The president of Omaha State Bank remains on leave after he brought his new gun to work last month to show it to a friend.

The Omaha World-Herald reports Michael Dahir’s actions violated a bank policy prohibiting employees from bringing guns into the bank.

Bank vice president Karen Cenovic filed a police report later saying she felt threatened. But prosecutors haven’t decided yet whether to file charges.

The incident on Nov. 20 happened after the bank closed. Dahir had just picked up a new 9mm handgun that he’d purchased, and he brought it inside the bank to show it off.

Dahir says he’s sorry about the incident and realizes it was a mistake to take the gun into the bank. Dahir says he never meant to threaten anyone.

Gov. Dave Heineman is reminding Nebraskans to fly their flags at half-staff in observance of Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day on Friday.

Heineman says lowering the flag is a way to remember the victims and honor the heroes of Pearl Harbor.

Congress has designated Dec. 7 as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, and each year the President signs a proclamation ordering flags to be flown at half-staff.

The Dec. 7, 1941, surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii claimed some 2,400 American lives and pushed the U.S. into World War II.

The concepts of climate change and American exceptionalism remain in the final draft of new social studies standards for Nebraska schools.

The two issues had been the most contentious as public comment was taken on the proposed standards.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports that the phrase “American exceptionalism” doesn’t appear in the wording on the concept contained in the sixth- through eighth-grade U.S. history standards.

In the sixth- through eighth-grade geography standards, climate change is presented as theory, and the standards suggest students be asked to evaluate the evidence that supports or refutes the theory.

The state Education Board is scheduled to vote Friday on the proposed standards.

Nebraska’s revised Stateside Transportation Improvement Program plan has been made available for public comment through Dec. 12.

The plan has been posted on the state Roads Department website.

Copies also may be obtained from the department’s communication office in Lincoln by calling 402-479-4512 or emailing maryjo.oie@nebraska.gov.

Federal law requires that residents and other interested parties be given a chance to comment on the proposed plan. The plan lists all highway and transit projects that will be using federal funds, as well as regionally significant transportation projects using nonfederal sources.

The plan is referred to as Revision 2 and covers a four-year period.

A third man has been convicted of selling pot in a case that began when his brother asked strangers at a bar whether any of them wanted to buy some marijuana. Turns out the bar patrons were Lincoln police officers at a party.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports that 57-year-old Richard Carr was convicted Tuesday of delivering a controlled substance.

Prosecutors say Carr’s younger brother, John Carr, had made the pot offer on Jan. 9, 2011. No immediate sale resulted, but two undercover officers followed up two days later at John Carr’s apartment. Prosecutors say Richard Carr was there and participated in the transaction.

John Carr got probation after pleading no contest. Another man involved, Jay Rickman, also got probation.

Richard Carr is scheduled to be sentenced in February.

(Lincoln, Neb.)- Nebraska State Patrol Captain Kevin Knorr recently attended the 22^nd session of the Anti Defamation League’s (ADL) Advanced Training School (ATS) course on Extremist and Terrorist Threats. Since its implementation in 2003, more than 815 law enforcement executives have completed the training.

One of 40 law enforcement executives chosen to attend the training, Captain Knorr, 49, is a 26-year veteran of the Nebraska State Patrol and is Commander of the Nebraska Information Analysis Center (NIAC). The NIAC is responsible for providing analytical analysis of information on all crimes and all hazards encountered by citizens of Nebraska. The analytical work done at the NIAC is a collaborative effort of multiple law enforcement agencies to include the Nebraska State Patrol, the Omaha Police Department, the Lincoln Police Department, and the Omaha Division of the FBI.

Founded in 1913, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is the foremost non-governmental authority on domestic terrorism, extremism, organized hate groups and hate crimes. ADL created the Advanced Training School to provide top law enforcement from across the country with practical resources and information to help them fight criminal extremism and terrorist threats.  The course provides participants with information to help prevent and respond to domestic and international terrorist threats and has been recognized as one of the top counter- terrorism schools in the nation.

The training, which was held December 2-4 in Washington D.C. , included participants from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), United States Secret Service, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Coast Guard Investigative Service, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Central Intelligence Agency Threat Management Unit, and dozens of the largest state and local agencies from around the country

Relatives and friends are saying a final good-bye to a New York City man who was shoved onto subway tracks as a train rolled into a station.

A handful of mourners gathered Thursday for the funeral service for 58-year-old Ki-Suck Han at the Edward D. Jamie Funeral Chapel in Flushing, Queens.

Han’s widow and daughter knelt before the open coffin for several minutes before taking their seats in the front row.

The chapel was festooned with floral arrangements. The service was said in Korean.

The family requested that the media wait outside.

Naeem Davis was arraigned Wednesday on a second-degree murder charge and ordered held without bail in the Han’s death. He’s accused of pushing Han onto the tracks as a train barreled into a Times Square station on Monday.

Lincoln and other Midwest cities are setting records for the lack of snow.

Thursday in Lincoln is the 297th in a row without measurable snow. The former record was 295 snow-free days in 2004.

The National Weather Service says the 285 snowless days as of Wednesday in Omaha breaks the record 284 days that ended Dec. 30, 2006.

The Des Moines, Iowa, record of 277 days set in 1889 is being matched on Thursday.

Elsewhere in the Midwest, Chicago and Milwaukee have yet to have their first measurable snow of the season.

But good news may be ahead for winter wonderland fans: The service says snow is in the forecasts for Saturday night or Sunday in Nebraska and Iowa, the next day in Chicago.

A Nebraska man is accused of impersonating a funeral director in an attempt to retrieve the engagement rings he gave his fiance.

Lincoln Police Officer Katie Flood says 58-year-old Terry Kurtzhals impersonated a funeral director about two weeks ago to collect jewelry from a deceased woman.

The funeral home’s owner, Rod Rozanek, called police after Kurzhals showed up wearing a funeral director name tag and claiming to represent the woman’s family.

Flood says Kurtshals used to be a licensed mortician for 17 years, but he lost his license in 1996 and went to prison for theft for mishandling clients’ money.

Someone else reported Kurtshals voted illegally on election day. He wasn’t eligible because of his criminal record.

Kurzhals is also facing shoplifting and driving on a suspended license charges.

Newly-released records show that James Holmes had what one professor described as a brief romantic relationship, but few friends while attending the University of Colorado, Denver.

The emails regarding James Holmes were released Wednesday in response to a public records request.

One stunned professor emailed a friend that Holmes briefly had a girlfriend. The woman was in India at the time of the attack.

The chair of the neuroscience department wrote that Holmes was not close to his fellow students in the program but that he had one or two friends in other programs.

The vast majority of the emails were redacted for privacy reasons.