(AP) — A 47-year-old Lincoln woman has been sentenced to prison for fleeing the scene after her car struck and killed a pedestrian last summer.

Online court records say Kelly Hall was given 15 to 30 months at her sentencing Wednesday in Lancaster County District Court. She’d pleaded no contest and was convicted of failing to stop and render aid.

Prosecutors say Hall was driving east on Cornhusker Highway around 9:30 p.m. on June 10 last year when 53-year-old Daniel Kreis began crossing the road. Hall told officers she tried to stop her car but failed. Kreis was fatally injured.

Hall fled but called 911 soon afterward to report the accident.

Blood tests on Hall and on Kreis’ body showed both had been drinking alcohol.

(AP) — Phoenix police say a 6-year-old girl has died after she and her 8-year-old brother went for a joyride in their mother’s car and crashed into a pole.

Sgt. Steve Martos says the girl’s brother was behind the wheel when the accident occurred Wednesday evening. He suffered minor injuries.

According to Martos, the children’s mother had put them to bed and then couldn’t find them in their home a half-hour later.

Martos says the frantic mother went door-to-door in the neighborhood. Meanwhile, the accident had occurred a short distance away.

Martos says both children were still in their pajamas.

(AP) — Authorities say a man suspected of shoplifting in Hastings left an infant in a field as he fled a store employee.

The man being sought, 27-year-old Jaime Loya-Marquez, and 25-year-old Alyssa Kerr were baby-sitting the child for another Hastings woman.

Police say the Loya-Marquez and Kerr were seen taking items without paying from Allen’s Shopping Center on Monday. The two fled on foot when they were confronted by store employees.

Police say Loya-Marquez ran south, crossed a railroad track and then put down the infant in a field. A store employee stopped the chase to retrieve the baby. Officers soon captured Kerr, who’d fled north.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Loya-Marquez. Online court records don’t list the names of their attorneys.

An accident near the Wood River exit on Interstate 80 yesterday took burnt food to a whole new level.

A truck carrying 40-thousand pounds of food burst into flames following a blown tire.

The Nebraska State Patrol said the truck was eastbound when it apparently blew a tire.  The driver, unaware the tire had blown, continued to drive about 15 miles before a Trooper was able to track him down at the Wood River Exit.

The driver was able to get out of the truck uninjured, but attempts to put out the flames with a fire extinguisher failed.

(AP) — The judge in the Colorado theater shootings case says victims can attend the trial, even if they’ll be called to testify as prosecution witnesses.

The ruling Wednesday says all other prosecution witnesses will be barred from observing the trial.

Attorneys for defendant James Holmes had asked the judge to bar all prosecution witnesses from court proceedings so they couldn’t listen to other witnesses.

State court rules allow such exclusions to keep witnesses from influencing each other’s testimony.

But the judge says the court rules are trumped by the victims’ rights section of the state constitution, which allows crime victims to be present at critical stages of a case.

Holmes is charged with killing 12 people and injuring 70 in July 2012. He pleaded insanity.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

(AP) — This is fur real. Colonel Meow has 9-inch hair.

That’s good enough to put the Himalayan-Persian mix into the 2014 edition of the Guinness World Records book, due out Sept. 12.

Owners Anne Marie Avey and Eric Rosario, of Los Angeles, say the 2-year-old cat got its name because of his epic frown and fur. It takes both of them to brush the cat’s fur three times a week.

Three independent veterinarians verified the length of the colonel’s hair and submitted their findings to Guinness before he won the title.

Avey says the 10-pound cat has his own website, Facebook page and YouTube channel with more than 2 million views.

Avey says there’s one other thing Colonel Meow does quite well too: He sheds up a storm.