LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Hunters may begin purchasing Nebraska fall turkey permits later this month.

The permits will be available starting Aug. 14 at OutdoorNebraska.org and Nebraska Game and Parks Commission permitting offices.

The permits are valid statewide and allow hunters to harvest two turkeys of either sex with a shotgun or archery equipment. Each hunter may have up to two permits. There is no minimum age requirement for youth. The fall turkey season runs Sept. 15-Jan. 31, 2018.

Read the 2017 Turkey Guide at outdoornebraska.gov/guides for more information.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Supporters and critics have sounded off at a Nebraska Board of Education meeting on a proposal to teach climate change in Nebraska’s public schools.

Nearly 70 people attended the meeting Friday in Lincoln as the board prepares to adopting new science standards next month. For the first time, the standards would specifically include the teaching of climate change. The wording of the latest draft calls on students to “evaluate the reliability and validity” of climate models before making a projection of future climate trends.

That’s a change from an earlier draft that treated climate change as settled science.

Omaha science teacher Michael Fryda urged the board to adopt the new standards. But former Millard School Board member Paul Meyer called climate change “a hoax.”

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska Board of Regents is expected to name the new University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Business building after board member Howard Hawks.

The university says in a news release that the board is expected to approve the new name at an Aug. 11 meeting. The $84 million building, 240,000-square-foot set to open later this month will be named Howard L. Hawks Hall.

Hawks, of Omaha, has served as a regent since 2002, representing portions of central Omaha. He served as the board’s chairman in 2005 and 2014.

Hawks and his wife took a lead role in supporting the privately funded building, but asked the university not to disclose the amount they donated.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska Supreme Court ruling has cleared the way for a former public announcer at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Memorial Stadium to again be tried for theft and other counts.

The state’s high court on Friday ruled that Patrick Combs’ trial court did not wrongly declare a mistrial in his case last year. Combs’ attorney says the presiding juror has said the jury voted unanimously to find Combs not guilty of three charges, but deadlocked on a fourth charge. The juror believed that information had been conveyed to the judge.

The high court said Combs’ request for acquittal on the three counts couldn’t be granted because it came after the mistrial was declared.

Prosecutors say Combs took hundreds of thousands of dollars from an elderly woman suffering from Alzheimer’s before her 2015 death. Combs countered that the woman thought of him as a son and encouraged him to spend the money.

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) — North Platte authorities say a 12-year-old girl who took her mom’s car without permission got caught the hard way: in a collision.

The accident occurred around 11:15 a.m. Thursday, when the car she was driving east collided at an intersection with a northbound car. Police say the girl had halted for a stop sign but apparently didn’t see the other car as she drove out into traffic.

She was taken to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries. It’s unclear whether the other driver was hurt.

Police cited the girl for driving without a license.

A North Platte man is facing charges after he allegedly passed a counterfeit bill at a local store.

On August 3, at around 11:05 a.m., an officer responded to Shopko, 510 East Philip Avenue, after store employees reported that a counterfeit $100 bill had been passed on August 2.

The officer observed the bill and determined that there were several standard security features that were missing on the bill.

Investigator John Deal says the officer viewed surveillance video of the transaction and was able to identify Dominick Blea as the suspect.

Later in the day, officers made contact with Blea and determined that he was wearing clothing that matched the suspect’s clothing, and was wearing new shoes that had reportedly been purchased with the counterfeit bill.

Deal says officers determined that there was probable cause to arrest Blea and charge him with felony first-degree forgery.

Blea was jailed at the Lincoln County Detention Center.