(AP) — The FBI says there is no indication that the Navy Yard shooter targeted any specific individuals when he opened fire inside a building, killing 12 people.

Valerie Parlave, head of the FBI’s field office in Washington, said Wednesday during a news conference that investigators are continuing to explore the background and motivations of 34-year-old Aaron Alexis. However, she says Alexis had a well-documented history of mental health issues.

Parlave says Alexis held a delusional belief that he was being controlled by extremely low frequency waves, or ELF waves. Alexis had written “my ELF weapon” on a shotgun he used in the rampage.

Alexis, a former Navy reservist and IT contractor, was killed in a shootout with police.

(AP) — A judge has sentenced a Bellevue man to 90 days in jail and three years of probation for stealing more than $700,000 from his employer.

Douglas County Judge James Gleason sentenced Steven S. Molnar on Tuesday.

Molnar faced up to 20 years in prison after pleading no contest to theft charges, but the judge noted he’d repaid the $768,000 he stole from Pitney Bowes Presort Services, a business that specializes in mail sorting and delivery. Molnar’s probation officer also recommended probation.

Molnar worked as an account manager. He kept some of the money in banks but had $207,000 in cash, which he wrapped in a grocery bag and stuffed behind drywall at his home.

Prosecutors speculated he viewed the money as his retirement fund.

(AP) — A 19-year-old man who acknowledged trying to run down a woman and her boyfriend in Lincoln has been sentenced to prison.

Online court records say Mark Kometscher Jr. was sentenced on Monday to two consecutive terms of 20 months to 36 months. He’d pleaded no contest to two felony counts of terroristic threats after prosecutors dropped two felony assault counts.

Police say Kometscher told officers that he was so angry at the woman that he tried to run her and her boyfriend over on Oct. 16. The couple told officers Kometscher tried to hit them with his car several times and at one point got out and pointed a gun at them, threatening to shoot. He didn’t, and officers later found a black BB gun in the car.

 

(AP) — A 61-year-old man has been sentenced for mailing a threatening communication to Mutual of Omaha in Nebraska.

Federal prosecutors say David Naylor, formerly of Perrysville, Ind., was sentenced Tuesday in Lincoln. He was ordered to spend another day in custody, serve 100 hours of community service and pay restitution of more than $1,800. Naylor also must serve three years of supervised release. Naylor already has spent 54 days behind bars awaiting prosecution.

Prosecutors say that on May 14, 2012, the Mutual of Omaha mail facility in Blair received an envelope that had been mailed by Naylor. The envelope contained a white powder. A message on the outside of the envelope said: “Open carefully contains cornstarch.”

Four workers had to remain in place until experts determined the powder was not harmful.

(AP) — Authorities are investigating a two-vehicle crash in Weeping Water that critically injured two people.

A man and a woman were flown to an Omaha hospital for treatment after the crash happened shortly after 1 p.m. Wednesday.

The man and woman were in a pickup truck that was towing a grain truck before the accident. The grain truck’s drive shaft fell and that caused the pickup to flip over.

The accident happened on state Highway 50 just north of state Spur 13K.

The names of the people injured in the crash weren’t immediately released.

(AP) — A 30-year-old Lincoln woman has been given 18 months of probation for having sex with her former foster child.

The woman was sentenced Tuesday for child abuse.

At a trial in May, the now 20-year-old man said he was 15 when he moved in with the woman and her husband in 2008. She became his legal guardian about a year later. He says she kissed him one day in 2010, then had sex the next night.

Her lawyer argued the subsequent two-year relationship was consensual. The prosecutor said the woman put the teenager in a situation that endangered his life or physical or mental health by sexually abusing him.

The Post is not naming the woman, to protect the man’s identity.

(AP) — A Nebraska business executive will serve 21 months in federal prison for trying to bribe a public official for a contract with the Los Angeles County hospital system.

Seventy-one-year-old James Barta of Fremont, Neb., was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Chicago. He’ll begin serving his sentence in early January and pay a $125,000 fine.

Barta was president of family-owned Sav-Rx, a national provider of managed care prescription medication.

Prosecutors say that in 2012, then-Chicago Alderman Ambrosio Medrano introduced Barta and a former Sav-Rx employee to a hospital purchasing agent, who really was an undercover FBI agent. The agent agreed to pass $6,500 to a Los Angeles County hospital official who could secure a contract.

Medrano, Barta and the third man, Gustavo Buenrostro of Illinois, were convicted in June.

(AP) — Authorities say a Nebraska man stole multiple vehicles and burglarized at least two homes before he was found hiding in an Iowa cornfield over the weekend.

Lancaster County Sheriff Terry Wagner says the three-day crime spree began Thursday in Lincoln and concluded Saturday morning near a western Iowa town by the Nebraska state line.

31-year-old Michael A. Beard is accused of causing damage in two states and at least five counties.

In one case, a car that Beard is accused of stealing was found in a burning garage. In another, an alleged stolen van was found abandoned with an empty Bud Light can inside.

Investigators say they haven’t hashed out which jurisdiction will get Beard first. It’s unclear if he has an attorney.

(AP) — Prosecutors have dropped a federal charge against an Omaha woman accused of supplying ammunition to a man suspected of killing several people.

It’s unclear why an acting U.S. attorney dismissed the charge against 39-year-old Christine Bordeaux. A judge signed the order Friday.

Bordeaux was accused of illegally buying two boxes of Brenneke Classic Magnum 12-gauge ammunition in early August. Authorities have linked the ammunition to several killings in the Omaha area. Nikko Jenkins faces four counts of first-degree murder in the slayings.

The station reports that Bordeaux still faces charges of terroristic threats and shoplifting. Court records do not indicate if she has an attorney.

(AP) — Health care is reuniting President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton.

The two are set to appear together Tuesday to discuss Obama’s health care law during a session sponsored by the former president’s foundation.

The joint appearance comes exactly one week before people without health insurance can start signing up for health coverage through new insurance marketplaces. It will be Clinton’s second effort in recent weeks to promote the 3-year-old law. Congressional Republicans insist it must be repealed.

In a speech earlier this month in Arkansas, Clinton urged opponents of the law to quit trying to undo it and to work instead to improve it.

Obama also plans to promote the law during a speech this week in Maryland.