The widow of a Chicago lottery winner who died of cyanide poisoning says she has no idea who in their family asked that authorities take the deeper look into what originally was believed to be a death by natural causes.

Shabana Ansari spoke to The Associated Press on Tuesday, a day after news emerged that her husband’s death in July was the result of cyanide poisoning.

Prosecutors, Chicago police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office are investigating 46-year-old Urooj (oo-ROOJ’) Khan’s death as a homicide. But they have not given any details, announced any suspects or ascribed any possible motive.

They’ve also not identified the relative who asked for a deeper look into Khan’s death. Ansari said she didn’t make the request and didn’t know who did.

A store clerk has been shot in a leg during a robbery in the Omaha suburb of Papillion.

Police say two to four people wearing sunglasses, black clothes and ski masks brandished guns as they entered the Radio Shack around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. No customers were inside, but there were three employees.

One was shot in a thigh and later taken to Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. Another shot was fired but no other injuries have been reported.

Police say the robbers took some money and electronic devices before fleeing in a vehicle.

No arrests have been reported.

A 38-year-old man has been caught after evading law enforcement officers for nearly eight hours in southeast Nebraska.

Authorities say Matthew Mundhenke, of Milford, was arrested a little before 4 a.m. Tuesday in the front yard of a house in Seward.

Seward County Sheriff Joe Yocum says the search for Mundhenke began around 8:15 p.m. Monday. Witnesses told police that Mundhenke had threatened people and assaulted one at a home in Staplehurst before fleeing. Officers followed his tracks in the snow and spotted him near a ravine, but he got away.

He was arrested several hours later on suspicion of several crimes, including domestic assault and using a weapon to commit a felony.

Online records say Mundhenke remained in the jail Wednesday. Online court records don’t yet list the case.

Nebraska spring turkey hunting permits for 2013 will be available starting at 1 p.m. Central time on Jan. 14.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission says each permit allows a hunter to take one male or bearded female turkey with bow and arrow in the archery season or a shotgun in the shotgun season. A person may purchase up to three spring turkey permits.

Archery season for youths and adults opens March 25. Shotgun season opens April 6 for youths and April 13 for adults. All seasons close May 31.

Visit OutdoorNebraska.org or Game and Parks permitting offices to buy the permits.

An Alabama teenager who called himself a white supremacist is accused of plotting to attack classmates and a teacher with small homemade explosives, though his attorney argues the allegations are blown out of proportion and the teen never intended to hurt anyone.

Seventeen-year-old Derek Shrout is charged with attempted assault after authorities say he planned to use homemade explosives to attack fellow students at Russell County High School in eastern Alabama.

Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor says he believes the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary was a factor because the first date in the boy’s journal describing the plan was dated three days after the Connecticut killings.

Taylor says the boy told investigators he’s a white supremacist and five of the six students he named in his journal are black.

Police in Oregon say a woman told officers that her boyfriend choked her with his dreadlocks.

Portland police Sgt. Pete Simpson says the unidentified woman was taken to a hospital Monday for treatment of numerous non-life-threatening injuries.

The police spokesman says 32-year-old Caleb Grotberg was arrested for investigation of several domestic violence felony crimes, including strangulation, fourth-degree assault and second-degree kidnapping. He’s due in court Tuesday.

Dreadlocks are matted ropes of hair.

Federal regulators will get an update on the efforts to restart the troubled Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant on Tuesday.

Omaha Public Power District officials will brief the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Maryland and answer questions.

The meeting, which will also include a report from NRC inspectors, will be broadcast online athttps://1.usa.gov/13e4una .

The Fort Calhoun nuclear plant sits 20 miles north of Omaha. It was initially shut down for refueling maintenance in April 2011, but flooding along the Missouri River and a series of safety violations forced it to stay closed.

Regulators and OPPD officials all say Fort Calhoun won’t be restarted until they’re sure it’s safe.

A Lincoln man accused of using a cigarette to burn a 16-month-old girl has pleaded guilty to felony child abuse.

The Lincoln Journal Star says 23-year-old LaDeryl Lathan made the plea on Monday and is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 6.

Deputy Lancaster County Attorney Bruce Prenda says Lathan had been baby-sitting his girlfriend’s daughter on July 30. Prenda says Lathan told the woman when she came home that the girl had picked up his cigarette, which contained an illegal synthetic drug, and burned herself on her face, lips, neck, a leg and an arm.

The mother took the little girl to a hospital on July 31. Authorities say doctors reported those injuries and chest bruising and wrist fractures to police.

 Photographs presented at the murder trial of an Arizona woman charged with killing her former boyfriend show a chilling portrait of sex and death.

There’s a nude Jodi Arias on Travis Alexander’s bed, a naked Alexander in the shower and an image of Alexander stabbed and shot in the head — his throat slit.

Other evidence also has stacked up since the June 2008 attack in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa: a bloody palm print, conflicting stories and, finally, a confession.

That evidence is being presented this week at a trial dominated by stories of sex and jealousy.

Arias admits she killed Alexander, but claims it was self-defense. Prosecutors say she planned the attack.

She could become the fourth woman on Arizona’s death row if convicted.

A Lincoln city councilman wants police officers assigned to public middle schools in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting that left 20 students and six educators dead.

The Lincoln Journal Star says Councilman Gene Carroll and Mayor Chris Beutler  have sent a letter to Lincoln school board President Ed Zimmer that says the city wants to continue discussions about school safety and how the city can help.

Officers already are assigned to each public high school. Carroll wants city and school district to consider adding them to middle schools. He says the question of funding is a discussion for the future.

Zimmer says he thinks the school board would welcome such a discussion with the city.