(AP) — An Omaha day care owner accused of failing to report child abuse has pleaded no contest.

Jennifer Schmaderer, owner of Grow with Me Day Care, entered the plea Thursday.

Schmaderer is accused of failing to report the actions of Sarah Cullen, a former employee at the day care. Cullen was found guilty in March of child abuse resulting in death. A child under her care in late February 2013 died after suffering a fractured skull and massive bleeding.

Prosecutors in court presented incidents where questionable actions by Cullen at the day care were not reported by Schmaderer.

The no contest plea means Schmaderer does not admit guilt, but concedes there’s enough evidence to convict her. She will be sentenced on July 24.

(AP) — Residents of a small town in southwestern Wyoming are being allowed to return home nearly 22 hours after an explosion at a natural gas processing plant forced their evacuation.

No injuries were reported in the explosion at about 2 p.m. Wednesday in Opal (oh-PAL’). The town of about 95 people about 100 miles northeast of Salt Lake City was evacuated as a precaution against further explosions and smoke.

Lincoln County spokesman Stephen Malik said that the evacuation order was lifted shortly after 11:30 a.m. Thursday.

Malik says a fire is still burning at the plant but authorities say it and the smoke no longer pose a risk.

There’s no immediate word on what caused the explosion.

(AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has again dismissed an appeal by a former University of Nebraska Medical Center student who says the school discriminated against him when it kicked him out.

The student filed the lawsuit after he was dismissed in 2006 for poor performance. He filed anonymously as John Doe and served as his own attorney, accusing UNMC, various staff members and the university Board of Regents of breach of contract, fraudulent concealment and violating the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.

Doe says he told officials he was chronically depressed, but school officials denied that.

The state’s high court previously rejected Doe’s breach of contract and fraudulent concealment claims. On Friday, it found that a lower court was right to dismiss Doe’s remaining discrimination claim.

(AP) — The Public Service Commission has sent warnings to two ridesharing companies that they need the commission’s permission to offer services in Nebraska.

On Monday the commission issued letters to Lyft and Uber, two San Francisco companies that use smartphone applications to link motorists and people who would pay for rides. Passengers pay through the app and can even tip electronically.

Uber operates in more than 70 cities around the world. Lyft, which is known for pink mustaches on front bumpers, does business in more than 20 U.S. cities.

Commission director Mark Breiner said during a hearing Tuesday that the companies have advertised on Facebook and Craigslist for drivers in Omaha, Lincoln and Columbus. The commission didn’t take any action at the hearing, and company representatives didn’t appear.

(AP) — An Iowa man who mailed bomb threats to the FBI office in Omaha has been sentenced to time served.

Thirty-year-old Matthew Fell, of Waterloo, Iowa, was sentenced on Wednesday in Lincoln by Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf (kuhpf). Fell had pleaded guilty to making a false threat. Fell has been behind bars for 15 months while awaiting final disposition of his case.

Court documents say postal workers at a Lincoln post office found an envelope in June 2012 that had “This is a Bomb!” written on it. There was no bomb in the envelope, but it did contain another envelope that was addressed to the FBI in Omaha. That envelope contained a piece of paper and a thumb drive. Omaha postal workers found a similar envelope a week later.

(AP) — A 41-year-old Omaha man who sexually assaulted a teenager has been given 30 to 35 years in prison.

Ross Ohrt was sentenced on Wednesday. He’d pleaded no contest and was convicted of sexually assaulting a child and visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct.

Authorities say Ohrt had known the girl for several years and had worked out a barter system with her. He awarded her points toward gifts in exchange for her performing sexual acts or sending him explicit photos.

(AP) — A Kansas man already sentenced to more than 80 years in prison in Nebraska has admitted killing one person and wounding another in Topeka.

Thirty-four-year-old Michael Dean Engstrom and his wife, Jamie Engstrom, were captured in southeast Nebraska in February 2013, one day after the Topeka shootings.

Michael Engstrom pleaded guilty Wednesday to felony first-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder. The charges stemmed from the fatal shooting of Ricky Mitchell and the wounding of his fiancee, Bridget Gakle.

Engstrom admitted opening fire while trying to rob the pair of money and methamphetamine.

The Engstroms then drove into Nebraska, where Michael Engstrom robbed a Pawnee City convenience store. He pleaded no contest last year to firing at law enforcement officers during the chase that followed.

(AP) — Federal investigators blame the pilot for the crash of a small plane nearly a year ago in northeast Nebraska.

The National Transportation Safety Board has ruled out mechanical problems for the April 27, 2013, crash about two miles southeast of Norfolk. The pilot, 26-year-old Dale Butler, and passenger, 24-year-old Amy Brobst, of Fort Collins, Colo., were killed.

The board report says the accident was caused by Butler’s decision “to fly at a low altitude and his subsequent failure to see and avoid power lines.” The report says the pilot might not have seen the lower power lines the plane struck because he may have been focused on a set of high tension power lines about a half-mile from the crash site.

(AP) — A 60-year-old woman has been sentenced to several years in prison for embezzling more than $100,000 from a Lincoln hotel she once managed.

Margaret Faye Jones was sentenced Wednesday in Lancaster County to six to eight years in prison. She previously pleaded no contest to theft by unlawful taking.

Jones was the manager at a Quality Inn for nearly two years. Corporate administrators say an audit revealed that she took $102,000 more than she deposited between August 2011 and April 2013.

Jones later argued that she stole about $16,000, not $102,000.

(AP) — Gov. Dave Heineman is hoping to lure military veterans to Nebraska with a campaign touting good jobs for vets.

“The Good Life for Veterans” campaign seeks to attract military veterans and their families from other states to Nebraska. The initiative is a partnership between state government, business and veterans groups including the Nebraska Department of Labor, the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and Industry, private business employers and others.

Nebraska employers and other representatives are attending a series of military career fairs in several states, including Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado.

The initiative began after a Nebraska Chamber poll found that more than half of nearly 450 private business respondents had experienced difficulty hiring qualified employees during the past year.

Nebraska’s unemployment rate is among the lowest in the nation.