LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An expert on education and creative learning is set to set to speak about nurturing curiosity in children in a lecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Milton Chen will present “Creativity, Curiosity and Learning” at 7 p.m. on Feb. 24 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Chen’s career has spanned four decades at the intersection of pre-K-12 education, media and technology.

Chen will talk about successful schools and afterschool programs that emphasize creative learning through projects, the visual and performing arts, and experiences in authentic places such as the national parks.

Chen is senior fellow and executive director emeritus at the George Lucas Educational Foundation, a nonprofit operating foundation in the San Francisco Bay area.

His remarks are part of the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues.

BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — Police are searching for a 32-year-old man who they say twice struck his mother with an SUV in an attempt to evade an officer.

A Bellevue police spokeswoman says an officer on Saturday afternoon spoke briefly with Anthony M. Flud’s mother outside a home.

Flud was sought on felony arrest warrants after being charged in late December with operating a vehicle to avoid arrest and felony theft.

The spokesman says that while the officer and the mother were talking, Flud was inside a vehicle and hit his mother in the driveway. Flud struck his mother a second time and the officer’s patrol car before driving away.

Police followed Flud’s vehicle but called it off for safety reasons.

Flud’s mother was taken to a hospital for treatment.

BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — The last round of buyouts has been completed of flood-prone property at a development along the Missouri River south of Bellevue.

The Papio-Missouri River Natural Resources District board last week approved the buyouts at Iske Place. The secluded riverside community sits just south of where Papillion Creek empties into the river, north of the mouth of the Platte River.

The properties targeted for buyout were on the river side of a levee. Authorities sought to get residents out of the floodway to reduce the cost of evacuation and cleanup when the river floods again. The combined purchase price for all 25 lots on the 35-acre property amounts to roughly $1.5 million. Three-quarters of that is being covered by the federal government.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln brewery owner wants to reopen Robber’s Cave and use its local lore to help sell some beer.

Legend has it that outlaw Jesse James used the cave as a hideout, but a local historian says there’s no evidence of that. In 1869 Lincoln Brewery enlarged the cave and stored barrels of beer and beer ingredients there.

Brian Podwinski, who owns Blue Blood Brewing, said he has a deal to buy the property and construct a building above ground to house his brewery and an expanded taproom and restaurant.

He was drawn to the site because of its history, and he says the Jesse James tale — true or not — is a perfect marketing peg for Blue Blood’s Outlaw line of beers.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Board members for a natural resources district are considering action on a colleague who wants to remain on the board despite being out of the country until June, teaching in China.

Steve Larrick represents west Lincoln on the Lower Platte South Natural Resources District board. He won a third four-year term in November.

Laws governing the districts say that if a director has more than two consecutive unexcused absences from monthly meetings, the board can declare the seat vacant. The board granted Larrick excused absences for its October and November meetings but not for December and January. If the board at Wednesday’s meeting denies Larrick an excused absence for February, that kicks in the public hearing process required before declaring the seat vacant.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Fifty Shades of Grey” raked in the Valentine’s Day dollars, earning an estimated $81.7 million from 3,646 theaters in its first three days, distributor Universal Studios said on Sunday. The chart-topping erotic drama could be on track to earn over $90 million during the four-day holiday weekend.

This total includes the $8.6 million from showings late Thursday night.

Internationally, the R-rated adaptation of E L James’ book is projected to earn a massive $158.3 million from 58 territories.

Director Matthew Vaughn’s “Kingsman: The Secret Service” also exceeded expectations with an estimated $35.6 million across the three-day for a second place debut, according to box office tracker Rentrak.

Animated children’s film “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water” came in third with $30.5 million

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — Fremont police are investigating a man’s death after his body was found lying in a street Sunday morning.

Police Chief Jeff Elliott says the body was found around 7:30 a.m. Sunday near 8th and Broad streets.

Elliott says the circumstances of the death are suspicious, but he didn’t release many details of the 52-year-old man’s death.

The man’s identity also wasn’t released immediately because his family had not been notified.

An autopsy is planned for Monday.