LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 37-year-old Lincoln man has been sentenced to up to 20 years in prison for sexually assaulting a sleeping woman at a party.

Jesus “Jesse” Brown was sentenced Wednesday to 16 to 20 years in prison. He was convicted by a jury in January of first-degree sexual assault.

Prosecutors say Brown assaulted the woman three months after being paroled from prison. The 28-year-old woman told police she spent the night in Lincoln in September 2015 at an after-hours party at a house. She said she awoke early in the morning to Brown sexually assaulting her.

Brown said the sex was consensual.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say police soon captured a man who escaped from the state psychiatric hospital in Lincoln.

The Nebraska Health and Human Services Department says 22-year-old Christopher Torres Jr. hopped a fence and fled around 12:45 p.m. Thursday. He was caught within a few blocks about 15 minutes later and returned to the Lincoln Regional Center.

Department spokeswoman Julie Naughton said hospital staffers had Torres in sight the entire time.

Torres was sent to the hospital after a judge found him incompetent to stand trial in November. Prosecutors say Torres had used a knife to threaten a man after taking the man’s bicycle.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say two men were arrested after officers found around 280 pounds of marijuana and more than $60,000 in a vehicle after a traffic stop on the western edge of Lincoln.

The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office says a deputy pulled over the van for several traffic violations around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday on Interstate 80. The office says the deputy smelled marijuana coming from the vehicle. A subsequent search uncovered the pot and the cash hidden throughout the vehicle.

The Sheriff’s Office says the marijuana has an estimated street value of $900,000.

The two men were arrested on suspicion of possession for sale and a related crime. Online court records don’t show Thursday that the two have been formally charged.

DENVER (AP) — The Denver FBI has honored a youth dropout prevention group apparently without realizing it is partially funded with marijuana taxes.

Youth on Record Executive Director Jami Duffy mentioned the funding Thursday as she accepted the Director’s Community Leadership Award at Denver FBI headquarters.

She said the program that focuses on music received $75,000 in marijuana tax revenue last year and is expecting an additional $148,000 this year.

Colorado’s voter-approved marijuana industry is still illegal under federal law and faces uncertainty under new U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Asked about the funding, FBI spokeswoman Amy Sanders pointed to the corporations and foundations listed as donors on Youth on Record’s website . That list does not include the marijuana-based funding.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 29-year-old man has been imprisoned for the crash death of a teenage girl while he was driving drunk in Omaha.

A judge sentenced Tyvinn Smith to 22 to 25 years in prison Wednesday. Smith had pleaded no contest to vehicular homicide while driving drunk and to two related charges.

Prosecutors say Smith was speeding June 24 when he slammed into the back of a car on Sorensen Parkway around 10:45 p.m., killing 16-year-old Janis Brown and injuring two others. Prosecutors say Smith had a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit and had cocaine and PCP in his system.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped charges against a teenager accused of sexually abusing a mentally disabled woman in suburban Des Moines whom he met online.

The case against Nicholas Fifield was dismissed Tuesday with prejudice, which means the charges can’t be refiled. A judge rejected an earlier plea deal.

A criminal complaint says Fifield, then a 17-year-old high school student, met the 18-year-old woman online and took her on a date in December 2015. The complaint says they went to his house and had sex, even though the woman said “no” several times.

The motion to dismiss says the woman’s parents asked that the case be dropped. The motion also says the woman can’t help prosecutors because of her “mental health diagnosis and attendant condition.”

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — A woman who bore a child after having sex with a 13-year-old boy in Dodge County has been sentenced to three years in prison.

21-year-old Brianne McIntosh was sentenced Wednesday in Dodge County District Court in Fremont. She’d pleaded no contest to sexual assault of a child and child abuse.

Authorities say McIntosh was 19 in May 2014 when she and the boy had sex. Under Nebraska law, people 19 and over cannot have sexual contact with people under 16. A DNA test confirmed the boy had fathered the child born to McIntosh in February 2015.

The child, who is a ward of the state, lives with the boy and the boy’s mother.

COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — A 25-year-old Columbus woman has been given jail time and probation for the crash death of a St. Edward man.

Mikala Phillips was sentenced Wednesday to 90 days in jail and three years of probation. She’d pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of vehicular homicide and first-offense driving under the influence. Prosecutors had reduced the homicide charge from a felony in exchange for Phillips’ pleas.

Court records on her plea deal say Phillips agreed to be sentenced to the maximum probation on each charge. The agreement was not binding on the judge, however.

Authorities have said Phillips’ car collided with a pickup truck driven by 33-year-old William Sorensen on June 9 last year. He was pronounced dead at the rural crash site about a mile west of Tarnov.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former Creighton University student accused of using a pocket knife to cut another student’s throat in her dorm room will stand trial in the case.

Christopher Wheeler waived his preliminary hearing in Douglas County Court on Wednesday. He has been charged with second-degree assault and a weapons count.

Wheeler’s family and attorneys have said he was forced in a fraternity hazing incident to take a hallucinogenic drug before the Feb. 11 attack and has no memory of it. Fraternity representatives have denied that and say any alcohol or drugs consumed by Wheeler appeared to have been voluntary.

The 18-year-old woman who was cut was briefly hospitalized for a 3-inch cut on her neck.

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline have asked a South Dakota judge to reverse state regulators’ decision last year to again authorize the portion of the project that would go through the state.

The decision by the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission’s was appealed to state court, which heard arguments Wednesday in the case. It’s not clear when Judge John Brown will rule.

The commission voted last year to accept the company’s guarantee that it can complete the project while meeting the conditions of the 2010 approval.

The project has prompted opposition from Native American tribes, some landowners and environmental groups concerned the pipeline would contaminate water supplies and contribute to pollution.

Attorneys for TransCanada and the Public Utilities Commission have asked the judge to uphold the order.