FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar says at least a dozen businesses are burning after protests in Ferguson turned violent.

Belmar said early Tuesday morning that two police cruisers also were burned and that he “personally heard about 150 shots fired” over the course of the night.

Belmar says the protests that followed the announcement that a Ferguson police officer wouldn’t be indicted in Michael Brown’s shooting death were “probably much worse than the worst night we ever had in August” after Brown was killed.

He says police did not fire a shot during Monday night’s protests. But he says the fabric of the community has been torn apart.

YORK, Neb. (AP) — A York man has been given five- to 10 years in prison for the crash death of a teacher from Aurora.

Judge James Stecker sentenced 38-year-old Otis Newcomb on Monday in York County District Court on a charge of felony manslaughter.

Newcomb pleaded no contest in July as part of a plea deal that lowered a vehicular homicide charge and dismissed another charge.

Authorities say Newcomb was driving a van on Highway 34 near York in November 2013 when his vehicle collided with a pickup. A passenger in the pickup, 31-year-old Lauren Akerson, was killed. Others in the pickup were injured.

Prosecutors said Newcomb was drinking alcohol prior to the crash.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say livestock have been quarantined on two north-central Nebraska farms following diagnoses of a disease that can hamper an animal’s ability to eat and drink.

The Nebraska Agriculture Department said in a news release Monday that a U.S. Department of Agriculture laboratory confirmed the diagnoses of vesicular stomatitis. The samples were taken from infected cattle on two farms in Wheeler County. The USDA says other outbreaks this year have been confirmed in Colorado and Texas.

The virus that causes vesicular stomatitis is spread by insects and from animal to animal through open sores and saliva. The virus causes oral blisters and sores that can be painful.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Twenty-one states are asking a federal appeals court to overturn provisions of Maryland’s gun-control law that ban 45 assault weapons and limit gun magazines to 10 rounds.

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey led the coalition in filing a friend-of-the-court brief in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, last week.

The brief says the law violates the Second Amendment right to keep firearms in homes for self-protection.

The other states are Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.

A U.S. District Court judge in Baltimore upheld the provisions in August.

The state of Maryland has until Dec. 31 to respond to the filing.

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Allegations by three girls at an Oklahoma high school who say they were raped by the same male student have led to a police investigation and protests by students who say school officials have mishandled the case and subsequent bullying.

Hundreds of students, along with parents and supporters, filled the street Monday in front of Norman High School to protest what they say was bullying.

Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn confirmed Norman police are investigating alleged assaults of three girls. He said two reportedly happened off campus and the third happened at the school.

Norman Public Schools spokeswoman Shelly Hickman says administrators were made aware in September of a video of an alleged sexual assault and suspended the suspect. She denied the district allowed any students to be bullied.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A senator-elect says he’ll introduce legislation to study how a tuition payback program catching on in other states might work in Nebraska.

The program known as Pay It Forward allows students to enroll in college without paying tuition costs up front. Instead, they agree to pay back a fixed percentage of their future income over at least 20 years.

The Economic Opportunity Institute says at least 25 states introduced some kind of Pay It Forward legislation in 2013 and 2014.

Earlier this month, Nebraska state Sen.-elect Adam Morfeld won election to the Legislature to represent northeast Lincoln. The 29-year-old attorney says in January, he’ll introduce the legislation to study the program.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska woman convicted of sexually assaulting her son has been sentenced to a minimum of nearly 40 years in prison.

The Bellevue woman was sentenced Monday in Sarpy County District Court to 39- to 70 years in prison on felony charges of sexual assault and incest. She will be eligible for parole after 30 years.

The 33-year-old woman and her husband are accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting their then 5-year-old son. They were arrested in 2013. The woman said her husband pressured her to participate in the assaults.

The Associated Press is not using the couple’s names to protect the boy’s privacy.

The boy’s father entered a no contest plea in the case earlier this year. He was sentenced to decades in prison.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — An autopsy has begun on a Kansas woman who died this weekend, days after she was sexually assaulted and set on fire in a park.

Sedgwick County spokeswoman Brittany Clampitt said Monday that coroner’s officials were investigating, but it wasn’t clear when the examination would be complete.

Relatives held a memorial for Letitia “Tish” Davis on Sunday evening in Wichita’s Fairmount Park, where she was found Nov. 14 with burns on more than half her body and cuts on her head.

Cornell McNeal has been jailed and charged with attempted murder and rape. He doesn’t yet have a lawyer. Police Lt. James Espinoza told The Wichita Eagle that charges would be amended after Davis died Saturday.

The district attorney’s office said prosecutors would determine appropriate charges based on new evidence.