“The Naked Museum” has replaced the Sheldon Museum of Art on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus.

The Sheldon’s collection of 12,000 objects is in storage so attention will be focused on its greatest artwork: the museum’s landmark Philip Johnson-designed building.

The event marks the museum’s 50th anniversary.

Visitors to “The Naked Museum” will experience Sheldon through a variety of activities and performances, including architectural tours, craft circles, dance, music, poetry, theater and yoga. An events schedule is available on the Sheldon website,http://www.sheldonartmuseum.org.

Officials are releasing water from Nebraska into Kansas to avoid a violation of the Republican River Compact.

The Nebraska Department of Natural Resources said Friday that the water was flowing out of the Harlan County Reservoir, in south-central Nebraska.

Department director Brian Dunnigan says the risk of a violation was too large for state officials to wait until later in the year. The 1943 compact is a water-sharing agreement among Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas.

Nebraska officials say Kansas recently expressed interest in having the Harlan County Reservoir retain some of the water so it could be used in future years. Nebraska officials say they were willing to do so, but only if Nebraska was held harmless for any shortfalls that occurred as a result. No agreement was reached.

A Lincoln man is accused of trying to attack his girlfriend and police officers with a knife.

Police say 32-year-old Pedro Renteria was arguing Thursday with his girlfriend over a set of car keys. An intoxicated Renteria swiped at her chest 10 times with a knife.

The knife did not cut the woman’s skin, but she received several punches to the head.

Police say Renteria tried to attack a responding officer with the knife, and an initial attempt to subdue him was unsuccessful. Renteria tried to slash another officer, and missed his chest by a few inches.

Renteria was eventually arrested. He faces several charges, including attempted first-degree domestic assault and use of a weapon to commit a felony.

Court records do not list an attorney.

(AP) — Authorities are perplexed as to what may have caused several hundred fish to die in eastern Nebraska.

Officials at David City Park are warning visitors to avoid contact with its lake water while local and state officials investigate the dead fish that started popping up in late April.

Park Supervisor Scott Bales says most of the fish are bluegill, which are the most populous fish in the water.

Officials with the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality have tested the water and they appear to have plenty of oxygen.

Program Specialist David Bubb says one possibility is ammonia, but he couldn’t pinpoint the source. He says water upstream from David City Park does not appear to be affected.

The Nebraska Supreme Court says a car momentarily crossing a highway lane divider is not a good reason to stop it — a ruling that likely will overturn the drug conviction of a man whose car was carrying more than 60 pounds of cocaine.

The high court’s ruling came Friday in the case of 26-year-old Doan Au, of St. Louis, who was a passenger in a car pulled over in September 2010. The car was stopped for briefly crossing the line dividing eastbound lanes of Interstate 80. A subsequent search turned up cocaine in the trunk.

Au, who was sentenced to 10 to 12 years in prison, said the trial judge should have thrown out evidence from the stop and search, and the state’s high court agreed.

 

Two U.S. officials say the surviving suspected Boston bomber told interrogators that he and his brother considered setting off their bombs on July Fourth, but they decided to carry out their attack sooner and chose the date of the Boston marathon.

The U.S. officials say Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told investigators the bombs were assembled in his brother’s home.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the details because the investigation into the Boston marathon attack is ongoing.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) faces a charge of using a weapon of mass destruction to kill. His brother, Tamerlan, was killed in a police shootout.

Three people died and more than 260 were injured in the Boston marathon attack.

The chief executive of the Winnebago Tribe’s business arm says it intends to develop a casino at a former horse track in northeast Nebraska.

Lance Morgan of Ho-Chunk Inc. said that the casino would be located at Atokad Downs in South Sioux City, Neb. Ho-Chunk announced in May 2012 that it had bought the track property after the track was closed by the Nebraska Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association.

Morgan says Ho-Chunk’s Atokad development would include a casino, an events center, several dining options and retail shops.

Ho-Chunk recently lost a bid to build a land-based casino to replace the floating Argosy casino in Sioux City, Iowa.

Morgan says the Atokad project faces several legal obstacles in Nebraska, which prohibits casino gambling.

A Denver area second-grade teacher is accused of taping her students’ mouths shut when they wouldn’t be quiet.

The incident happened Thursday at Fulton Academy, a charter school in the suburb of Aurora. Police are investigating and the unidentified teacher is on paid administrative leave.

One parent said all 28 kids in the class may have been affected.

The teacher did not return a phone call seeking comment

Three law enforcement agencies collected more than 7,000 pounds of unwanted prescription drugs at a recent event.

Attorney General Jon Bruning announced that the collection event was held last Saturday by the Nebraska State Patrol, and the Grand Island and Lincoln police departments as part of the Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day.

The agencies collected nearly 7,400 pounds of unused medication.

Bruning says that statewide, more than 28,000 pounds of unwanted prescription medication has been collected at such events since 2011.

The collections help prevent pill abuse and theft by getting rid of potentially dangerous expired, unused and unwanted medications.

Lincoln Public Schools is considering hiring a Pennsylvania company to help the district intensity its behavioral skills program for misbehaving elementary and middle school students.

The company is Specialized Education Services Inc., of Yardley, Pa. If contracted, it would help the district implement a full-day program. The goal: Help schools deal with students whose behavior problems are increasingly difficult for teachers and administrators to control.

District associate superintendent of instruction Jane Stavem told the Associated Press the company has a program called Success Schools. It would provide an administrator and people to train LPS teachers. The district’s half-day services would be expanded to a full-day program that would serve about 100 students instead of 60 to 70.