DETROIT (AP) — Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling 337,000 vehicles for a third time.

The recall involves the Toyota RAV4 SUV from the 2006-2011 model years and the Lexus HS250h sedan from the 2010 model year.

Toyota first recalled the vehicles in 2012 because of a wobbly rear suspension. The company recalled them again in 2013 because the nuts it used to adjust the rear wheel alignment weren’t tightened properly.

This time, Toyota found that rust can form on the suspension arm threads if the nuts for the rear wheel alignment weren’t tightened correctly. If that happens, the suspension arm could separate from the vehicle and cause the driver to lose control.

Toyota will contact owners and replace both rear suspension arm assemblies for free.

FRANKLIN, Neb. (AP) — Firefighters and members of a volunteer rope team have helped rescue a worker from a water tower in south-central Nebraska.

Franklin firefighters were notified around 9:20 a.m. Thursday that a man had climbed up the 85-foot-tall tower to perform some maintenance but felt too exhausted to climb back down.

The South Central Rope Team deployed two volunteers using ropes and harnesses to lower the unidentified man to safety on the ground. Medics examined him at the scene five miles south of Franklin, and he was not taken to a hospital.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A proposal to allow casino gambling in Nebraska has failed to qualify for the November general election ballot.

Secretary of State John Gale announced Thursday that organizers of a petition drive didn’t submit enough verified signatures to put the issue before voters.

Gale says organizers turned in 119,666 signatures for the proposed constitutional amendment, but 41,710 were rejected by county election officials who reviewed them. At least 117,188 valid signatures were needed.

Gale says more than 24,000 signatures were rejected because signers weren’t registered in the county indicated on the petition sheet. Nearly 4,600 were rejected as duplicates and more than 3,000 were rejected because signers were not registered voters.

Petition organizers had spent nearly $1.4 million on the campaign as of July 26.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration isn’t going to reclassify marijuana and remove it from the list of the most dangerous drugs.

The Drug Enforcement Administration says in a lengthy notice in the Federal Registry that it consulted with the Health and Human Services Department and concluded that marijuana will remain in the class of drugs that have “no accepted medical use in the United States.”

The agency is opening the door to further medical research of the drug by expanding the number of agencies that can legally grow marijuana for research purposes. Currently, only researchers at the University of Mississippi have the government’s permission to grow pot.

The DEA says it reviewed the classification for marijuana after requests from the former governors of Rhode Island and Washington state.

A confusing a chaotic turn of events in North Platte on Wednesday afternoon ended with the alleged victim in jail for lying to police.

At around 2:15 p.m., on August 10, officers responded to a disturbance in the 2600 block of West 19th Street.

According to Investigator John Deal, officers arrived and found a woman who had a scrape on her leg and  a small laceration on her arm.  She told police that her boyfriend had stabbed her during an altercation.  Deal said the woman, identified as 40-year-old Stephanie Hill, aka Stephanie Soto, admitted that she and the alleged suspect had begun drinking vodka very early in the day. Deal said Hill appeared to be intoxicated.

A short time later, the alleged suspect arrived at the scene and told officers that he had gone to get bandages and disinfectant for Hill’s injuries.  He told police that Hill had fallen near a camper and denied causing any of the injuries she sustained.

After further questioning of Hill by investigators, Deal says it became apparent that her story was inconsistent and that her injuries were not consistent with being stabbed or cut with a knife.  Another witness told investigators that Hill had simply fallen because she was intoxicated.

At the conclusion of the investigation, it was determined that Hill had made up the story about being stabbed.  After receiving treatment at Great Plains Health, Hill was placed under arrest and charged with false reporting.

She was jailed at the Lincoln County Detention Center.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The executive director of a Nebraska agency that inspects cattle and investigates missing and stolen livestock has resigned, but will continue to work for the organization under a different title.

Shawn Harvey resigned Monday as the director of the Nebraska Brand Committee. His resignation follows a July 26 report from the Nebraska State Auditor’s Office questioned management practices of the committee and focused on actions by Harvey. The report accused him of using a state vehicle for personal trips and questioned other incidents.

While the committee’s board accepted Harvey’s resignation, it rehired him for the newly-created position of chief investigator and director of field operations for the same salary he had made as executive director: $72,000.