BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say an eastern Nebraska city administrator has been ticketed for misdemeanor counts following a disturbance at a local dental office.

Bellevue City Administrator Dan Berlowitz was cited Tuesday afternoon following the disturbance that morning at Allen Smith Dental in Bellevue, where Berlowitz’s wife used to work.

A police report says Berlowitz poked a dentist in the chest and then pushed the dentist’s shoulder. Berlowitz was later cited on suspicion of trespassing, disturbing the peace and third-degree assault, all misdemeanors.

Berlowitz did not immediately return a phone message left at his office Wednesday.

BLENCOE, Iowa (AP) — A Nebraska man faces multiple charges after authorities say he kidnapped a woman and fled from police.

26-year-old Lamonte Bertucci of Macy, Nebraska, is charged with willful injury, second-degree kidnapping, assault while participating in a felony, assault on a jailer and several traffic violations.

The Macy Police Department contacted the Monona County Sheriff’s Office in Iowa on Saturday, saying its officers were pursuing a vehicle heading east on Highway 175.

The driver failed to stop and seemed to be holding a female passenger as she tried to escape the vehicle.

Speeds reached 100 mph after deputies joined the pursuit southbound on Interstate 29. Officers arrested Bertucci when the vehicle stopped south of Blencoe, Iowa.

The woman was taken to a hospital with injuries.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lancaster County will close a less-secure section of its youth detention center Aug. 1.

County officials say they’re hopeful the move will encourage state and private agencies to place troubled youth outside detention centers.

Youth Services Center director Sheli Schindler says the center was never meant to provide long-term placement for pre-adjudicated youth. Only two of the 10 residents in the less-secure wing have been there less than 30 days.

Revenue is expected to decline because the number of state-supervised youth at the center has fallen dramatically in recent months.

County leaders say eliminating the less-secure portion of the center will eventually save some of the county’s funds.

Schindler says the county and state will be able to find outside placement for those now in the staff-secure wing.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 31-year-old Omaha man has been given 20 years in prison for his role in killing an Arizona man whose burned body was found in an eastern Nebraska field.

Court records say John Meyers was sentenced Tuesday in Omaha. He’d pleaded no contest to a manslaughter charge after making a deal with prosecutors. They lowered the charge from murder and dropped a weapons count. Meyers already is serving 20 to 30 years in prison for robbery and other crimes.

Prosecutors say Meyers and Joseph Fleming fatally beat 31-year-old Jose Quintero, who was from Phoenix. Investigators say Quintero was killed in Omaha and his body was dumped and set aflame in a field near Ashland. It was found Sept. 24, 2012.

Fleming is scheduled to be sentenced next week.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska district judge has upheld the conviction of a federal judge’s son for violating a protection order.

Online court records say Judge Andrew Jacobsen last week rejected arguments from the lawyer for 33-year-old Jonathan Camp. Camp’s father is Lincoln City Councilman Jon Camp and mother is U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp. Jacobsen found there was sufficient evidence for the younger Camp to be found guilty and sentenced to 14 days in jail.

Camp was charged in March 2015 for sending two text messages to a woman who had accused him of sexual assault. A jury found him not guilty in the assault case this past January.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A funeral has been held for a 2-year-old Nebraska boy killed by an alligator at Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

The Mass for Lane Thomas Graves was held Tuesday at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in west Omaha. It was limited to family and friends. Lane was pulled into the water and drowned last week despite the frantic efforts of his father.

In a statement, Matt and Melissa Graves thanked the “friends and strangers who share in our loss and who have shown us profound compassion.”

The Graves have established the Lane Thomas Foundation, saying all donations will go to charity. On the foundation’s website they say, “while there is no way to mend our hearts, we can do good work in his honor.”

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say an 18-year-old driver has died after crashing into a tree in Hastings.

Hastings police say the accident occurred around 3:30 a.m. Monday when a vehicle driven by Joshua Hedlund ran off 12th Street and struck the tree. Three passengers with him were injured.

The crash is being investigated.

STANTON, Neb. (AP) — A 22-year-old man is accused of stabbing his brother in northeast Nebraska’s Stanton County.

Sheriff Mike Unger says the man used a dagger to stab his 19-year-old brother in the abdomen Monday at a Stanton residence. The younger man was taken to a hospital.

The older brother was arrested on suspicion of assault and use of a weapon. Online court records don’t show that he’s been formally charged yet.

COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — A California company plans to build a solvent plant in the eastern Nebraska city of Columbus.

Santa Barbara-based Greenyug LLC announced Monday that the plant will be erected next to the Archer Daniels Midland ethanol plant. Greenyug will use feedstock from ADM’s wet corn mill to make the solvent.

The new plant is expected to employ up to 20 full-time workers. Greenyug Vice President Luca Zullo said the plant would cost tens of millions of dollars but would not provide a more specific figure.

Construction is expected to begin late this year and be finished by late 2017. The plant will produce the solvent ethyl acetate, which is used in such products as paint, coatings, pharmaceuticals and adhesives.

DENVER (AP) — Legal marijuana is giving Colorado a stinky conundrum. Visitors can buy the drug, but they can’t use it public. Or a rental car. Or most hotel rooms.

Some legalization advocates believe they have a solution — pot clubs. Denver voters may consider a ballot measure this fall to make the city the most populous place in the nation to expressly allow pot clubs.

But marijuana clubs have proven a harder sell here than legalizing the drug in the first place. Colorado’s constitution doesn’t allow nor ban public use. The result is a patchwork of local club policies.

No other states with legal recreational pot have licensed clubs statewide. Alaska is working on regulations to allow consumption where the drug is sold, but the regulations aren’t up and running yet.