TRINIDAD, Colo. (AP) — Police say they thwarted a plan by two teenagers who wanted to shoot students and teachers at a southern Colorado high school.

Police Chief Charles Glorioso says the department’s school resource officer got a tip Thursday that two boys, ages 15 and 16, planned to carry out the attack at Trinidad High School after winter break. Because of the warning, extra security was in place at three Trinidad schools Thursday.

Glorioso says investigators learned the 15-year-old had been bullied and had said he idolized the Columbine High School and Colorado theater shooters.

The teens were arrested Friday. Glorioso says they planned the attack for a month and a-half, but he wouldn’t release the details of their plot or how they would carry it out.

A traffic stop on Interstate 80 in southeast Nebraska, led to the seizure of 109.5 lbs. of marijuana stashed in a hidden compartment in the bed of a pickup truck.

Around 1:30 p.m., Thursday, December 19, a trooper made a traffic stop on a 2003 Dodge pickup headed eastbound on I-80 near the Seward exit.

The trooper was given consent to search the vehicle. A false compartment was located in the bed of the pickup. A search of the compartment led to the seizure of 109.5 lbs. of marijuana. The marijuana was contained in 12 bundles.

The driver of the pickup, Matthew D. King, 35, Colorado Springs, Colo., and a passenger, Steven J. Bennett, 37, Tucson, Arizona were both lodged in the Seward County Jail on charges to include Possession of Marijuana with Intent to Deliver.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A Grand Island man has pleaded no contest to a drunken driving charge in connection with an incident in which a passenger fell out of his door-less Jeep, breaking his neck.

28-year-old Tyler Dalland pleaded no contest on Wednesday to second-offense driving under the influence. In exchange, prosecutors dropped a felony charge of DUI causing serious bodily injury.

Authorities say Dalland was driving the night of Sept. 8 when his passenger, 55-year-old Donald Fillinger, fell out of the passenger side of the vehicle. Fillinger suffered a broken neck and dislocated shoulder.

Dalland is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 30.

BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — Bellevue police are searching for a man accused of assaulting his girlfriend before injuring himself with a chainsaw, then fleeing the hospital where he was being treated.

Police were called Tuesday to a Bellevue home for reports of a woman being assaulted.

When police entered the home, they found the woman upstairs and a bloody 24-year-old Michael Nordmeyer in the basement holding a running chainsaw.

Nordmeyer was taken to an Omaha hospital with significant injuries from the chainsaw. But on Wednesday morning, hospital staff informed police that Nordmeyer had left the hospital against medical advice with the help of the woman he’s accused of assaulting.

Police are now searching for Nordmeyer, who has a warrant out for his arrest on a parole violation.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 30-year-old Iowa man has died more than a week after rescue crews found his crashed truck in eastern Nebraska.

William “Willie” Anderson, of Grimes, Iowa, died Monday at an Omaha hospital from injuries he received in a crash earlier this month.

Rescue workers found the married father of two inside pickup that was on its side in a field along a Washington County road just after midnight on Dec. 7.

An investigation showed the truck went off the road, down an embankment and hit a power pole before rolling. Sheriff Kevin Willis says the pickup’s engine and exhaust were cold to the touch, leading authorities to believe it had been in the field some time before being discovered.

FIRTH, Neb. (AP) — Authorities are trying to determine what caused an explosion that leveled a rural southeast Nebraska home.

The explosion happened Wednesday afternoon near Firth, blasting debris up to 200 feet from the brick home.

Authorities say no one was inside the home at the time and no injuries were reported from the explosion.

A resident said four people lived in the home and that a man who lived there was working in a detached shop at the time of the explosion.

Firefighters from Firth, Cortland and Adams spent around an hour getting the fire that followed the explosion under control.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 43-year-old Oklahoma man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for taking a teenage girl from her suburban Omaha home to his Oklahoma home for sex.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Nebraska said Wednesday that Dennis Lewis was sentenced for his conviction of transporting a minor for sex.

An investigator said in a court affidavit that Lewis asked the 14-year-old Bellevue girl for sex via text messages, persuaded her to send him nude pictures of herself and sent her pictures of his genitals. Prosecutors say Lewis picked up the girl from her Bellevue home on April 10. Police in Tulsa found Lewis and the girl at his home.

PONCA, Neb. (AP) — A northeast Nebraska man has been sentenced to two years’ probation for an ATV wreck that killed his wife.

37-year-old Clinton Brown, of Newcastle, had earlier pleaded no contest in Dixon County Court to one count of willful reckless driving.

He was also sentenced Tuesday to 200 hours of community service with agencies dealing with drunken driving issues or traffic deaths. His driver’s license also was suspended for 30 days.

Authorities say Brown was driving the ATV on June 8, 2012, that crashed on a county road between Ponca and Newcastle, killing his wife, 34-year-old Melissa Brown, who was riding on the ATV.

Sheriff Dean Chase said Brown told investigators he was speeding and that a vehicle ran him off the gravel road.

COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — Lottery officials are waiting for the winner of a $1 million Mega Millions ticket bought in eastern Nebraska’s Columbus to come forward.

A Mega Millions lottery ticket sold at the Corner Stop convenience matched all five white ball numbers, but missed the Mega Ball number of 7 that would have meant a share of the $636 million Mega Millions jackpot.

Two tickets sold in California and Georgia matched all six numbers to split the $636 million Mega Millions jackpot, the second-largest lottery prize in U.S. history.

Corner Stop owner Jed Brunken says the $1 million prize is the largest amount any lottery ticket sold at his store.