(Lincoln, Neb.)- Nebraska State Patrol Captain Kevin Knorr recently attended the 22^nd session of the Anti Defamation League’s (ADL) Advanced Training School (ATS) course on Extremist and Terrorist Threats. Since its implementation in 2003, more than 815 law enforcement executives have completed the training.

One of 40 law enforcement executives chosen to attend the training, Captain Knorr, 49, is a 26-year veteran of the Nebraska State Patrol and is Commander of the Nebraska Information Analysis Center (NIAC). The NIAC is responsible for providing analytical analysis of information on all crimes and all hazards encountered by citizens of Nebraska. The analytical work done at the NIAC is a collaborative effort of multiple law enforcement agencies to include the Nebraska State Patrol, the Omaha Police Department, the Lincoln Police Department, and the Omaha Division of the FBI.

Founded in 1913, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is the foremost non-governmental authority on domestic terrorism, extremism, organized hate groups and hate crimes. ADL created the Advanced Training School to provide top law enforcement from across the country with practical resources and information to help them fight criminal extremism and terrorist threats.  The course provides participants with information to help prevent and respond to domestic and international terrorist threats and has been recognized as one of the top counter- terrorism schools in the nation.

The training, which was held December 2-4 in Washington D.C. , included participants from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), United States Secret Service, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Coast Guard Investigative Service, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Central Intelligence Agency Threat Management Unit, and dozens of the largest state and local agencies from around the country

Relatives and friends are saying a final good-bye to a New York City man who was shoved onto subway tracks as a train rolled into a station.

A handful of mourners gathered Thursday for the funeral service for 58-year-old Ki-Suck Han at the Edward D. Jamie Funeral Chapel in Flushing, Queens.

Han’s widow and daughter knelt before the open coffin for several minutes before taking their seats in the front row.

The chapel was festooned with floral arrangements. The service was said in Korean.

The family requested that the media wait outside.

Naeem Davis was arraigned Wednesday on a second-degree murder charge and ordered held without bail in the Han’s death. He’s accused of pushing Han onto the tracks as a train barreled into a Times Square station on Monday.

Lincoln and other Midwest cities are setting records for the lack of snow.

Thursday in Lincoln is the 297th in a row without measurable snow. The former record was 295 snow-free days in 2004.

The National Weather Service says the 285 snowless days as of Wednesday in Omaha breaks the record 284 days that ended Dec. 30, 2006.

The Des Moines, Iowa, record of 277 days set in 1889 is being matched on Thursday.

Elsewhere in the Midwest, Chicago and Milwaukee have yet to have their first measurable snow of the season.

But good news may be ahead for winter wonderland fans: The service says snow is in the forecasts for Saturday night or Sunday in Nebraska and Iowa, the next day in Chicago.

A Nebraska man is accused of impersonating a funeral director in an attempt to retrieve the engagement rings he gave his fiance.

Lincoln Police Officer Katie Flood says 58-year-old Terry Kurtzhals impersonated a funeral director about two weeks ago to collect jewelry from a deceased woman.

The funeral home’s owner, Rod Rozanek, called police after Kurzhals showed up wearing a funeral director name tag and claiming to represent the woman’s family.

Flood says Kurtshals used to be a licensed mortician for 17 years, but he lost his license in 1996 and went to prison for theft for mishandling clients’ money.

Someone else reported Kurtshals voted illegally on election day. He wasn’t eligible because of his criminal record.

Kurzhals is also facing shoplifting and driving on a suspended license charges.

Newly-released records show that James Holmes had what one professor described as a brief romantic relationship, but few friends while attending the University of Colorado, Denver.

The emails regarding James Holmes were released Wednesday in response to a public records request.

One stunned professor emailed a friend that Holmes briefly had a girlfriend. The woman was in India at the time of the attack.

The chair of the neuroscience department wrote that Holmes was not close to his fellow students in the program but that he had one or two friends in other programs.

The vast majority of the emails were redacted for privacy reasons.

Oh, to be one of 110 select Canadians!

They’ll find in their mailboxes a bottle of pizza-scented perfume before Christmas, courtesy of Pizza Hut Canada.

The Canadian subsidiary of the Dallas-based pizza chain selected the 110 from more than 1,000 responses to a social media-based promotional campaign. The promotion was to mark Pizza Hut Canada reaching 100,000 fans on its Facebook page.

Pizza Hut Canada marketing executive Beverly D’Cruz says they created just 110 bottles of Eau de Pizza Hut. Will there be more going on department store shelves? She says only time will tell.

The Nebraska Humane Society is offering reward money for information about two dogs they suspect were poisoned.

Humane officials announced Wednesday a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone responsible for the dogs’ deaths.

The dogs became ill in mid-November after being kept in their fenced-in backyard. They died a short time later.

Humane officials say a light-colored meat found in the backyard tested positive for a poisonous substance. They suspect someone may have thrown the tainted meat into the owners’ backyard.

Humane officials also say they’re investigating reports of contaminated cat food found on sidewalks in the area.

Scientists say they’ve found evidence that the moon took quite a beating in its early days.

This new view of the moon comes from detailed gravity mapping by twin spacecraft, which slipped into orbit around the body earlier this year.

Below the surface, the moon’s interior is battered and cracked. That suggests that other rocky planets including Earth would have suffered similar bombardment from space rocks early in their history.

Measurements by the NASA spacecraft called Ebb and Flow also found that the moon’s crust is much thinner than scientists thought — only about 25 miles thick.

The findings were presented Wednesday at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco and published online by the journal Science.

The two men who will spend an entire year together aboard the International Space Station are already bracing for a challenging mission.

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly said Wednesday it will be like spending a whole year at the office. And you never get to leave.

Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will blast off in 2015 for the longest mission ever at the space station. NASA and the Russian Space Agency want to see how all that weightlessness affects the men.

Russia already has experience with yearlong space travel. But it’s limited to the old Mir space station and more than a decade has passed.

Kelly says his 9-year-old daughter screamed “awesome” when she learned the news. Kornienko’s wife cried.

Kelly is the brother-in-law of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

Officials have poisoned hundreds of starlings in the south-central Nebraska city of Grand Island, hoping to reduce the health threats posed by the bird droppings.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the toxic chemical being used won’t affect people, other animals or any other birds.

Residents are urged to use gloves or shovels when picking up and disposing of the bird carcasses.

The city began poisoning starlings back in 2005.

Health officials say starlings can spread salmonella, E. coli and West Nile and can perpetuate a fungus soil known as histoplasmosis.