(AP) — A bill to keep kids younger than 16 out of indoor tanning beds is facing resistance in the Nebraska Legislature.

Lawmakers began debate Friday on a proposal intended to prevent skin cancer among youths. The legislation by Sen. Jeremy Nordquist of Omaha would also require tanning facilities to post warning signs about the risk in a conspicuous area. Supporters liken the proposal to youth restrictions on alcohol and tobacco.

Opponents are working to block the bill, which they view as government overreach. Sen. Beau McCoy of Omaha says the measure is an affront to parental rights.

The original measure would have set the age restriction at 18 years old.

Lawmakers adjourned for the week before voting.

(AP) — A state board is predicting Nebraska will collect an additional $99 million in tax revenue, including $36 million for the government’s rainy-day fund.

The Nebraska Economic Forecasting Advisory Board estimated Friday that the state will collect about $4.1 billion in the current fiscal year. The new projection is $36 million higher than previous forecasts. State law requires that it go to Nebraska’s cash reserve.

Board members predicted the state will collect more than $4.2 billion in the next fiscal year, roughly $63 million more than initially expected. Most of that money will go to the state’s general fund for future use.

The revenue projections could influence lawmakers as they finish proposed changes to the state budget. Gov. Dave Heineman is calling on lawmakers to use the money to lower taxes.

(AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld judgment in favor of a former cheerleader paralyzed in a tumbling accident who sued Nebraska-based insurance company Mutual of Omaha for refusing to pay his claim.

The lawsuit focuses on an insurance policy bought by Prairie View A&M University in Texas to cover its athletes. Wesley Patterson, of Houston, was a cheerleader at the school in 2008 when he was injured.

Wesley’s lawsuit says Mutual of Omaha reneged on a promise to cover serious injuries like his that result from the school’s negligence. The insurer argued it shouldn’t have to cover Wesley’s injuries because they occurred in a gym class taught by the cheerleading coach, not at an official cheerleading practice session.

On Friday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Wesley.

(AP) — A judge has decided to not place the teenage driver in a fatal accident that killed her 15-year-old friend on probation.

Sarpy County Judge Lawrence Gendler said Friday that he won’t require probation because the 16-year-old girl’s family is taking appropriate steps to help her. She is in therapy and has taken defensive driving courses.

The Associated Press generally does not name juveniles charged with crimes.

The girl was driving a Jeep on Oct. 11 when it collided with a pickup truck. A passenger in the teen’s car, 15-year-old Nathaniel LaFave, was killed. The girl and another passenger in the Jeep were critically injured but survived.

(AP) — Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning says the state is getting more than $144,000 as part of a national settlement with a Pennsylvania drug maker.

Endo Health will pay almost $193 million to resolve claims that it improperly marketed the shingles treatment Lidoderm for unapproved uses such as treating lower back pain between 2002 and 2006.

The Malvern, Pennsylvania, drug maker will pay $171.9 million in civil false claims settlements largely to the U.S. government, with $34.2 million from that total going to 47 states and the District of Columbia. Endo also agreed to pay $20.8 million as part of a deferred prosecution agreement.

Endo said it was pleased to resolve the issue and has programs in place to help it comply with the agreement.

(AP) — A Grand Island man charged with trying to kill his estranged wife has been declared mentally incompetent for trial.

Forty-eight-year-old Jesus Parra already has pleaded not guilty to weapons charges and charges of assault, child abuse and attempted murder.

Officials say he attacked and injured Rosa Olivas de Parra at her home in April 2013. Police say the couple’s adult daughter was cut while trying to intervene. The Parras’ other daughter and their toddler granddaughter were in the home at the time, too.

Following a competency hearing, Hall County Judge Teresa Luther ordered Jesus Parra’s commitment to the state psychiatric hospital in Lincoln for treatment. Court documents say he’ll remain there until the “disability is removed.” Then he’ll return to Hall County Jail to await further court action.

(AP) — Authorities suspect a 26-year-old Lincoln man of injuring his 5-month-old daughter.

Andrew Vossen was arrested Thursday. Lancaster County Jail records say Vossen remained in custody on Friday. Online court records don’t list the name of his attorney.

Court records say Vossen took the baby to a doctor on Tuesday. An X-ray showed that five of her ribs had been broken. The arrest affidavit says Vossen told an investigator that he’d accidentally dropped the baby a few weeks earlier. A doctor told police the injuries weren’t accidental.

(AP) — A 23-year-old man has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to a string of burglaries at Lincoln churches.

Judge Jodi Nelson on Tuesday sentenced Jarrod Luther to four to five years in prison for three counts of burglary.

Luther was arrested on Aug. 5, 2010, when a police dog tracked him and another man to a backyard near the Antelope Park Church of the Brethren.

Police alleged the men broke into the church and stole money and other valuables.

Another six churches in the area also were hit.

Luther had pleaded guilty and participated in a drug court but withdrew last month.

The other man arrested in the burglaries, Treven Bruce, is serving a prison term for the crimes.

(AP) — A government-sponsored research team says there are no signs of decline among Yellowstone’s grizzly bears despite warnings from outside scientists.

Members of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study team say in a new study that data collected on the bruins over the past several decades contradict claims they could be in serious trouble. The back-and-forth comes as officials consider lifting the animals’ federal protections.

The peer-reviewed study is slated to appear in the scientific journal Conservation Letters.

Lead author Frank van Manen is with the U.S. Geological Survey. He says researchers re-examined how bears are counted after a prominent University of Colorado professor raised concerns about the government’s methods.

Van Manen says the results confirm the validity of assertions that more than 700 bears live in the Yellowstone region.