“In a gentle way, you can shake the world,” says the quotation carved into stone at Union Plaza park in Lincoln.

It’s credited to Ghandi.

Oops.

It’s Gandhi, the last name of Mohandas Gandhi, who long struggled for social justice in India. He also was known as Mahatma Gandhi.

City parks director Lynn Johnson says that no one’s reported the problem in the 2½ years the quote has been visible at the park’samphitheater.

Johnson says the city likely will remove the quote from the stone and have the correct name and the quotation etched onto a metal plate for installation elsewhere in the park.

An Omaha man has been sentenced to nearly 13 years federal prison for being a felon with a stolen gun.

The office of U.S. Attorney Deb Gilg says 28-year-old Isaiah Cobb Jr. was sentenced Wednesday to four years and 10 months in prison for illegal possession of a firearm and another three years and 10 months for being a felon with a gun. He got another year for violating the terms of his release from prison.

Prosecutors say Cobb was convicted in 2005 of selling crack, and was released under supervision in 2007. Last year, Cobb told a visiting probation officer that he had a handgun in his apartment for protection. A check of the gun revealed it had been stolen from a vehicle five years earlier.

An Omaha man is in extremely critical condition after being struck by a vehicle in the downtown area.

The Omaha Police Department says 55-year-old Richard Brown was hit Thursday morning near a crosswalk between 20th Street and Harney Street.

Sgt. Joe Collins say 71-year-old Joephus Neal, of Lincoln, was driving a Chevrolet Suburban southbound and was preparing to turn east when the accident happened. Brown was crossing Harney Street. Neal told police he had a green light.

Brown suffered head injuries and was taken to Creighton University Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.

A spokesman for the medical center says no information about Brown’s condition was available at this time.

Collins says speed and alcohol were not factors in the accident.

One of the biggest retailers in Omaha, the Nebraska Furniture Mart, is changing its policy to allow shoppers to carry concealed weapons as long as they the proper permit.

The Nebraska Furniture Mart also plans to begin arming some of its security guards with handguns after they are trained to handle them.

The store’s loss prevention manager Jim Cahill says there have been incidents where a shoplifter pulled a knife on employees, and the store wants to be able to protect staff and customers.

The Nebraska Furniture Mart is owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Similar policies will be used at the company’s existing store in Kansas City and its store under construction in the Dallas area.

A proposed salary increase for Nebraska judges has won first-round approval from lawmakers.

The bill that advanced Wednesday would give the Nebraska Supreme Court chief justice and its judges a 5 percent increase, starting on July 1. The judges would receive another 5 percent increase in July 2014.

Members of the state Supreme Court currently make $145,615 per year. The bill would also apply to lower-court judges, whose salaries are tied to what the Supreme Court judges earn.

Lawmakers voted 26-2 to in favor of the proposal. Supporters argued that the increase is needed to help recruit and retain quality judges in Nebraska. Some opponents said they viewed the raise as unaffordable.

 

The man who was the voice of Charlie Brown in the first “Peanuts” television specials has pleaded guilty to threatening and stalking both his ex-girlfriend and a plastic surgeon who gave her a breast enhancement he paid for.

City News Service says 56-year-old Peter Robbins entered the plea Wednesday in a San Diego court and could get up to three years in prison at his sentencing next month.

Prosecutors say Robbins called his former girlfriend dozens of times a day and told her he would kill her and her son if she did not give back his dog and car.

They say he made similar threats and demanded a refund from the plastic surgeon.

Robbins provided the voice of the title character in 1965’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and 1966’s “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.”

A 47-year-old man from Friend has died in a rollover crash in southeast Nebraska.

The Saline County Sheriff’s Office says the accident occurred just before 7 p.m. Tuesday on County Road 500, south of Friend.

The office says a sport utility vehicle driven by John Alfredson went out of control, ran into a roadside ditch and rolled, ejecting Alfredson.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

A Lincoln woman has been given four to five years in prison in connection with the death of a 12-year-old girl.

Twenty-four-year-old Ashley Jackson was sentenced Wednesday for the March 2012 overdose death of the girl, who was brought to Jackson’s home to babysit her infant twins.

Prosecutors say Jackson smoked methamphetamine and gave the girl and other people present alcohol and drugs. Police say Jackson left, and the girl was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old man. She then died of a prescription drug overdose.

Jackson pleaded no contest to child abuse resulting in death in December. She was arrested in March on a warrant after she failed to show up for sentencing.

Nebraska’s net tax receipts in the month of March dipped below projections.

The state tax commissioner reported Wednesday that net receipts were $273 million, a little more than 6 percent below the state’s certified forecast.

The commissioner says net sales-and-use taxes, individual income taxes and net miscellaneous taxes were all below the forecast. Net corporate income taxes came in above the projections.

The comparisons in the report were based on a forecast made by the Nebraska Economic Forecasting Advisory Board in February 2012. The forecast was adjusted for bills that were passed last year.

Alexander Heit’s final text cut off in mid-sentence. Before he could send it, police say the 22-year-old University of Northern Colorado student drifted into oncoming traffic, jerked the steering wheel and went off the road, rolling his car.

Heit died shortly after the April 3 crash in Greeley, but his parents and police are hoping the photo of the mundane text on his iPhone will serve as a stark reminder to drivers.

The photo, published Wednesday in The Greeley Tribune, shows Heit was responding to a friend by typing “Sounds good my man, seeya soon” followed by a few letters before crashing.

In a statement released through police, Heit’s mother says texting while driving can “tear a hole in the heart of everyone who loves you.”