The man who was the voice of Charlie Brown in the first “Peanuts” television specials has pleaded guilty to threatening and stalking both his ex-girlfriend and a plastic surgeon who gave her a breast enhancement he paid for.

City News Service says 56-year-old Peter Robbins entered the plea Wednesday in a San Diego court and could get up to three years in prison at his sentencing next month.

Prosecutors say Robbins called his former girlfriend dozens of times a day and told her he would kill her and her son if she did not give back his dog and car.

They say he made similar threats and demanded a refund from the plastic surgeon.

Robbins provided the voice of the title character in 1965’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and 1966’s “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.”

A 47-year-old man from Friend has died in a rollover crash in southeast Nebraska.

The Saline County Sheriff’s Office says the accident occurred just before 7 p.m. Tuesday on County Road 500, south of Friend.

The office says a sport utility vehicle driven by John Alfredson went out of control, ran into a roadside ditch and rolled, ejecting Alfredson.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

A Lincoln woman has been given four to five years in prison in connection with the death of a 12-year-old girl.

Twenty-four-year-old Ashley Jackson was sentenced Wednesday for the March 2012 overdose death of the girl, who was brought to Jackson’s home to babysit her infant twins.

Prosecutors say Jackson smoked methamphetamine and gave the girl and other people present alcohol and drugs. Police say Jackson left, and the girl was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old man. She then died of a prescription drug overdose.

Jackson pleaded no contest to child abuse resulting in death in December. She was arrested in March on a warrant after she failed to show up for sentencing.

Nebraska’s net tax receipts in the month of March dipped below projections.

The state tax commissioner reported Wednesday that net receipts were $273 million, a little more than 6 percent below the state’s certified forecast.

The commissioner says net sales-and-use taxes, individual income taxes and net miscellaneous taxes were all below the forecast. Net corporate income taxes came in above the projections.

The comparisons in the report were based on a forecast made by the Nebraska Economic Forecasting Advisory Board in February 2012. The forecast was adjusted for bills that were passed last year.

Alexander Heit’s final text cut off in mid-sentence. Before he could send it, police say the 22-year-old University of Northern Colorado student drifted into oncoming traffic, jerked the steering wheel and went off the road, rolling his car.

Heit died shortly after the April 3 crash in Greeley, but his parents and police are hoping the photo of the mundane text on his iPhone will serve as a stark reminder to drivers.

The photo, published Wednesday in The Greeley Tribune, shows Heit was responding to a friend by typing “Sounds good my man, seeya soon” followed by a few letters before crashing.

In a statement released through police, Heit’s mother says texting while driving can “tear a hole in the heart of everyone who loves you.”

Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline in Nebraska are circulating a petition to try to halt the project.

The group Bold Nebraska sent out an email Wednesday, urging its supporters to sign an online petition that would ask President Barack Obama to deny federal approval.

The group pointed to a recent tar-sands oil pipeline leak in Arkansas as evidence that regulators should reject the Keystone XL.

The proposed Canada-to-Texas pipeline is at the center of a political battle. A coalition of environmentalists, Native Americans and some landowners are fighting the project. Oil companies, some labor unions and the Canadian government are pushing for project approval.

Circulators say the petition will be sent to Obama, Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Keystone XL developer TransCanada.

An Omaha man accused of driving a boat that led to the death of a woman has been given probation and jail time.

Twenty-two-year-old Sean Salisbury was sentenced Wednesday to two years of probation and three weekends in jail in connection with the death of 21-year-old Mickayla Linn. He also was given community service.

Salisbury was driving a boat at Woodcliff Lakes near Fremont in July when he got too close to the docks. Police say he turned the boat sharply, causing an attached inner tube with Linn on it to slam into one of the docks. She later died at a hospital.

A manslaughter charge against Salisbury was dropped because prosecutors say he was not drunk and had no previous criminal history.

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Federal health officials say the parents of premature babies enrolled in a treatment study several years ago weren’t properly informed of potential risks.

Very premature babies need oxygen. Too much has long been known to cause blindness. Too little can increase risk of death. The study enrolled 1,300 babies at 23 hospitals between 2005 and 2009 to hunt the best dose somewhere in between.

In a March letter publicized Wednesday, the government’s Office for Human Research Protections said researchers didn’t spell out the risks to parents. The University of Alabama at Birmingham, which led the study, said although slightly more babies who received lower-dose oxygen died, the death rates were lower than usual for that time. But university officials pledged to better outline risks in future studies.

 

The attorney for a sheriff’s deputy accused of helping a felon escape the downtown Denver jail says the deputy and his family felt they were in danger.

Deputy Matthew Andrews faces felony charges that he aided in the Sunday night escape of Felix Trujillo, who remained at large Tuesday.

Attorney Donald Sisson says Andrews had been threatened and there was never an agreement to help Trujillo escape in exchange for money.

Sisson says that on Saturday, a driver pulled up next to Andrews, aimed a gun at him and said his family and his life would be in jeopardy unless he helped get Trujillo out of jail.

Denver police refused to comment on the case and reports have been sealed.

The Kansas Highway Patrol says two Nebraska men died in a two-vehicle wreck in south-central Kansas.

The patrol identified the victims of Tuesday’s accident in Pawnee County as 33-year-old Fidel Portillo-Moyao and 23-year-old Efrain Carrerea-Portillo, both of Schuyler, Neb.

The patrol says a pickup truck driven by Portillo-Moyao crossed into the westbound lane of U.S. 56 and was hit by a semi-trailer truck. He died later at a hospital. Carrerea-Portillo died at the scene.

The driver of the semi-trailer was not injured.