Nebraska spring turkey hunting permits for 2013 will be available starting at 1 p.m. Central time on Jan. 14.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission says each permit allows a hunter to take one male or bearded female turkey with bow and arrow in the archery season or a shotgun in the shotgun season. A person may purchase up to three spring turkey permits.

Archery season for youths and adults opens March 25. Shotgun season opens April 6 for youths and April 13 for adults. All seasons close May 31.

Visit OutdoorNebraska.org or Game and Parks permitting offices to buy the permits.

An Alabama teenager who called himself a white supremacist is accused of plotting to attack classmates and a teacher with small homemade explosives, though his attorney argues the allegations are blown out of proportion and the teen never intended to hurt anyone.

Seventeen-year-old Derek Shrout is charged with attempted assault after authorities say he planned to use homemade explosives to attack fellow students at Russell County High School in eastern Alabama.

Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor says he believes the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary was a factor because the first date in the boy’s journal describing the plan was dated three days after the Connecticut killings.

Taylor says the boy told investigators he’s a white supremacist and five of the six students he named in his journal are black.

Police in Oregon say a woman told officers that her boyfriend choked her with his dreadlocks.

Portland police Sgt. Pete Simpson says the unidentified woman was taken to a hospital Monday for treatment of numerous non-life-threatening injuries.

The police spokesman says 32-year-old Caleb Grotberg was arrested for investigation of several domestic violence felony crimes, including strangulation, fourth-degree assault and second-degree kidnapping. He’s due in court Tuesday.

Dreadlocks are matted ropes of hair.

Federal regulators will get an update on the efforts to restart the troubled Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant on Tuesday.

Omaha Public Power District officials will brief the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Maryland and answer questions.

The meeting, which will also include a report from NRC inspectors, will be broadcast online athttps://1.usa.gov/13e4una .

The Fort Calhoun nuclear plant sits 20 miles north of Omaha. It was initially shut down for refueling maintenance in April 2011, but flooding along the Missouri River and a series of safety violations forced it to stay closed.

Regulators and OPPD officials all say Fort Calhoun won’t be restarted until they’re sure it’s safe.

A Lincoln man accused of using a cigarette to burn a 16-month-old girl has pleaded guilty to felony child abuse.

The Lincoln Journal Star says 23-year-old LaDeryl Lathan made the plea on Monday and is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 6.

Deputy Lancaster County Attorney Bruce Prenda says Lathan had been baby-sitting his girlfriend’s daughter on July 30. Prenda says Lathan told the woman when she came home that the girl had picked up his cigarette, which contained an illegal synthetic drug, and burned herself on her face, lips, neck, a leg and an arm.

The mother took the little girl to a hospital on July 31. Authorities say doctors reported those injuries and chest bruising and wrist fractures to police.

 Photographs presented at the murder trial of an Arizona woman charged with killing her former boyfriend show a chilling portrait of sex and death.

There’s a nude Jodi Arias on Travis Alexander’s bed, a naked Alexander in the shower and an image of Alexander stabbed and shot in the head — his throat slit.

Other evidence also has stacked up since the June 2008 attack in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa: a bloody palm print, conflicting stories and, finally, a confession.

That evidence is being presented this week at a trial dominated by stories of sex and jealousy.

Arias admits she killed Alexander, but claims it was self-defense. Prosecutors say she planned the attack.

She could become the fourth woman on Arizona’s death row if convicted.

A Lincoln city councilman wants police officers assigned to public middle schools in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting that left 20 students and six educators dead.

The Lincoln Journal Star says Councilman Gene Carroll and Mayor Chris Beutler  have sent a letter to Lincoln school board President Ed Zimmer that says the city wants to continue discussions about school safety and how the city can help.

Officers already are assigned to each public high school. Carroll wants city and school district to consider adding them to middle schools. He says the question of funding is a discussion for the future.

Zimmer says he thinks the school board would welcome such a discussion with the city.

A Chicago man who died of cyanide poisoning just before he was to collect $425,000 in lottery winnings had been inspired by a pilgrimage to lead a better life and stop gambling.

7-Eleven store clerk Ashur Oshana said Urooj Khan had told him he was going to stop playing the lottery after being on the hajj in Saudi Arabia. But Khan bought his winning scratch-off ticket anyway and gave Oshana a $100 tip.

Khan’s lump-sum check was cut by the state Comptroller’s Office on July 19. Khan died July 20, and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office said he died of natural causes.

But a relative asked for a deeper examination, and the results showed Khan was killed by cyanide poisoning.

His death is now classified as a homicide.

The Supreme Court won’t stop the government’s funding of embryonic stem cell research, despite some researchers’ complaints that the work relies on destroyed human embryos.

The high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from two scientists who have been challenging the funding for the work.

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia earlier this year threw out their lawsuit challenging federal funding for the research, which is used in pursuit of cures to deadly diseases. Opponents claimed the National Institutes of Health was violating the 1996 Dickey-Wicker law that prohibits taxpayer financing for work that harms an embryo.

Researchers hope one day to use stem cells in ways that cure spinal cord injuries, Parkinson’s disease and other ailments.

Google’s executive chairman is starting a visit to North Korea that has prompted controversy and fascination.

Eric Schmidt of Google arrived Monday in a country considered to have the world’s most restrictive Internet policies. He is part of a delegation that includes former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.

It is the first trip by an executive from the California-based Internet search provider to North Korea.

Also on the trip is Jared Cohen, director of the Google Ideas think tank. Cohen is a former State Department policy adviser.

Washington has criticized the trip as not “helpful.” North Korea has drawn criticism for launching a long-range rocket last month.

Richardson calls the trip a “private humanitarian mission” but it’s not clear what the group hopes to accomplish during the visit.