GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska law already criminalizes minors possessing e-cigarettes, but Grand Island officials are pursuing a city ordinance declaring the same thing, nonetheless.

City Attorney Bob Sivick said police asked for the ordinance.

Sivick says the concern comes as e-cigarettes are growing in popularity — particularly among teens.

Sivick says having a city ordinance means the infraction can be prosecuted in municipal court and keep such cases from clogging the Hall County court system, where more serious crimes take precedence. Sivick says it also would give police the ability to confiscate e-cigarettes without the worry of having to return the product to the owner if the county attorney declines to prosecute.

Violation of the ordinance would carry a $25 fine.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police have arrested a 19-year-old man they believe started a fire outside his girlfriend’s mobile home in Lincoln.

Firefighters were called to the blaze around 12:30 a.m. Monday — the fourth time in less than a month they had been called to the trailer park for a fire.

Investigators say the man moved to the mobile home park about a month ago, around the same time the string of fires there began. One of the fires on July 4 killed a dog.

The man, who has not yet been formally charged, was convicted in 2013 of arson and sentenced to a year in jail for starting a fire in the basement of a vacant Lincoln home.

YORK, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska judge has sentenced a woman to prison for distributing marijuana and prescription drugs at her home, which she called a temple for religious drug use.

Brenda Hines, of York, was convicted in May of four drug charges, including one for maintaining a place for drug trafficking.

She had testified that what she called her Temple of Zion reflected her religious beliefs and that God provided the marijuana she sold to temple members.

Hines was sentenced Monday to a term of two to four years on three counts and three months on a fourth count. The sentences will be served concurrently, meaning that Hines’ total sentence will be two to four years, with credit for the 33 days she already spent in custody.