LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Missouri man who pulled an emergency brake and prompted panic aboard an Amtrak train in southern Nebraska was sentenced Friday to 14 years in federal prison.

Taylor Michael Wilson, 26, of St. Charles, Missouri, was sentenced in a Lincoln federal court, the Lincoln Journal Star reported.

Wilson pleaded guilty in July to a single terrorism count and a weapons count after investigators found a cache of guns hidden in his Missouri home. In exchange, other counts were dropped.

Prosecutors said Wilson was armed with a handgun, ammunition, knife and hammer when he pulled the brake and cut lights to the train in a secure area of the Chicago-bound locomotive on Oct. 21, 2017, after getting into an argument with a black passenger. The train was traveling from California.

According to court records, Wilson hurled racial slurs at conductors who stopped and held him until law enforcement could arrive. An investigator testified that when asked why he stopped the train, Wilson replied that he was “going to save the train from the black people.”

Wilson maintained he was high on drugs at the time and had no terroristic intensions.

“I never had the intention of hurting anyone,” he said at his sentencing, according to the Lincoln Journal Star. “I did not have any hate or ill-will toward anyone on the train.”

But prosecutors argued he’s a danger to society, noting Wilson’s membership in a white supremacist group and his participation last year in a white nationalist torch-lit march and rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

District Judge John Gerrard agreed, saying as he issued the sentence that Wilson was “a gun-toting, angry … white supremacist” and that it was fortunate for the train’s 175 passengers that Wilson was caught in the act of disabling the train.

LAWRENCE COUNTY — One person died in an accident just before 7p.m. Friday in Lawrence County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2007 Buick LaCrosse driven by Frankie L. Armstrong, 52, Stotts City, was westbound on Lawrence County 2110 one mile one mile north of Stotts City.

The car crossed the center line and collided with a westbound 2016 Chevy pickup driven by Terri R. Johnson, 45, Joplin.

Armstrong was transported to Mercy Hospital in Springfield where he died. EMS transported Johnson to Cox Monett. She was wearing a seat belt. The MSHP did not have details on Armstrong’s seat belt usage.

MOBERLY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man has been sentenced to five back-to-back life prison terms for a 2013 crime spree in which a 92-year-old woman was killed and two other victims were assaulted.

27-year-old Jeffery Nichols asked for forgiveness from relatives of Carmelita Kaser, of Moberly, before he was sentenced Thursday. He was convicted in June of first-degree murder in Kaser’s death and 16 other crimes. They were committed while Nichols and co-defendant Christopher Lewis were robbing houses to obtain money for drugs.

Lewis was sentenced in 2016 to life in prison. Prosecutors sought the death penalty for Nichols, but jurors spared him. He said at the sentencing hearing that there are “no words” to express his remorse and that death is “what I deserve.”

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri says a fraternity that got into trouble last year for providing alcohol to minors has been suspended pending the results of an investigation.

The Columbia Missourian reports that the suspension bars the Sigma Chi fraternity from participating in university activities, including homecoming, and from recruiting new members. The fraternity was placed on probation last year, but that didn’t restrict its social privileges.

University spokesman Christian Basi says he can’t disclose the nature of the investigation into the Sigma Chi chapter. It’s among seven fraternities that have been suspended on the university’s flagship campus in Columbia.

A post on the website of the university’s Sigma Chi chapter says fraternities must live with “an emphasis on the negative behavior” and that the “good things they do” are neglected.

By SAM ZEFF 

Democrat Sharice Davids walloped incumbent Rep. Kevin Yoder in fundraising last quarter.

The Davids campaign says the first-time candidate raised $2.7 million between July and September. In that same period Yoder, running for a fifth term in the Kansas 3rd District, raised almost $1.3 million.

Yoder’s campaign charged that most of the challenger’s money comes from outside Kansas. It pointed to a story on Axios.com that showed only about 30 percent of Davids’ individual contributions came from within Kansas. However, that is based on last quarter’s Federal Election Commission finance report.

