YORK, Neb. (AP) — After historically only housing boys, the Epworth Village in York will open a home for girls in two month.

Harrietta Reynolds, Epworth Village CEO, says that the agency has been in rebuilding mode for the last eight months. According to Reynolds, girls will be housed in an empty building on Epworth’s campus, and that they will each have their own room. The target date for the arrival of the first group of girls is May 1.

Epworth will initially take in five girls between the ages of 14 and 18 from the state’s probation system.

The agency is looking to hire eight behavioral interventionalists for the new group of residents.

The last time the United Methodist agency provided temporary residential services for girls was 1990.

UNDERWOOD, Iowa (AP) — A teacher at an Iowa middle school has been arrested on charges related to a claim that he sexually abused a former female student.

Pottawattamie County officials say 45-year-old Barret B. Glasnapp turned himself in Monday on an arrest warrant of four counts of sexual abuse, one count of felony sexual exploitation by a school employee and five misdemeanor counts of sexual exploitation by a school employee.

Authorities say Glasnapp’s interaction began in 2011 when the student was 14, after her eighth-grade year, and continued until October. She was a student of Glasnapp from 2009 until 2012.

According to an affidavit, an investigator assigned to follow up on a report of a sexual assault at Underwood Middle School in December found that Glasnapp had resigned from his post in November.

A traffic stop of a vehicle being operated in a reckless manner on Interstate 80 just west of Lincoln led to the arrest of a Seward woman for Driving While Intoxicated.

On Monday morning, March 2, the Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) Headquarters Troop-Lincoln was conducting traffic enforcement in the Pleasant Dale area. Around 9:00 a.m., the NSP aircraft clocked a black vehicle traveling 116 mph on westbound I-80 near the Milford Exit. A trooper stopped the vehicle, a 2015 Ford Fusion, one mile west of the Milford interchange.

The driver of the vehicle, Andree D. Cable, 39, of Seward was taken into custody and lodged in the Seward County Jail on charges to include, Driving While Intoxicated 2^nd Offense, Willful Reckless Driving and Speeding.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is slated to host a debate on the effects of regulating carbon emissions.

The forum is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Lied Center for Performing Arts in downtown Lincoln.

A pair of experts will debate the pros and cons of carbon regulation through taxation, cap and trade and other measures at the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues. The forum will examine the global, environmental and financial effects of proposed regulations.

The debate will feature Marlo Lewis Jr. of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Gilbert Metcalf of Tufts University. The debate will be moderated by Susan Poser, dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police say a 23-year-old man is facing a criminal charge after stealing a rainbow flag from a lesbian couple’s home and setting it on fire.

Cameron Mayfield of Omaha is charged with arson and resisting arrest in the Saturday incident. Police say Mayfield tried to run away from officers when they showed up at his residence to speak with him.

The flag hung on the front porch of couple’s home and had been replaced with a new one by Sunday afternoon. The couple says they have never been confronted by Mayfield before, who lives about 10 houses away from them.

Mayfield was being held in a Douglas County jail as of Monday. Online jail records didn’t list an attorney for him.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A man in Lincoln, Nebraska, has been cited for possessing pot inside a container that had been slapped with a label reading: “Not Weed.”

Lancaster County deputies stopped the man’s vehicle around 9 p.m. Saturday. Officers found the plastic sour cream container during a search of his car, and the driver acknowledged that the pot belonged to him.

He was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and cited for having less than an ounce of marijuana.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have arrested an Ankeny woman accused of faking pregnancy to trick an Iowa couple into giving her money.

The Ankeny Police Department says 29-year-old Tracy Leann Bess-Thacker was charged Friday with fourth-degree theft after prospective adoptive parents from Dewitt, Iowa, claim she accepted $200 from them when she wasn’t pregnant.

According to a news release, Bess had signed onto Life Long Adoptions, an agency that connects birth mothers with potential parents. Detectives say Bess wasn’t pregnant during this scam, but that she used information from a prior pregnancy to con people into offering her financial support.

Police say Bess previously used a similar scam in multiple states, including Nebraska.

Bess could not be reached to comment on the charge, and online court records do not yet list an attorney.

BRADSHAW, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 29-year-old York man has been killed in an accident on Interstate 80.

The Nebraska State Patrol says the crash occurred around 1 p.m. Saturday on eastbound I-80 near the Bradshaw exit. The patrol says Robert Howard lost control of his car, which struck a guardrail and rolled.

He was pronounced dead at the scene. The accident is being investigated.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — The Homestead National Monument of America has scheduled a storytelling festival this week.

The performances are set for Wednesday and Thursday at the monument’s education and heritage centers. Programs are scheduled at 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., noon and 1 p.m. both days.

The professional storytellers will be Darrin Crow, Tyler Rinne and Rosie Cutrer. Day care children, students, people from senior centers and the general public are encouraged to attend.

Groups of 10 or more interested in attending should call Jesse Bolli at 402-223-3514 to make reservations.

This program is supported by the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The crowd at this year’s Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting is likely to top 40,000 as the company marks 50 years of Warren Buffett’s leadership.

In his annual letter, Buffett urged shareholders to check out Airbnb’s website if they are having trouble finding one of Omaha’s 14,000 hotel rooms.

Buffett says the Airbnb is making a special effort to sign up people in Omaha willing to rent part or all of their homes.

Buffett has said he hopes Airbnb will help make it easier on shareholders who don’t want to pay for the three-night minimum stays some hotels require.

Berkshire also plans to offer shareholders a second day of shopping in the exhibit hall filled with some of the conglomerate’s products.