GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man who killed his fiancee in a drunken-driving crash has been sentenced to five to eight years in prison.

A judge on Tuesday sentenced 30-year-old Johnny Alvarez. He pleaded no contest to felony motor vehicle homicide and driving under the influence in September. Both charges were reduced in a plea deal.

Alvarez was hospitalized for four months after the August 2013 crash that killed passenger Jamie Lohman Sandate. He had two pervious DUI convictions and his blood alcohol content was nearly twice the legal limit at the time.

Authorities say he lost control of his car, hit an electrical pole and then drove into a tree. Sandate died at the scene.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha Public Schools says it plans to meet with the mother of a 12-year-old boy who died following an incident at a school swimming pool.

Superintendent Mark Evans on Tuesday did not provide new details about the Thursday incident at Nathan Hale Magnet Middle School. Student Demariont’e Brown-Elliott died Friday at a hospital.

Evans says the school district is not permitted to share information about the incident with anyone other than the boy’s mother.

An attorney representing the family of Demariont’e says the school district owes them an explanation.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say they’re investigating a home invasion in Omaha that involved several people being tied up.

Police say they responded to a report early Tuesday about a home invasion at a residence in western Omaha. Five people inside the residence told authorities three men in ski masks and dark clothing kicked in the front door and entered.

The individuals inside the residence say the men tied them up and assaulted two of them. Police say items were taken from the residence, including a green van in the garage.

Additional information about the case was not released.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A hunter has killed a mountain lion in northeast Nebraska’s Dakota County.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission says in a news release that the 89-pound female was killed on Monday morning. It’s the second mountain lion killed in what’s called the Prairie Unit since the season opened Jan. 1.

The commission has four units designated for hunting mountain lions. They are Pine Ridge in the northern Nebraska Panhandle, Upper Platte in the southern Panhandle, Keya Paha (kee-YAW’ puh-HAW’) in north-central Nebraska, and Prairie, which covers the rest of the state. The other units are closed for hunting now.

The hunting has drawn criticism from hunting opponents and people who don’t believe there are enough mountain lions in the state to justify the seasons.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police say a woman has plunged to her death from the top of a downtown parking garage in Lincoln.

Lincoln police say the incident occurred a little after 3 p.m. Monday. The falling woman struck a man on a sidewalk below. He is expected to be all right.

Police say the woman was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Police say she was identified as 28-year-old Monica Martinez, of Lincoln.

Investigators think Martinez jumped on purpose.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A 42-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for shooting to death his father at the family home in Gretna, a western suburb of Omaha.

Steven Braesch was sentenced on Monday in Sarpy County District Court. He’d been convicted of first-degree murder, a weapons charge and three counts of negligent child abuse. Investigators say Braesch shot his dad, 69-year-old William Braesch, five times within the clear view of three children under the age of 7. They are the slain man’s granddaughters.

Defense attorneys argued that their client should have been charged with manslaughter because the slaying occurred during a heated argument. They also argued that Steve Braesch’s mental health problems contributed to his mental state.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man has been arrested after police say he sexually abused his 13-year-old foster daughter.

The 38-year-old man has been charged with five counts of first-degree sexual assault. He is being held at the Douglas County Correctional Center without bond.

The Associated Press isn’t naming the man to protect the identity of the victim.

Prosecutors say he abused the girl during a six-month period this year. She tells authorities that they had sex multiple times.

The man and his wife became foster parents for the girl and her 10-year-old sister in September 2013. The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services removed the girls from the home in June.

CHICAGO (AP) — A large study of gay brothers adds to evidence that genes influence men’s chances of being homosexual. But the results aren’t strong enough to prove it.

Some scientists believe several genes might affect sexual orientation. Researchers who led the new study of nearly 800 gay brothers say their results bolster previous evidence pointing to genes on the X chromosome.

They also found evidence of influence from a gene or genes on a different chromosome. But the study doesn’t identify which of hundreds of genes located in either place might be involved.

Smaller studies seeking genetic links to homosexuality have had mixed results.

The work was published Monday by the journal Psychological Medicine. The National Institutes of Health paid for the research.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police say a woman who was sexually assaulted and set on fire in a Wichita park is in critical condition.

Lt. James Espinoza said Monday that police have been unable to interview her at the hospital due to her medication and condition.

Firefighters responding to a grass fire at the park Friday night found the 36-year-old woman with severe burns to 55 percent of her body and cuts on her head. Espinosa calls it a heinous and cruel act.

No one has been arrested. Espinoza says the woman gave a brief description of her assailant at the scene.

The attack occurred near Wichita State University, but the victim was not a student.

Police have been contacting area residents and are asking for witnesses to contact authorities.

RIVERTON, Wyo. (AP) — Authorities say a pack of dogs attacked and killed a woman on an American Indian reservation in central Wyoming.

Mark Stratmoen, chief deputy Fremont County coroner, said in statement Monday that 40-year-old Deanne Lynn Coando (CO-Ando) died last week at a hospital in the city of Riverton.

Preliminary autopsy results show Coando died of hypothermia and loss of blood from serious injuries she suffered Wednesday when multiple dogs attacked her on the Wind River Indian Reservation south of Riverton. Stratmoen says no one witnessed the attack.

Officials are urging the public to watch for any aggressive dogs. They’re encouraging residents to report problems to a law enforcement agency.

Stratmoen says Coando, of Ft. Washakie, was a member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe.