LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – The University of Nebraska has announced it has signed an agreement with China to create the American Culture Center in Xi’an, China. The center will initiate and host programs to expose students and faculty at Xi’an Jiaotong University to all things American. That includes history, government, art, law, medicine and culture. The center will be one of 10 in China to receive seed funding from the U.S. government.

 

 

ALLIANCE, Neb. (AP) – Nebraska’s Carhenge, an automobile replica of England’s Stonehenge, the prehistoric circle of stones, is up for sale. The asking price is $300,000. Eagle Radio station KCOW says Wednesday that the Friends of Carhenge board of directors voted to place the 24-year-old tourist attraction, which consists of a circle of 38 cars, on the market. The organization’s president, Marcia Buck, says the quirky tourist attraction lacked volunteers and limited capital. Carhenge was built in 1987 by the Jim Reinders family on land that Reinders’ family once farmed just north of Alliance in western Nebraska. Reinders donated Carhenge and 10 acres of land around it to the Friends organization a few years later.

 

KIMBALL, Neb. (AP) – A city councilman in the western Nebraska town of Kimball who’s charged with sexually assaulting a mentally disabled teenage boy says he won’t resign from the council. City Administrator Harold Farrar tells Eagle Radio station KQSK that Councilman Scott Haun says he has “no intention” of resigning. Farrar says the council, which met on Tuesday, will not request any action. Farrar says it’s Haun’s decision whether to continue on the council. Prosecutors charged Haun last week with first-degree sexual assault on a child more than 12 years of age but less than 16. An affidavit in Scotts Bluff County District Court says the alleged abuse took place Sept. 3 at the boy’s home. Haun was released from jail on $15,000 bond.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) – Grand Island police are investigating the discovery of what are believed to be human skeletal remains. Police Chief Steve Lamken says that the remains were discovered Wednesday afternoon by a construction worker at a site in the city. Investigators are processing the scene, and yellow police tape was visible on some trees at the scene.