OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Bellevue man who had used a chain saw to injure himself during a domestic dispute has been sent to jail.

Online court records say 24-year-old Michael Nordmeyer was sentenced on Wednesday to a year for misdemeanor false imprisonment and 30 days for interfering with a public service company. Prosecutors had lowered the two charges and dropped three others in return for Nordmeyer’s pleas.

Officers who were sent to a Bellevue house on Dec. 17 to check on a domestic dispute found Nordmeyer in the basement. The officers say Nordmeyer was holding a chain saw that he kept turning on and off and had several self-inflicted injuries. Officers used a stun gun to subdue him so he could be taken to a hospital in Omaha.

HASTINGS, Neb.–The mother of a slain 4-year-old Hastings boy and her live-in boyfriend have pleaded not guilty to charges of child abuse resulting in death.

29-year-old Amanda Pecor and 30-year-old Matthew Edwards made their plea Thursday in Adams County District Court. Police say the Pecor’s 9-year-old son fatally shot his 4-year-old brother, Beau Pecor, on April 18.

Prosecutors say police, school and mental health officials had concerns about the 9-year-old’s often violent behavior. Prosecutors say officials had warned both Pecor and Edwards in the weeks before the shooting not to have guns in the house and to lock up all knives and other sharp objects.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a construction worker was injured in a house explosion and fire in south Lincoln.

Crews were called to the home shortly before noon on Thursday. Lincoln Fire and Rescue Battalion Chief Leo Benes says a large fire was burning on the first floor. Three construction workers were renovating the home at the time, and one was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Neighbors say they heard a loud boom and a crash and then saw smoke coming out of the home’s window.

Investigators say the fire caused $80,000 to $90,000 in damage.

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — Not everything that flies into the Fremont Municipal Airport is welcome.

Local officials are working to get rid of turkey vultures that have created a hazard at the airport.

Wildlife Specialist Scot Rosendahl told the Dodge County Board of Supervisors Wednesday that he saw a dozen of the birds out between the airport’s runways that morning.

Rosendahl says foxes and badgers are also a nuisance at the airport because they dig large holes near the runways.

Jim Kjeldgaard, who works at the airport, says the animals have not caused any incidents involving aircraft. But he says the animals aren’t wanted there, and their numbers appears to be increasing.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say an Omaha man found dead in a landfill was accidentally crushed.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday released preliminary autopsy results for 57-year-old Lewis D. Doss.

Authorities say a garbage truck driver spotted Doss in his rear-view mirror as he dumped a load of trash at the Douglas County landfill around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Officials say Doss was in a dumpster that the truck had emptied, but the driver was unaware.

Chief Douglas County Sheriff’s Deputy Tom Wheeler says Doss was crushed by the truck’s trash compactor. It’s unclear why Doss was inside the dumpster, but authorities say his death appears to be an accident.

Authorities say toxicology tests are pending, and won’t be available for another two to four weeks.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a woman is in critical condition after a kitchen fire in her Lincoln apartment.

Police on Thursday identified the woman as 30-year-old Brianna Johnson. Johnson was taken to a Lincoln hospital with unspecified injuries.

The fire was reported around 6:20 p.m. Wednesday in a building several blocks southeast of downtown.

Lincoln Fire Investigator Damon Robbins says the fire started when spaghetti and meatballs on an electric stove were left unattended. The fire spread to some cabinets and a can of grease, which helped fuel it.

Lincoln Police Capt. Danny Reitan says firefighters found Johnson unresponsive in the smoke-filled apartment. Damage to the building was estimated at $50,000, and the second-floor apartment was deemed uninhabitable.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A girl accused of stabbing a fellow student at Lincoln Pius X High School has reached a plea deal with prosecutors.

The 17-year-old will enter a plea in August, but attorneys for both sides aren’t giving specifics about the agreement. The girl faces felony charges of assault and use of a weapon for the Oct. 7 attack that prompted a two-hour school lockdown.

A trial had been scheduled for July, after a judge ruled that the girl was competent to stand trial. Police say the girl attacked 17-year-old Ellen Kopetzky in a school bathroom with a hunting knife and a claw hammer, and then fled to Kansas, where she surrendered the next day. Kopetzky survived the attack.

The Associated Press generally doesn’t identify juveniles accused of crimes.

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — A Nebraska man has died after falling from a fishing boat in northeastern Minnesota.

St. Louis County sheriff’s officials say the 64-year-old man was a passenger in boat and fell into Lake Vermilion near Cable Bay Wednesday night. Authorities say the man was pulled from the water, taken to shore and transported by ambulance to Essentia Health-Virginia where he was pronounced dead.

The man has not been identified, but sheriff’s deputies say he was from Lincoln, Nebraska. Authorities say he was not wearing a life jacket.

EDGEWATER, Colo. (AP) — Police are looking for a man suspected of kidnapping a 16-year-old suburban Denver girl who managed to escape after stabbing her abductor with his knife.

The kidnapping began Wednesday evening and ended about 20 miles away on a highway in Aurora. Police say the abductor asked the girl for directions as she waited for a bus and then offered to give her a ride home. She accepted, but when they got near her house she told authorities that he drove into an alley in Edgewater. She says he pulled out a knife, bound her hands with rope and began to drive away.

About an hour later, she said was able to escape after freeing one of her hands, getting the knife off the floor and stabbing the suspect.

PIERCE, Neb. (AP) — A 21-year-old South Dakota man has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor vehicular homicide in the crash deaths of three other people in northeast Nebraska.

Online court records say the attorney for Carlos Sanchez Espinoza entered the pleas on Wednesday in Pierce County Court.

The April 28 crash on U.S. Highway 81 in Pierce County killed 41-year-old Pablo Chilel Escobar, 29-year-old Mario Adan DeJesus Pinedo and 24-year-old Hugo Iglecias Moreno. Those men and six others in the vehicle were ejected from the SUV when it left the highway and rolled.

Authorities say it appears a tire blew out, causing the driver to lose control. The men were on their way to a construction site when the crash occurred.