Attorney General Eric Holder is telling Congress that marijuana’s impact on children is a factor as the Justice Department decides how to respond to two states that have legalized the drug.

Holder made the comment Thursday at a House hearing when he was asked about initiatives passed last year by Washington state and Colorado.

Holder says that his department is continuing to review the initiatives, and has not made a decision yet on how to respond. It could sue to block legal pot sales from ever happening, on the grounds that they conflict with federal law.

President Barack Obama has said that going after marijuana users in states where it’s legal is not a priority. Holder says that Obama hasn’t said he’s for legalization, adding that he isn’t either.

A former Omaha attorney who was disbarred in 2010 over mishandled Social Security payments meant for her clients has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison.

The U.S. Attorney’s office for Nebraska announced the sentence for 47-year-old Kim Denise Erwin-Loncke on Thursday. Prosecutors say Erwin-Loncke spent nearly $93,000 in benefits over two years that were supposed to go to her clients.

The U.S. Attorney’s office says Erwin-Loncke served as a legal guardian for a number of people in nursing homes and appointed herself as a representative who had the power to receive their Social Security payments. Prosecutors say she wrote checks on her clients’ accounts, deposited them in her business accounts and used the money to support her lifestyle.

A judge has ordered Erwin-Loncke to repay the money.

Two children have been discovered living in a New Jersey storage unit.

Trenton police Lt. Mark Kieffer says officers went to a storage locker in nearby Ewing on Thursday after a woman arrested earlier in the day told them her two sons were there.

Police discovered a 5-year-old and a 10-year-old living inside a filthy, narrow, unheated unit at the Extra Space Storage facility.

The children were removed by police. The Mercer County prosecutor’s office is investigating.

Police say the boys’ mother was arrested for slashing the tires on her boyfriend’s car. They say she told them about her children as part of routine questioning on whether she had any dependents.

The FBI has released photos of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings and is asking for the public’s help in identifying them.

FBI Agent Richard DesLauriers says the photos came from surveillance cameras near the explosion sites.

The explosions Monday killed three people and injured more than 180.

The images were released hours after President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama attended an interfaith service at a Roman Catholic cathedral in Boston to remember the victims, including an 8-year-old boy.

A Lincoln man is one of 22 people honored with Carnegie medals for heroism.

Brandon Wemhoff risked his life to protect the people around him by foiling a Lincoln drugstore robbery in May 2011. He captured the suspect and held him until police officers arrived.

The awards announced Thursday are going to people from 10 states and Canada. Recipients include a Pennsylvania woman who died after coming to the aid of a domestic violence victim and three New Jersey men who rescued two people from a burning van that had crashed.

Carnegie medalists or their heirs receive financial grants approved by the commission.

A former abortion clinic worker has capped the murder trial of her former boss with testimony that she saw more than 10 babies breathe before they were killed.

Kareema Cross is the final prosecution witness against Dr. Kermit Gosnell. She says she saw the babies’ chests move but was told by Gosnell they were not breathing.

She also says she saw three babies move their arms and legs and heard a fourth give a soft whine.

Cross says she was so upset by clinic procedures that she took photos and called authorities.

A 2011 grand jury report lambastes state and city officials for failing to inspect the busy Philadelphia clinic.

The defense denies that babies were born alive, and Cross is sure to face strenuous questioning Thursday from defense lawyer Jack McMahon.

A former federal police officer in Grand Island is scheduled to be sentenced May 28 for misdemeanor sexual assault.

41-year-old Justin Maltagliati had pleaded no contest to misdemeanor sexual assault after prosecutors lowered the charge.

Maltagliati was employed at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center when the incident occurred on July 20 last year.

A woman told police that she’d filed documents for a protection order against Maltagliati three days earlier. She says she awoke at 3 a.m. that day to find him touching her. She says he sexually assaulted her despite her telling him to stop and trying to push him away.

A 12-year-old boy who saved three of his brothers from a fire in southeast Nebraska will be honored by the American Red Cross.

Blake Vitale will be given a Good Samaritan Award at the Red Cross’ Cornhusker Chapter’s Tribute to Heroes dinner on May 2 in Lincoln.

He says he and five brothers had decided to stay overnight at his dad’s home in Salem on Thanksgiving after dining with his mother and stepdad.

Blake says that he awoke to hear his dad’s girlfriend screaming about a fire she’d discovered in the kitchen.

Blake says he roused three of his brothers and helped them downstairs into safety outside. He went back in for the other two boys, not knowing that his dad had already saved them.

A southeastern Nebraska man, a convicted felon, is accused of hunting deer without a license  has been charged in a five-count federal indictment.

The indictment announced Wednesday says 44-year-old Ward Hunnel, of York, did not have a license to hunt deer in November 2011 when killed two deer in Nebraska. The indictment also accuses Hunnel of taking the deer from Nebraska to Kansas and of being a felon in possession of firearms.

If convicted of all the counts, Hunnel could face up to 27 years in federal prison.

A former postal worker in Lincoln has been indicted in federal court after being accused of stealing cash and gift cards from mail he was supposed to deliver.

The U.S. Attorney for Nebraska said Wednesday that 25-year-old Richard Franco, of Lincoln, was charged with one count of mail theft in the indictment.

The federal prosecutor says the mail Franco is accused of stealing mail that came into his possession from Nov. 24 through Jan. 8.

Franco faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 if convicted.

A phone listing for Franco could not be found.