The Grand Island City Council has voted against trying to oust Mayor Jay Vavricek.

The council decided at its meeting Tuesday night not to proceed with a misconduct hearing. Council members listened to public testimony that largely supported the mayor. Members then debated whether to seek his dismissal from office. A majority finally voted against the proposal.

Councilwoman Peg Gilbert said “the charge doesn’t fit the crime.” She voted against the misconduct hearing.

Councilman Mike Paulick had filed the misconduct charge against Vavricek. It cites Vavricek’s drunken-driving arrest on March 2 in nearby Howard County.

Vavricek pleaded no contest to reckless driving and was fined $500.

A Lincoln man has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for helping distribute more than three pounds of methamphetamine.

U.S. Attorney Deborah Gilg says 29-year-old Kenneth Caldwell was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years and 8 months in federal prison.

Authorities say Caldwell helped distribute the drug in the Lincoln area between January 2010 and September, 2012.

Caldwell was also ordered to serve five years on supervised release after he gets out of prison.

The Wyoming Highway Patrol says a man was struck and killed by a car while apparently tending to an injured rabbit on a two-lane highway west of Laramie.

The patrol says 79-year-old William Kieren, of Laramie, died Sunday at a hospital in Fort Collins, Colo.

The accident occurred about 9 p.m. Saturday on Wyoming 230, about six miles west of Laramie.

A trooper says Kieren had stopped his vehicle along the highway and was on or near the center line when he was struck by an oncoming vehicle.

The patrol says the rabbit was still alive on the roadway and was eventually put down by a trooper.

Officials say about a dozen people have been wounded in a stabbing attack at Houston-area college campus.

Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department spokesman Robert Rasa says 12 people were taken to area hospitals after the Tuesday attack on the Lone Star community college system’s campus in Cypress. The Harris County Sheriff’s department confirmed at least 11 people wounded and that authorities have one suspect in custody.

Both agencies say at least four of those injured were LifeFlighted in critical condition. Rasa says several patients refused treatment at the scene and all the wounds were consistent with stabbing.

Harris County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Thomas Gilliland says authorities don’t believe a second suspect was involved. Lone Star had earlier posted an alert on its website warning of two armed suspects.

 

The U.S. Navy has canceled the remainder of the elite Blue Angels demonstration team’s 2013 season and the Air Force is grounding about a third of its combat force because of federal budget cuts.

The commanders of the Air Force’s Air Combat Command and the Navy’s air forces announced the moves Tuesday.

The Blue Angels have performed at air shows around the world for more than 60 years. A spokesman for the Navy said team members would be allowed to fly minimal hours to maintain flight proficiency in the F/A-18 fighter jets, but the six-jet squadron would discontinue group practices for the remainder of the season.

The Air Force began grounding about one-third of its active-duty combat aircraft, including squadrons of fighters, bombers and airborne warning and control craft.

A suspect in a fatal Omaha shooting last weekend turned himself into police in Kansas.

Omaha police say 22-year-old LaMichael Fewell was arrested Tuesday in Junction City, Kan., after a warrant was issued. He faces charges of using a gun to commit second-degree murder.

Police say Fewell is a suspect in the shooting death of 23-year-old Jer’ray Moore.

Officers found Moore outside an apartment complex in central Omaha Saturday with a gunshot wound. Moore died later at a hospital.

Fewell will be extradited from Kansas to face the charges.

 

An eight-member Nebraska team has designed its structure for an assault on the Guinness World Record for a Lincoln Log structure.

Three professionals from DLR Group and five University of Nebraska-Lincoln students are scheduled to begin their build at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Children’s Museum in Lincoln.

The team seeks two marks: the tallest Lincoln Log structure ever built, using a record number of Lincoln Logs. Not exactly child’s play with a children’s toy.

The team plan calls for a 12-foot-tall structure that requires 10,000 Lincoln Logs. The structure is supposed to resemble Nebraska’s state Capitol.

The current record was set in March 2010 by The Community House of Arts in Ottawa, Ill. The nearly 11-foot-tall structure required nearly 3,000 Lincoln Logs.

Two members of a Michigan-based militia acquitted last year of plotting to overthrow the U.S. government have filed a federal lawsuit against three FBI agents and a state police trooper.

Michael Meeks of Manchester and Thomas Piatek of Whiting, Ind., say their constitutional rights were violated during raids on their homes in 2010.

The two Hutaree members as well as three members of Meeks’ family filed the lawsuit late last month in U.S. District Court in Detroit.

The plaintiffs are seeking at least $25,000 in damages for each of the suit’s 16 counts.

Both FBI spokesman Simon Shaykhet and Michigan State Police spokeswoman Tiffany Brown said Tuesday they had no comment.

Authorities are deciding whether to charge anyone after police say a 6-year-old was shot in the head by a 4-year-old in New Jersey.

The older boy is in serious condition.

Authorities are still investigating how the younger child obtained the .22-caliber rifle from his family’s Toms River home Monday night.

Police Chief Michael Mastronardy says the children were outside the 4-year-old’s home when the boy went inside, got the rifle and shot the 6-year-old about 15 yards away. It’s not clear if the 4-year-old pulled the trigger or if the rifle accidentally discharged.

The parents of the 4-year-old were home at the time.

No names have been released.

The shooting comes amid debate over gun control laws in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting.