(AP) — The tax fraud case against a prominent former Nebraska businessman has been dropped.

Prosecutors didn’t have enough evidence to prove Mark Pieloch intended to evade sales tax on a sport utility vehicle he bought in Nebraska.

Pieloch had denied wrongdoing and said he paid the taxes in South Dakota.

So Lancaster County Attorney Joe Kelly decided he drop the charge accusing Pieloch of failing to pay $2,900 in taxes on a 2009 Chevrolet Avalanche he bought in Lincoln.

Pieloch is president of Pharma Chemie and he donated $1.5 million to the Capital Humane Society to help build the adoption center that’s named in his honor.

Pieloch moved his business from Syracuse to Melbourne, Fla., in 2011.

(AP) — Authorities are searching for the mother of a newborn baby boy who was found in a pile of trash in Jersey City.

Hudson County prosecutors say the child was found Saturday afternoon near the city’s McGinley Square neighborhood. The boy was taken to Jersey City Medical Center, where a spokesman tells The Newark Star-Ledger the boy was breathing on his own.

Prosecutors did not disclose how long the child may have been outside.

Residents who live nearby say neighborhood children heard crying and saw movement in a pile of trash, then alerted the building superintendent, who called police.

Building superintendent Arturo Rivas tells The Jersey Journal he usually kicks kids out of the courtyard where the baby was found, but this time he’s glad the teens were there.

(AP) — Investigators are trying to determine why a Nebraska man lost control of his vehicle and collided with two semitrailer trucks on Interstate 80.

The Sarpy County Sheriff’s department says Benjamin Behlen of Columbus was killed in the crash near Gretna Saturday evening. A woman in one of the trucks was injured.

The sheriff’s department says Behlen was speeding eastbound before he lost control of his car, crossed the median and hit the trucks near a rest area. One of the trucks lost control and tipped over.

Authorities say neither truck driver was hurt, but a passenger in one truck sustained minor injuries.

(AP) — The son of University of Nebraska President J.B Milliken has been cited on suspicion of having marijuana on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus.

Authorities say 20-year-old freshman James Milliken Jr. was cited Friday morning.

UNL Police Sgt. Dave Dibelka says the younger Milliken was found with five grams of marijuana and a glass pipe on the top floor of a campus parking garage.

Police went to the garage around 3:15 a.m. for a report of suspicious activity.

The offense is an infraction, similar to a minor traffic offense, and Milliken was not arrested.

(AP) — A 24-year-old man accused of breaking into a home to rob and killing another man he found inside has been convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

Endre Turner was convicted Friday of first-degree murder and a weapons count in the 2011 death of 21-year-old Richard Harrison. Police say Harrison’s mother discovered his bloody body in a closet on Sept. 29.

Prosecutors said during Turner’s trial that he killed Harrison to keep Harrison from being able to identify him to police.

In an unusual move, Douglas County District Judge James Gleason immediately sentenced Turner to life following the verdict. Life without parole is mandatory for first-degree murder, if the death penalty is not imposed.

(AP) — An apartment fire in the eastern Nebraska city of Columbus this week sent one woman to the hospital.

The fire occurred Wednesday and extensively damaged the building.

Rescue workers took a woman who lived in one of the building’s eight apartments to Columbus Community Hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation.

The Nebraska State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating the cause of the fire.

(AP) — The case of a 16-year-old charged in the deaths of three other teens killed in a crash will be moved to juvenile court.

The Fremont teen is charged with willful reckless driving, racing on the highway and driving left of center.

Investigators say the teen was racing another car carrying four 16-year-old boys from Fremont in early June when the crash occurred.

Jackson Blick and Tyler Walling died at the scene. Trey Hansen died later at an Omaha hospital. Another 16-year-old was seriously injured and is recovering from his injuries.

(AP) — Police have arrested a 19-year-old man they say led officers on a chase through three counties before crashing his car into a building near downtown Norfolk.

The chase began in Wayne County, when a sheriff’s deputy tried to stop Brendan Brown. Officials say Brown fled and led officers in Wayne, Stanton and Madison counties on a high-speed chase that reached 100 mph.

Police say Brown fled on foot into an alley when his car crashed into a building in Norfolk. He was soon caught and arrested on suspicion of fleeing to avoid arrest, willful reckless driving, driving under suspension and other counts.

He remains in a Madison County jail and could not be reached Saturday for comment.

 

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Fort Hood officials say the Army psychiatrist sentenced to death for the 2009 shooting rampage has arrived at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.

Officials released a statement Friday saying Maj. Nidal Hasan had arrived at the prison’s death row.

A military jury convicted Hasan last week of killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 at Fort Hood, a sprawling Army post in central Texas. The same jurors deliberated less than two hours on Wednesday before deciding Hasan should be put to death.

Hasan joins just five other inmates on the military’s death row.

Death sentences are rare in the military court system, and they’re automatically appealed. The appeals process often takes years if not decades.

The military hasn’t executed an active duty U.S. soldier since 1961.