case is pending.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A tow truck driver has been found not guilty for the crash deaths of two people south of Omaha.

A Sarpy County jury in Papillion (puh-PIHL’-yuhn) handed up the verdicts Thursday on 57-year-old James Helbert. He’d been charged with two counts of misdemeanor vehicular homicide.

Investigators say Helbert was driving the tow truck Jan. 5 when he crashed into the parked vehicles in the southbound lane to exit U.S. Highway 75 near Bellevue. Killed were 19-year-old Khalil Jones, of Daytona Beach, Florida, and 47-year-old Shamus Dean, of Papillion. They were outside their vehicles.

Police say Jones was an airman stationed at Offutt Air Force Base south of Omaha and say his car had stalled along the highway. Dean had pulled over to help. Two other people in Jones’ vehicle were injured.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A northeastern Nebraska husband and wife accused of locking a special-needs foster child in a basement storage room have been charged in federal court with kidnapping, child abuse, and false imprisonment.

Federal indictments against Charles and Krista Parker were unsealed Wednesday.

Prosecutors say the 10-year-old boy was found Sept. 15 in the basement room of the Macy home by Omaha Nation Law Enforcement Services officers.

Officials say Krista Parker was drunk and asleep in an upstairs bedroom.

The Parkers told police they only occasionally locked the boy in the room, but officers found the room covered in human feces and urine. The boy, who had been living with the couple for nine months, told officials that the room served as his bedroom, where he ate his meals and slept on the floor.

COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — A phone call to a wrong number in Nebraska delivered just what a man in pain needed: a ride to a hospital.

Lisa Nagengast said a driver for a Jimmy John’s sandwich shop rescued her brother, Greg Holeman, on Saturday night after he called her just as she arrived at the Tampa, Florida, airport. She had been in Nebraska to help Holeman get to his Columbus home after spinal fusion surgery three days earlier in Omaha. He called her in great pain and said he was oozing blood and his left leg had gone numb, Nagengast said.

Her brother is a veteran living on disability and didn’t have Department of Veterans Affairs’ approval to call an ambulance, she said. He also couldn’t afford a taxi to a hospital, she said.

Nagengast was still in the Tampa airport when she tried to call his VA social worker but misdialed and reached what turned out to be a right number: the Jimmy John’s in Columbus and its night manager, Jason Voss. She explained her problem.

“She was a little panicky,” Voss told the Omaha World-Herald on Tuesday. “At that point I figured I should take a minute to think about it. It was obviously not someone making something up; it was an actual situation going on.”

It took Nagengast a little while to realize she hadn’t reached her brother’s social worker.

“I apologized profusely. I was really embarrassed,” she told The Columbus Telegram. “I just told them, ‘Never mind.’ But somehow they found it in their hearts to help.”

Voss called delivery driver Zach Hillmer, who picked up Holeman and drove him to a hospital emergency room. Hillmer, a U.S. Navy veteran, said it was a privilege to help a fellow military man.

Sam Nixon, operating partner of Columbus’ Jimmy John’s, said he was proud.

“Those guys did that on their own accord, and that’s what was so special about it,” Nixon said.

Nagengast said her brother is back at home and doing OK.