OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say one man has died and two have been critically injured in an Omaha shooting.

Omaha police spokesman Kevin Wiese says the three men were injured Thursday afternoon. He says 26-year-old Lamar King died at the scene. Nineteen-year-old Johnnie Wilson and 18-year-old Marcus Johnson were injured.

Wiese says the injured men made contact with authorities after leaving the scene to find help.

It’s unclear if police have made an arrest. They haven’t released other details about the shooting.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An eastern Nebraska man has been sentenced to several years in prison for an incident in March that involved a police officer using a Taser on him.

38-year-old Robert Bures was sentenced Thursday to three to six years on charges of attempted second-degree assault, terroristic threats and driving under a revoked license conviction.

Police say Bures rammed his vehicle into his estranged wife’s car before fleeing into the woods. He was accused of ignoring orders from an officer to drop a box cutter.

The officer eventually deployed the Taser on Bures and arrested him.

Bures’ attorney says his client has struggled with undiagnosed mental health problems.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Transportation Security Administration employees discovered a loaded handgun at a security checkpoint in an Omaha airport this week.

The TSA said Thursday a passenger tried to bring a .40 caliber Smith & Wesson handgun in a carry-on bag at Eppley Airfield on Wednesday. It was loaded with 14 rounds.

The Omaha Airport Authority Police Department interviewed the passenger, who was later released. The passenger has not been identified.

This is the 10th firearm found during security screenings at the airport this year.

The administration says it can fine passengers up to $11,000 for bringing a gun to a security checkpoint.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a Nebraska deputy was injured when he crashed into a parked car while tailing a suspect.

Lincoln Police Sgt. Ben Miller said a Lancaster County deputy suffered minor injuries in the Thursday night accident. Miller says the deputy was monitoring a possible DUI suspect on a highway when he hit a disabled car.

The driver of the vehicle was outside of the car at the time.

Miller says the deputy was hospitalized. His name has not been released.

Both vehicles were totaled.

SARONVILLE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a Hastings couple have been killed and two of their children injured in a collision in Clay County.

Clay County Sheriff Jeff Franklin says the accident occurred around 5:15 a.m. Thursday. The family was headed east on U.S. Highway 6 when their sport utility vehicle was struck by semitrailer that had been going south on Nebraska Highway 14. Franklin says the truck driver didn’t halt at a stop sign.

The 53-year-old man and his 52-year-old wife died in the collision. Their teenage son and daughter in her 20s were flown to a Lincoln hospital. Their names aren’t being released until relatives are notified about the accident.

The truck driver was arrested.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former Omaha police officer has been given one year of probation in an alleged excessive force case.

A Douglas County district judge sentenced 32-year-old James Kinsella on Thursday.

Kinsella was charged with two counts of obstruction of justice, after a charge of tampering with evidence was reduced. He pleaded no contest earlier this year.

Kinsella was one of several police officers involved in the March 2013 arrest of three brothers. He is accused of taking a memory card from a phone that that he believed had captured footage of the arrest. The memory card had no video evidence, which led to the obstruction charge being reduced.

Police officers were accused of using excessive force in the arrests.

NELIGH, Neb. (AP) — A November trial has been scheduled for two Nebraskans accused of cattle theft.

27-year-old Benjamin Johnson, of St. Edward, and 23-year-old Rebecca Robbins, of Lyons, have pleaded not guilty to three felony charges facing each. Their trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 17.

Johnson and Robbins are accused of selling about $100,000 worth of cattle taken from a Brunswick farm. The livestock has since been returned.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a 48-year-old Omaha man has been convicted of conspiracies to launder money and sell controlled substances, among other crimes in Nebraska and Iowa.

John Ways Jr. was found guilty on Wednesday after a 13-day trial in U.S. District Court in Omaha.

Prosecutors say that from February 2010 to December 2012, Ways operated head shops in Nebraska and Iowa called Exotica. Among other things, the stores sold drug paraphernalia and controlled substances that included synthetic drugs such as K2 and bath salts. Prosecutors say Ways laundered the proceeds from the sales through transactions at various banks and credit unions in the Omaha area.

He faces up to 55 years in prison and must forfeit more than $1.1 million in cash and property.

ST. ANTHONY, Idaho (AP) — A Nebraska man has died in an all-terrain vehicle crash at the St. Anthony Sand Dunes in eastern Idaho.

The Freemont County Sheriff’s Office says Phillip J. McDonald of Hastings died Wednesday at the area popular with ATV and motorcycle riders.

Authorities received a report of a crash at about 1:30 p.m.

Emergency responders pronounced McDonald dead at the scene.

Authorities didn’t say how the crash happened or if McDonald was wearing a helmet.

 

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A grand jury will review the shooting at a fast-food restaurant in Omaha that killed a robbery suspect and a crew member from the TV show “Cops.”

Omaha’s police chief says police and prosecutors have reviewed video of Tuesday’s shooting and found that the officers “had no choice” but to open fire after robbery suspect Cortez Washington pointed what looked like a real gun. It turned out to be a pellet gun.

Officers shot and killed Washington and a shot slipped past the bulletproof vest that sound man Bryce Dion was wearing.

Dion is the first crew member of the long-running show to be killed while filming police in action.

Chief Todd Schmaderer says it is “ridiculous” to suggest the officers overreacted knowing that cameras were recording them.

Schmaderer says his department is taking Dion’s death very hard.