The annual air show at Offutt Air Force Base south of Omaha has been canceled because of federal budget cuts.

A written release from the base issued Wednesday says the 2013 Defenders of Freedom Open House and Air Show, scheduled for Aug. 24-25, has been canceled. The show has been held since 1972.

No dates for future Defenders of Freedom shows have been set.

More than a dozen air shows across the country this year have been canceled or had military acts cut from the program because of the $85 billion in automatic budget cuts that took effect March 1.

A former New Mexico shoe salesman accused of biting off part of his girlfriend’s toe has been arrested again, this time for allegedly stalking the woman and trying to cut off her big toe with a cigar cutter.

Santa Fe police say the incident Monday was the third attack by 27-year-old Daniel Anaya on his now ex-girlfriend, who has moved to Albuquerque and had obtained a restraining order against him after two previous toe-biting incidents.

Police say Anaya, who used to work as a shoe salesman at a department store, tracked down the woman at her new home and attacked her, but she was able to fight back with a metal fork and escape.

Anaya was arrested that evening after he returned to Santa Fe and sought emergency medical treatment.

High school teams from across Nebraska that designed their own electric cars will compete this spring for scholarships.

The student-built vehicles will compete in endurance, braking, maneuverability and overall design. More than 50 teams are expected.

The annual Power Drive competition begins this weekend with the Big Red Invitational on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s East Campus.

Three other events will be held in Hastings, Grand Island and West Point during April before the May 4 championships at Werner Park in La Vista.

The contest is sponsored by the state’s two largest utilities, Nebraska Public Power District and Omaha Public Power District.

Stanford University is collaborating with Harvard and MIT on a computer system that allows colleges to offer free online courses.

Stanford already has its own platform for delivering so-called massive open online courses, or MOOCS. But Vice Provost John Mitchell says the school has decided to suspend work on it in favor of the software developed by the two East Coast universities, called edX.

Mitchell says that with the demand for online learning increasing rapidly, it makes sense for academic institutions to team up instead of compete.

Under terms of an agreement announced Wednesday, elements of Stanford’s Class2Go system will be incorporated into edX and some future Stanford courses will be produced with the program.

But unlike other universities that use the edX web site to register students, Stanford plans to retain its own online course portal.

A rally will be held at the Nebraska Capitol this week to raise awareness about bullying.

The statewide Stand for the Silent anti-bullying awareness campaign will kick off on April 5 at the state Capitol. The public is invited to attend to show support for people who have been bullied.

Nebraska Sen. Amanda McGill of Lincoln will speak at the event. She says it’s time for the people of Nebraska to take a stand against bullying because it can lead to self-harm or suicide.

More than 60,000 Nebraska students made a pledge against bullying in 2012.

The rally will start at 8:30 p.m. on the north side of the Capitol.

Authorities in Iowa are investigating allegations that high school students repeatedly hit one of their classmates in the head with footballs.

The teenager and his grandmother filed a lawsuit last week saying the attack in October at Bedford High School in southwest Iowa resulted in severe brain injuries and permanent disabilities.

Iowa Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Jessica Lown said Tuesday that the agency has launched a criminal investigation. An agent will turn over information to a prosecutor, who will decide whether to file charges.

The lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in Des Moines alleges that school administrators didn’t do enough to protect the boy from repeated bullying.

Bedford Superintendent Joe Drake says student safety is a priority and the school investigates all reports of bullying or harassment.

Blacks in two of Nebraska’s largest metro areas continue to be stopped in disproportionate numbers relative to how many live in those areas, according to the state’s annual crime report.

The report found blacks accounted for nearly 22 percent of drivers stopped in Omaha, even though they represent a little more than 12 percent of the population.

Blacks accounted for nearly 9 percent of drivers stopped in Lincoln, but they represent a little more than 3 percent of the population.

The findings were similar in last year’s study.

Nebraska Crime Commission executive director Michael Behm cautions that the numbers by themselves may not indicate racial profiling. The commission compiles the data from local agencies but does not analyze what is causing the trend.

A Grand Island man who was acquitted of murder has pleaded no contest to assaulting a corrections officer.

36-year-old Arkanjelo Kot decided to change his plea on Monday. In exchange for the plea, another charge for failing to appear at a February hearing was dropped.

Prosecutors say Kot assaulted a jail guard last June when the guard tried to break up an argument Kot was having with another inmate.

Kot’s attorney, Jim Truell, said his client was frustrated and believed the guard was discriminating against him because the other inmate wasn’t punished.

Kot will be sentenced on May 28. He could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison for second-degree assault.

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Separate grand juries have found no crimes were involved in the unrelated deaths of two inmates at the Nebraska women’s prison in York.

Both juries convened on Friday. County Attorney Candace Dick says that, based on their findings, no charges will be sought in either case.

One case involved 29-year-old Monique Lee, of Omaha, who died Jan. 19. Officials say she collapsed in the prison infirmary after complaining the night before that she didn’t feel well. She’d been convicted of murder.

The other case involved 57-year-old Angela Kabza, of Lincoln, who died four days after she arrived at the prison. Authorities say she was found unresponsive in her cell on Dec. 1. Kabza had been convicted of a drug charge.

Backers of an ordinance requiring gun ownership in a small north Georgia town acknowledge they were largely seeking to make a point about gun rights.

The ordinance in the city of Nelson, located 50 miles north of Atlanta, was approved by the city council Monday night and goes into effect in 10 days. However, it contains no penalties and exempts anyone who objects, convicted felons and those with certain mental and physical disabilities.

Councilman Duane Cronic, who sponsored the measure, says he knows the ordinance won’t be enforced but he still believes it will make the town safer.

The vote illustrates how the response to the Newtown, Conn., massacre varies widely in different parts of the country.