Students at an Omaha elementary school have held a rally against bullying, just months after reports of an attempted sexual assault in their playground.

Students, parents and teachers held signs and chanted Friday as they walked out of Belvedere Elementary School. Participants say the rally is part of a national campaign, but it’s particularly relevant after reports of an attempted sexual assault in February involving an 8-year-old girl.

Parents say the rally couldn’t have come at a better time.

The girl says she was pinned down by three boys and they tried to remove her clothes. The third-grade boys have been charged as juveniles with attempted sexual assault.

The school has been criticized for failing to immediately call police.

(AP) — Disturbed by the nationwide epidemic of cellphone robberies and thefts, law enforcement officials are looking to the wireless industry for help.

In San Francisco, where half the robberies were phone-related last year, District Attorney George Gascon is calling on major companies in nearby Silicon Valley to create new technology such as a “kill switch” to permanently and quickly disable stolen smartphones to render them worthless.

Stakes are high. Nearly 175 million cellphones were sold in the U.S. in the past year, accounting for $69 billion in sales, according to research firm IDC.

And the Federal Communications Commission says almost one out of three robberies nationwide involves the theft of a mobile phone as a highly-anticipated national database system to track cellphones reported stolen will start this fall.

(AP)-A Nebraska high school senior says he plans to walk across the stage at his graduation despite the return of an aggressive form of leukemia.

Malique Anderson is receiving treatment at Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha. The 17-year-old says the cancer has returned twice.

Malique says he tries to stay positive but he has tough days. He’s determined to walk across the stage at his graduation, and the upcoming event motivates him to receive treatment.

Malique’s parents say they are planning a bone marrow transplant. A dinner to raise money for his treatment is scheduled Saturday.

Authorities say a man accused of shooting a Sioux City police officer has been captured in Texas.

Police announced on Saturday that 21-year-old Jamal Dean was arrested without incident during a traffic stop in Riviera, Texas.

Several agencies learned on Friday that Dean may be in Texas. They believe he was headed to the border between the United States and Mexico. He was stopped in a Dodge Durango going south on Highway 77.

The manhunt for Dean began Monday. He is accused of firing several shots from a rifle at Officer Kevin McCormick during a routine traffic stop. The hunt spread to Omaha, but it turned up nothing.

McCormick, who was shot in the forehead, is expected to make a full recovery.

Faced with hefty operating costs, the foundation building the 9/11 museum at the World Trade Center has decided to charge an admission fee of $20 to $25 when the site opens next year.

The exact cost of the mandatory fee has not yet been decided.

Entry to the memorial plaza with its twin reflecting pools will still be free.

The decision to charge for the underground museum housing relics of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks has been met with dismay by some relatives of 9/11 victims.

Memorial foundation head Joseph Daniels said Saturday that the museum has little choice. It’s expected to cost nearly $60 million a year to operate the site.

Daniels said the museum will be free during certain hours every week.

The leadership of the National Rifle Association is telling its members that the fight against gun control legislation is far from over, with battles yet to come in Congress and next year’s midterm elections.

But NRA leaders vowed that none of its members would ever have to surrender their weapons.

Proponents of gun control also asserted that they are in it for the long haul and are not disheartened by last month’s defeat of a bill that would have expanded background checks for gun sales.

Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and other NRA leaders spoke on Saturday during the group’s annual member meeting, part of the yearly NRA convention being held this weekend in Houston.

Across the street from the convention, more than 60 protesters gathered.

Police say a Utah soccer referee who was in a coma after being punched by a teenage player has died.

They say 46-year-old Ricardo Portillo of Salt Lake City died late Saturday night.

Unified police spokesman Justin Hoyal says Portillo passed away at the hospital, where he was being treated following an assault during a soccer game last weekend.

Police say a 17-year-old player in a recreational soccer league punched Portillo after the man called a foul on him and issued him a yellow card.

The teen has been booked into juvenile detention on suspicion of aggravated assault.

Hoyal says authorities will consider additional charges since Portillo has died.

A fight for Nebraska school-aid dollars was driven by large districts that have dwindling options to generate local revenue and small districts that pay more per-student for transportation and teachers.

Both sides won concessions, even though the tentative funding formula steers most of state aid to Nebraska’s largest schools. The largest schools around Omaha and Lincoln complained about flat-lined property values and larger student enrollments. Smaller schools worried about competing for teachers with Omaha, Lincoln and border states.

Of Nebraska’s 249 public districts, 114 will receive no equalization aid under the proposed funding formula. Those districts account for about 13 percent of students statewide.

The bill has won tentative approval from lawmakers but hasn’t cleared the Legislature. It’s scheduled for a second vote as early as Tuesday.

Technophobic investor Warren Buffett now has a Twitter account, but his followers probably shouldn’t expect much activity.

Buffett debuted his new (at)WarrenBuffett online handle on Thursday.

The billionaire told ABC in an interview that aired Sunday that he joined Twitter because he thought the service would help give wide distribution to an article he wrote about women in business.

Since signing up, Buffett has gained 374,212 followers. It probably doesn’t hurt that he spoke to a crowd of more than 30,000 Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Saturday.

Buffett has always resisted investing in technology companies because he says he can’t predict the future of those businesses the same way he can in insurance or manufacturing businesses.

Dozens of Utah coal miners are picketing outside the doors of Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting in downtown Omaha.

The protesters are member of United Mine Workers of America who work at Deer Creek mine near Huntington, Utah. The mine is run by Berkshire’s MidAmerican Energy.

The union’s contract expired in January. The company and union are negotiating, but disagree on health care coverage and safety checks. The protesters hope to influence Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett.

Bernie Morris of Price, Utah, stood in the rain with others Saturday to hand out flyers with others. The 67-year-old Morris says he’s worked for the coal mine for 28 years, but fears he and his wife won’t be able to afford the monthly health insurance premium the company wants to charge miners and retirees.