MINOT, N.D. (AP) — An 18-year-old Nebraska man was killed when the motorcycle he was driving collided with a semitrailer in northern North Dakota.

The Highway Patrol says the man from Elkhorn, Nebraska, was riding a motorcycle on a Ward County road west of Minot on Thursday afternoon and failed to yield at an intersection.

The motorcycle driver died at the scene. The patrol did not immediately identify him.

The driver of the semitrailer was not injured.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A judge says a lawsuit may proceed against Lincoln Public Schools over treatment of a 12-year-old boy with autism.

The lawsuit filed two years ago says the boy suffered mental health problems after being kept in a special safe room at school dozens of times during the 2010-11 school year. The lawsuit says his parents were not notified about the boy’s handling, as district policy requires.

The district sought dismissal of the lawsuit, arguing in part that the family didn’t exhaust remedies available through federal special education law.

In ruling last week for the unnamed parents of the boy, Judge Andrew Jacobsen said they should be able to seek compensation in court because there was no remedy for them under the federal law.

BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln sex offender has been arrested after authorities say he attempted to entice a Bellevue boy.

The Bellevue Police Department said Thursday that 48-year-old Robert John Heist II is charged with child enticement by an electronic communication device.

Police arrested Heist following a report about a potential child enticement crime last month involving an internet dating site. Undercover communication revealed Heist’s identity and location.

Online court records don’t list an attorney for Heist who could comment on the charges. If convicted, Heist faces up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Heist is a lifetime registered sex offender as a result of convictions in California.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A store owner and his employee have been sentenced in connection with a scheme to buy food stamp cards from homeless people in Lincoln.

40-year-old Jose Banos and 48-year-old Juan Garivay were sentenced Wednesday to probation and 180 days in jail on theft by deception charges.

Authorities say Garivay bought food stamp numbers from people at a Lincoln homeless shelter. Banos then entered them into his store’s credit card machine for hundreds of dollars in fake grocery purchases and took the money for himself and Garivay.

According to court records, the two had been running false transactions since 2010. Garivay’s attorney previously called it a one-time, “unfortunate” incident.

Banos and Garivay have paid $60,000 in restitution. Their jail terms begin April 21.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and ordered to return $91,000 he stole in an online scam.

42-year-old David Roberts was sentenced Wednesday on one count of wire fraud, with nine counts of the same charge dropped.

According to his plea agreement, Roberts wrote fake checks for online purchases of services and products. Once each check was mailed, Roberts requested the sellers wire back a portion of his payment and disappeared with that money before they realized the checks weren’t real. He received over $91,000 from 55 wire transfers in an eight-month period.

At his sentencing hearing, Roberts told a judge he had nothing to say. He was ordered to report to a federal prison facility May 18.

CLATONIA, Neb. (AP) — A 22-year-old DeWitt man has been killed in a rollover crash that occurred in southeast Nebraska’s Gage County.

Authorities say Jacob Bridges was driving his sport utility vehicle north on a county road Tuesday evening when the SUV went out of control about a mile east of Clatonia. The Gage County Sheriff’s Office says the SUV ran into a roadside ditch and rolled several times, ejecting Bridges. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The flashing lights were signaling a message of love in Morse code, but they spelled out something alarming to some passers-by who saw them in Lincoln’s Haymarket district.

Incandescent lights had been set up on the third floor of one building and the fifth floor of another nearby, with switches synchronized so a Morse message could be sent. It’s all part of a public art piece by Jamie Burmeister, of Omaha.

He says the message is “LUV U.” But some people who called police or businesses in the buildings thought the message was an SOS sent by people in trouble.

Burmeister says he should have done better promotion of his work in order to avoid the confusion. “Message Matters” is the work’s title.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of the second worker killed by an explosion at a rail car repair facility in Omaha.

The Omaha Police Department identified him as 44-year-old Adrian LaPour.

Tuesday afternoon’s blast occurred at the repair shop of GE Capital Rail Services, which is near a BNSF rail yard. The two men worked at Nebraska Railcar Cleaning Services, hired by GE Capital Rail.

The other dead worker has been identified as 40-year-old Dallas Foulk. Battalion Chief Tim McCaw of the Omaha Fire Department says Foulk was found on the ground near a tank car. The body of LaPour was retrieved later from inside the tank car.

A third worker, who was atop the tank car, wearing a harness, was blown off but escaped serious injury.

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — A 30-year-old Hastings man convicted of trying to kill a police officer and of other crimes has been sent to prison.

On Tuesday in Adams County District Court, Marty Deckert was sentenced to five to eight years for attempted murder, 20 months to five years for operating a vehicle to avoid arrest and a year for trespassing. The sentences are to be served at the same time. Deckert was credited for 264 days already served.

Authorities say Deckert tried to avoid arrest in July by speeding away in a car, dragging a police officer.

In March a judge rejected Deckert’s request to withdraw pleas of no contest he’d made in a deal with prosecutors, who lowered two of the charges and dismissed others.

DENVER (AP) — More than two people have come forward with allegations that security agents at Denver International Airport groped them.

Denver district attorney spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough said Wednesday that several people called prosecutors after Denver television station KCNC reported the firings of two security agents. A female agent and a male agent were accused of working together to allow one of them to grope a male traveler he thought was attractive.

Police reports say a Transportation Security Administration supervisor saw the two coordinating in February. The female agent is accused of setting a computer to indicate a woman was being screened so the machine would find an anomaly in the genital area, requiring a pat-down.

Prosecutors did not charge the screeners, but Kimbrough says the investigation continues as new victims come forward.