LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Macy man charged with killing a bald eagle is arguing in federal court that prosecutors have greatly overvalued the bird at $10,000.

Lamar Bertucci says the eagle he shot in February is worth only about $2,000.

The bird’s worth could make a difference in Bertucci’s sentence. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jan Sharp says that in federal cases, the costlier the crime, the longer the time.

Bertucci pleaded guilty this year to shooting a bald eagle and a rough-legged hawk near Macy, crimes that carry up to 30 months in prison and $350,000 in fines.

Bertucci argues in his latest cast that when he was convicted in 2009 of possessing eagle parts, the bird was valued at $2,000.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police have identified the city’s latest homicide.

Police say officers were called to a south Omaha neighborhood around 4 a.m. Saturday for reports of a shooting and found 23-year-old Jose Fabila outside a home with a gunshot wound. Fabila was declared dead at the scene.

Police had not announced any arrests by late Saturday afternoon, but Omaha television station KETV reports that at least five people were taken to police headquarters for questioning.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Volkswind USA has halted its efforts to gain permission to build a wind farm near Hallam and Cortland in southeast Nebraska.

The company asked the Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Department to put its permit applications on hold. Sara Hartzell of the department says the Oregan-based company wants to do more noise studies and reach out to residents who are concerned about the project. Hartzell says placing an application on hold doesn’t mean the project is dead.

On Thursday, Volkswind USA’s president Jeffrey Wagner made a similar request for the company’s permit applications in Gage County. Wagner says the company wants to fine-tune the wind farm’s layout. He says he doesn’t know when the application process will resume.

Volkswind USA wants to build the wind farm on 7,000 acres of land in Lancaster County and 4,000 acres in Gage County.

A traffic stop for speeding on Interstate 80 in Seward County led to the seizure of 58 lbs. of marijuana and two arrests.

Around 10:30 a.m., Thursday, October 16, a trooper stopped an eastbound 2001 Nissan pickup for speeding just east of the Beaver Crossing exit in Seward County. The trooper was given consent to search the vehicle. The search led to the seizure of 58 lbs. of marijuana. The marijuana, contained in 52 packages, was located wired to the frame and undercarriage of the pickup.

The driver of the vehicle, Emily Guerrero, 60, of Bakersfield, Calif., and a passenger in the vehicle Francisco Herrera-Aguilera, 51, of Bakersfield, Calif., were both lodged in the Seward County Jail, each on a charge of possession of marijuana with intent to deliver.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the child sexual assault conviction of an Omaha man who had objected to a court reporter’s covert efforts to correct a faulty trial transcript.

Charles Kays was sentenced in 2011 to up to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing a prepubescent girl.

On appeal, Kays’ attorney noted mistakes with the official trial transcript — including that 13 jurors instead of 12 deliberated the case. The court reporter corrected the mistakes, printed a new version and shredded the original — without the approval of a judge, as required by law.

The Nebraska Court of Appeals last year upheld Kays’ conviction, and he appealed to the Nebraska Supreme Court. On Friday, the high court upheld the appeals court’s finding.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A civil liberties group is threatening to sue the city of Lincoln over a new written policy limiting leafleting and other public commentary outside the city’s new arena.

The Nebraska chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday it is considering a lawsuit over the policy, which was posted on the Pinnacle Bank Arena website earlier this week. It forbids leafleting, signature gathering and picketing in outdoor areas around the arena up to public sidewalks around the building, unless allowed by an arena tenant.

The policy comes after the March arrest of 77-year-old Larry Ball, who had been handing out religious pamphlets outside the arena. Police say Ball ventured beyond barricades despite several warnings, but Ball insists he was in a public area.

Charges against him were later dropped.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A 50-year-old suburban Omaha teacher accused of serving alcohol to minors has made a plea deal.

Online court records say Ann Urwiler pleaded guilty on Thursday to contributing to the delinquency of a child. Sarpy County prosecutors dropped a charge of procuring alcohol for a minor in exchange for her plea. The records say her husband, 48-year-old Jon Urwiler, made the same deal and also pleaded guilty.

Sentencing for the Urwilers is scheduled for Dec. 4. They live in Papillion (puh-PIHL’-yuhn). Police say officers saw teenagers fleeing from a party at the Urwiler home in July.

A school district spokeswoman said Friday that Ann Urwiler quit in September. Urwiler had been a first-grade teacher at Papillion’s Trumble Park Elementary School.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln police have arrested a man who they say escaped from officers after being handcuffed at an elementary school.

The 32-year-old man was visiting his daughter at Prescott Elementary School when officers attempted to make the arrest. The man was wanted for questioning in a disturbance and a theft from earlier in the month.

Officers say he broke free while being escorted to the police car and they chased him on foot. They set up a perimeter and a K-9 unit later found the man hiding in an area garage.

He was cited for escape, criminal mischief and trespassing.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln police have arrested a 21-year-old man in connection to a motorcycle crash that killed his girlfriend.

Officer Katie Flood tells said the man was jailed Wednesday on suspicion of manslaughter. Police say he was driving a motorcycle at 80 mph in a 40 mph zone with his girlfriend as a passenger on July 19. They say he ran a red light and crashed into a Jeep.

His girlfriend died at the scene of the crash. He was treated at an area hospital and released.

It’s unclear why he wasn’t arrested sooner.

RICHLAND, Neb. (AP) — Authorities in eastern Nebraska say two people have been hospitalized after a car collided with a tractor pulling a grain wagon.

The Colfax County Attorney’s Office says an 18-year-old woman was driving on U.S. Highway 30 near Richland on Thursday. Authorities say she struck the wagon from behind and her car rolled on top of it.

Both drivers were transported to a Schuyler hospital. Their conditions weren’t reported but authorities say their injuries aren’t life threatening.