DENVER (AP) — Colorado has allowed medical marijuana use for 15 years — but not for people on probation or parole.

A bill facing its first test Thursday in the state House would change that policy. It would say that pot use doesn’t amount to a probation violation for people with medical clearance to use the drug.

The hearing comes two days after Arizona’s highest court ruled that marijuana patients in that state should be allowed to use the drug while on probation or parole. California, Rhode Island and the U.S. Virgin Islands also allow probationers to use medical marijuana.

Colorado’s Court of Appeals ruled in 2012 that people on probation should not be allowed to use medical marijuana.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Supporters of a teacher whose Omaha Catholic school contract will not be renewed because of his same-sex relationship say the school is discriminating against him based on his sexual orientation.

But experts say the school has not violated Omaha’s 3-year-old anti-bias ordinance protecting gay and transgender people, and a lawsuit would likely not succeed in an at-will employment state like Nebraska.

An online petition in support of Matt Eledge says Skutt Catholic High School rescinded its offer to renew his teaching contract next year after learning he planned to marry his same-sex partner, saying that would violate church tenet in breach of his contract. The school later said he could return to the school, but only if he ended his same-sex relationship.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 21-year-old man has been sentenced to 65 years in prison for his role in the shooting death of a 5-year-old Omaha girl.

Vincent Hicks was sentenced Thursday. He’d pleaded no contest to second-degree murder and use of a weapon to commit a felony. Prosecutors had lowered the charges in exchange for Hicks’ pleas.

Another of four people charged in the case also was sentenced. Twenty-year-old Jaylen Montgomery was given eight to 18 years in prison. He’d pleaded no contest to two weapons charges.

Authorities say that on Jan. 15, 2014, the four shot at someone they thought was a rival gang member. Their bullets struck three homes. One of the strays went through a wall of little Payton Benson’s home a block away, through her and out another wall.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The water in Broyhill Fountain on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s City Campus is being turned red in honor of all of the students who have died in the past year.

The ceremony, which is being called the Red Memorial, will take place Friday in the university’s Nebraska Union Plaza. The school’s dean of students said red lights will illuminate the fountain’s water to honor students who died during the 2014-15 school year.

The nondenominational service will include a reading of the students’ names, UNL choral group performance and a meditation by the Rev. Adam White of the UNL Lutheran Center.

This is the first Red Memorial that the school has held, and it will be open to all students and the public.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha woman says she received a citation after her 4-year-old son who has autism wandered away from their home last week.

Police say that 911 dispatchers received a call about an unaccompanied child standing on a street corner. Officers found the boy but weren’t able to determine where he lived or the names of his parents.

Meanwhile, dispatchers received a call about 15 minutes later from a woman who said her son was missing and couldn’t find him. She said that he had left the house without her knowledge after she went to answer the phone.

Police brought the boy to Watson but cited her on suspicion of child neglect.

NEBRASKA CITY, Neb. (AP) — Two former Nebraska City officials have sued the city and some council members, saying the council illegally ousted them.

Former city administrator Joe Johnson and former clerk-treasurer Arnold Ehlers jointly filed their lawsuit late last month in Otoe County District Court. The lawsuit says the council exceeded its authority in December when it considered the appointments of Johnson and Ehlers “to city employee positions they already held, and which were not vacant at the time.”

City Attorney David Partsch told the Journal Star that the lawsuit was expected and that the city has 30 days from the date of the filing to respond.

YORK, Neb. (AP) — A 32-year-old Utah man who’d been arrested along Interstate 80 in Nebraska has been sent to prison for conspiring to distribute marijuana.

Stephen Scanlon, of Lehi, Utah, on Wednesday was sentenced to 2½ years in a federal prison. He’d pleaded guilty. Scanlon also must serve four years of supervised release when he leaves custody.

Authorities say Scanlon was a passenger in a car pulled over for traffic violations on Oct. 19, 2013, in York County. State troopers say they smelled marijuana in the car, and a subsequent search turned up two empty suitcases with marijuana debris and nearly $91,000 in heat-sealed bags.

Scanlon forfeited the cash as part of the criminal case. Charges against the driver were dropped.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 43-year-old man has been accused of stealing more than $120,000 in scrap metal when he worked for a Lincoln-based construction company.

Jason Muhle has been charged with felony theft. His attorney didn’t immediately return a call Thursday from The Associated Press, seeking comments about the allegation.

A court affidavit from a Nebraska state trooper says Muhle had headed the bridge division of Commercial Construction Inc. from 2009 until January 2013 and sold more than $120,000 in scrap metal.

Muhle said in a lawsuit deposition that Commercial Construction’s owner, Gregory “Joe” Engler, gave him permission to sell scrap metal and share the money with his underlings because the company had cut vacation and insurance benefits. Engler told the state trooper that he never told Muhle he could do that

RED CLOUD, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a Nebraska man accused of holding a woman against her will in a Red Cloud home.

Nebraska State Patrol troopers and Webster County Sheriff deputies responded around 2 a.m. Thursday to a Red Cloud residence. Thirty-year-old Charles Folkman was arrested shortly before 5 a.m. after holding officers at bay for nearly three hours.

Authorities say a State Patrol crisis negotiator was able to arrange the release of an uninvolved 26-year-old man just before 3 a.m. The 46-year-old woman was released 15 minutes later and treated for minor injuries at a nearby hospital.

Folkman is charged with false imprisonment, terroristic threats and second-degree assault. Online court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could be contacted for comment about the charges.

The case remains under investigation.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A new study says completing a road expansion project between Omaha and Norfolk could save lives and churn out millions of dollars, but the project is more than a decade behind schedule.

Creighton economics professor Ernie Goss said Wednesday that expanding a 47-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 275 from two to four lanes would save the state more than $145 million per year and support more than 1,315 jobs.

Goss says expanding the road would increase safety, reduce commute times, and stimulate growth in the manufacturing, metals production and cattle operations along the corridor.

The project would cost $186 million in construction and is part of about 100 uncompleted miles of Nebraska’s 1988 planned expressway system.

The industry group 4 Lanes 4 Nebraska commissioned the study.