OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Creighton University is appealing a federal judge’s ruling requiring it to provide a deaf student with special equipment and interpreters to allow him to finish his last two years of medical school.

The judge ruled in December that Creighton University’s medical school must accommodate Michael Argenyi’s (ar-GEN’-ee) disability. Last month, the judge ordered the Omaha university to pay nearly $500,000 in Argenyi’s legal fees.

Argenyi was accepted to Creighton’s medical school in 2008 after disclosing that he was hearing-impaired and requesting accommodations for his disability 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 though he offered to pay for the interpreters himself.

BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities are investigating an officer-involved shooting that killed a 48-year-old Bellevue man.

Police confirm that John Tilley was killed in the shooting that occurred early Saturday.

Investigators say police were called around midnight Friday to investigate a noise complaint. Police say officers found Tilley and warned him to keep the noise down. But a short time later, officers say they spotted Tilley driving recklessly, running through residential fences and into cars.

Police say Tilley rammed three police cars before officers opened fire, killing Tilley.

One officer injured in the incident was taken to a hospital, treated and released.

Police have not released the names of the officers involved.

The officers have been placed on administrative leave, per department procedure pending an investigation into the incident.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Center for People in Need in Lincoln will be opening its doors to hundreds of families and their children for an early Father’s Day event.

The event will be held Saturday, from 10 a.m. to noon at the center’s warehouse on 27th Street in Lincoln. It is open to low-income children ages 2-18, who will be given a chance to choose a small gift and make a card to give to their dads the following week on Father’s Day.

More than 40 volunteers will be present to help guide children through the event, choose and wrap gifts and prepare Father’s Day cards.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities are offering a $10,000 cash reward for information connected to the shooting of a 6-year-old Omaha girl.

The Omaha Police Department says the information must lead to an arrest in the Thursday night shooting of Taelor Fentress. It wasn’t clear whether Taelor was inside or outside a residence when the bullet struck her face.

Police will increase patrol presence to try to curb any retaliation violence. No arrests have been made.

Taelor, who was shot on her birthday, was reported in good condition late Thursday at Children’s Hospital & Medical Center.

Officers are searching for a sport utility vehicle that may have been involved in the shooting.

DENVER (AP) — Gov. John Hickenlooper has signed legislation to try to establish the world’s first financial system for the largely cash-only marijuana industry.

The bill signed Friday morning seeks to form a network of uninsured cooperatives designed to give pot businesses a way to access basic banking services.

Banks that fear violating federal law do not allow marijuana businesses access to basic financial services. That has led to fears that the burgeoning marijuana industry can be a target for robberies.

Colorado became the first state to allow recreational pot sales on Jan. 1.

The legislation would allow pot businesses to pool money in cooperatives. However, that will only happen with the blessing of the U.S. Federal Reserve. That has prompted some to argue the legislation could be only symbolic.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Four bells that will beckon worshippers to services at a new Catholic church have been blessed by the Lincoln bishop.

Bishop James Conley performed the ritual on Thursday at what will be St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church and the Newman Center. They sit across Q Street from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s City Campus.

The project is expected to be completed next spring to serve about 6,000 Catholics at the university.

The cast bronze bells have been given names, in keeping with tradition: St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke and St. John.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — An economic development official says a report on what’s good and bad about Grand Island shows the south-central Nebraska city must address its relatively low adult education levels.

President Randy Gard of the Grand Island Area Economic Development Corp. said Thursday that Grand Island adults have far lower educational levels than those in other communities its size. Gard also says the graduation rate and academic proficiency of Grand Island Public Schools students are below state averages.

Gard says those factors “can kick you out of the running (for jobs) before you even know you were in the running.”

The report stems from the Grow Grand Island business development survey being conducted by MarketStreet consultants.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A Grand Island woman originally given probation for having sex with her teenage stepson is going to prison.

The 28-year-old Hampton woman on Thursday was sentenced to four to six years. The Associated Press is not naming the woman in order to protect the identity of her stepson.

She originally was charged with first-degree sexual assault on a child for having sex with her then 15-year-old stepson between Jan. 1 and June 1, 2012. The charge was reduced as part of a plea agreement, and a charge of incest was dismissed.

In October she was resentenced to probation for violating probation, and then in December officers found her in a vehicle with the boy. She’d been ordered not to have contact with him.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — No arrests have been reported in the shooting of a 6-year-old northeast Omaha girl.

Police say the shooting occurred around 7:15 p.m. Thursday It wasn’t clear whether Taelor Sentress was inside or outside a residence when the bullet struck her face. She was reported in good condition late Thursday at Children’s Hospital & Medical Center.

Police said Taelor was shot on her birthday.

Officers are searching for two sport utility vehicles that may have been involved in the shooting.

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — The thunderstorms that caused significant damage in Nebraska this week generated at least three tornadoes, but much of the damage was caused by the combination of large hail and strong winds.

The National Weather Service confirmed three tornadoes when it surveyed the damage Tuesday’s storms left behind.

The weather service said Thursday that tornadoes briefly touched down in eastern Nebraska near Elyria, near Greeley and near Hampton.

The tornadoes near Elyria and Greeley happened in the late afternoon of Tuesday and were witnessed by storm spotters.

The tornado near Hampton struck around 10:30 p.m., so it couldn’t be seen in the dark. That was the strongest of the three tornadoes with winds up to 110 mph.