(AP) — The adjutant general of the Nebraska National Guard has been named the deputy director of the U.S. Army National Guard.

Maj. Gen. Judd Lyons will assume his new role at the National Guard Headquarters in Arlington, Va., later this summer. His promotion was announced Tuesday by Gov. Dave Heineman.

The 50-year-old Lyons is Nebraska’s 32nd adjutant general. He assumed command of the Nebraska National Guard in August 2009.

The adjutant general serves as the senior uniformed officer responsible for leading nearly 4,700 Army and Air National Guard personnel in Nebraska. Lyons also is a member of the governor’s cabinet.

In his new role, Lyons will coordinate programs and policies that affect the Army National Guard and its 350,000 citizen-soldiers.

Colorado’s governor signed six marijuana regulatory bills into law Tuesday while the state awaits a federal response to recreational pot legalization. The new laws seek to regulate the newly legal drug and keep it away from children, without being so strict that weed stays in the black market. Some highlights from Colorado’s new green laws:

— YOU CAN COME BUY IT, BUT YOU CAN’T TAKE IT HOME: Visitors to Colorado will have purchasing limits of a quarter-ounce of marijuana in a single transaction. The law doesn’t ban adults over 21 from possessing a full ounce, residents or not. But the purchasing limits were seen as an effort to reduce interstate trafficking and help persuade the federal government not to crack down on recreational sales.

— THE POT BUSINESS ISN’T OPEN FOR BUSINESS, YET: Colorado’s marijuana industry will for the first few months be limited to people already licensed to sell or produce medical marijuana. Even once the grandfathering period expires, licensees will need to be Colorado residents for two years, and investors will face residency requirements, too. The residency requirements were added to try to prevent Colorado from becoming a production ground for criminal drug cartels.

— THE CAMERAS BETTER BE ROLLING WHEN YOU GROW IT: Colorado tried and failed to establish constant video surveillance of medical marijuana, establishing a seed-to-sale tracking system to keep the industry honest. The vaunted system hasn’t worked out as expected because of a lack of money, but the agency that oversees pot says it has learned its lesson and will have the money to follow through with seed-to-sale tracking next year.

— NOT EVERY TOWN WILL SELL IT: Colorado’s marijuana framework gives local and county governments broad power to ban retail pot sales if they wish, though home growing will be allowed statewide. Legalization backers say the next Colorado political battle to watch will be which communities ban pot shops, prompting the possibility that marijuana sales will be largely concentrated in big cities that currently allow retail medical marijuana shops.

— MARIJUANA CLUBS AREN’T SAFE: Entrepreneurs in Colorado have been testing the new marijuana law in recent months by opening private clubs that allow communal pot smoking, but no sales, for a membership fee. The legislation tries to crack down on the spread of such cannabis clubs by stating that they’re not exempt from clean indoor air laws, unlike membership cigar clubs.

— KIDS GET NEW PROTECTIONS: Colorado’s new laws aim to prevent youth marijuana use as much as possible. The laws create a new crime of sharing marijuana with someone under 21, an analogy to current delinquency laws and alcohol. The laws also mandate child-proof packaging for marijuana sales, and bans types of marketing thought to appeal to kids, such as cartoon characters in advertisements and packaging. The new 10 percent marijuana sales tax will be used in part on educational campaigns telling people under 21 to avoid the drug.

— DON’T SMOKE AND DRIVE: After years of debate, Colorado now has as blood-level limit for marijuana and drivers. The law says that juries can presume drivers are too stoned to drive if their blood contains more than 5 nanograms per milliliter of THC, marijuana’s psychoactive ingredient. Washington state adopted the same driving standard on the ballot last year, but Colorado left the question to the state Legislature.

(AP) — A West Texas sheriff wounded by a man who killed a woman and injured four other people in a rampage Sunday says the shooter “was intent on shooting anybody and everybody” as he drove.

Concho County Sheriff Richard Doane said Tuesday that Lance Cpl. Esteban J. Smith pulled up behind one car carrying three people and started firing at them. Doane says the shooter hit one passenger in the cheek before the driver slammed on his brakes, turned around and headed toward Eden where he hide the vehicle in a car dealership lot.

Doane says Smith later wounded him near his left ear after the Marine pulled over following a short chase.

