Search crews have rescued an 18-year-old woman who had been missing for days in a Southern California forest.

Orange County sheriff’s Lt. Jason Park says Kyndall Jack was rescued by a helicopter but he has no word on her condition.

Park says a rescuer suffered a head injury and is also being airlifted to a hospital.

Jack had been missing since Sunday after setting out on a hike with 19-year-old companion Nicolas Cendoya, who made a 911 call for help that night. He was found in very serious condition from dehydration Wednesday night.

Hospital officials say he’s doing better Thursday but his condition is still serious.

The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that its film critic Roger Ebert has died. He was 70.

The paper says on its website the Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic died Thursday.

Ebert was known for his thumbs-up, thumbs-down TV reviews that influenced moviegoers across the nation.

On Wednesday, he had announced on his blog that he was undergoing radiation treatment after a recurrence of cancer.

Ebert was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2002 and later had surgery for cancer of the salivary gland. He lost his chin and his ability to speak. But he later resumed writing full-time and eventually even returned to television.

Ebert started as a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times in 1967. In 1975 he became the first movie reviewer to get the Pulitzer Prize for criticism.

A 36-year-old Bellevue woman has been charged with stealing from her children’s youth soccer club after officials discovered more than $150,000 missing.

Michelle Williamson, who used to serve on the Phoenix Futbol Club’s board, was arrested Wednesday.

Williamson’s attorney, Don Schense, said she plans to plead not guilty.

The soccer club contacted police in January after a new treasurer performed an audit and discovered irregularities.

Club officials say the investigation won’t affect its operations, which includes about 300 players

A burglary ended up costing a Lincoln man some prison time.

40-year-old Muthna Almansori reported to police that he lost several cellphones and a laptop computer to burglars who kicked in the door of his apartment in December 2011.

A 15-year-old girl later told officers that one of the phones contained naked pictures of her. She said Almansori had paid her to pose for the photos and have sex with him.

Almansori was charged with a felony sex assault of a minor and two misdemeanors. He denied the girl’s story, but later he made a plea deal for reduced charges.

On Wednesday Almansori was sentenced to a year in prison for negligent child abuse and six months to a year for assault.

 

Nearly half of young women say the first time they lived with a guy, they weren’t married.

That’s the finding of a government survey released Thursday.

The results are a marked changed from 1995 when only 34 percent said they moved in together. Now it is 48 percent. Back then, 39 percent said they married first, compared to 23 now.

Experts say the numbers show living together is increasing used as a testing ground for marriage. About 40 percent of the women who lived with a guy went on to marry him within 3 years.

The survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention questioned more than 12,000 women younger than 45 from 2006 to 2010.

Authorities are searching for two young boys they believe were kidnapped by their father from their maternal grandparents’ Florida home after their grandmother was tied up.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday night asked for the public’s help in locating the boys, 4-year-old Cole Hakken and 2-year-old Chase Hakken.

Authorities allege that their father, 35-year-old Joshua Michael Hakken, entered his mother-in-law’s house north of Tampa, tied her up and fled with the children. They said the children could be in a black 2006 GMC pickup owned by their father.

The news release identified Hakken and the children’s mother, 34-year-old Sharyn Patricia Hakken, as suspects in the abduction.

The Tampa Bay Times reports that Joshua Hakken lost custody of his sons last year after a drug possession arrest in Louisiana.

More than 30 groups are expected to rally at the Nebraska Capitol to call for federal immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship.

The coalition will convene Thursday at 10 a.m. on the west steps outside the Capitol. The groups represent the interests of religious faiths, businesses, labor, children and families.

Speakers will include representatives from the Nebraska Catholic Conference, Nebraska Cattlemen, Nebraska Restaurant Association, Heartland Workers Center, and Latino Center of the Midlands

Midland University in Fremont has announced it will acquire the former Dana College campus in Blair.

Midland announced the plan Thursday, saying in a news release that its growing enrollment in the last four years has necessitated expansion of its campus.

Dana and Midland had shared Lutheran affiliations — and served as athletic rivals — in eastern Nebraska for decades before the Blair school closed its doors in 2010 following years of financial struggles and the loss of its accreditation.

More than half of Dana’s 600 students transferred to Midland, sending the Fremont school’s 2010 enrollment from 643 to 962. Midland has continued to see enrollment growth, and currently has more than 1,000 students.

Midland officials did not disclose how much it plans to bid for the Dana campus.

A former Nebraska stripper accused of fatally stabbing her client at his Des Moines home has reached a plea deal in the case.

Court documents filed Wednesday show Andrea Morris pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the 1999 death of 43-year-old Patrick McRae. She also pleaded guilty to willful injury and first-degree theft.

Morris faces up to 70 years in prison but will be eligible for parole after 70 percent of her sentence is served.

Morris was convicted in 2006 for McRae’s death and sentenced to life in prison without parole. A new trial was later ordered after Morris said she wasn’t told that court workers had smelled alcohol on the breath of her attorney.