OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Douglas County public employees union has filed a lawsuit against its former president to recover at least $28,000 that disappeared during her tenure.

The Employees United Labor Association filed the lawsuit against Anne Hurley earlier this month accusing her of using dues money for personal purposes.

Hurley’s attorney, Matt Kahler, says his client denies any wrongdoing and plans to answer the lawsuit next week.

Hurley, who led the union from 2009 to 2012, has worked in the Register of Deeds office for 15 years.

Register of Deeds Diane Battiato says Hurley told her about the accusations. Battiato says she views this as a dispute between the union and Hurley.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Two men have been charged in arrest warrants in the weekend shooting death of an Omaha man.

Omaha police announced Wednesday that 24-year-old Absalom Scott and 29-year-old Rico Larry have been arrested and charged with first-degree murder and weapons counts in the Sunday shooting death of 59-year-old Frank Sanders.

Police officers responding to a call of a shooting around 11 p.m. Sunday found Sanders dead in a midtown Omaha apartment.

COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — A 58-year-old Columbus man has pleaded no contest to charges he stabbed his wife and initiated a two-hour standoff with police.

Alfredo Santistevan pleaded to second-degree assault and terroristic threats charges.

Court documents say Santistevan’s wife had a knife wound on her hand and swelling of her eye and nose.

Santistevan was arrested after the standoff and taken to a local hospital to be treated for self-inflicted knife wounds. Since his hospital release he has been held at the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Diagnostic and Evaluation Center in Lincoln.

He faces up to 25 years in prison.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A judge has signed off on a $100,000 settlement the city of Omaha will pay to a man who sued the city and several police officers he accused of using excessive force in his 2011 arrest.

The city will pay Robert Wagner $32,000 in damages and $68,000 in legal fees and other costs. U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon signed the order Tuesday.

The videotaped arrest of Wagner in May 2011 outside an Omaha hospital emergency room led to accusations of police brutality.

A hospital security camera captured images of several Omaha police officers pinning down Wagner in the hospital’s parking lot. The video seemed to show one officer kicking him while he was restrained on the ground. Two officers were fired, but both were later reinstated following arbitration.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Work is scheduled to begin next week on Interstate 80 in northwest Lincoln.

The project includes reconstructing the interstate to six lanes and rebuilding the Northwest 48th Street interchange. Work also will be done on the Northwest 56th Street bridge.

The Nebraska Roads Department says motorists can expect nighttime lane closures. The work is expected to be finished in the fall of 2016.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center have received a $10 million grant to study antibiotic-resistant infections linked to implanted devices.

Researcher Ken Bayles says his team is working to find ways to get rid of the staph infection methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, that can form on medical devices before they are implanted in people.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated last year that MRSA kills about 11,000 people annually.

Roughly 1-to-5 percent of implanted devices are infected with bacteria. And if the bacteria can’t be treated with antibiotics, the device has to be removed, so the infection can be treated and then replaced.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Gone is the familiar sight of banners plastered on the side of towering grain elevator silos along eastbound Interstate 80 in Omaha.

The art ranged from geometric shapes to graphic designs of bacon and corn. In all, 26 banners covered the upper portions of the silos.

Workers from Davis Erection removed the banners this week.

The “Stored Potential” banners were a project of Emerging Terrain, a community development nonprofit that no longer operates in Omaha.

Emerging Terrain founder Ann Trumble, of Los Angeles, says the “Stored Potential” project, begun in 2010, was always meant to be temporary. She says the artists who designed the banners have already spoken for them, and some of the artists have other plans for their use.

CENTRAL CITY, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man has been sentenced to two decades in prison for causing a fatal wreck that killed a Columbus woman last year.

31-year-old Christopher Hajek of Marquette was sentenced to 20 years in prison for a felony charge of vehicular homicide.

Hajek was also charged with a DUI and pleaded no contest in May. His driver’s license has also been revoked for 15 years.

Hajek was charged after authorities say he caused a 2013 accident that killed 22-year-old Amanda Asche on U.S. Highway 30 near Clarks.

Police say Asche was heading east on the highway when her vehicle was hit by Hajek’s pickup.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska couple has chosen an unusual venue for their wedding.

Janyl Jumadinova (juh-mah-DEEN’-oh-vah) and Oliver Bonham-Carter exchanged vows Saturday in Forest Lawn Cemetery. The ceremony took place in a 101-year-old chapel designed by an Omaha architect who helped design Joslyn Castle and the Joslyn Art Museum.

The bride is from Kyrgyzstan (KEER’-gih-stan) and holds a firm belief in spirits. Some of the groom’s ancestors are buried in the cemetery.

The couple married earlier this year in a small ceremony in Pennsylvania. They wanted to hold another ceremony so friends and family could bear witness.

Relatives of the couple traveled over 6,000 miles to attend.

HOMER, Neb. (AP) — A truck driver was injured when a locomotive ran into the trailer he was hauling in northeast Nebraska.

The accident occurred a little before 5 p.m. Monday at an uncontrolled crossing near Homer.

Dakota County deputies say the semitrailer’s cab cleared the tracks but the locomotive struck the trailer.

The truck driver was flown to Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City. His name hasn’t been released.