LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is warning Chinese students about an Internet scam aimed at them and their parents.

The students are being contacted through an instant message site and are told to change their passwords and security information.

Then the scammers use the students’ accounts to communicate with the students’ parents, asking for money to be wired.

Vice chancellor for student affairs Juan Franco says the scam “makes us feel really bad that people are trying to take advantage of young people, young people who are trying to better themselves.”

The university’s International Student and Scholar Office is in contact with other Big Ten schools that have seen similar scams.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Two council members are proposing a special vehicle registration fee to help fix and maintain crumbling streets in Omaha.

Councilmen Franklin Thompson and Chris Jerram want the measure submitted to voters. If voters were to approve it, the fee would begin in 2017 and end in 2023.

Thompson and Jerram call the fee a special street resurfacing assessment. They say it would vary for vehicle types and would rise yearly. For a passenger vehicle, owners would pay $7 a year in 2017 and pay $24 by 2019.

Local experts have estimated that Omaha must spend about $20 million more a year to keep its streets in good shape.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha father wants the district to explain how his 5-year-old daughter could have been left on a school bus instead of being taken home.

Puol Nuor called police and the Omaha Public Schools transportation department after his daughter, Nya, still hadn’t been dropped off by the school bus Monday afternoon. He learned that the kindergartner had been locked inside a bus in a parking lot about 9 miles away.

A school district spokesman says Nya’s bus driver, who wasn’t identified, has been placed on administrative leave while authorities investigate.

Nuor says his daughter has cerebral palsy, a feeding tube and selective mutism. She’s now afraid to ride the bus.

Nuor says Nya stayed home from school Tuesday, and he took her there Wednesday.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — The newly-appointed interim director of the troubled Hall County Jail has resigned in the wake of questions about whether his jail management style was influenced by his son’s imprisonment for murder in Arizona.

Interim Director Randy Houser resigned late Wednesday in an email to Hall County Attorney Jack Zitterkopf. The email did not give a reason for Houser’s resignation, which came a week after he had been appointed.

But it did follow an anonymous letter to county supervisors questioning, among other things, Houser’s philosophy on jail management, given his son’s imprisonment on a first-degree murder conviction.

Houser told the newspaper Wednesday that his son’s incarceration had no bearing on his style of jail management.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A federal appeals court says drugs found in a car during a Nebraska traffic stop can be used as evidence, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in April that said the search was unconstitutional.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ action Thursday is the second time it has ruled against Dennys Rodriguez, who was stopped on a Nebraska highway in 2012 and given a warning for driving on the shoulder. He was then made to wait about 10 minutes while officers walked a drug-sniffing dog around the car, which turned up methamphetamine.

The U.S. Supreme Court said the search was unconstitutional. But an 8th Circuit panel cited a 2011 Supreme Court ruling that said searches relying on binding precedent are permissible, even if such searches are later deemed unconstitutional.

DENVER (AP) — Supporters of a proposed Denver ballot initiative to allow some marijuana use in clubs, bars and hotels are pulling the measure while they negotiate with city officials.

City officials promised to work on a compromise to give time for others to weigh in on the proposal and come up with their own solution.

The Colorado Hotel and Lodging Association says visitors want a safe place to use recreational marijuana, but owners want limits.

Mason Tvert of the Marijuana Policy Project says the city could pass an ordinance that would allow private clubs, or allow patrons of some bars to use vaporizer cigarettes indoors at locations where they are now prohibited.

Marijuana activists have already turned in more than enough signatures to get the question on the November city ballot.

SEWARD, Neb. (AP) — Authorities in southeast Nebraska are investigating a rollover crash that left one man dead and another man injured.

The Seward County Sheriff’s Office says the accident occurred early Thursday morning on a gravel road on the west side of the county. Both men were thrown from the vehicle.

Officials haven’t yet released the men’s names.

WAYNE, Neb. (AP) — Two men accused of stealing an ATM from a northeast Nebraska bank have taken deals and pleaded guilty.

A sentencing hearing is scheduled on Nov. 4 for 22-year-old Cody Murphree and 23-year-old Jacob Christiansen, both of Norfolk. Prosecutors dropped criminal mischief charges in exchange for the two men’s guilty pleas to theft charges.

A third man charged in the June 23 theft from Elkhorn Valley Bank & Trust in Hoskins pleaded not guilty on Wednesday. The trial of 24-year-old David Rhodes is scheduled to begin Dec. 8 in Wayne County District Court in Wayne.

The Nebraska State Patrol says the ATM was taken from the vestibule of the bank near the bank lobby.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 60-year-old Lincoln woman has been sent to prison for setting her estranged husband’s home on fire.

Court records say Dawn Moore was sentenced on Wednesday to five to 10 years in prison. Moore had pleaded no contest and was convicted of felon arson.

Authorities say her husband was in the home when she started the fire on Dec. 20. Moore’s attorney says Moore and her husband were going through a divorce at the time.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 32-year-old man has been sentenced to 18 to 30 years in prison for exchanging money for sex with minors in Lincoln.

Adam Brunswick was sentenced Tuesday. According to prosecutors, Brunswick met two girls, who were 14 and 15 at the time, on a social networking website in 2013. Authorities say they agreed to meet at Ballard Park, where he engaged in a sex act with each of them.

According to prosecutors, Brunswick sent text and instant messages to the girls for several months, offering money for sexual acts. Police say one of the girls eventually told her mother what was happening.

Brunswick was given two terms of nine to 15 years in prison that he will serve consecutively.