OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 35-year-old Omaha teacher has been accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old former student.

Online court records say Brian Robeson is charged with two counts of sexual assault of a child. Police say he was arrested Tuesday after he, the girl and her family were interviewed.

Online jail records say Robeson remained in Douglas County Jail on Thursday. Court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could be contacted to comment on Robeson’s behalf.

Robeson was a seventh-grade math teacher at Davis Middle School. The Omaha district says he’s no longer an employee.

RALSTON, Neb. (AP) — Two credit card data theft devices have been found on gas pumps at a store in Ralston.

The devices, known as skimmers, were discovered Wednesday on two pumps farthest from the Super Store building. They were turned over to the U.S. Secret Service.

Ralston Police Chief Ron Murtaugh says his officers are trying to find out how long the devices were in place and whose credit or debit card information was stolen.

No arrests have been reported.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — A 25-year-old man was arrested after a sheriff’s deputy spotted what looked like drug paraphernalia when the man tried to go through a courtroom security checkpoint at the Gage County Courthouse in Beatrice.

Authorities say the man was headed into the courtroom for his hearing on two other cases. The man’s black glasses case set off a metal detector at the checkpoint. An arrest report says the case was partially open and the deputy could see small plastic bags inside.

The man gave the case to the deputy, and a spoon inside the case later tested positive for methamphetamine.

The man was taken into custody. Online court records don’t yet show that he’s been charged.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An Iowa bank robbery suspect has been arrested in Nebraska.

Authorities say officers took 46-year-old Dwight Rogers into custody Wednesday in Lincoln. An Iowa warrant for his arrest lists the charge as first-degree robbery. Iowa online court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could be contacted to comment on Rogers’ behalf.

Rogers is suspected of robbing the Frontier Bank on 23rd Avenue in Council Bluffs on Dec. 10. Council Bluffs police say he used a small handgun to back up his demand for cash from a teller, who gave him an undisclosed amount of money. No shots were fired.

DENVER (AP) — Snoop Dogg has his own line of marijuana. So does Willie Nelson. Melissa Etheridge has a marijuana-infused wine.

As the fast-growing marijuana industry emerges from the black market and starts looking like a mainstream industry, there’s a scramble to brand and trademark pot products.

Makeshift branding efforts, from celebrity names on boxes of weed to the many weed-themed T-shirts and stickers common in towns with a legal marijuana market, show the industry taking halting steps toward the mainstream.

But patents and trademarks are largely regulated by the federal government, which considers marijuana an illegal drug, ineligible for any sort of legal protection. The result is a Wild West environment of marijuana entrepreneurs trying to stake claims and establish cross-state markets using a patchwork of state laws.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say an 82-year-old man injured in a Lincoln fire has died.

Lincoln police say Georgiy Kuznetsov (GYOR’-gee kooz-neht-SAHF’) died Monday afternoon at a Lincoln hospital.

City fire inspector Damon Robbins says a caregiver found Kuznetsov inside the house around 11:30 p.m. Saturday. Kuznetsov was outside the house and covered in a blanket when firefighters arrived.

Robbins says that inside the home, a 2-foot flame was shooting from a broken gas line, and the stove had apparently been moved. There was no apparent damage to the building.

 

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A former Lincoln teacher convicted of sexually assaulting a student is appealing his sentence.

Online court records say an attorney for 23-year-old Jackson Hedrick on Tuesday filed a notice of appeal with the Nebraska Appeals Court. A hearing date has not been set. Hedrick is claiming that the sentence is excessive.

On Dec. 10 Hedrick was sentenced to 20 to 30 years in prison. He pleaded guilty to sexual assault. Hedrick lost his job in March following allegations of an inappropriate relationship with the 14-year-old student.

Hedrick graduated last year from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a bachelor’s degree in education and was hired to teach social studies at Irving Middle School in August 2014.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — Bail has been set for four people accused of vandalism at a U.S. defense contractor’s building in Bellevue, not far from Offutt Air Force Base. They were arrested Sunday at the Northrop Grumman building. Bail was set Tuesday. All are charged with burglary and criminal mischief.

One of them, Jessica Reznicek, of Des Moines, Iowa, said they are peace workers. She says they wanted “to bring public awareness to the fact that we really don’t know what our billions of taxpayers’ dollars are really going toward when we’re handing them over to Northrop Grumman.”

Northrop Grumman has a contract for military weather products and works with Air Force personnel at Offutt. In October, the company was selected to develop the Air Force’s next long-range bomber.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha families are getting early warning about school bus cutbacks scheduled to begin in fall 2017.

Letters were mailed last week to parents of students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade who could be affected.

Over the next several weeks, families whose eligibility for busing could change in 2017 — an estimated 1,800 students — will receive notices from the district. The notices will say that, based on the families’ current addresses, their students won’t be provided school bus rides to their current schools in the 2017-18 school year.

School officials say they want families to have plenty of time to absorb any busing shifts.

The school board approved the overhauled student assignment plan in June. The plan affects only elementary and middle school students.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities in eastern Nebraska have arrested a man in connection to an attack against a good Samaritan on Christmas Eve.

The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office says 30-year-old Bryan K. Reiber, of Lincoln, was arrested Sunday on suspicion of aiding and abetting terroristic threats. Court records do not list any attorney.

Chief Deputy Jeff Bliemeister says Reiber is one of two men suspected of attacking Joel Schrader on Thursday. Schrader said he was helping the men after they knocked on his door and sought help for car trouble.

Schrader says he went outside to look at their car before the men assaulted him and threaten to shoot him.

Authorities say the men escaped but left behind Reiber’s cellphone. Officials are still looking for the second man.