LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — More than 70 Lefler school district educators recently participated in a role-play event hosted by the Food Bank of Lincoln to experience the kind of poverty that 56 percent of their students live every day.

Lefler is the first school to go through the simulation. Organizers hope other schools will soon do the same.

Lefler Principal Jessie Carlson had his staff participate in the exercise as part of a five-year effort to reduce the gap in both achievement and discipline rates for students living in poverty.

Teachers said the exercise put them in the shoes of struggling children and teens, and gave them a new perspective on why parents aren’t involved at school, and why kids act out, or forget their pencils.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have identified a woman killed when a motorcycle she was on collided with a semitrailer in western Douglas County.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says 18-year-old Madeline Fitzpatrick was riding on the motorcycle, operated by 36-year-old Jason Matthews, that collided with the semi Tuesday evening at the intersection of Highway 92 and 264th Street.

Investigators say Fitzpatrick was pronounced dead at the scene. Matthews was flown to an Omaha hospital in critical condition.

The sheriff’s office says the truck driver, 47-year-old Michael Green, wasn’t injured.

Authorities are still investigating the cause of the crash.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 69-year-old western Colorado man has been sent to a Nebraska prison for having around 515 pounds of marijuana in his pickup.

Steven McElmury was sentenced Tuesday to 18 to 36 months. He’d pleaded guilty to possession for sale.

Prosecutors say McElmury, who lives in Cedaredge, Colorado, was pulled over on eastbound Interstate 80 near Lincoln on Jan. 21. A drug-sniffing dog taken to the scene alerted officers to the scent of drugs, and the pot was found in heat-sealed bags stuffed into four boxes, four duffel bags and a tote.

The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office estimated the pot’s resale value at more than $2.5 million.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — A Beatrice woman who authorities said should have prevented a man from having sex with her teenage foster child has been given two years behind bars.

Thirty-four-year-old April Dils was sentenced Tuesday in Gage County District Court in Beatrice. She’d pleaded no contest to two counts of negligent child abuse after prosecutors lowered the charge.

Prosecutors say a friend of Dils’ boyfriend developed a sexual relationship with the 14-year-old girl when the friend stayed at Dils’ home after a night of drinking. The friend, 27-year-old Jose Salinas, in May was sentenced to 16 to 20 years in prison on his convictions for attempted sexual assault of a minor.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say one person was killed and one injured when a motorcycle collided with a semitrailer in western Douglas County.

The wreck occurred around 5:45 p.m. Tuesday, about a mile and a half east of the Platte River. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says one of the people on the motorcycle was pronounced dead at the scene. The other was flown to an Omaha hospital.

The Sheriff’s Office says the truck driver wasn’t injured.

The names of those involved and other details about the collision haven’t been released.

At least two people who’ve ridden the waterslide on which a 10-year-old boy was killed over the weekend say shoulder straps snapped or popped off during the ride in Kansas City, Kansas.

Paul Oberhauser told local television station KCTV that the safety restraints on his raft on the Verruckt waterslide weren’t working properly when he rode it on July 26 at the Schlitterbahn Waterpark.

The Nebraska man says his shoulder strap “busted loose” during the ride and he “just held on.” A video shot by his wife shows it loose at the ride’s end. He says he told workers about the loose strap.

Kenneth Conrad told WDAF-TV that he rode the waterslide last year with a friend whose shoulder strap came “completely off.” Conrad’s wife snapped a photo at the end of the ride showing the strap missing. Conrad says he didn’t file a complaint with the park.

The park’s spokeswoman didn’t immediately return a message Tuesday from The Associated Press seeking comment on the claims.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A man suspected of a robbery in San Diego has been captured in Nebraska.

25-year-old Wani Kose was arrested Monday evening in an apartment about six blocks from the state Capitol.

Members of a U.S. Marshals fugitive task force had received information that Kose was in the area, and he was spotted around 6 p.m. He ran, but officers chased him back to the apartment, where he was found in the shower.

Officials didn’t provide details about the San Diego robbery. It’s unclear whether Kose has an attorney.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man who was given a rare chance with probation when he was 14 has been sentenced to prison for violating it by attempting to break into a business.

19-year-old Deanta Delarosa pleaded guilty in May to attempted burglary after he got caught trying to break into a business in July 2015. At the time, Delarosa was still on probation for a robbery he committed in December 2011.

On Monday, Lancaster County District Judge John Colborn revoked Delarosa’s probation, sentenced him to four to six years in prison for the original robbery and gave him another 18 months to two years for the new charge.

Delarosa already has credit for nearly two years in jail and will have to serve about 10 months before he’s eligible for parole.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha man has been arrested, accused of poisoning four giant city-owned cottonwood trees near his home.

Court records say 44-year-old Donald Grenawalt is charged with felony criminal mischief. His attorney didn’t immediately return a call Tuesday from The Associated Press.

Four or five holes had been drilled into each tree trunk, and officials suspect poison was poured into the holes. The city has estimated the cost to remove each dying tree and plant a new one at $3,000 to $5,000.

Court records say Grenawalt told a city employee who knew him that he’d attacked the trees because he was sick of them. The documents say investigators found drills and bits at Grenawalt’s home and chemicals that could have been poured into the trees.

PLATTE, S.D. (AP) — A husband and wife died within 20 minutes of one another side-by-side in a South Dakota nursing home after 63 years of marriage.

Henry and Jeanette De Lange died July 31 at Platte Care Center.

The couple’s son, Lee De Lange, says his 87-year-old mother suffered from Alzheimer’s and had been in a nursing home since 2011. He says his 86-year-old father visited her daily before recently entering the same nursing home.

Lee De Lange says after his mother died peacefully, he told his father, “mom’s gone to heaven. You don’t have to fight anymore, you can go too if you want.” He says his father looked at his wife, closed his eyes and died minutes after.

The couple’s joint funeral was to be held Monday.