YORK, Neb. (AP) — York County commissioners have decided not to adopt zoning regulations that would have affected the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

The board voted 4-1 on Tuesday against setting any zoning regulations on underground transmission lines of any type.

Board chairman Bill Bamesberger says the county attorney advised against adopting the regulations for several reasons, including the difficulty in interpreting them and the difficulty and expense in enforcing them.

Bamesberger also says state laws on siting and reclamation would pre-empt the proposed county regulations.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former ConAgra sales executive has been sentenced in Omaha to 41 months for wire fraud.

Prosecutors say 44-year-old Donald Wilson, of Bothell, Washington, was sentenced on Monday. He must serve three years of supervised release after he leaves prison and must make restitution of nearly $606,000.

Wilson had pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Omaha, where ConAgra is headquartered. Prosecutors say Wilson used nearly $606,000 from his company’s marketing budget to help pay personal expenses and expenses for a professional softball team he helped sponsor.

Authorities say that from 2006 through April 2012 Wilson worked in Bothell, Washington, and supervised four regional managers. ConAgra provided him with a marketing budget, but he was not allowed to use it for personal or unapproved expenses.

DENVER (AP) — Marijuana use by pregnant or nursing women might seem like a no-brainer of a bad idea. But a proposal in Colorado to step up such warnings was rejected Tuesday because of concern about limited or inconclusive research on the dangers.

Pot shoppers in Colorado and Washington already receive warnings that the drug shouldn’t be used by pregnant and nursing women.

A Colorado bill proposed going further by requiring pot shops to post signs saying that maternal marijuana use poses risks to unborn children. But the sponsor agreed to scrap the effort Tuesday and try again. His proposal revived an ongoing debate about maternal marijuana use.

Some pregnant women use marijuana to alleviate nausea. Women testified Tuesday that the warnings would have been insulting.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha man has been sentenced to life in prison for fatally stabbing his on-again, off-again girlfriend more than a year ago.

Robert Grant was sentenced Tuesday for the September 2013 stabbing death of 43-year-old Trudy McKee. Prosecutors say Grant stabbed McKee more than 40 times.

Jurors in Douglas County District Court found Grant guilty of first-degree murder and weapon use in October. Grant didn’t attend the conviction hearing after he allegedly punched his attorney and a sheriff’s deputy during his trial for McKee’s death.

Grant was not present at the sentencing hearing.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Three more men have entered plea deals in connection to the death of a 5-year-old girl struck by a bullet in her Omaha home last year.

The plea deals entered Tuesday mean the gang members accused in the Jan. 15, 2014, shooting death of Payton Benson will not go to trial.

Jacob Brown pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, and Adonus Moses pleaded no contest to the same charge. Kevin Peak, who was not present during the girl’s shooting, pleaded guilty to attempted possession of a weapon.

All three men face up to 25 years in prison.

Two others previously pleaded to separate murder and weapon charges within the past week.

All five men will be sentenced in April.

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — A company building a wind farm near a National Weather Service radar site in Nebraska has agreed to shut down the windmills during severe weather when forecasters ask.

The weather service says wind farms can look like rain or thunderstorms on weather radar.

The weather service announced the agreement with NextEra Energy Resources on Tuesday. The pact applies to a planned wind farm of up to 66 turbines south of Blue Hill.

Under the agreement, NextEra will shut down its turbines for up to an hour at a time anytime forecasters ask between March 21 and September 21.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska says a state probation office in Omaha has stopped allowing federal immigration agents from profiling probation clients at the office.

The ACLU says it sent a warning letter to the probation office last month after receiving complaints from attorneys. The attorneys said their Latino clients who met with probation officers were often subjected to questioning, without a warrant, by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

The ACLU says that the probation office informed it on Jan. 23 that it will now require federal immigration agents to have a warrant to interact with probation office clients.

Neither the probation office nor an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman immediately responded to questions Tuesday about the practice.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man has been convicted of hiring someone to set his struggling manufacturing business on fire in an effort to obtain $4 million in insurance money.

A federal jury on Tuesday found 52-year-old Thomas Schropp guilty of arson, mail and wire fraud. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years for the arson conviction and up to 20 years for the mail and wire fraud convictions.

Prosecutors say Schropp’s business, PK Manufacturing in Nashville, Neb., was purposefully set on fire in November 2008 after he had asked an associate to burn it down for $20,000. They say Schropp filed an insurance claim for $4 million, which the insurance company denied.

Schropp’s attorney Alan Stoler said he plans to appeal the jury’s verdict.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The gap in bachelor-degree attainment between the nation’s richest and poorest students by age 24 has doubled during the last four decades.

A study released Tuesday by two education organizations finds that the percent of students from the lowest-income families earning a bachelor’s degree has inched up just 3 points since 1970, rising from 6 to 9 percent by 2013.

Meanwhile, college completion for students from the wealthiest families has risen dramatically, climbing from 44 to 77 percent.

The report comes amid renewed debate on college affordability spurred by President Barack Obama’s proposal to make two years of college free. If adopted in every state, the proposal would benefit a projected 9 million students each year. It would cost taxpayers an estimated $60 billion over 10 years.

DENVER (AP) — Federal investigators say selfies were a likely factor in a small plane crash near Denver last year that killed two.

The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that it appears likely the pilot was disoriented and lost control of the airplane. Recordings from a GoPro camera found in the wreckage show the pilot and passenger repeatedly taking photographs of themselves with their cellphones during previous flights that day, although there was no video of the deadly flight.

The NTSB said evidence of the pilot’s previous cellphone use made it likely he was distracted by such use during his last flight.

The crash killed 29-year-old pilot Amritpal Singh and his passenger shortly after they took off May 31from Front Range Airport in Adams County.