(AP) — A 24-year-old southeast Nebraska man has been accused of slashing his mother in the head with a knife.

Authorities say Dakota Beadle was arrested on Saturday. The charges against him include assault and possession of amphetamine. Otoe County Jail records said Beadle remained in custody on Tuesday. Online court records don’t list the name of his attorney.

Chief Deputy Sheriff Mike Holland says Beadle’s mother showed up at St. Mary’s Community Hospital in Nebraska City on Saturday with a roughly 10-inch-long cut from one ear across the top of her head to the other ear. She told investigators that she and her son had argued at his home northwest of Nebraska City.

(AP) — Authorities say 15 pounds of methamphetamine have been found in a car pulled over near Lincoln.

Two men in the car were arrested Sunday night alongside U.S. Highway 77 just off Interstate 80. They’re being held in Lancaster County Jail pending charges.

A deputy had pulled over the car and issued a warning to the driver about a traffic violation. A search dog taken to the scene alerted deputies to the drugs. Sheriff Terry Wagner says 15 1-pound packages of meth were found inside a hidden compartment in the car’s dashboard.

(AP) — The United Nations’ drug watchdog agency says that the legalization of marijuana in the U.S. states of Colorado and Washington poses a threat to the international fight against drug abuse.

In a report published Tuesday, the International Narcotics Control Board said that it “deeply regrets” moves by those two states to lift restrictions on the sale and use of cannabis.

The board said the moves violate drug control conventions and called on national authorities to block the states’ moves. The U.S. Justice Department has made clear it won’t go after state-legal businesses even though federal law still bans marijuana consumption.

The INCB, which has no enforcement power, has previously voiced its opposition to legalization.

(AP) — A federal judge has allowed lawyers representing six people wrongly convicted in a 1985 Nebraska murder to go ahead with an appeal of his decision to dismiss Gage County from the six’s wrongful prosecution lawsuit.

Such appeals are usually allowed only after a final decision has been reached in a lawsuit. But the lawsuit against three sheriff’s officials ended in January with a mistrial.

Lawyers for the six plan to try the case again. The six served a combined 77 years in prison before DNA testing exonerated them in 2008.

U.S. District Court Judge Richard Kopf said Monday it would be a waste of judicial resources to wait until the end of the second trial before appealing the dismissal of the county and others.

A medical group of epilepsy experts is calling on the federal government to reconsider classifying marijuana as a dangerous drug so its impact on seizures can be studied.

The American Epilepsy Society issued its statement on Monday. It notes that there have been several reported cases of pot treating seizures but not enough scientific study has been performed to show whether the drug works and is safe.

That research is hard to perform while marijuana is classified as a Schedule 1 substance by the federal government.

The statement also backs off a previous warning that patients not use marijuana. Now the society advises careful consultation with epilepsy specialists in all treatments.

(AP) — A woman traveling through eastern Nebraska has been accused of having more than 55 pounds of marijuana.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says 23-year-old Adriana Landeros was taken into custody on Monday following a traffic stop on Interstate 80.

Authorities say Landeros, who was headed to Chicago, consented for the department’s K-9 unit to search her vehicle. It turned up 57 pounds of marijuana. It was located in a suitcase in the hatch of the rented vehicle.

Landeros faces charges of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and no tax stamp. Court records do not list an attorney.

(AP) — A 54-year-old Gretna woman already serving time for tax evasion has pleaded guilty to stealing the $4.1 million on which she didn’t pay taxes.

Caroline Richardson made her plea Monday in Douglas County District Court in Omaha. Her sentencing is scheduled for March 18. She faces up to 10 more years in prison. She’s already serving a five-year term.

Prosecutors say Richardson stole from Omaha-based Colombo Candy and Tobacco in 2010 and 2011 while working as company controller. Prosecutors say she used the money to gamble at Ameristar Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Colombo has sued Ameristar, saying the casino knew about Richardson’s job and her approximate salary and should have known Richardson was gambling with ill-gotten money.

(AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a local immigration ordinance that closely resembles the measure approved by voters in Fremont.

The justices on Monday declined to take up appeals from the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch, Texas, or the city of Hazleton, Pa., of lower court rulings that blocked their rental-housing regulations. Both ordinances were intended to keep people who are in the country illegally from finding housing in town.

Kris Kobach, an attorney defending Fremont, says parts of the Fremont and Farmers Branch ordinances are identical. Kobach says the decision not review the Farmers Branch case suggests the justices won’t hear the lawsuit filed against Fremont.

The Supreme Court held in 2012 that immigration is primarily a matter for the federal government.