Indiana State Police say three teenagers who left a school function early were killed when their pickup trucks collided at a rural intersection in southeastern Indiana.

Sgt. Noel Houze said during a news conference Thursday that the six students involved in the crash attended South Ripley County High School in Versailles, a small community about 45 miles west of Cincinnati.

Houze says the students had the day off school to attend a Future Farmers of America event at a rural church, but they left the day-long event in the morning.

Houze says the drivers of both trucks ran a four-way stop, with one hitting the other broadside.

Those killed were identified as 17-year-old Timothy Bowman and his passenger, 18-year-old Jacob Vogel, and a passenger in the other truck, 18-year-old Samantha Hanson.

An evacuation order has been lifted at NORAD headquarters in Colorado after five suspicious packages were removed.

Officials say employees became suspicious of the packages because something looked “out of place.” They declined to elaborate.

Officials say NORAD’s control room team was working at a backup location several miles away when the building was evacuated Thursday morning and no essential operations were disrupted.

The evacuation lasted about 4 1/2 hours, ending at about 2:30 p.m.

Officials say the packages were removed but are still undergoing tests.

NORAD is short for North American Aerospace Defense Command. The joint U.S.-Canadian command defends the skies over both nations.

A backup control room in Cheyenne Mountain is in use because of renovations at the headquarters building.

Authorities in Omaha have confiscated about 50 pounds of marijuana following a traffic stop.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says the pot bust happened Wednesday afternoon on Interstate 80. A deputy stopped a Ford pickup truck driven by Nathan Holt, of Bend, Ore., for following too close.

The deputy became suspicious of illegal drugs in the vehicle and deployed a department canine.

A search of the truck’s utility box on the pickup bed let to the confiscation. Authorities say the drugs have a street value of $250,000.

The 30-year-old Holt was arrested and remains in custody. His charges include possession with intent to deliver marijuana.

Records do not list an attorney for Holt.

A 21-year-old Lincoln man has been sentenced to nearly five years in Federal prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine.

According to a news release from United States Attorney Deborah Gilg, Martin Daniel Sanchez- Martinez has been sentenced to four years and nine months in federal prison after he was convicted of distributing at least 50 grams of a methamphetamine mixture, at least 35 grams of actual methamphetamine and less than 25 grams of cocaine.

According to Gilg, On 13 separate occasions between December of 2011 and April of 2012, Sanchez-Martinez delivered methamphetamine and/or cocaine to an undercover Lincoln Police officer.

Following his prison term, Sanchez-Martinez will serve three years of supervised release.

The matter was investigated by the Lincoln/Lancaster County Narcotics Task Force, the Lincoln Police Department, the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Department, the FBI and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Department.

Authorities say the driver of a pickup is dead after the vehicle collided with a semitrailer on Interstate 80 in south-central Nebraska.

The Nebraska State Patrol says the fiery accident occurred Thursday morning between the Giltner interchange and Grand Island. The driver of the semitrailer was injured in the crash, which engulfed both vehicles in flames.

Authorities say the pickup was eastbound and drifted into the median. It then went into the westbound lanes and struck the semitrailer head on.

Westbound traffic that was initially diverted has now been reopened.

The patrol hasn’t yet released the names of anyone involved.

The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously for tough new sanctions to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test, a move that sparked a furious Pyongyang to threaten a nuclear strike against the United States.

The vote Thursday by the U.N.’s most powerful body on a resolution drafted by North Korea’s closest ally, China, and the United States sends a powerful message to North Korea that the international community condemns its ballistic missile and nuclear tests — and its repeated violation of Security Council resolutions.

The new sanctions are aimed at making it more difficult for North Korea to finance and obtain material for its weapons programs.

 

An Oregon company plans to move one of its survey towers so it can check wind speeds nearer Lincoln in southeast Nebraska’s Lancaster County.

The Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Commission on Wednesday approved a request by Volkswind USA, of Portland, Ore.

The nearly 200-foot-tall tower will be moved from Gage or Jefferson counties, where Volkswind has been checking wind for the past couple of years.

Volkswind announced last March that it was checking the two counties for a potential wind farm. Volkswind President Jeffrey Wagner says the Lancaster County tower will help Volkswind determine the area’s wind potential.

A 57-year-old Lincoln man accused of sexually assaulting adolescents in the 1980s and 1990s says the allegations are ruining him.

Michael Miller so far faces two counts of sexual assault stemming from reports by two men. One of them, now in his 30s, told police that Miller had sex with him when the man was 16. Police say three other men also have come forward to say that Miller assaulted them.

Miller told local media on Wednesday that the allegations have “ruined my business. They’ve ruined my reputation, and I’m nearly bankrupt.”

Miller said he wanted to say more but his lawyer had advised him against doing so.

A 52-year-old northeast Nebraskan who made video recordings of female co-workers in a company locker room has been given two years of probation.

Online court records say Larry Wolf, of Dakota City, was sentenced on Monday in Dakota County District Court. He’d pleaded no contest to unlawful intrusion for recording a person in a state of undress. A second count was dropped.

Wolf also was sentenced to 120 days in jail, but a court hearing is scheduled for May 20 on whether that could be waived.

Court documents say Wolf was arrested after a technician who was working on Wolf’s personal computer found a file that contained about 60 video clips of the women’s locker room at Solbar, a soy protein production company in South Sioux City.