CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey teenager has admitted plotting to kill Pope Francis when he visited Philadelphia in 2015.

Seventeen-year-old Santos Colon Jr. pleaded guilty as an adult to attempting to provide material support to terrorists. The Lindenwold resident faces up to 15 years in prison.

Federal prosecutors say Colon admitted plotting the assassination during a nearly two-month period in the weeks leading up to the pope’s visit. The plot involved using a sniper to shoot the pope during a Mass and setting off explosive devices nearby.

Colon engaged someone he thought would be the sniper but was an undercover FBI employee. Prosecutors say Colon engaged in target reconnaissance with an FBI confidential source and instructed the source to buy materials to make explosive devices.

Prosecutors haven’t identified a motive.

Sentencing hasn’t been scheduled.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska legislative committee is close to advancing a tax cut package, but some lawmakers are still objecting to the proposal.

Sen. Jim Smith of Papillion says the Legislature’s Revenue Committee could vote Tuesday on the legislation. The package would lower the state’s top individual and corporate tax rates, expand an earned income tax credit for low-income residents and change the way agricultural land is valued for tax purposes.

Smith says he wanted to wait at least a day before voting to give senators time to consider several new amendments.

Some senators say they’re not convinced the measure will help stimulate the economy, as supporters contend. The package is partially built on Gov. Pete Ricketts’ recommendations for lawmakers.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A hearing on whether to renew the liquor licenses of four Nebraska beer stores near South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation will air live online.

Nebraska Educational Telecommunications says it will provide a video web stream of the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission’s hearing on Thursday. The hearing at the Capitol is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. Central Time.

The commission hearing comes amid increased scrutiny on Whiteclay, a tiny Nebraska village on the reservation’s south border. Whiteclay’s four beer stores sold the equivalent of 3.5 million cans of beer in 2015 despite having only a dozen residents. Pine Ridge is plagued by alcoholism despite a tribal alcohol ban.

Nebraska Liquor Control Commission Executive Director Hobie Rupe says the hearing will focus on whether the village has adequate law enforcement.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts has appointed three student representatives to the State College System Board of Trustees.

Ricketts announced Monday that Chadron State College sophomore Ashley Goad, Peru State College sophomore Treyten Nelson and Wayne State College junior Jayme Krejci will serve on the board during the 2017-18 school year.

The Nebraska State College System consists of three colleges with a combined 9,000 students. The governor appoints a non-voting student representative from each college.

The board of trustees meets at least five times a year and approves tuition and salaries for college employees.

An 88-year-old Kearney woman, who formerly lived in North Platte, has died several days after she was struck by a vehicle.

The Kearney Police Department says Paula Newmyer was walking in the parking lot of the Kearney Walmart at around 2:57 p.m., last Thursday, when she was struck by a pickup that was backing out of a parking stall.

Newmyer was transported to CHI Health Good Samaritan hospital where a news release says she passed away this weekend.

No charges have been filed against the 18-year-old driver at this time, but the case is still under investigation.  An autopsy has been ordered.

Newmyer and her husband Dan were long-time residents of North Platte before moving to Kearney.  Paula worked for many years at Hirschfeld’s in Downtown North Platte.