OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A deaf student is appealing a federal judge’s ruling last December that said Creighton University doesn’t have to reimburse him the more than $100,000 he spent on special equipment and interpreters in his first two years of medical school.

Michael Argenyi’s cross-appeal was filed Wednesday after lawyers for Creighton filed their own appeal earlier this month. Creighton’s appeal challenges the judge’s ruling that it must provide Argenyi with the equipment and interpreters to allow him to finish med school.

Argenyi was accepted to Creighton’s medical school in 2008 after disclosing he was hearing-impaired and requesting accommodations to allow him to follow lectures and communicate with patients.

He sued in 2009, after leaving the school when the university refused his requests for interpreters — even if he paid for them himself.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — As soon as county supervisors approved the contract, Hall County Jail started housing state prisoners.

Six inmates were waiting in the jail’s sally port area as corrections director Fred Ruiz went downtown Tuesday to get the state contract OK’d and signed.

The state has been looking for ways to help relieve prison crowding. As of May 31, the state system was at 158 percent of capacity. Lawmakers passed legislation this spring that included authorization to house some of the overflow in county jails.

Ruiz told supervisors the state will pay $88 a day for each inmate and cover medical costs. He also says the state committed to place up to 100 prisoners at the jail in Grand Island.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say the confirmed twister that damaged part of Coleridge in northeast Nebraska’s Cedar County was rated EF2.

EF2 twisters have wind speeds ranging from 111 to 135 mph.

The Nebraska Emergency Management Agency the tornado began eight miles northwest of Coleridge on Tuesday. The agency also says the twister injured one person, destroyed one home and damaged several others.

Coleridge sits about 35 miles north of Pilger, which was heavily damaged by a tornado on Monday. Two people were killed.

WESSINGTON SPRINGS, S.D. (AP) — The National Weather Service says a confirmed tornado has hit a small town in central South Dakota.

Meteorologist Todd Heitkamp says law enforcement in Wessington Springs reported the tornado went right “through the heart of town.” It hit just before 8 p.m.

A spokeswoman for the hospital in town says one patient in good condition is being treated as a result of the tornado.

Heitkamp says homes and businesses have been damaged. Multiple calls to the Jerauld County Sheriff’s Office rang busy.

Confirmed tornadoes also touched down nearby, outside the towns of Woonsocket and Alpena.

Wessington Springs is about 125 miles northwest of Sioux Falls and has a population of about 1,000.

Gov. Dennis Daugaard tweeted that he deployed 100 South Dakota National Guard soldiers and equipment to Wessington Springs.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lancaster County Board member and legislative candidate has been sentenced to seven days in jail for drunken driving.

Brent Smoyer received the sentence Wednesday. The 32-year-old will be allowed to serve the time under house arrest, which begins July 2.

Smoyer was driving when he was stopped on April 11 by University of Nebraska-Lincoln police. A sobriety test showed his blood alcohol content was above the legal limit to drive. He later pleaded no contest in county court.

Smoyer will lose his driver’s license for six months and pay $500 as part of his sentence.

Smoyer, a Republican, will face Democrat Matt Hansen this fall to represent northeast Lincoln in the Nebraska Legislature.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A judge has declared a mistrial for a man accused of fatally shooting another man at a Lincoln party last year.

A hung jury of five men and seven women deliberated for more than two days before telling a judge Wednesday they could not agree on a verdict in the case of Michael Arellano.

The 22-year-old Arellano faced charges of second-degree murder, felony assault and two weapons counts. He is accused of fatally shooting 38-year-old Shane Newman in June 2013.

Arellano said during his trial that he shot Newman to defend a friend who was allegedly being injured by Newman.

Deputy County Attorney Pat Condon said prosecutors plan to retry the case in September.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities are investigating a fatal shooting in north Omaha.

The Omaha Police Department says officers were called in Wednesday morning to investigate a shooting. They found 59-year-old Johnny L. Haynes with a gunshot wound.

Haynes, of Omaha, was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.

No arrests have been made in the case. Police say no additional information is available.

STERLING, Colo. (AP) — The Logan County Sheriff’s Office has released the name of a 40-year-old man whose body was pulled from the North Sterling Reservoir over the weekend.

Wednesday the man has been identified as Tracy D. Senyard. Lt. Joe McBride says the Sterling man was involved in some sort of a swimming accident Sunday. The circumstances leading to the death have not been released.

Sterling Fire Chief Kurt Vogel told the Denver Post the victim did not register any vital signs when he was pulled from the water about an hour and a half after authorities were called to the reservoir in northeastern Colorado.

WAKEFIELD, Neb. (AP) — A tornado has destroyed the home of a northeast Nebraska couple a little more than eight months after a twister destroyed the home of their son and daughter-in-law.

The residence of Ronnie and Corliss Krusemark was one of more than two dozen residential dwellings near Wakefield that were heavily damaged or destroyed by a storm that spawned least four tornadoes on Monday, killing two people.

On Tuesday Traci Krusemark said “it’s happening all over again” after she viewed her in-laws’ crumpled home on Monday night.

She says the wrecked house looked just like her home near Wayne looked on Oct. 4 after it was leveled by a twister.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Funding problems are jeopardizing treatment for some sex offenders in a Lincoln-based program.

The program known as STOP won’t have funds for about half of its 50-plus patients after June 30, unless other sources for money can be found. STOP stands for Sexual Trauma/Offense Prevention.

Deputy Lancaster County Public Defender Joe Nigro says “we can’t just have it shut down,” referring to public safety factors.

The program provides therapy that’s aimed at helping people avoid reoffending and helping them adapt after being in prison or in the state psychiatric hospital in Lincoln.

Without the program, some patients might have to go back the state hospital or back to prison, because they have been ordered by the mental health board to participate in the program.