LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A man has been shot and killed by law enforcement outside a hotel in north Lincoln.

An officer shot the man shortly before 10:45 a.m., on Thursday, while trying to serve an arrest warrant at a Motel 6. The man was taken at around 11:30 a.m. to a Lincoln hospital, where he died.

Lancaster County Chief Deputy Sheriff Jeff Bliemeister said three law-enforcement agencies, including the Lincoln Police Department and Nebraska State Patrol, were involved in trying to serve the warrant.

Bliemeister declined to identify the man shot or say whether he was armed. He also declined to give the names of officers involved.

A sheriff’s office employee said Thursday that no other information on the shooting was being released.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Illinois man who used indoor potted plants as a toilet was sent to jail in Nebraska — for five days.

The Omaha Police Department says officers responded to a report of a 32-year-old man pulling down his pants earlier this week to defecate on a potted plant in the waiting room area of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building in Omaha. A building supervisor says he then urinated on another plant.

The man pleaded guilty to indecent exposure and received a five-day jail sentence Tuesday in lieu of paying a fine.

Police say the man explained his actions by saying, “Sometimes you have to let the bear outside the woods.”

A police report says the man has no ties to the community.

STANTON, Neb. (AP) — Police say a Nebraska man died in a head-on collision with a semitruck.

The Stanton County Sheriff’s Office says 37-year-old Humberto Moreno, of West Point, was killed in the accident that closed a portion of Highway 15 late Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning. Moreno was pronounced dead at the scene.

Emergency crews responded to reports of the accident around 5 p.m. Tuesday night. Sheriff Mike Unger said Moreno was heading north when he crossed into southbound traffic and was struck head-on by a semitruck driven by David Phillips, of Ashton, Iowa.

Phillips was transported to Faith Regional Health Services in Norfolk. No information has been released on his condition.

Officials say the accident occurred about eight miles northwest of Howells.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lancaster County officials say a Lincoln man has been accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl over a three-year period.

Prosecutors said 37-year-old John Jacob Mitchell is charged with first-degree sexual assault of a child and one other crime. He remained in jail Wednesday night on $250,000 bond.

The girl says Mitchell molested and had sex with her several times. Officer Michael Barry ordered his arrest Tuesday after the girl told officials at her school of the repeated assaults.

Neither Mitchell nor his attorney could be reached Thursday to comment on the charge.

An initial hearing is scheduled for March 25.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — York’s Epworth Village has closed its satellite group home operation in Grand Island.

Epworth CEO Harrietta Reynolds said the Grand Island operation had become too expensive to run. The home was licensed to hold 10 boys ages 12 through 18 and had six in residence when it closed late last year.

The boys attended school at Epworth Village in York, and Reynolds says their daily transport had become impractical.

The home opened in 1999 across a street from Grand Island Senior High School, but Reynolds says most of the boys couldn’t attend Grand Island public schools because the boys presented behavioral issues.

The home had served boys who were wards of the state.

COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — A June trial has been scheduled for a Columbus mother accused of physically abusing her 3-year-old daughter.

20-year-old Jodie Shelly has pleaded not guilty to two counts of felony child abuse. Her trial is set to begin on June 15.

A court document says Shelly acknowledged having an anger problem and that “she grabs her daughter too firmly when she is whining or arguing with her brother.” The document says Shelly acknowledged angrily tossing her daughter onto a couch from a few feet away in January.

The document also says Shelly’s live-in boyfriend at the time, 24-year-old Ryan Roberts, reported that he’d backhanded Shelly’s 1-year-old son in the mouth after the boy had bitten him. Roberts is awaiting trial on April 7.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Officials are celebrating the groundbreaking of a new $84 million school building at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

A ceremony was held Wednesday for the school’s new College of Business Administration building, a 240,000-square-foot facility that’s expected to open before fall 2017.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports more than 10 out of 800 donors contributed about $1 million or more to help fund the building’s construction.

The college’s dean, Donde Plowman, thanked students, alumni, faculty, business leaders and donors for their support. She says she envisions the building as a hub of activity for the business community both on and off campus.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln youth baseball coach has pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of child sex abuse.

Thirty-three-year-old Jeff Hawks entered the plea on Wednesday. Hawks is accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old boy during private training lessons. Investigators say the child told them Hawks inappropriately touched him outside his clothing while they were alone during their sessions between August and December.

Hawks was board president of Lincoln Sox Baseball but is no longer involved with the organization.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled Senate has failed to override President Barack Obama’s veto of a bill approving the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

The 62-37 vote Wednesday was the latest chapter in the fight between the GOP-led Congress and the White House over energy policy. It was the first of many possible veto showdowns to come in Obama’s final term.

Proponents of the bill have said since its introduction that they didn’t have the vote of two-thirds of the Senate needed to override Obama’s veto.

The $8-billion pipeline would transport oil harvested from Canada’s tar sands to pipelines linked to Gulf Coast refineries. Obama said that the bill circumvented the well-established process for approving cross-border pipelines, which must be determined to be in the national interest.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The mother of a 5-year-old girl killed last year by a stray bullet is suing two Omaha police officers and the city, accusing the officers of planting drugs in an effort to frame her.

Tabatha Manning filed the lawsuit Monday in Douglas County District Court. In it, Manning details being pulled over on Sept. 17, 2013, and arrested on an outstanding misdemeanor warrant for unpaid fines. The arresting officers said they later found a bag containing a small amount of methamphetamine in the police car and determined it was Manning’s.

Manning’s lawsuit says the officers planted the drugs in order to falsely implicate her in a felony. The drug charge was later dropped.

Months after her arrest, Manning’s daughter was struck and killed at her home by a stray bullet.