The man who stole from a foundation named after Omaha investor Warren Buffett’s late wife has been sentenced to jail and probation.

Douglas County District Court records say 39-year-old Dhaval Patel on Wednesday was given 180 days in jail, five years of probation and ordered to do 500 hours of community service. He’d pleaded guilty to stealing $46,000 from the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation.

Patel had been hired to monitor programs that receive money from the foundation. Prosecutors say that from December 2011 to April this year, Patel padded his expense account, seeking reimbursement for travel expenses he’d never incurred or had been prepaid.

Patel, who lives in Omaha, has paid back the money.

The troubled Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant is inching closer toward generating power for the first time since April 2011, but federal regulators say the utility still has significant work to do before they’ll allow the plant to restart.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a 48-page-long checklist this week listing everything the Omaha Public Power District must address.

The checklist includes policy reviews, training exercises and plant equipment upgrades. Some items are completed, but many remain blank.

OPPD spokesman Jeff Hanson says the utility has made significant progress, but the plant won’t restart until regulators know it’s safe.

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

Authorities have asked people to help find whoever tried to start a fire at a University of Nebraska-Lincoln dorm.

Television station KOLN/KGIN says Smith Hall was evacuated around 4:50 a.m. Thursday after alarms sounded. UNL Police Assistant Chief Charlotte Evans says someone tried to set fire to a cork board in the third-floor lobby.

Evans says the smoldering board spewed heavy smoke, setting off the alarms. No injuries have been reported.

A Nebraska State Fire Marshal’s investigator has joined the arson investigation.

Authorities say Jon Bon Jovi’s 19-year-old daughter is hospitalized after overdosing on heroin in a dorm at her upstate New York college.

Town of Kirkland police say an ambulance was sent to Hamilton College early Wednesday morning after a report that a female had apparently overdosed on heroin.

Investigator Peter Cania (KAYN’-yah) says Stephanie Bongiovi, of Red Bank, N.J., is recovering at a hospital he declined to name.

Police say Bongiovi and 21-year-old Ian Grant, also of Red Bank, were charged with drug possession. Both were issued tickets and ordered to appear in court at a later date. Police didn’t know if they have lawyers.

The musician’s representative isn’t commenting.

Bon Jovi is scheduled to perform at a benefit concert for Hamilton in Times Square on Dec. 5.

A former University of Nebraska women’s basketball star accused of faking a hate-crime attack against her is standing by her story in letters to news organizations and in a new online video.

In the video and letters — including one to the Lincoln Journal Star 34-year-old Charlie Rogers says she did not make up the attack. Rogers says that in July, three masked men broke into her home and carved anti-gay words on her arms and abdomen, as well as making other cuts on her body.

Police arrested her Aug. 21 for allegedly staging the attack. Prosecutors charged her with making a false report to police, a misdemeanor. She pleaded not guilty Sept. 27.

Both prosecutors and Rogers’ attorney say they expect the case to go to trial.

Officials in Norfolk had to clean up a milky mess after a tanker truck overturned.

Sioux City, Iowa, television station KCAU reports the tanker overturned Tuesday morning.

No one was injured but video provided by Norfolk radio stations WJAG/KEXL showed milk pooled around the truck.

Milk also poured out of the tank when the truck was lifted back onto its wheels.

The third man convicted of robbing a Lincoln bank branch has been sentenced to prison.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports that 19-year-old Darrius Mason was sentenced on Tuesday to four years and nine months in federal prison. He must serve three years of supervised release after he leaves custody. Mason had pleaded guilty.

Mason also was ordered to help his accomplices pay more than $11,300 in restitution to Great Western Bank.

The leader of the three men, 22-year-old Cleophus  Collier, last week was sentenced to 13 years. He was on parole when he robbed the bank on March 17 with Mason and 19-year-old Trenton Ziegenbein. Ziegenbein was given four to six years in prison.

The Grand Island City Council has overridden a mayoral veto and enacted city employment protection for gay, bisexual and transgender people.

The ordinance change adds protection to only city policies and doesn’t affect any other employer in the south-central Nebraska community.

The Grand Island Independent says  the proposal passed on a 6-4 vote Tuesday night. Then the council voted 8-2 to override a veto by Mayor Jay Vavricek, who said he saw the ordinance change as merely symbolic.

The council on Oct. 9 rejected a measure that would have barred businesses from discriminating against current or prospective employees based on their sexual orientation. It also would have covered housing and retail situations.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon says the legalization of marijuana for recreational use in two U.S. states limits that country’s “moral authority” to ask other nations to combat or restrict illegal drug trafficking.

Calderon says the legalization of marijuana in Washington and Colorado represents a fundamental change that requires the rethinking of public policy in the entire Western Hemisphere.

Calderon spoke in an interview with the newspaper Milenio that was published Tuesday.

Calderon was joined on Monday by leaders of Belize, Honduras and Costa Rica in calling for the Organization of American States to study the impact of the new laws and saying the United Nations’ General Assembly should hold a special session on the prohibition of drugs by 2015 at the latest.