LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A senator-elect says he’ll introduce legislation to study how a tuition payback program catching on in other states might work in Nebraska.

The program known as Pay It Forward allows students to enroll in college without paying tuition costs up front. Instead, they agree to pay back a fixed percentage of their future income over at least 20 years.

The Economic Opportunity Institute says at least 25 states introduced some kind of Pay It Forward legislation in 2013 and 2014.

Earlier this month, Nebraska state Sen.-elect Adam Morfeld won election to the Legislature to represent northeast Lincoln. The 29-year-old attorney says in January, he’ll introduce the legislation to study the program.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska woman convicted of sexually assaulting her son has been sentenced to a minimum of nearly 40 years in prison.

The Bellevue woman was sentenced Monday in Sarpy County District Court to 39- to 70 years in prison on felony charges of sexual assault and incest. She will be eligible for parole after 30 years.

The 33-year-old woman and her husband are accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting their then 5-year-old son. They were arrested in 2013. The woman said her husband pressured her to participate in the assaults.

The Associated Press is not using the couple’s names to protect the boy’s privacy.

The boy’s father entered a no contest plea in the case earlier this year. He was sentenced to decades in prison.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — An autopsy has begun on a Kansas woman who died this weekend, days after she was sexually assaulted and set on fire in a park.

Sedgwick County spokeswoman Brittany Clampitt said Monday that coroner’s officials were investigating, but it wasn’t clear when the examination would be complete.

Relatives held a memorial for Letitia “Tish” Davis on Sunday evening in Wichita’s Fairmount Park, where she was found Nov. 14 with burns on more than half her body and cuts on her head.

Cornell McNeal has been jailed and charged with attempted murder and rape. He doesn’t yet have a lawyer. Police Lt. James Espinoza told The Wichita Eagle that charges would be amended after Davis died Saturday.

The district attorney’s office said prosecutors would determine appropriate charges based on new evidence.

FAIRBURY, Neb. (AP) — Fairbury police have arrested a man listed by Montana prison authorities as escaped.

Robert Wilson was taken into custody on Sunday morning.

Police say officers checking on a 911 caller found Wilson in the backyard of a residence. He said he hadn’t made the call, but his cellphone showed that the Jefferson County 911 dispatcher had called Wilson’s number.

Officers say they soon learned that Wilson’s tattoos matched those of a man sought by Montana authorities. Officers say they found a steak knife on Wilson when they took him into custody.

Police say a photo and more identification information from Montana authorities confirmed that the officers’ captive was a wanted man.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — World-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma is scheduled to speak at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in December.

Ma will appear at the university’s Lied Center for Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 5. His appearance is part of the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues.

The lecture is titled “Cultural Citizens,” and will focus on the importance of culture to individuals and societies. Tickets for the event are $34 at the Lied Center’s website. A concert scheduled for Dec. 4 is already sold out.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police say robbers shot at a doughnut shop employee who tried to follow the pair after they stole cash.

No injuries were reported after the robbery at Winchell’s Donuts on Sunday. Police say the suspects displayed a gun and demanded money before taking a 67-year-old man’s wallet and an undisclosed amount of cash from the store.

Police say a suspect shot at the 41-year-old employee outside of the store. The suspects fled in a brown Chevrolet vehicle.

No arrests have been reported.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — A Norfolk man has again been sentenced to 40 years to life in prison after he was convicted of murder for the second time.

The Norfolk Daily News reports that De’Aris Trice was found guilty of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of 27-year-old Timothy Warren at a Norfolk house party in 2010.

The 24-year-old Tryce was resentenced Friday. His original sentence was imposed in 2013, but his conviction was overturned by the Nebraska Supreme Court in July of that year.

Tryce was granted a new trial after the court found problems with jury instructions from a different case. The high court said the instruction given in Trice’s original trial was correct at the time, but a retrial was ordered in light of the ruling.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Swim classes at Nathan Hale Magnet Middle School in Omaha have been halted in the wake of the drowning of a 12-year-old boy in the school’s pool last week.

10 students were being supervised by one teacher in the gym aquatics class on Nov. 13, when seventh-grader Demariont’e Brown-Elliott was pulled from the pool.

Omaha Public Schools spokesman Todd Andrews says that in lieu of swimming, Nathan Hale students have been doing other activities in gym class this week. Andrews says swim classes have continued at other district schools with pools.

The school district and police are conducting investigations into the boy’s death.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Those who protested a Lincoln movie theater’s application for a liquor license this year are now protesting the bill they’ve received to cover the cost of the protest hearing.

Deb Hicks and Cathy Heimer of Lincoln were among six people who testified in opposition to the theater’s liquor license request in April. That hearing was triggered by the group’s protest letters.

About a month later, the commission sent them notice that they needed to pay a $25 fee.

Hicks and Heimer say they shouldn’t have to pay to voice their opinion on a community issue. But Commission Executive Director Hobert Rupe says state law allows for billing protesters for the cost of the hearing if they are unsuccessful in getting a license denied.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Officials in southeastern Nebraska say a Lincoln man has died in an accident at a turkey farm in Waverly.

The Lancaster County Sheriff’s office says the accident happened Friday afternoon at Bevans Enterprises, Inc. Investigators say the man, 34-year-old Joaquin Danilo Mina Munoz, was killed after his clothing became caught in the auger of a grain truck.

An autopsy has been ordered.