ROCA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say one person has died after a vehicle ran off a road south of Lincoln in Lancaster County.

Lancaster County Sheriff Terry Wagner says dispatchers received a call reporting the accident around 8:40 a.m. Wednesday. The vehicle crashed about a mile and a half east of Roca.

The cause of the crash and the name of the victim haven’t been released.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha Police Department is reminding residents to not leave their cars running unattended to warm them up during the winter mornings.

Omaha police officer Jacob Bettin said between eight hours on Tuesday morning, authorities reported 13 vehicles had been stolen because they had been left running.

Bettin says it’s easy for thieves to find cars to steal during the winter, because they only have to look for a tail pipe with exhaust coming out of it. He suggested that residents remain with their cars while they allow it to heat up or to get a remote car starter.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha city councilman says a boardinghouse fire that killed two people has exposed flaws in city codes.

City building inspection and fire officials have been meeting to discuss possible changes in light of the Dec. 23 blaze. The fire cause is still being investigated.

Councilman Chris Jerram says conditions found by firefighters at the 22-room boardinghouse have raised several concerns.

Among them is the city’s lack of a way to ensure that such residences have working smoke detectors. The Omaha Fire Department says smoke detectors at the boardinghouse were not working. And Jerram says the boardinghouse didn’t have to have a fire exit in the basement, although newer boardinghouses must have them.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A grand opening ceremony for the new $12 million Stephen Center homeless shelter has been set for this week.

The ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held Friday for the center, which includes the Pettigrew Emergency Shelter for short-term stays and 62 low-income apartments for long-term residents.

Architects started developing plans nine years ago for the new facility that was financed by both private and public organizations.

The center’s CEO says he and staff are excited about the upcoming opening, which he adds has been a long time coming.

Support services will be offered at the center and at nearby sites. The center has a relationship with the Salvation Army Kroc Center that will allow residents to use its recreational and health and fitness programs.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gov. Gary Herbert says Utah has no plans to join two other states in suing Colorado over that state’s legalization of marijuana.

Herbert said Tuesday afternoon that despite no current plans to sue, Utah is keeping an eye on marijuana legalization in its neighbor state.

Nebraska and Oklahoma filed a lawsuit last month asking the U.S. Supreme Court to declare Colorado’s legalization of marijuana unconstitutional.

Nebraska and Oklahoma say Colorado’s voter-approved legalization has brought marijuana into their states and made it harder for them to enforce drug laws.

Utah officials have said they do not want to legalize marijuana but they did pass a limited medical marijuana law last year allowing those with severe epilepsy to possess cannabis extract oil.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say two people who reproduced pirated movies and sold the DVDs on the Omaha Indian Reservation have been given five years of probation.

Federal prosecutors say 21-year-old Carroll Webster III and 22-year-old Kayla Parker, of Wanblee, South Dakota, were convicted of copyright infringement. While on probation, both Webster and Parker will have to perform 150 hours of community service and pay $500 in restitution.

Prosecutors say that from March 2012 through May 6, 2013, Webster and Parker obtained pirated copies of copyrighted motion pictures, reproduced them and sold about 600 DVDs to people on the reservation.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Custody hearings are scheduled Wednesday for two Lincoln women who have lost custody of their newborns because the babies either tested positive for drugs or showed signs of withdrawal.

A Lancaster County Juvenile Court judge on Monday approved state to take custody of the three children. A state custody petition says stool samples from twins born Dec. 27 tested positive for methamphetamine. Test results for a baby girl born to another Lincoln woman are pending, but the state asked for custody in part because the child’s mother is suspected of using drugs when she was pregnant.

A Nebraska Health and Human Services Department spokesman says the three infants are among 37 taken into state custody over the past two years.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Court of Appeals has affirmed the convictions and 30- to 60-year prison sentence of a man who threatened a witness at his 2009 murder trial.

Jeffrey Glazebrook’s 2012 lengthy sentence was due to his habitual offender status. He appealed, arguing that the sentence was excessive. The appeals court on Tuesday said the sentence falls within the range allowed by law.

Glazebrook was convicted of tampering with a witness and making terroristic threats. Jurors said Glazebrook mouthed the words, “I will kill you,” to the witness in court.

Glazebrook was convicted in 2009 of killing 97-year-old Sadie McReynolds, of Ashland, in 1977, but the Nebraska Supreme Court ordered a new trial. The prosecutor later dropped the murder charge so it would not interfere with the tampering case against Glazebrook.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha 18-year-old has made a plea deal in the shooting death of a friend.

Christopher Spears on Tuesday entered pleas of no contest to manslaughter and weapons use. Prosecutors say Spears was 17 when he shot 17-year-old Dominique Hollie in February last year. Spears is scheduled to be sentenced on March 10. Spears originally was charged with second-degree murder.

Prosecutors say the shooting happened after Spears made sexual comments about Hollie’s sister, prompting Hollie to go to his bedroom and grab a sawed-off shotgun that he later returned to his room. Prosecutors say that after an argument, however, Spears went to Hollie’s room, returned with the shotgun and shot Hollie in the face.

BLAIR, Neb. (AP) — Federal regulators have named a new resident inspector at the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant about 20 miles north of Omaha.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says Brian Cummings is one of the two inspectors monitoring operations at the plant that was offline for nearly three years between spring 2011 and December 2013.

The plant was offline for such a long period while regulators’ safety concerns were addressed and flood damage was repaired. Fort Calhoun is owned by the Omaha Public Power District.

Cummings joined the NRC last February after serving on a nuclear submarine in the U.S. Navy.

The NRC keeps at least two inspectors at every nuclear power plant. Cummings joins senior inspector Max Schneider at Fort Calhoun.