OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha woman says she returned home from vacation to discover that her sister had sold the family dog.

A 46-year-old woman filed a complaint with the Omaha Police Department claiming her 29-year-old sister sold the male Chihuahua named Milo for $250. Her sister had been house-sitting when the sale allegedly occurred.

According to the police report, the woman says her sister originally told her that the 2-year-old dog had escaped. She says her sister later told her three children that she had sold the dog.

The woman describes Milo as a tiny black Chihuahua with brown spots on his nose and belly. It is unclear whether he will be returned to her.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha man says his former girlfriend bilked him out of $125,000 — and now she won’t return his phone calls.

The 59-year-old man filed a complaint with the Omaha Police Department earlier this month, about a year after he discovered discrepancies in checks that he wrote to his ex-girlfriend.

The man tells police that he wrote two checks, one for $6,000 and another for $6,500, as gifts to a Council Bluffs woman he met at a bar and sporadically dated. He says he later discovered that the check amounts had been changed to $60,000 and $65,000, but that the woman promised to pay him back.

According to the police report, the woman has since blocked her phone number and he doesn’t know her address.

CENTRAL CITY, Neb. (AP) — A 75-year-old man has died after a fire that burned his apartment at a housing complex for senior citizens in Central City.

Police Chief Mark Hogue says 75-year-old Larry Ronnfeld Sr. died of his injuries after Monday afternoon’s fire at Bader Villa. Hogue says a lit cigarette likely started the blaze.

Ronnfeld called his son for help, and his son pulled his dad from the burning apartment after arriving. They were flown to a Lincoln hospital, where the older man died. His son was treated for smoke inhalation and released.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln Public Schools will spend more than $3 million to make sure 32 schools in the district have secured entrances.

They are the last of the district schools to have physical barriers put in place between the entrance and the rest of the school. But it may not be an easy task. Older buildings have entrances that are far from school offices, making it difficult to place security in an ideal location. Another obstacle for placing security is that many visitors use doors that are convenient than the main entrance.

The project is one of the security measures implemented after a man walked into an elementary school about a decade ago and sexually assaulted a boy in a bathroom.

The district has been securing entrances since 2006.

CENTER, Neb. (AP) — A 66-year-old man has taken a plea deal and been convicted of second-degree murder in the slaying of his wife in northeast Nebraska.

Prosecutors had lowered the charge against Phillip Privett from first-degree murder. Privett also pleaded no contest to a weapons charge on Tuesday. He’s scheduled to be sentenced on May 26.

Prosecutors say Privett shot to death his wife, 66-year-old Linda Privett, at their home in Verdigre (VUR’-dih-gree) on Oct. 20.

Privett’s attorneys had been checking into having him plead insanity, but prosecutors say an evaluation of Privett earlier this month showed that he did not fulfill the criteria necessary for such a plea and that he would have been mentally competent to stand trial.

DENVER (AP) — Legalizing marijuana reduces drug arrests but doesn’t solve one of the central goals of drug-policy reformers — ending racial disparities in marijuana enforcement.

That’s according to a new review of Colorado’s criminal justice system before and after pot was made legal.

A report released Wednesday by the pro-legalization Drug Policy Alliance examined drug-related arrests in all 64 Colorado counties for two years before and two years after legalization in 2012.

Not surprisingly, the data showed that marijuana-related arrests all but vanished after voters made the drug legal in small amounts for adults over 21.

But the report noted continuing racial disparities in arrest data from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Even after legalization, black people were more likely than white people to be charged with marijuana-related crimes.

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — A judge has rejected a Hastings man’s request to withdraw his pleas to charges stemming from the dragging of a police officer.

Thirty-year-old Marty Deckert had accepted a plea deal on charges of attempted second-degree murder and other crimes. But at his sentencing hearing last month, Deckert tried to fire his court-appointed attorney and withdraw his pleas.

Authorities say Deckert tried to avoid arrest in July by speeding away in a car while dragging a police officer.

Deckert said in court on Tuesday that he thought his attorney had pressed him to take the plea deal without fully explaining what it included.

Judge Terri Harder denied Deckert’s motion, saying he didn’t provide enough evidence to back up his argument and had lied at the sentencing hearing.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Lincoln school board has approved a $50 million, 10-year plan that will provide third- through 12th-graders with a laptop over the next three years.

The board voted 6-0 Tuesday, with one member absent. The plan also provides tablets to kindergarten through second-grade classrooms.

The number of computer labs in the district will be reduced by nearly half, saving about $1 million a year. The remaining labs will be used for more specialized classes, such as computer programming, video production and computer-assisted drawing.

Sixth-graders will receive the laptops next year. Upper elementary students, seventh-graders and students at two high schools will receive the devices in 2016-17. Eighth-graders and the remaining four high schools will get them in 2017-18.

The Omaha World-Herald says the district has more than 37,800 students.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Lincoln Children’s Zoo is seeking three acres of land to expand westward.

The zoo wants to expand it facility to include new exhibit space and a permanent home for the Zoo School, which is part of the Lincoln Public Schools’ system. The land that is being considered includes where the Ager Play Center and the city’s Parks and Recreation Office are located. The play center and the office would be used by the zoo.

Zoo Executive Director John Chapo says that he hopes that at least a portion of the zoo can be kept open year-round instead of only April to October.

The Parks and Recreation Advisory Board is scheduled to decide whether to endorse the land-use proposal in May. If the board approves, a feasibility study will be conducted.