LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers have rejected a bill that would have made it more difficult for passengers in getaway cars to sue if they are injured during a high-speed chase with police.

Senators came up short two votes Thursday of the support needed to overcome a filibuster, effectively killing the measure for the rest of the year.

Sen. Dan Watermeier of Syracuse says he introduced the bill in response to a 2012 Nebraska Supreme Court case involving a man who was paralyzed during a police chase.

The passenger received $1 million in damages from the county even though he had been drinking in the car and had drug pipes in his pockets.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A bill that would relax weight and load restrictions for farm equipment on Nebraska’s roads has advanced out of a legislative committee.

The Transportation and Telecommunications Committee voted 7-0 on Thursday to send the measure to the full Legislature for debate.

The newest version of the bill would exempt tractors, combines, fertilizer spreaders and other heavy farm implements from the restrictions on Nebraska’s highways. Some producers have complained that the current rules haven’t kept pace with modern farm equipment, which is larger and heavier than in the past.

Weight and load restrictions would remain in place for bridges.

The Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation and the Nebraska Cattlemen Association have identified the bill as one of their top priorities in this year’s session.

CHADRON, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska authorities have released the name of a driver who died and two people who were injured in a crash that ended a police chase that began in South Dakota.

Early Tuesday morning a sheriff’s deputy started chasing a vehicle that had been parked on U.S. Highway 18 east of Oelrichs (OHL’-rihks), South Dakota. Oglala Sioux officers then took over and followed the vehicle south into Nebraska.

The vehicle suddenly reversed course and headed north, striking a tribal police cruiser and injuring an officer. The vehicle went out of control and crashed, catching fire.

The Dawes County attorney in Nebraska says the driver, 34-year-old Kerry Peters, died in the crash. Twenty-nine-year-old Donny Red Paint and 29-year-old Pauline WhiteButterfly were hospitalized. All three are from Pine Ridge, South Dakota.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Military veterans who are interested in cyber security jobs can receive free training in the field through a special program.

Omaha Internet security firm Solutionary is sponsoring an intensive six-week training program for veterans who qualify as long as they agree to work for the Omaha company for at least two years.

Arlin Halstead with Solutionary says the industry is having trouble finding enough qualified candidates for cybersecurity jobs, so Solutionary decided to offer this training.

The application deadline for the first class is March 1. More details are available online at www.sans.org/cybertalent/immersion-academy .

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Adults suffering from a terminal illness would have the legal right to end their own lives under a bill presented to a Nebraska legislative committee.

The bill on Wednesday drew emotional support from residents who have watched their loved ones die slow, painful deaths, while some medical professionals opposed it.

Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha says he introduced the measure to help people on the verge of death end their own lives without suffering needlessly. If the bill passes, Nebraska would join Montana, Oregon, Washington, Vermont and California in allowing patients to take their own lives.

The legislation would only apply to patients who are believed to have less than six months to live, and patients could rescind the request at any time.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Six states have filed a new lawsuit against the Obama administration over the Affordable Care Act.

The complaint that Texas, Wisconsin, Kansas, Louisiana, Indiana and Nebraska filed Wednesday in the Northern District of Texas takes issue with the Health Insurance Providers Fee assessed to health insurers to cover federal subsidies.

The lawsuit says nothing in the Affordable Care Act’s language provided clear notice that states would have to pay the fee.

The suit seeks an injunction against the administrative rule that says states are responsible for the fee and others. It also asks for states to be refunded for what they’ve already paid.

A statement from the attorney general’s office says Wisconsin spent more than $23 million in such fees in 2014 and 2015.

NEW YORK (AP) — The flu vaccine is doing a better job this year.

Preliminary data suggest it is 59 percent effective. That’s a big improvement from last winter’s nasty flu season when the vaccine was less than 20 percent effective.

Unlike last year’s vaccine, this year’s is a good match to the strains making people sick.

It’s been a milder flu season so far, though health officials said it has not yet peaked.

The numbers were presented Wednesday at a medical meeting in Atlanta.

United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced the sentencing of one of the men responsible for the October 17, 2014, robbery of the Kearney Eaton Employees Credit Union.  On Friday, February 12, 2016, Senior United States District Judge Richard G. Kopf sentenced Patrick Wigley to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons for 212 months (17.6 years) for his involvement in the robbery.  On January 5, 2016, Judge Kopf sentenced a co-defendant, Thomas Dunlap, to the Bureau of Prisons for 136 months (11.3 years) for his involvement in the robbery.  As part of the sentences, Dunlap and Wigley were also ordered to pay restitution of $122,891.15.

On October 17, 2014, Dunlap and Wigley, dressed in work clothes and wearing white hard hats, entered the Kearney Eaton Employees Credit Union.  Dunlap brandished what employees believed to be a small caliber revolver, and Dunlap and Wigley jumped over the teller counter, gathered the credit union employees into an interior office, had them lay face down on the floor and bound their hands with zip ties.  Dunlap and Wigley then emptied one teller’s drawer and took the money from the drawer, together with money from the vault, totaling $122,891.15 and left the premises.

A third co-defendant, Clifton Hudson, is awaiting trial.

This case was investigated by the Kearney Police Department, Buffalo County Sheriff’s Office, the Nebraska State Patrol and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Freight railroads delivered 17 percent fewer carloads of crude oil last year after oil prices collapsed.

The Association of American Railroads said Wednesday 410,249 carloads of crude oil were carried across the United States last year. That’s down from 493,126 carloads in 2014.

But the number of crude oil carloads remains well above the 9,500 carloads railroads hauled in 2008 before the boom took off in the Bakken region of North Dakota and Montana.

Oil prices have been hovering around $30 per barrel instead of the prices above $100 that were common a couple years ago.

Tank cars of crude oil have been involved in several fiery derailments in recent years. The worst one killed 47 people in 2013 and heavily damaged the Canadian town of Lac Megantic, Quebec.