The Nebraska Humane Society says another dog has been poisoned in the backyard of an Omaha couple.

The group says 3-year-old Murphy became violently ill only minutes after being let into the backyard on April 4. He survived. A urine test later came back positive for strychnine.

Murphy belongs to the girlfriend of Paul Wagner, who lives with his parents in north Omaha. Two dogs belonging to his parents died in November after eating tainted meat in the same backyard. The meat was laced with strychnine.

The Nebraska Humane Society is offering $2,500 for information leading to the arrest of the person or people responsible for the poisonings.

A 17-year-old Osceola boy has been hospitalized after being run over by a forklift in eastern Nebraska.

Authorities say the accident occurred about 11:30 a.m. Saturday on a farm southeast of Ulysses in Butler County. The forklift was driven by an 18-year-old man.

The Butler County Sheriff’s Office says the boy has been flown to a Lincoln hospital. His name and condition haven’t been released. The Sheriff’s Office is investigating the incident.

A sheriff’s dispatcher said Monday that she had no information on the situation.

No one under 21 would be able to buy cigarettes in New York City, under a proposal unveiled Monday to make it the most populous place in America to set the minimum age that high.

Extending a decade of moves to crack down on smoking in the nation’s largest city, the measure aims to stop young people from developing a habit that remains the leading preventable cause of death, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said as she announced the plan. Eighty percent of the city’s smokers started lighting up before they were 21, officials say.

But the proposal may face questions about its effectiveness and fairness. A retailers’ representative suggested the measure would simply drive younger smokers to neighboring communities or corner-store cigarette sellers instead of city stores, while a smokers’ rights advocate called it “government paternalism at its worst.”

Under federal law, no one under 18 can buy tobacco anywhere in the country. Four states and some localities have raised the age to 19, and at least two communities have agreed to raise it to 21.

A similar proposal has been floated in the Texas Legislature, but it’s on hold after a budget board estimated it would cost the state more than $42 million in cigarette tax revenue over two years.

Several New York City smoking regulations have survived court challenges. But a federal appeals court said last year that the city couldn’t force tobacco retailers to display gruesome images of diseased lungs and decaying teeth.

The Environmental Protection Agency again is raising objections to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would carry oil from western Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast.

The EPA said that despite more than four years of study, the State Department still has not done sufficient analysis of the project’s environmental impact

In a letter to the State Department on Monday, the EPA urged State to conduct a more thorough analysis of oil spill risks and alternative pipeline routes, as well as greenhouse gas emissions associated with the pipeline.

The concerns are similar to objections the EPA raised about the project in 2011. The State Department has authority over the pipeline because it crosses a U.S. border. A draft report in March said the project would not create significant environmental impacts.

A 30-year-old man has been given four years of probation and 128 days in jail for causing a fatal crash north of Columbus last year.

Brian Browning, formerly of Humphrey, was sentenced last week. Browning had pleaded guilty in February to vehicular homicide.

Authorities say Browning was speeding and driving recklessly on July 21, 2012, when he lost control of his pickup and it rolled. Browning, Toni Krumland and another passenger were ejected. The 20-year-old Krumland, of Columbus, died days later. She’d been flown to an Omaha hospital for treatment.

The judge said Browning immediately must serve 100 days in jail, then seven days a year while on probation. That jail time is to begin on July 21 in each of those four years.

A 26-year-old Grand Island man has been arrested, accused of killing a dog.

Michael Berst was arrested on Sunday.

Grand Island Police Sgt. Jim Duering stated that investigators believe Berst used a hammer to bludgeon to death the family dog.

Duering didn’t have any information on what led up to the incident. He says it occurred several days before Berst’s arrest.

Hall County jail records say Berst remained in custody on Monday. Online court records don’t list the name of his attorney.

A lawyer for the wife of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev says federal authorities have asked to speak with his client.

Authorities went to the suburban Rhode Island home of Tsarnaev’s in-laws Sunday evening, where Katherine Russell Tsarnaev has been staying. Lawyer Amato DeLuca tells The Associated Press that she did not speak with them, and they are discussing how to proceed.

DeLuca says Tsarnaev did not suspect her husband of anything, and nothing seemed amiss after the bombings. He says she had been working 70 to 80 hours a week as a home health care aide, while her husband cared for their daughter.

DeLuca says on the day he died, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was home when his wife left for work.

He says the couple married in 2009 or 2010.

Denver police have pointed to a YouTube video they say shows a possible suspect in the weekend shooting at a marijuana celebration that injured two people and scattered a crowd of thousands.

The shooting on Saturday took place during the outdoor celebration of the first 4/20 counterculture holiday since Colorado legalized marijuana. Witnesses said as many as 10 shots could be heard at about 5 p.m. Denver police spent much of Sunday scanning video taken at the event.

Police spokesman Sonny Jackson said that the suspect is shown in the video walking in a crowd moving away from the scene of the shooting as sirens wail in the background.

He says the suspect is a black male who was wearing a brown and white checkered shirt.

A DNA sample taken in 2011 after a Nebraska man’s burglary conviction has linked him to five sexual assaults in Omaha between 1999 and 2009.

Anthony G. Vaughn was arrested early Sunday.

Authorities say a warrant was issued for the 41-year-old Vaughn after labs linked his DNA to evidence from those previous sexual assaults.

Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine says it’s not clear why it took nearly two years for authorities to compare Vaughn’s DNA with the FBI database of crimes.

Authorities are also checking whether Vaughn may be linked to any other sexual assaults.

In February 1999, a jury acquitted Vaughn of sexual assault in a separate case.