(AP) — An inmate is suing the Nebraska prison system, saying a new policy is denying him the ability to visit with or write to his wife, who is also in prison.

38-year-old Scott Bonham filed the lawsuit last week in Lancaster County District Court. His lawsuit says that under the policy issued in March, married male and female inmates or those who decide to marry while imprisoned may not visit each other, write each other or go out on furloughs or any type of pass together.

Bonham says that has left him and his wife, Sealess, depressed. He says the policy violates his constitutional rights.

The two married on Dec. 6, two months after each transferred to a work release center in Lincoln..

(AP) — Police in Lincoln say they have arrested a 29-year-old Omaha man on suspicion of driving on a suspended license — a crime for which he’s been convicted 21 other times.

Lincoln police said officers arrested Geno Lasir Montgomery early Friday morning. Police say he was stopped after making a wide turn.

Police say Montgomery didn’t pull over immediately after the officer turned on his overhead lights. Public Safety Director Tom Casady says Montgomery was jailed on suspicion of failing to yield to an emergency vehicle, driving on a suspended license and making an improper turn.

(AP) — A 21-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a teenager in Omaha.

Dennis Brewer Jr. appeared in court Friday. A judge set no bond for him.

Brewer is accused of shooting at a sport utility vehicle at Gallagher Park Monday night. Responding officers say they were advised that two people with gunshot wounds had arrived at a nearby hospital.

Eighteen-year-old Tielor (TYE’-lur) Williams, of Omaha, was killed. Another man, 22-year-old Joshua Schmitt, also of Omaha, was injured.

Brewer has also been charged with use of a firearm to commit a felony. Online court records do not list the name of his attorney.

(AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has issued a public reprimand for a Douglas County District judge for intervening in a friend’s drunken driving case.

The high court found that Judge Gregory Schatz improperly intervened in the DUI case involving a friend, Omaha attorney Michael Davlin.

The judicial complaint said that in August 2012, Schatz was contacted by Davlin’s girlfriend — a Douglas County Court official — who tearfully relayed that Davlin was in an Omaha jail after driving drunk and hitting a tree.

The complaint says Schatz contacted the jail and used his judicial authority to have Davlin released without paying a bond.

In response to the complaint, Schatz said he understood what he did was wrong and that he has since taken a judicial ethics course.

(AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has reversed a lower court’s ruling that found Lancaster County partly liable for a 2009 school bus crash.

Jeff Hall sued Lancaster County District Court and Norris School District in 2010, saying he had incurred more than $350,000 in medical expenses for his injuries from the Aug. 24, 2009 crash. Hall was driving a pickup that collided with the bus at a rural intersection where a stop sign was missing.

Lancaster County District Judge Steven Burns found the school district 50 percent liable, the county 20 percent liable and Hall 30 percent liable. Hall was awarded $770,000.

But on Friday, the state’s high court said Burns was wrong to conclude that the county’s failure to have a road sign inspection policy helped cause the accident.

(AP) — Hastings police are investigating the shooting death of a 4-year-old boy.

Police Chief Pete Kortum (KOR’-tuhm) says the shooting was reported a little after 8:15 a.m. Friday at a home on North Saunders Avenue. Kortum says the boy was pronounced dead at a local hospital.

Investigators say the shooting looks like an accident. Authorities aren’t releasing the boy’s name and other details yet.

(AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a death row inmate seeking to be released from prison.

Michael Ryan was sentenced to death for the 1985 cult-related killing of James Thimm in the southeast Nebraska town of Rulo.

Ryan filed a request with Richardson County District Court for post-conviction relief in 2012, challenging how Nebraska obtained one of three drugs that would be used to execute him. Inmates typically file post-conviction relief motions after they have exhausted all other appeals.

The lower court denied Ryan’s request without holding a hearing, and Ryan appealed.

On Friday, the state’s high court upheld the rejection of Ryan’s request, saying courts can only enter relief when a prisoner shows that a denial or infringement of his constitutional rights would nullify his conviction.

(AP) — A central Nebraska ranching family has won a statewide award for its land stewardship efforts.

The 2014 Nebraska Leopold Conservation Award was given to the Pelster family, owners of the Pelster Angus Ranch in Ericson. Gov. Dave Heineman announced the winners on Friday.

Duane and Nancy Pelster are third-generation owners of the ranch. Their practices include rest-rotational grazing, which has been shown to enhance wildlife. The family also has planted nearly 80,000 coniferous trees to provide shelterbelts and windbreaks, and decommissioned 27 wells to improve water quality.

The award is named in honor of world-renowned conservationist Aldo Leopold, and includes $10,000 and a crystal. The award is presented annually by the Sand County Foundation, the Nebraska Cattlemen and Cargill.

(AP) — A driver has died, burned beyond recognition, after his vehicle rammed into a semitrailer in northern Nebraska.

The collision occurred about 10 a.m. Wednesday around six miles west of O’Neill. Holt County Attorney Thomas Herzog says the man’s westbound vehicle crossed the center line of U.S. Highway 20 and struck the eastbound big rig.

The subsequent fire also melted the vehicle’s identification numbers.

Herzog says the semitrailer driver was hospitalized.

The accident is being investigated.

(AP) — A man has been arrested after climbing a billboard in southern Omaha with what looked like a rifle.

A security officer spotted the man walking through a parking lot around 7:30 p.m. Thursday. The officer called police as the man scaled a couple of fences before ascending the billboard.

Officers soon arrived, blocked off the street and began talking to the man. He soon descended and was taken into custody without incident.

He was carrying an airsoft model that resembled an AR-15 assault-style weapon.