LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln woman has been given jail time on meth and child abuse charges.

Lancaster County District Judge Andrew Jacobsen sentenced 23-year-old Clara De la Cruz on Monday to 210 days in jail. She is eligible for release after 113 days.

De la Cruz called 911 in June 2013 after her 1-year-old daughter was found unresponsive in an apartment bathtub. The child was hospitalized and survived.

Authorities say drug pipes and marijuana was found in the apartment. State officials removed the child and her 3-year-old sister from the home.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — E-cigarette technology is taking off and federal officials say the race to innovate could make creating standards the devices more difficult in the future.

The popular contraptions that heat a liquid to create vapor rather than burning tobacco have changed dramatically from those first introduced just a few years ago.

Instead of a small battery and plastic cartridge containing nicotine-soaked cotton, some now have computer chips to regulate puffs and temperature, track usage and talk to other electronic devices.

A fast-growing market and the possibility that they could be safer than regular cigarettes have some in the industry worried that regulation that’s too heavy-handed could stifle innovation and their businesses.

The Food and Drug Administration is currently weighing regulation for the devices but it’s unclear how quickly that will proceed.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police say three people are recovering after a head-on collision.

Officers say the driver of a Chrysler Sebring ran a red light and hit a Chevy Impala in an intersection Sunday. They say the Sebring’s driver and a passenger weren’t wearing seat belts and were taken to an area hospital in serious condition. The driver of the Impala was wearing a seat belt and was also taken to a hospital in serious condition.

Police say all three are expected to recover. They say speed and alcohol are likely factors in the crash. The driver of the Sebring is facing unspecified charges.

UNDERWOOD, Iowa (AP) — Iowa authorities say a worker at a beef jerky distribution facility has been critically injured after a pallet fell on her head.

The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office said the woman was hospitalized in Council Bluffs. The accident was reported Saturday evening at the Jack Link’s Beef Jerky facility in Underwood.

Authorities describe her condition as stable. Her identity hasn’t been released.

A Link Snacks spokesman says company officials are investigating the cause of the accident

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — Backed by a Nebraska Supreme Court ruling, officials say Beatrice will vigorously pursue $25,000 in fines levied against the owner of a parcel where junked vehicles were parked.

The court on Friday backed an earlier ruling by the Nebraska Appeals Court that the city didn’t violate the rights of the property owner. The landowner, Daniel Meints, had said a city officer needed a warrant to come onto Meints’ property to gather information about 10 junk vehicles that were parked there in 2011.

The Appeals Court said the city didn’t violate Meints’ rights because the vehicles were seen in an open field, so the officer had probable cause to investigate violations of the city’s code concerning junk vehicles.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska researcher says a high-tech, highly maneuverable tool developed to measure soil moisture in farm fields also can be deployed on battlefields.

Trenton Franz is an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who also is affiliated with the University of Nebraska’s Water for Food Institute. Franz first developed the cosmic ray neutron rover to help farmers manage their water resources.

The device measures neutrons that escape from soil after cosmic rays reach the Earth’s surface. Some of the rays’ neutrons are absorbed, but the amount that escape depends largely on the soil’s hydrogen content, which is largely determined by the water moisture present.

Franz says his device could help the military make soil maps on the fly to better predict where heavy equipment could travel.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say they’re investigating an anonymous bomb threat against a Papillion high school that was posted online.

The Papillion-La Vista School District says it discovered the threat against Papillion-La Vista South High School on Twitter Sunday afternoon. Papillion police searched the school Sunday night and Monday morning and found nothing. There were extra officers at the school Monday.

District officials alerted parents and students about the threat Monday. Some students left the school early in response.

District spokeswoman Annette Eyman says the Twitter account posted three threatening tweets against the school. The account is no longer accessible online.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The body of a 28-year-old Lincoln woman missing since Thanksgiving Day has been found and a suspect has been arrested.

Kelsey Miller’s body was found Sunday in a self-storage unit in northeast Lincoln. Lincoln Police Chief Jim Peschong says her husband, Kevin Miller, had used the storage unit in the past but it was rented in the name of a friend. Peschong says the friend found the body and called police.

Kelsey Miller was last seen Nov. 27 at a shelter for domestic violence victims. On Thursday police arrested the 33-year-old suspect on an assault charge. Peschong says the man now will face a murder charge. He is scheduled to be in court Monday. Court records don’t yet list the case.