Doane says he’s unsure whether Smith killed himself or was killed by authorities.

(AP) — After several days of heavy rain across the lower Missouri River basin, the amount of water released into the river is being reduced to help minimize flooding.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it began reducing the amount of water flowing into the river on Sunday because of concerns about flooding downstream.

Last week, 24,000 cubic feet of water per day was being released from the Gavins Point dam on the South Dakota-Nebraska border. By Wednesday morning, half as much water will be released.

The corps is also reducing the amount of water released from Fort Randall dam in South Dakota.

The corps’ Jody Farhat says the reductions should alleviate some downstream flooding along the Missouri River.

(AP) — Nike Inc. is cutting ties with the Livestrong cancer charity founded by cyclist Lance Armstrong.

The move by the shoe and clothing company is the latest fallout in the doping scandal surrounding the former cyclist, who now admits he used performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France seven times.

Nike had a licensing agreement for Livestrong apparel and footwear, and helped push the Livestrong brand globally. Most notable was Nike’s creation of the yellow wristband with the foundation’s Livestrong logo that became an international symbol for cancer survivors.

Nike dropped its personal sponsorship of Armstrong in October after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency outlined years of doping by Armstrong and his former U.S. Postal Service teammates.

Officials at Livestrong said Tuesday the charity remains strong and committed to helping cancer patients worldwide through its survivorship programs.

(AP) — As more and more Nebraska inmates remain to age in place, behind bars, the state’s prison system is making adjustments.

Among them is a porter program.

Steve Urosevich is chief operating officer of Health Services for the Nebraska Department of Correction Services. He said the inmate health porter program lets inmates help care for the increasing patient load posed by an aging prison population.

Officials use psychological testing and interviews to filter out applicants who may have predatory natures. Starting pay is 38 cents an hour and can go as high as $1.08 an hour, which Urosevich says is good pay for an inmate.

(AP) — A 30-year-old southeast Nebraska man is scheduled to be sentenced July 1 for strangulation.

Paul Potter pleaded no contest to strangulation. The felony charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Prosecutors dropped several misdemeanor charges in exchange for Potter’s plea.

Court records say Potter lives in Friend.

York County Attorney Candace Dick says officers were dispatched to a York house in January to investigate a report of a domestic problem. A woman told the officers that she’d asked Potter to leave, causing him to lose his temper.

Dick says the woman said Potter threw her on a bed and choked her.

(AP) — Authorities have release the names of two women who were struck by a car while they were brawling on a street in northeast Omaha.

Police say the two had gotten into an argument in a driveway late Monday night and then began trading blows as their dispute moved into the street. Officers say a passing car struck both women despite efforts by its driver to avoid them.

The Omaha Police Department says 23-year-old Sherrial Onderi was pronounced dead at the scene and that 34-year-old Kimberly Nelson was taken to a hospital. Police say Nelson’s injuries are not considered life-threatening.

The car driver was identified as 57-year-old Glenda Faulkner, of Omaha.

(AP) — Police in northeast Nebraska are investigating the death of a 51-year-old man as a homicide, but authorities aren’t releasing many details.

Steven Jorgensen was found dead in his home on Wednesday after failing to show up for work for three days.

Police say Jorgensen died as a result of a struggle inside his home, but they haven’t said how he died.

Eugene Jorgensen says his son’s death was a shock. He says his son liked his job as a machinist, but had trouble with people breaking into his home.

Steven Jorgensen was the victim of a Jan. 3 assault in which two Columbus women were charged.

Eugene Jorgensen says he wonders if his son’s death is connected to that January incident.

(AP) — An Omaha officer is recovering from injuries he received when his cruiser was struck by a semitrailer along Interstate 80.

The Omaha Police Department says the accident occurred a little before 6:30 p.m. Sunday as the officer was conducting a traffic stop. Police say the officer and his patrol dog were inside the cruiser when the semitrailer smacked into its rear.

Officer Troy Liebe was taken to Nebraska Medical Center for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. The dog apparently wasn’t hurt.

The truck driver was identified as 56-year-old Thomas Tieskotter of Spanaway, Wash. He was arrested and booked into Douglas County Jail on several charges, including driving under the influence of drugs. A jailer said Tieskotter remained in custody on Monday. Online court records don’t yet list the case.