OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Prosecutors opened the first-degree murder trial against a former doctor by arguing he committed four Omaha killings to avenge his firing from Creighton University Medical Center.

Prosecutors outlined their case Monday against Anthony Garcia, who is charged with stabbing to death the young son of two medical doctors and the family’s housekeeper, and then killing another Omaha doctor and his wife.

They say the killings were motivated by Garcia’s long-simmering rage from being fired from the medical school’s residency program in 2001.

Prosecutor Brenda Beadle argued, “This is a case about revenge.”

Garcia’s attorney says prosecutors lack witnesses or physical evidence.

Later Tuesday, Dr. William Hunter described finding the body of his son and the family’s housekeeper, saying “It didn’t seem real to me.”

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Outdoor gear giants Bass Pro and Cabela’s will combine in a $4.5 billion deal announced Monday.

Bass Pro is paying Cabela’s shareholders $65.50 cash per share. The deal creates uncertainty about jobs in Cabela’s home state of Nebraska. The combined companies plan to keep some operations in Sidney and Lincoln, Nebraska, but it’s not immediately clear how many jobs might be lost.

Bass Pro CEO Johnny Morris says he hopes to continue growing the Cabela’s brand alongside his own Springfield, Missouri, based chain.

Capital One will take over running Cabela’s credit card unit as part of the deal. Activist investment firm Elliott Management began pushing for significant changes at Cabela’s last fall. Cabela’s employs about 2,000 people in the western Nebraska town of Sidney, which has about 7,000 residents.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Federal Emergency Management Administration has denied an appeal from Kansas officials for a federal disaster declaration for several counties affected by May storms.

FEMA says the state’s original request for a federal declaration for the public assistance grants was denied. Several counties were included in that request.

Many areas of the state were hit severe weather that included thunderstorms, tornadoes and flooding during the last week of May.

The state appealed FEMA’s initial decision on Aug. 31. FEMA has denied the appeal, reaffirming its original findings that the damage caused by the storms did not warrant a major disaster declaration, which would have granted broader authority for federal agencies to help the region recover.

CHARLESTON, Mo. (AP) — A southeast Missouri jail employee faces charges accusing him of bringing weapons and other contraband to prisoners.

The Southeast Missourian reports that Nelson McMikle, an employee for the Mississippi County jail, is charged with two counts of delivery of a weapon in a county jail, one count of delivery of a controlled substance and one count of delivery of an item that a prisoner is prohibited from receiving.

A public defender listed for McMikle couldn’t be reached for comment Sunday.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A 21-year-old University of Kansas student who won $10,000 in a half-court shot game has plans for the money: she’ll give it to her grandmother who rescued her from foster care when she was 10.

Jordan Stiers, a sophomore from Independence, Missouri, won the money Saturday when Brennan Bechard, director of Kansas basketball operations, made the half-court shot during Late Night in the Phog in Lawrence.

The Wichita Eagle reports that Stiers is the first one in her family to graduate high school and also to attend college. She says her grandmother took her in and also volunteered to raise four of Stiers’ siblings in her Independence home.

Stiers said the money will help her grandmother pay bills.

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis police say officers shot and wounded a 14-year-old boy after he fired at officers.

Police Chief Sam Dotson told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch the shooting occurred Sunday. Police say the wounded teenager, whose name hasn’t been released, was hospitalized in critical but stable condition.

No officers were injured.

Dotson says officers were searching for a car taken in a carjacking and that officers tried to talk to at least one teenager who was walking nearby. He says the teen ran off, turned and fired one shot before officers returned fire.

Dotson says witnesses told police they heard the officers identify themselves as police and order the teen to get down. He says police recovered the teen’s pistol.

The two officers involved are white, the teen is black.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Missouri History Museum’s effort to collect artifacts from the unrest in Ferguson is missing one big contributor: City Hall.

The museum in Forest Park has spent two years collecting items.

Their hoard now consists of boarded up windows, protester gas masks, empty tear gas grenades and other artifacts from the days that followed the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown by a white Ferguson police officer.

But the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Ferguson city officials have declined to work with the museum. City spokesman Jeff Small says the city hasn’t been formally asked to participate, and besides, it has nothing to offer.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — State police say an 84-year-old woman is dead after a sheriff deputy’s patrol cruiser collided with her vehicle during a pursuit of a stolen car.

Rector resident Sadine Dixon died in the crash Sunday. Clay County deputy Terry Burdin was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Police say Burdin spotted a stolen vehicle near Rector that was being pursued by Kennett, Missouri police into Arkansas. As the pursuit entered the city, the deputy’s car collided with Dixon’s vehicle.

State police spokesman Bill Sadler said Sunday that the investigation will determine who was at fault.

The pursuit of the stolen vehicle continued into Paragould and ended after it crashed into a concrete retaining wall. Police said the vehicle had been stolen in Collinsville, Illinois.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Friends and neighbors help the woman who may be Nebraska’s oldest resident celebrate her 110th birthday. Thelma Sutcliffe was born in Omaha in 1906 when Teddy Roosevelt was president.

The Omaha World-Herald reports the secret to her longevity is a combination of good luck in surviving breast cancer twice, good genes and smart choices like never smoking.

Sutcliffe has outlived her husband by 45 years and never had children. Her closest relatives, a nephew and his wife ages 89 and 92, attended Saturday’s party.

E.A. Kral with the Nebraska Health Care Association says Sutcliff is likely the oldest Nebraskan.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas officials have approved the state’s $100,000 share of $412,000 settlement Friday in a federal lawsuit over the death of a 4-year-old northeast Kansas boy.

The State Finance Council agreed Friday to pay the money to Naomi Boone, the mother of the late Mekhi Boone. The boy’s father, Lee Davis, is serving nearly 20 years for second-degree murder in the boy’s 2013 beating death. Naomi Boone has contended that one of the state’s foster care contractors placed the child with Davis while aware that he had a history of domestic violence.

Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, a Topeka Democrat, says the state is paying the money because it had an obligation to protect the child. Gov. Sam Brownback says TFI Family Services Inc. will pay $312,000.