Authorities say a young boy has died after he was attacked by a couple of pit bulls in southeastern Wisconsin.

According to the Walworth County sheriff’s office, the county coroner’s office confirmed that the boy died of his injuries at a Milwaukee area hospital about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The sheriff’s office got a 911 call from a 30-year-old woman Wednesday saying she and a 14-month-old boy were being attacked by pit bulls.

The caller said she and the boy were being attacked by two pit bulls she owns in the Town of Walworth. The animals were removed and euthanized.

The woman said both she and the boy suffered multiple injuries. The boy was flown to a Milwaukee area hospital with critical injuries. His name was not released.

An investigation continues.

A Cleveland judge who made a woman wear an “idiot” sign in public for driving around a school bus is calling for the public shaming of a man convicted of threatening police officers.

In addition to sentencing 58-year-old Richard Dameron to 90 days in jail, Cleveland Judge Pinkey Carr ordered him to stand in front of a district police station with a sign when he gets out.

Media outlets report that he’ll have to stand for three hours a day for a week in June with a sign apologizing to officers. The sign will also say, “I was being an idiot and it will never happen again.”

Dameron is convicted of threatening officers in 911 calls.

Carr says that sometimes she has to get creative to get through to people.

An Omaha man kicked out of the University of Nebraska’s law school just months before he was set to graduate is suing the school and others, saying he was discriminated against because of his Arabic heritage and Muslim beliefs.

Mohammad Al-Turk filed the lawsuit on Tuesday in Nebraska’s federal court, naming the University of Nebraska College of Law, several law school officials, the University of Nebraska and the university’s Board of Regents.

Al-Turk’s lawsuit says he was dismissed over allegations that he plagiarized a rough draft of a paper, then lied about it. Al-Turk denies those allegations.

He is seeking an unspecified amount and is asking for injunctions to prevent the university, law school and school officials from discriminating against others.

 

A former page for Omaha State Senator Scott Lautenbaugh claims he saw a bottle of rum in the Senator’s office in the State Capitol.

The page, Alex Wunrow, says he saw a half-empty bottle of Captain Morgan rum and an open case of beer in Lautenbaugh’s office refrigerator, but admits he never saw him consume the alcohol while on the job.

Lautenbaugh was arrested last week on suspicion of drunken driving.  His blood alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit.

Lautenbaugh admits to having beer in his refrigerator, but claims it was left over from an event.  He says he has no recollection of ever seeing any rum.

Nebraska State law prohibits consumption of alcohol on state property unless it’s for ceremonial purposes.

 

Grand Island’s mayor will not resign after being stopped for suspicion of drunken driving.

Jay Vavricek was pulled over by the State patrol Saturday evening after being seen driving on the shoulder of a road. He went to jail, but bonded out.

A mayoral spokesperson says Vavricek will not be resigning and business will continue as usual.

Formal charges have not been filed against Vavricek, as authorities are still waiting for blood test results.

The driver of an Omaha child care transport van has been cited on suspicion of child neglect for leaving a 4-year-old girl on a van.

The former Little Lambs Day Care employee, a 53-year-old woman, was cited this week. The woman was driving the day care van on February 26 when Haylee Maxson was left alone for hours. The woman and two other employees were fired.

The woman’s case had not appeared on online court records by Wednesday morning.

Haylee’s parents, Monica and James Maxson, are still outraged by what happened, although they did receive an apology from the day care’s owners.

The girl’s parents say they hope the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services will investigate to determine whether the day care should lose its state license.

Police say a hardware store owner has found merchandise at a Lincoln swap meet that was stolen from his store, and one of his workers has been charged with theft.

36-year-old Eric Supencheck has been arrested. He’s charged with felony theft.

Authorities say the store owner spotted Supencheck manning a sales table at the Lancaster Event Center during a car swap meet. The owner told police the items looked like goods from his store, including chain saws, chain hooks, oil, harnesses, lifting straps and rope. An arrest affidavit says officers later found more merchandise at Supencheck’s Lincoln home.

Supencheck has bonded out of jail. He didn’t immediately return a call Wednesday from The Associated Press. Online court records don’t list his attorney’s name.

A series of online videos featuring the chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln includes his thoughts about a zombie apocalypse, the expression YOLO and the virtues of his capital city campus.

Chancellor Harvey Perlman told the Associated Press in an email that there’s nothing sinister behind the quiet campaign. Perlman says he’s “just trying to be helpful.”

Perlman says in one that Lincoln is one of the biggest cities in the Big Ten and brags that UNL has a professor who skateboards to class.

Advertising and public relations major Megan Tynecki says she thinks the videos are funny, but “some of them are trying a little too hard.”

YOLO is an Internet expression that stands for, “You only live once.” Left unsaid is whether that would include zombies.

A judge has given a former bank loan officer in Lincoln two years of probation for aiding and abetting theft by deception.

Forty-seven-year-old Lisa Peterson pleaded guilty in January after prosecutors lowered the charge. Court records say Peterson was sentenced on Tuesday.

The records say that in June a 73-year-old woman told Lincoln police that she’d been getting collection letters about a $5,050 loan she’d never taken out.

Investigators say Peterson was working at a Lincoln bank when she helped the woman’s daughter-in-law get the loan in the mother-in-law’s name to bond a relative of the daughter-in-law out of jail. The Associated Press reports that the relative was Peterson’s boyfriend.

Peterson no longer works at the bank branch.

President Barack Obama is affirming American support for the Venezuelan people and a constructive relationship with their government after the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Obama says in a statement that Chavez’s death marks a challenging time for Venezuela. He says the U.S. is committed to promoting democratic principles, human rights and the rule of law.

Venezuela’s vice president announced that Chavez died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. Chavez, a fiery populist, led Venezuela for 14 years.

Chavez’s inner circle has long claimed the United States was behind a failed a 2002 attempt to overthrow him, and he has frequently played the anti-American card to stir up support. The announcement of Chavez’s death came hours after the government said it had expelled two U.S. diplomats from Venezuela.

Chavez was 58.