LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A state corrections department administrator has resigned amid an investigation into her relationship with a parolee.

Director Scott Frakes of the Nebraska Correctional Services Department said in a news release Monday that the department’s behavioral health administrator, Dr. Lisa Jones, stepped down on Friday.

Frakes says there “is zero tolerance for unprofessional relationships with inmates, and this is no exception.” The investigation has been turned over to the Nebraska State Patrol. Frakes and the department’s spokeswoman would not provide more details on the allegations or provide the parolee’s name

The 48-year-old Jones started work for the department on July 6, 2010, as a psychologist and supervisor of substance abuse clinicians. Frakes promoted her a year ago.

Associated Press attempts to reach Jones to comment were unsuccessful.

TECUMSEH, Neb. (AP) — A jury has convicted as Nebraska inmate of assault by a confined person for an attack on a prison guard during a riot at the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution last year.

The Johnson County jury convicted 60-year-old Roger Weikle on Tuesday after deliberating about 50 minutes following closing arguments.

Weikle faces sentencing in October.

He already is serving a sentence of up to 218 years for first-degree murder and a number of other charges. He is currently serving that sentence at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A group that wants to reinstate Nebraska’s death penalty in the November election has unveiled a website and online video to make its case to voters.

The video released Tuesday highlights crimes committed by Nebraska’s death row inmates. Nebraskans for the Death Penalty says the ad is intended to reinforce that, to keep the death penalty on the books, voters need to vote to repeal the legislation which abolished it.

Nebraska lawmakers eliminated the death penalty in May 2015, overriding Gov. Pete Ricketts’ veto. A petition drive partially financed by Ricketts gathered enough signatures to prevent the law from going into effect until voters decide whether to retain it.

The video is narrated by Steve Zimkilton, the voiceover actor featured in the television series Law & Order.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Opponents of the death penalty have released an economic study estimating the cost of administering the severe penalty in Nebraska.

Creighton University economist Ernie Goss estimates that the state spends about $1.5 million more on death penalty prosecutions than on cases involving life sentences.

Nebraska voters will decide whether to reinstate capital punishment in November. Lawmakers abolished the death penalty in 2015 before a petition drive forced the vote.

Bob Evnen with Nebraskans for the Death Penalty questioned the study’s conclusions. He says the Legislature evaluated the cost of the death penalty when lawmakers repealed it and didn’t find significant savings.

COZAD, Neb. (AP) — Cozad, Dawson County and state authorities are investigating the death of a 4-month-old girl.

Medics were sent to a Cozad day care around 9 a.m. Wednesday to help the unresponsive infant. Authorities say she was taken to a local hospital before being flown to an Omaha hospital, where she died that night.

Autopsy results, the child’s name and other details haven’t been released.

A 27-year-old North Platte man is facing sexual assault charges after he allegedly had a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl.

On August 10, at around 2:00 a.m., a woman contacted police regarding a relationship her teenage daughter was in with an older man.

The mother told police that she learned about the relationship and suspected that her daughter and Thomas Knapp may have had sexual intercourse.

According to Investigator John Deal, the teen was interviewed and admitted that she and Knapp had sex at a residence in the 200 block of South Chestnut Street.  Deal says officers were able to obtain evidence that supported the allegation against Knapp.

Later in the day, officers made contact with Knapp at the residence on South Chestnut and questioned him.  Deal said Knapp exhibited suicidal behavior and,  as a result, was placed in emergency protective custody and was taken to Great Plains Health for an evaluation.

On August 12, Knapp was released from GPH and taken into custody.  He was jailed and charged with felony 1st-degree sexual assault of a child.

Nebraska law prohibits anyone 19-years-old or older from having sexual intercourse with anyone under the age of 16.

Bond for Knapp has been set at ten percent of $250,000.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A new effort to reduce violence and panhandling in Whiteclay is slowly taking shape, but some people say they won’t be satisfied until the tiny Nebraska village stops selling beer near an Indian reservation plagued by alcoholism.

Activists who want to close the town’s four beer stores said they’re grateful that lawmakers and Gov. Pete Ricketts are trying to address the problems. However, they argue that some of the new proposals would force local or state taxpayers to pay for a situation caused by the stores.

Whiteclay sold the equivalent of 3.5 million cans of beer last year despite having a dozen residents. The northwest Nebraska village sits on the border of South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where alcohol is banned but alcohol-related problems are rampant.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Several new exhibits are planned for this year’s Nebraska State Fair to teach visitors more about the state’s crops and soil.

The exhibits continue to grow at the fairgrounds in Grand Island that first opened in 2010. The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission has built a new elevated sky fort, and a new exhibit of different soil types has been added.

The Commission’s Christy Rasmussen says the wooden fort will remind people of a tree house.

Another new exhibit will display four different soil types found in Nebraska. And several new crops that are grown in the state have been planted at the fairgrounds.

This year’s state fair runs from Aug. 26 through Sept. 5.