“Sharice has been completely non-existent in the district because she’s raising liberal money around the country,” Yoder spokesman C.J. Grover said in a statement. “She’s skipped important local events for swanky New York fundraisers,” referring to an event at the Stonewall Inn last month.

Davids responded by saying “momentum continues to build” for her campaign. “So many people have made small-dollar investments in this campaign because they know I’ll work for Kansas families, unlike Congressman Kevin Yoder, who looks out for his special interest donors,” Davids said in a statement to KCUR.

Davids has been on a bit of a roll the last two weeks. Over the weekend, the National Republican Congressional Committee reportedly pulled a million dollars in advertising support from Yoder, Inside Elections moved the race to “tilt Democratic” and a New York Times poll has Davids up by eight points.

New FEC reports are due on Oct. 15.

Sam Zeff is a metro reporter in conjunction with the Kansas News Service. You can follow Sam on Twitter @samzeff

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 2-year-old  boy was killed and his sister was injured when wind tore a giant inflatable from its moorings and tossed it 30 feet into the air before depositing it, with the toddler wrapped up inside, more than 100 feet  away, authorities said Friday.

The Lancaster County, Nebraska sheriff’s office said Caleb Acuna suffered severe head trauma in his ordeal Wednesday evening at JK’s Pumpkin Patch, just north of Lincoln. Caleb was taken off life support Thursday afternoon.

His 5-year-old sister, Arra, suffered a broken arm.

“It’s certainly a tragic situation,” said Lancaster County Sheriff’s Capt. Tom Brookhouser. “The sheriff’s office has never worked an incident like this in the 28 years I’ve been here.”

The siblings were playing on the bounce pillow — similar to a bounce house, but without any walls — around 6 p.m. Wednesday when an estimated 59 mph (95 kilometers per hour) wind gust tore it from its moorings.

Raymond Fire Safety Officer Nick Monnier told the Lincoln Journal Star that the children’s parents had just climbed off the inflatable when the wind swept it up. Monnier said Arra was thrown about 30 feet, but that the pillow folded over on top of Caleb Acuna and carried him more than 100 feet.

A nearby bounce house was also blown away by the same wind gust, he said.

Brookhouser said authorities are still investigating, and that an autopsy is planned.

The National Weather Service had issued a wind advisory for Wednesday afternoon, warning of gusts up to 60 mph. Winds throughout the day consistently exceeded 20 mph (32 kph).

The large, pillow-shaped inflatables are common at county fairs and on lakes. Manufacturers commonly warn that they should not be used when winds exceed 20 mph.

The Lancaster County Board of Commissions in August approved an amusement license for the pumpkin patch, according to the Journal Star.

Owners of the pumpkin patch haven’t responded to a phone message from The Associated Press. According to the company’s voicemail, the pumpkin patch had been closed the previous weekend because of concerns about the weather.

HOUSTON (AP) — Mattress Firm, Inc., the nation’s largest mattress retailer, is filing for bankruptcy protection and plans to close up to 700 stores around the country.

The Houston-based company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Friday in federal court in Delaware.

According to court documents, Mattress Firm has more than $1 billion in liabilities and has more than 50,000 creditors. It owes its largest creditor, mattress maker Simmons Manufacturing Co., nearly $65 million.

In a statement, CEO and president Steve Stagner says the bankruptcy filing will allow the company to “strengthen our balance sheet” and close stores in certain markets with “too many locations in close proximity to each other.”

The company has more than 3,000 stores in the U.S. and in recent years had been aggressively expanding as it purchased competitors.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh (all times local):

The Senate has pushed Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court past a key procedural hurdle.

The chamber voted 51-49 to move forward with President Donald Trump’s nominee.

A final vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination could occur over the weekend.

There’s no guarantee that the senators who supported moving forward will back Kavanaugh on the final vote. Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who voted to advance Kavanaugh, said she will announce her decision on confirmation later Friday. Also voting to move the nomination forward was Arizona Senator Jeff Fland and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who had been undecided. But Alaska GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski voted against moving the nomination forward.

Kavanaugh’s nomination has been imperiled by accusations of sexual misconduct. He forcefully denied the allegations.