LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska State Patrol is investigating the knifing of an inmate at a Lincoln prison.

Prison officials say the attack occurred early Sunday afternoon at the Lincoln Correctional Center. The prisoner was stabbed several times with a homemade knife and hospitalized.

Deidra Loyd says her grandson, Mikael Loyd, nearly died and had undergone surgery.

Mikael Loyd was convicted of second-degree murder for the 2013 strangling of his 19-year-old girlfriend, Melissa Rodriguez. He dumped her body in an open cemetery grave in Omaha. The 23-year-old has been serving a sentence of 30 to 35 years.

Prison officials did not release the name of Loyd’s attacker.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A bill designed to protect consumers from identity theft has won first-round approval from Nebraska lawmakers.

Senators voted 34-0 on Thursday to advance the measure to the second of three required votes.

The proposal would prevent credit reporting companies from charging a fee to impose or lift a security freeze on a consumer’s personal information. It also requires that companies maintain “reasonable security procedures and practices” to protect such information.

Sen. Adam Morfeld of Lincoln says he introduced the bill in response to last year’s security breach at Equifax, which exposed the personal information of 145.5 million Americans, including 700,000 Nebraska residents.

The information exposed included Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and in some cases driver’s license numbers.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An attorney who successfully sued to keep a 15-year-old boy’s name off Nebraska’s Sex Offender Registry has filed another lawsuit regarding those who the State Patrol did list.

Joshua Weir filed the lawsuit Monday on behalf of seven people who were listed with 67 others on the state’s Sex Offender Registry despite being adjudicated as a juvenile.

Nebraska’s registry doesn’t include juveniles unless they’re prosecuted criminally in adult court.

The 74 were removed from the registry in August after the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a Nebraska boy shouldn’t be listed for something he did in Minnesota when he was 11. The Attorney General’s office had previously said that all sex offenders who move to the state must register, regardless of age.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Some faculty leaders have told the University of Nebraska president that they want more input in important university decisions.

The UNL Faculty Senate executive committee has criticized the university for making decisions “with little or no faculty input.” Faculty members have complained about a lack of involvement in discussions about budget cuts and a new freedom of expression policy.

NU President Hank Bounds disputed the notion that decisions are made without input, but offered to meet with senate leadership to discuss the issue.

The University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Faculty Senate passed a resolution in the fall requesting shared governance.

The Faculty Senate presidents at the NU Medical Center and the University of Nebraska at Kearney say they haven’t made such complaints to Bounds.