OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha mayor has issued an executive order that says city-related text messages on the personal cellphones of city employees won’t be considered a public record.

But the Nebraska attorney general’s office says otherwise, concluding in a legal opinion issued last month that government-related texts are public record even if they’re on a private cellphone.

It weighed in on the issue after the Omaha World-Herald asked the office to clarify the status and public’s access to officials’ texts involving government business. The newspaper’s executive editor says the mayor “openly defies” the attorney general’s legal opinion on the matter.

Mayor Jean Stothert’s order announced Monday discourages city staff from conducting business through texts and advises them to instead communicate through email.

CENTRAL CITY, Neb. (AP) — An October trial has been scheduled for a 48-year-old Central City man charged with attempted murder and other crimes.

Ricky Clauff pleaded not guilty on Monday in Merrick County District Court to five felony and seven misdemeanor counts. His trial is set to begin Oct. 13.

The charges stem from an April 1 incident in Clarks. Court documents say Clauff threatened to kill his niece’s boyfriend, chasing the man around town on foot and trying to run him over in a car.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska Foundation has bought an $895,000 house in Lincoln for the University of Nebraska president.

The university said in a news release Tuesday that the deal closed Monday on the house. It is owned by the foundation and, besides future occupation by President Hank Bounds and his family, will be used for events with students, university employees, donors and others.

A Lincoln house bought in December 2013 to become the official residence was later judged unsuitable and put on the market. University spokeswoman Melissa Lee says it remains unsold.

In 2012 the Board of Regents returned to the long-standing practice of using nonstate funds to provide an official residence. The university had done so for more than three decades until 1996, when a fire destroyed the home.

SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 53-year-old man has survived after jumping off a Missouri River bridge in northeast Nebraska.

South Sioux City Police Sgt. Chris Chernock says the man climbed to the top of the arch around 6:30 p.m. Monday on the Veterans Memorial Bridge. The bridge carries U.S. Highway 77 traffic between South Sioux City in Nebraska and Sioux City, Iowa. Northbound bridge traffic was blocked during the incident.

Chernock says the man jumped a little before 7:40 p.m., falling an estimated 130 feet into the water. The South Sioux City Fire Department’s rescue boat soon reached the man and took him to shore.

Police identified the man as a transient, James Brewer. He was listed in stable condition on Tuesday morning at Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 26-year-old man has died after his motorcycle collided with a car in northeast Omaha.

The accident occurred around 6:15 p.m. Monday. Police say two northbound motorcyclists were speeding and weaving in and out of slower-moving traffic when one of the motorcycles struck a southbound car that was turning east.

Police say the motorcyclist died shortly after arriving at a hospital. He was identified as Dillon Krivohlavek (krih-VOLH’-uh-vehk), of Omaha. The car driver and her three passengers were not injured.

The other motorcyclist left the scene and is being sought by police.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The price of a private lunch with Warren Buffett is already over $1 million, and the online auction continues all week.

The top bid Monday afternoon was $1,000,100, so the California charity that will receive the proceeds is guaranteed another significant donation.

Buffett is chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, and many people want the 84-year-old’s advice on investing, philanthropy and life in general.

Through the annual auctions, Buffett has raised $17.9 million for the Glide Foundation, which provides social services to the poor and homeless in San Francisco.

Bidding continues until 9:30 p.m. CDT Friday. Last year’s auction winner paid $2,166,766, but the 2012 auction set a record with its $3,456,789 winning bid.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska judge has added seven years to Erica Jenkins’ life sentence for assaulting three jail guards.

Jenkins was sentenced Monday for the assaults she pleaded no contest to.

Jenkins maintains that she was defending herself in the altercations with guards. But prosecutors say Jenkins has continually acted out and attacked officers.

In January, Jenkins was sentenced to life in prison plus up to 100 years for her role in the 2013 shooting death of Curtis Bradford.

Jenkins in the sister of Nikko Jenkins, who last year was convicted in the killing of Bradford, as well as the 2013 shooting deaths of Andrea Kruger and two others in separate attacks.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha, Nebraska, and Council Bluffs, Iowa, are separated by the Missouri River, but officials say a recent food festival suggests that the water isn’t a barrier to collaboration between them for events.

The Council Bluffs parks director says the river “can pull us together.” The two cities are tied by a pedestrian bridge.

The Taste of Omaha this past weekend spilled over into Iowa for the first time, and an event organizer says attendance might have reached more than 125,000 during the three-day festival.

The Loessfest last month in Council Bluffs had sponsorships from Omaha, enabling the festival to stage free concerts, movies and other entertainment.

A consulting team last year suggested cooperation on the riverfront could benefit both communities.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Officials with the University of Nebraska have started the process of looking for the next chancellor of its Lincoln campus.

University officials say a search firm and a university-appointed committee will be used to help find a replacement for Chancellor Harvey Perlman. Perlman says he plans to leave the chancellor’s office next summer to return to the law school faculty.

A school spokeswoman says administrators already have asked search firms to submit proposals for conducting the search. It likely will be several weeks until a search firm is named.

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — A psychiatrist who examined Colorado theater shooter James Holmes says Holmes expressed sadness when he learned a child died in the attack.

Dr. William Reid testified Monday that Holmes had a point system for victims but that children were “morally different.”

Holmes pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the July 2012 attack that killed 12 people, including 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan.

Reid conducted one of two state-ordered evaluations of Holmes. The psychiatrist concluded Holmes was sane at the time of the shooting.

Defense lawyers say Holmes had severe schizophrenia, which distorted his sense of right and wrong.

Prosecutors are showing jurors videotapes of Reid’s interviews with Holmes. At one point on the video, Holmes says he believes he gets the economic value of anything his victims would have accomplished.