COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — The city of Columbus and the local community college will discuss extending public transit service to the campus.

The City Council this week decided to let staffers talk to Central Community College-Columbus about offering service at the campus just north of the eastern Nebraska city.

College President Matt Gotschall requested the discussions as part of a college sustainability plan that includes reducing carbon emissions by promoting carpooling and public transportation.

Columbus Area Transit service passengers pay $2 per one-way trip through a call-based system. The service hasn’t been operating outside city limits.

MARYVILLE, Mo. (AP) — A Nebraska man is charged in Missouri after a police chase that wound through parts of three states before ending in northwest Missouri.

Nodaway County Prosecuting Attorney Robert Rice on Tuesday charged 37-year-old Neal Alan Ulfers, of Lincoln, Nebraska, with tampering and resisting arrest, both felonies.

Ulfers was arrested Monday after the chase ended in Maryville. He is accused of stealing a pickup truck from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and eluding officers in southwest Iowa before entering northwest Missouri. Investigators say the chase reached speeds up to 80 mph, and Ulfers sometimes drove the wrong direction on highways, two-lane blacktops and gravel roads.

Ulfers was finally forced off the road by a state trooper.

Online court records do not list an attorney for Ulfers.

GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — It’s move-in day at the University of Northern Colorado, and this year some students are being allowed to bring their cats or dogs to live with them in dorms.

Pets under 40 pounds are being allowed on two of the 17 floors of Lawrenson residence hall, home to about 400 students.

The pilot program beginning Thursday will include about 24 pets.

Dogs and cats that aren’t able to live side-by-side will be separated as needed.

While some colleges allow small-caged pets, a slowly growing number of schools are letting undergraduate students bring other pets to live with them.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology allows cats in designated “cat-friendly” areas. Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, allows cats and dogs — as well as nonvenomous snakes under 6 feet long.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 55-year-old Grand Island woman has been indicted on three counts of bank fraud.

Federal prosecutors said Thursday that Brenda Warta committed bank fraud from September 2005 through September 2006, resulting in a loss to Platte Valley State Bank and Trust Co. of nearly $432,000. Prosecutors also say Warta lied about collateral on loan and credit applications.

Warta didn’t immediately return a call Thursday from The Associated Press. Online court records don’t list the name of her attorney in the case.

WAUSA, Neb. (AP) — Two carpenter brothers from the northeast Nebraska village of Wausa fondly remember the days when the boats they built graced the waters of nearby Lewis & Clark Lake.

During the mid-1950s and early 1960s, Don and Harlan Hult produced and sold hundreds of HultCraft wooden boats. They used pre-assembled hulls as part of their boat kits or as foundations for fully assembled boats crafted by the brothers and their workers.

The business grew as their boats reigned supreme on the 16-mile-long lake, an impoundment of the Missouri River.

By 1965 he and his brother were leaving the boat business because people had started buying lower-maintenance metal or fiberglass boats.

Harlan Holt says, “It was fun, but things change.”

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A 37-year-old man has given life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing another man more than 11 years ago in Council Bluffs.

James Harris was sentenced Wednesday. A Pottawattamie County jury convicted Harris on July 1 of first-degree murder. Prosecutors say he stabbed to death Nelson Alvarez-Hernandez during a robbery on July 31, 2003.

The case went cold until police used DNA results to tie Thomas Sanchez, of La Vista, Nebraska, to the case and arrest him in January. That led police back to Harris, who police say had long been a suspect. Harris was arrested in March. Charges against Sanchez were dropped on June 24.

NELIGH, Neb. (AP) — Willie Nelson and Neil Young will headline a concert next month in a Nebraska cornfield organized by opponents of a proposed pipeline that would carry oil from Canada south to the Gulf Coast.

Bold Nebraska said Monday the concert will be held Sept. 27 on a farm near Neligh in northeast Nebraska. Tickets go on sale Wednesday.

Earlier this year, protesters carved an anti-pipeline message into the cornfield, which is in the path of TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline.

Pipeline critics hope the project will be rejected because they fear it could contaminate groundwater and contribute to pollution.

TransCanada has said the pipeline will have upgraded safety measures and should be allowed. The company has already built and is operating the southern leg of the pipeline between Oklahoma and Texas.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha high school teacher has been sentenced to about six months in jail for flashing a woman outside a store.

37-year-old Michael McIntosh was convicted Tuesday of public indecency and disturbing the peace. He was given 180 days in jail and fined a $200 fine.

A woman outside a Wal-Mart in February told police a man approached her in a car and asked for directions. The man, later identified as McIntosh, is accused of exposing his genitals and masturbating.

McIntosh’s attorneys said he was on medication at the time. They attempted to use an insanity plea, but a judge overruled that defense.

McIntosh, an English teacher at Bryan High School, is on administrative leave as the school district investigates the allegations.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha City Council has invoked what’s called its “good neighbor ordinance” in punishing a troubled Old Market district nightspot.

On Tuesday the council revoked the certificate of occupancy issued to the business, Maria Sangria, and voted to cancel its liquor license. Police officials told the council about several problems at Maria Sangria, saying it attracted crowds that caused disturbances, bothered neighboring businesses and cost the police department big chunks of overtime.

Defenders of Maria Sangria say officers can’t prove the troublemakers were patrons of the nightspot and suggested that the city targeted Maria Sangria because most of its customers are black or Latino.

City Council members Ben Gray and Chris Jerram say the complaints are not rooted in racism. Jerram says Maria Sangria is a bad neighbor.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police have arrested a driver who they say seriously injured a bicyclist and left the scene.

Sgt. Joe Collins says police arrested the man Tuesday afternoon following a brief search. It’s unclear if he has been charged.

He says 45-year-old General Swayzer suffered broken vertebrae in his neck, several lacerations to his scalp and possibly paralysis. He was taken to the Nebraska Medical Center.

His condition is unclear but Collins says he is expected to survive the injuries.