McCOOK, Neb. (AP) – A psychiatric examination submitted by lawyers for a Bartley man says he isn’t mentally competent to stand trial on a charge that he killed a 14-year-old McCook girl. The examination was discussed during a hearing Thursday for 19-year-old Stathis Kirkpatrick. He’s pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and three lesser felonies in the death of Kailee Clapp. The teen’s burned body was found the evening of Jan. 21 in a Bartley cemetery. She had been reported missing that morning from her McCook home. Red Willow County District Court Judge David Urbom is giving prosecutors time to review the examination. He scheduled an update hearing via conference call on Sept. 19.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – The governor has ordered U.S. and Nebraska flags to be lowered at all state facilities and buildings in observance of Patriot Day. The observance this Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Flags will be flown at half-staff in honor of the victims. Gov. Dave Heineman’s office says in a release that all Nebraskans are encouraged to join the remembrance by lowering their flags.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A U.S. State Department consultant’s report says Canadian tar sands oil will almost certainly move to U.S. refineries even if a $7 billion pipeline from western Canada to the Gulf Coast fails to get federal approval. The report from EnSys Energy & Systems Inc. says if the proposed Keystone XL pipeline or a similar pipeline project is halted, the oil would still likely move to U.S. refineries by rail, barge or trucks. The report estimates that rail alone could haul 1.25 million barrels of Canadian crude daily by 2030, or nearly twice the amount that would be carried by the pipeline proposed by Calgary-based TransCanada. The report cites North Dakota’s booming oil patch as an example of how railroads can quickly ramp up to meet demand.

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) – A resident was surprised when he found six dozen marijuana plants growing in a windbreak near his rural home northeast of North Platte in south- central Nebraska. They weren’t his plants, Don Haws told the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department on Saturday afternoon, when he reported his discovery.  The North Platte Telegraph says sheriff’s investigators soon made another discovery: A sprinkler system and buried hose led them next door, to Haws’ neighbor Marco Vieyra. The 56-year-old Vieyra was arrested on suspicion of manufacturing marijuana. Vieyra remained in custody on Wednesday, pending $50,000 bail. Online court records don’t list his attorney.

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) – A 26-year-old man has been given 60 days in jail for failing to properly register in Lincoln County as a sex offender. North Platte television station KNOP says David Eyten pleaded guilty on Tuesday. He was given credit for 37 days already served. Eyten had been convicted of sexual assault of a child in Custer County in 2004. Eyten filed late with authorities earlier this year and gave the wrong address when he moved into the Lincoln Connection Homeless Shelter after being released from prison. He’d been serving time for his role in a theft ring in 2010.