(AP) — Police say a 43-year-old was found dead Tuesday in her Omaha apartment, and a man has been arrested on suspicion of killing her.

Police say officers were called to the southwest Omaha apartment around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and found Trudie McKee dead inside.

Witnesses say McKee’s teenage daughter came home from school and found her mother bleeding. Neighbors say the girl ran into the apartment complex hallway screaming for help.

Police say they have arrested 32-year-old Robert Grant on suspicion of criminal homicide and a weapons count.

(AP) — Authorities are looking for a man who may have helped commit one of four Omaha killings that were linked together last month.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s office says an arrest warrant has been issued for Warren J. Levering, and the public may be able to help locate him.

Levering is accused of being an accessory to a felony. But the sheriff’s office didn’t say what role the 51-year-old played in the Aug. 21 death of 33-year-old Andrea Kruger.

Prosecutors have already charged 26-year-old Nikko Jenkins with four counts of murder in connection with Kruger’s death and three other killings.

Kruger was shot and killed in an intersection northwest of Omaha when she was headed home from a bar where she worked.

(AP) — Rescue crews in Colorado say the number of emergency calls is dropping after they’ve rescued hundreds more people stranded by floodwaters.

State officials say as many as eight people are believed to be dead. Fewer than 650 people are listed as missing and officials hope the number will continue to decline as the stranded get in touch with families.

The death toll is expected to increase but officials say it could take weeks or even months to search through flood-ravaged areas looking for people who died.

As skies clear and floodwaters recede, the number of emergency airlifts is tapering off. The Colorado National Guard says more than 2,300 people and 850 pets have been airlifted to safety.

Colorado counties report about 19,000 homes either damaged or destroyed.

(AP) — A mother charged with killing her two children has asked a California judge for the death penalty.

Forty-two-year-old Marilyn Edge appeared by video Tuesday in Orange County Superior Court to be arraigned on two counts of murder following her arrest over the weekend.

Judge Craig Robison asked Edge if she wanted her arraignment postponed to Oct. 25, and she twice said she would agree to that if the judge promised her the death penalty.

The judge postponed the arraignment.

A phone call by The Associated Press for comment from Edge’s public defender was not immediately returned.

Edge was involved in a custody dispute and had been ordered to return her son and daughter to their father in Georgia. They were found dead in a Santa Ana hotel room on Saturday.

(AP) — An Omaha pool hall owner has lost his court fight against a statewide smoking ban. But state lawyers are likely to appeal, because the judge found that exceptions to the ban for some businesses are not fair.

Lancaster County District Judge Jodi Nelson ruled Friday against Big John’s Billiards, which also had a pool hall in Lincoln.

Nelson found that Nebraska’s smoking ban is a permissible, legitimate exercise of sovereign power.

But during the course of the case, Nelson also ruled that the ban’s exceptions for cigar bars, tobacco stores and some hotel rooms amounted to special treatment, making them unconstitutional.

The Nebraska Attorney General’s Office says it will appeal that ruling.

(AP) — A Massachusetts man who authorities say chatted online with other men about their mutual desire to kidnap, rape, kill and eat children is facing a long prison sentence.

Prosecutors plan to ask for a 27-year prison term for Geoffrey Portway of Worcester when he is sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Worcester.

Authorities say they found a dungeon, homemade coffin, butchering kit and other tools in the basement of Portway’s home.

In a sentencing memo, prosecutors say the 40-year-old Portway solicited people for help to kidnap a child with the intent of raping, killing and eating the child.

Portway’s lawyer says the chats were only fantasies. He plans to ask for a sentence of about 18 years, at the low end of the range in a plea agreement with prosecutors.

(AP) — An Omaha woman accused of using several spas as fronts for prostitution has pleaded guilty to three federal counts in the case.

U.S. Attorney Deborah Gilg announced Monday that 42-year-old Tammy Schuck pleaded guilty to conspiracy to promote a prostitution enterprise and to induce interstate travel to engage in prostitution. Schuck also pleaded guilty to inducing or attempting to induce interstate travel to engage in prostitution and another count of conspiracy to launder money.

Schuck faces up to 45 years in prison when she is sentenced.

Authorities say Schuck operated three “spas” in Omaha where customers — some from out-of-state — received sex acts from workers, rather than legitimate spa services, in exchange for money.

(AP) — Hall County officials are on the lookout for two missing gibbons.

The small primates were taken from a Doniphan home between midnight and 3 a.m. Monday.

Their owner, Nancy Stephens, says the black primates with white faces, hands and feet are 2 and 3 years old.

Stephens has owned Caylee and Cody since they were babies. She studies behavioral sciences, but the animals are also her pets.

Gibbons are on the endangered animals list. Stephens told police the gibbons are valued at $25,000 each.

Cody, a male, is two feet tall and weighs 12 pounds. He has a split ear and a bad left eye. Caylee, a female, is two feet tall and weighs about eight pounds.

(AP) — A scabies outbreak has been reported at a Norfolk nursing home, and the home is now under quarantine.

The quarantine at Heritage of Bel Air is in place until Tuesday. Until then, families may call their loved ones, but are not allowed to visit.

Bel Air administrator Jan Zierke says all residents have been treated with a medicated cream and were showered Friday. Rooms also are being disinfected.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says scabies is a skin infection caused by microscopic human itch mites that can travel from person to person. They burrow under the first layer of skin and lay their eggs. Scabies causes intense itching and looks like heat rash.

(AP) — Several investors are determined to save and relight a lighthouse that has served as a landmark for travelers along Nebraska’s Highway 6 near Ashland since 1939.

The Linoma Beach Lighthouse stands 110 feet high along the Platte River. Its state of disrepair has allowed hundreds of pigeons to make it their home inside. The light has long been broken.

A group of five investors who bought Linoma Beach at a foreclosure sale in 2010 have created and largely funded a nonprofit foundation to restore the lighthouse and get it working again.

They chose to save the 75-year-old lighthouse out of a sense of civic duty and because it holds fond memories for some who grew up in the area.