LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The new chancellor of the University of Nebraska’s Lincoln campus has been selected from within the university system’s ranks.

Ronnie Green was named Wednesday as UNL’s new chancellor. He previously served as NU’s vice president for agriculture and natural resources and is UNL’s Harlan vice chancellor of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

The university began the search for a new chancellor last spring after Chancellor Harvey Perlman announced his plan to leave the office and return to the law school faculty.

Green grew up in Virginia and received bachelor and master’s degrees in animal science from Virginia Tech and Colorado State University, respectively. He completed his doctorate jointly at the University of Nebraska and the USDA-ARS U.S. Meat Animal Research Center in animal breeding and genetics in 1988.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska corrections officials say another staff member has been assaulted at a state facility in Lincoln.

The attack reportedly took place around 9:15 a.m. Wednesday at the Lincoln Correctional Center.

The Department of Correctional Services says the inmate struck the employee without provocation after the employee told the inmate to leave the area. Nearby officers helped subdue the inmate and control the situation.

The staff member who was assaulted declined medical treatment. Another staff member who helped subdue the inmate was taken to a local hospital as a precaution and released.

The department is withholding all of the names until the investigation is complete. At least three other corrections staff members have been assaulted since March 1.

A North Platte man is facing felony charges following an alleged road rage incident on Tuesday afternoon.

At around 1:30 p.m., officers with the North Platte Police Department responded to a disturbance in a parking lot in the 1800 block of East 4th Street.

Officers met with a 19-year-old male and several witnesses who alleged that the male pulled onto East 4th Street in his vehicle, in front of a vehicle driven by Brian Johnson.

It was reported that Johnson began tailgating the victim, and both vehicles eventually pulled into the parking lot.

According to Investigator John Deal, Johnson approached the driver of the other vehicle and produced a knife and began making threats.

After a short time, Deal says witnesses reported that Johnson left the scene and went to a nearby parking lot, where they observed him place the knife under his vehicle.

As the officers were talking to the victim and witnesses, Johnson drove by the scene and was stopped by an officer.

The knife was located in plain view inside the vehicle, and Deal said it matched the description given by the victim and witnesses.

Johnson was placed under arrest and charged with felony terroristic threats and use of a weapon to commit a felony.  He was jailed at the Lincoln County Detention Center.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A property tax plan championed by Gov. Pete Ricketts is slogging through the Nebraska Legislature despite repeated attempts to derail it.

Lawmakers gave second-round approval Wednesday to one of two bills that make up the full package. The second measure was slated for debate later in the day.

Three votes are required before each bill passes and goes to Ricketts for his signature. Both have faced filibusters from opponents and opened a rift between urban and rural senators.

The measure by Sen. Kate Sullivan of Cedar Rapids would effectively remove an excuse school boards use not to lower their levy rates. It also would tighten budget restrictions on bonding for projects such as mold abatement and environmental hazards.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Gov. Pete Ricketts has approved new whistleblower protections for nurses in Nebraska.

The governor signed a bill Wednesday that would ban retaliation against nurses who file complaints with the state. It also would guarantee confidentiality for nurses even if their allegations later become a public record.

The issue surfaced last year after two Nebraska nurses complained that the Department of Health and Human Services disclosed their names to supervisors after they had lodged complaints alleging unethical behavior.

The bill by Sen. Brett Lindstrom of Omaha was backed by the Nebraska Nurses Association and the Nebraska Medical Association.

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — The third of the four teens who escaped from a Kearney treatment center has been found and returned to the facility.

Grand Island police say the boy was captured Tuesday afternoon near Pier Park.

Four teens escaped Sunday night from the state’s Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center. Police captured one near the facility, and a second was captured late Monday night during a traffic stop on the north side of Beatrice.

The status of the fourth teen is not clear. The state Department of Health and Human Services operates the facility, and spokesmen didn’t immediately return messages Wednesday from The Associated Press.

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a man riding a lawn mower has died after it was hit by a truck on U.S. Highway 30.

The Buffalo County Attorney’s Office says in a news release that the eastbound truck struck the riding mower about 2:45 p.m. Tuesday on the west side of Kearney. The man was pronounced dead after he was taken to a Kearney hospital.

He was identified as 56-year-old Larry Timmons, of rural Kearney.

An autopsy has been scheduled.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s longest-serving lawmaker is promising to tie up the rest of this year’s legislative session with filibusters to punish his colleagues for decisions he opposed.

Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha chastised senators on Wednesday for rejecting a bill to legalize medical cannabis the night before, saying their vote will hurt suffering children. He’s also upset that lawmakers advanced a Republican-backed bill to reinstate the winner-take-all system in presidential elections.

Chambers spent much of the day Tuesday reading news articles aloud on the legislative floor, talking about Medicaid expansion and describing what it was like to get a colonoscopy.

The 78-year-old says he’s not going to relent on Wednesday or for the rest of the session. Lawmakers have less than five working days left before the session ends.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A new report says nearly half of all Nebraska prison inmates released in the last months of 2015 left without any parole or other supervision.

Democratic state Sen. Heath Mello and Republican state Sen. Bob Krist called the statistic “unacceptable” and a threat to public safety Tuesday. They said officials with the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services and Nebraska Board of Parole need to further explain why about 47 percent of inmates left prison without parole supervision in the last quarter of 2015.

In response, Jeff Beaty of the Corrections Department and state parole board chairwoman Rosalyn Cotton also said they’re not satisfied with the figure. They said agency and parole changes should decrease the number of inmates who leave prison without supervision.