The leadership of the National Rifle Association is telling its members that the fight against gun control legislation is far from over, with battles yet to come in Congress and next year’s midterm elections.

But NRA leaders vowed that none of its members would ever have to surrender their weapons.

Proponents of gun control also asserted that they are in it for the long haul and are not disheartened by last month’s defeat of a bill that would have expanded background checks for gun sales.

Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and other NRA leaders spoke on Saturday during the group’s annual member meeting, part of the yearly NRA convention being held this weekend in Houston.

Across the street from the convention, more than 60 protesters gathered.

Police say a Utah soccer referee who was in a coma after being punched by a teenage player has died.

They say 46-year-old Ricardo Portillo of Salt Lake City died late Saturday night.

Unified police spokesman Justin Hoyal says Portillo passed away at the hospital, where he was being treated following an assault during a soccer game last weekend.

Police say a 17-year-old player in a recreational soccer league punched Portillo after the man called a foul on him and issued him a yellow card.

The teen has been booked into juvenile detention on suspicion of aggravated assault.

Hoyal says authorities will consider additional charges since Portillo has died.

A fight for Nebraska school-aid dollars was driven by large districts that have dwindling options to generate local revenue and small districts that pay more per-student for transportation and teachers.

Both sides won concessions, even though the tentative funding formula steers most of state aid to Nebraska’s largest schools. The largest schools around Omaha and Lincoln complained about flat-lined property values and larger student enrollments. Smaller schools worried about competing for teachers with Omaha, Lincoln and border states.

Of Nebraska’s 249 public districts, 114 will receive no equalization aid under the proposed funding formula. Those districts account for about 13 percent of students statewide.

The bill has won tentative approval from lawmakers but hasn’t cleared the Legislature. It’s scheduled for a second vote as early as Tuesday.

Technophobic investor Warren Buffett now has a Twitter account, but his followers probably shouldn’t expect much activity.

Buffett debuted his new (at)WarrenBuffett online handle on Thursday.

The billionaire told ABC in an interview that aired Sunday that he joined Twitter because he thought the service would help give wide distribution to an article he wrote about women in business.

Since signing up, Buffett has gained 374,212 followers. It probably doesn’t hurt that he spoke to a crowd of more than 30,000 Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Saturday.

Buffett has always resisted investing in technology companies because he says he can’t predict the future of those businesses the same way he can in insurance or manufacturing businesses.

Dozens of Utah coal miners are picketing outside the doors of Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting in downtown Omaha.

The protesters are member of United Mine Workers of America who work at Deer Creek mine near Huntington, Utah. The mine is run by Berkshire’s MidAmerican Energy.

The union’s contract expired in January. The company and union are negotiating, but disagree on health care coverage and safety checks. The protesters hope to influence Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett.

Bernie Morris of Price, Utah, stood in the rain with others Saturday to hand out flyers with others. The 67-year-old Morris says he’s worked for the coal mine for 28 years, but fears he and his wife won’t be able to afford the monthly health insurance premium the company wants to charge miners and retirees.

“The Naked Museum” has replaced the Sheldon Museum of Art on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus.

The Sheldon’s collection of 12,000 objects is in storage so attention will be focused on its greatest artwork: the museum’s landmark Philip Johnson-designed building.

The event marks the museum’s 50th anniversary.

Visitors to “The Naked Museum” will experience Sheldon through a variety of activities and performances, including architectural tours, craft circles, dance, music, poetry, theater and yoga. An events schedule is available on the Sheldon website,https://www.sheldonartmuseum.org.

Officials are releasing water from Nebraska into Kansas to avoid a violation of the Republican River Compact.

The Nebraska Department of Natural Resources said Friday that the water was flowing out of the Harlan County Reservoir, in south-central Nebraska.

Department director Brian Dunnigan says the risk of a violation was too large for state officials to wait until later in the year. The 1943 compact is a water-sharing agreement among Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas.

Nebraska officials say Kansas recently expressed interest in having the Harlan County Reservoir retain some of the water so it could be used in future years. Nebraska officials say they were willing to do so, but only if Nebraska was held harmless for any shortfalls that occurred as a result. No agreement was reached.

A Lincoln man is accused of trying to attack his girlfriend and police officers with a knife.

Police say 32-year-old Pedro Renteria was arguing Thursday with his girlfriend over a set of car keys. An intoxicated Renteria swiped at her chest 10 times with a knife.

The knife did not cut the woman’s skin, but she received several punches to the head.

Police say Renteria tried to attack a responding officer with the knife, and an initial attempt to subdue him was unsuccessful. Renteria tried to slash another officer, and missed his chest by a few inches.

Renteria was eventually arrested. He faces several charges, including attempted first-degree domestic assault and use of a weapon to commit a felony.

Court records do not list an attorney.

(AP) — Authorities are perplexed as to what may have caused several hundred fish to die in eastern Nebraska.

Officials at David City Park are warning visitors to avoid contact with its lake water while local and state officials investigate the dead fish that started popping up in late April.

Park Supervisor Scott Bales says most of the fish are bluegill, which are the most populous fish in the water.

Officials with the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality have tested the water and they appear to have plenty of oxygen.

Program Specialist David Bubb says one possibility is ammonia, but he couldn’t pinpoint the source. He says water upstream from David City Park does not appear to be affected.

The Nebraska Supreme Court says a car momentarily crossing a highway lane divider is not a good reason to stop it — a ruling that likely will overturn the drug conviction of a man whose car was carrying more than 60 pounds of cocaine.

The high court’s ruling came Friday in the case of 26-year-old Doan Au, of St. Louis, who was a passenger in a car pulled over in September 2010. The car was stopped for briefly crossing the line dividing eastbound lanes of Interstate 80. A subsequent search turned up cocaine in the trunk.

Au, who was sentenced to 10 to 12 years in prison, said the trial judge should have thrown out evidence from the stop and search, and the state’s high court agreed.