(AP) — A 29-year-old York woman has made a plea deal and been convicted in an abuse case involving a vulnerable adult.

Lindey Steider pleaded no contest earlier this week after prosecutors lowered her charges. Prosecutors also are recommending probation for Steider.

Deputy York County Attorney Benjamin Dennis says an elderly woman with significant health issues employed Steider for help with daily tasks.

Dennis says that when Steider went grocery shopping for her employer, Steider bought items for herself but charged them to the woman’s food stamp card.

Dennis also says restitution has already been paid.

Steider’s sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 2.

(AP) — Rob Ford says he loves his job and will stay on as mayor of Toronto despite admitting for the first time that he smoked crack.

Ford said Tuesday he will continue in his job and will seek re-election next year.

Ford earlier acknowledged he smoked crack “probably a year ago” when he was in a “drunken stupor,” an admission that immediately intensified the pressure on him to resign.

The allegations that the mayor of Canada’s largest city had been caught on video smoking crack surfaced in news reports in May. Ford initially insisted the video didn’t exist, sidestepped questions about whether he had ever smoked crack and rebuffed growing calls on him to step down.

Following his admission, Ford’s approval rating among the people of Toronto went up.

(AP) — A Portland, Ore.-area middle school football coach who said he was willing to lose his job rather than back down from plans for a team party at Hooters has lost his job.

The athletic director for the Corbett School District, Jean-Paul Soulagnet, sent a letter to parents Monday night telling them the end-of-season awards party at Hooters was no longer a Corbett Middle School event.

The athletic director also fired coach Randy Burbach for refusing to choose a more appropriate location.

Burbach said he would not bow to pressure to move the party, because he always told his boys to stand up for what they believe in.

He believes Hooters is appropriate for families. The restaurant bills itself as “delightfully tacky,” and its waitresses wear skimpy outfits

(AP) — A 33-year-old Kansas slaying suspect has been convicted of five felony charges stemming from a shot-filled police chase in southeast Nebraska.

Johnson County court records say Michael Engstrom pleaded no contest on Monday to intentionally or knowingly attempting to cause serious injury by firing at five officers while fleeing from a robbery in neighboring Pawnee County. He also pleaded no contest to two Pawnee County charges.

Prosecutors dropped 16 other felony charges in exchange for Engstrom’s pleas. His sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 13.

Kansas authorities say Engstrom and his wife, Jamie, are suspected of killing a Topeka man and wounding a woman on the afternoon of Feb. 13 before fleeing north into Nebraska. Jamie Engstrom has been given five years in a Nebraska prison.

(AP) — An international flight en route from Jamaica to Canada landed in Nebraska early Tuesday after an unruly passenger tried to open the plane’s door.

Sunwing airlines Flight 739 landed in Lincoln with about 140 passengers at 12:22 a.m. Tuesday.

Sunwing spokesman Daryl McWilliams says the incident began when four women on the flight taunted a 48-year-old Calgary man. The man became extremely agitated and tried to open the plane’s door.

The Boeing 737 spent 5½ hours on the tarmac while the FBI investigated before continuing on to its destination of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Passengers were given $75 flight vouchers.

The man was taken to a Lincoln hospital.

The four women who were involved in the incident were also removed from the flight.

Federal prosecutors have decided not to file charges.

(AP) — A 26-year-old Lincoln man who struggled with officers while holding his 5-week-old son has been given 30 to 48 months in prison.

Eric Stephenson Jr. told a judge on Tuesday that he didn’t intend to harm anyone.

Police say Stephenson holed up in his room at a Lincoln hotel for about 90 minutes on Nov. 2, 2012, after officers and state workers arrived with a court order to take custody of his son. Officer say Stephenson had said they’d have to kill him to get his son.

Officers broke through a window to get into the room and then struggled with Stephenson to pry the boy away from his father.

Stevenson later pleaded no contest to child abuse, and his parental rights were terminated.

(AP) — A grand jury has found that no crime was involved in the death of a Gage County inmate this past summer.

Authorities say Chad Gesin hanged himself in a jail cell on July 4 after he was arrested for assault and domestic assault. The Gage County Sheriff’s Office says Gesin was taken to the jail at about 5:15 p.m. and was discovered hanging in his cell just after 7 p.m. The 30-year-old died July 9 at a Lincoln hospital

The case was presented to the grand jury on Monday morning. The jury ruled later in the day that there was no criminal conduct in Gesin’s death.

State law requires a grand jury inquiry whenever someone dies in custody or while being arrested.

(AP) — A 64-year-old Nebraska City man has been given 18 months of probation for fatally injuring a pedestrian in a traffic accident.

Online court records say Larry Lawton pleaded no contest to misdemeanor careless driving and assault. He was fined $600 last week and must serve 50 hours of community service. Prosecutors reduced charges in exchange for Lawton’s pleas.

Authorities say Lawton’s vehicle struck William “Walkin’ Willie” Perkins in Nebraska City on Nov. 6. The 79-year-old Perkins died Nov. 27 at a Lincoln hospital.

Perkins got the nickname “Walkin’ Willie” because he used to walk 16 miles from Hamburg, Iowa, to Nebraska City to work or pick up his mail. Perkins later moved to Nebraska City and made daily rounds to visit friends in the downtown.

(AP) — A Nebraska man has been given probation and a suspended prison sentence for fondling a Sioux City girl around 15 years ago.

33-year-old Joshua Feenstra, of Norfolk, Neb., pleaded guilty on Monday in Woodbury County District Court to three counts of lascivious acts with a child. Prosecutors amended the charges from one count of second-degree sexual abuse as part of a plea agreement with Feenstra.

Judge Steven Andreasen suspended a 15-year prison sentence and placed Feenstra on five years of probation. Feenstra also must register as a sex offender and write a letter of apology to the girl.

Feenstra is accused of fondling the girl in 1997 or 1998, when she was about 8 years old and he was 17 or 18.

The Nebraska State Patrol seized 730 lbs. of marijuana with an estimated street value of $2.5 million.

Just before noon on Monday, November 4, troopers at the Waverly scales, eastbound Interstate 80, conducted a routine inspection on a J & J Transport semi-trailer truck out of San Bernardino, California. During the inspection, it was discovered the co-driver was wanted on an active warrant for failure to appear out of Lincoln County.  The co-driver, Marcel Bud, 40, Taylor, Mich., was lodged on the warrant in the Lancaster County Corrections. The driver of the semi, Julio Pena Sanchez, 48, La Palma, Calif., was allowed to continue on.

After further investigation, NSP investigators re-contacted the driver of the semi around 9:00 p.m., Monday, November 4, at a truck stop just off the Northwest 48^th street exit in Lincoln.  A probable cause search was conducted. The search led to the seizure of 730 lbs. of marijuana. The marijuana bundles were concealed in boxes of produce in the trailer of the semi. The marijuana has an estimated street value of 2.5 million dollars.

Sanchez, the driver of the semi was taken into custody and lodged in Lancaster County Corrections on a charge of possession of marijuana with intent to deliver. Marcel Bud, the co-driver of the semi, who was already incarcerated on an outstanding warrant, was also charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver.