(AP) — A 19-year-old Lincoln man has been given jail time for beating a person who was trying to buy drugs from him.

A judge sentenced Mahir Jejna on Wednesday in Lancaster County District Court to a year each on charges of third-degree assault and aiding and abetting theft by unlawful taking. He will serve the sentences concurrently.

Authorities say Jejna attacked a man at a park last July who was buying marijuana from him. Jejna is accused of grabbing the victim’s neck and punching him. Another man with Jejna allegedly stole the victim’s phone.

Jejna later pleaded no contest to the charges.

(AP) — University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman is turning to billionaire Warren Buffett for advice on Twitter even though the investor has only sent five tweets.

Buffett appeared Wednesday in one of Perlman’s “Perls of Knowledge” videos that showcase the chancellor’s silly side while promoting Buffett’s alma mater.

In the video posted online at http://perlsofknowledge.unl.edu Buffett takes a break from grading losing entries in his $1 billion NCAA basketball bracket contest to talk to Perlman.

Buffett tells Perlman to go with kittens in his tweet because the cat market is up.

These new videos are supposedly revealing who has been helping Perlman succeed on social media. In previous videos, Perlman offered his thoughts on the zombie apocalypse, the expression “YOLO” and UNL’s skateboarding professor.

(AP) — A Lincoln man has dropped his lawsuit challenging the city’s eviction of his dog based on an ordinance that bans wolf-dog crossbreeds.

Alex Kaftan filed to have the petition dismissed Friday.

In February, Kaftan was forced to move his dog, Mars, outside the city because of the city’s ban. Mars is a Czechoslovakian vlcak (VUHL’-chak), a breed created in 1955 by crossing German shepherds with Carpathian wolves. The breed is now self-propagating and recognized by the American Kennel Club. Neither of Mars’ parents was a wolf.

Kaftan’s attorney, Misty Christo, says Kaftan may ask the City Council to amend the hybrid definition so it doesn’t inadvertently ban the entire Czechoslovakian vlcak breed from the city.

(AP) — Utility officials say a Nebraska nuclear plant is operating at full power again after a brief outage last month.

The Omaha Public Power District said Wednesday that Fort Calhoun resumed generating electricity on March 19 — two days after a problem on the non-nuclear side of the plant during maintenance triggered the shutdown.

It reached full power on March 21.

This is the second time Fort Calhoun went offline briefly since it restarted in December after a prolonged outage.

Fort Calhoun, which sits about 20 miles north of Omaha, had been off line from April 2011 until December. It initially shut down for routine maintenance, but significant flooding in 2011, a small fire and a series of safety violations forced it to remain closed for more than two years.

(AP) — A coroner says an exchange student from Wyoming fell to his death in Denver after eating a marijuana cookie.

An autopsy report released Wednesday says marijuana intoxication was a contributing factor in the death of 19-year-old Levi Thamba Pongi on March 11 in a fall from a motel balcony.

Authorities say Pongi got the cookie from a friend. Police ruled the death an accident but haven’t released the findings of their investigation.

Colorado law bans the sale of recreational marijuana products to people under 21. Authorities say one of Pongi’s friends was old enough to buy the cookie.

Officials at Northwest College in Powell, Wyo., say Pongi, a native of the Republic of Congo, started taking classes as an exchange student in January.

An eastern Nebraska man has been found dead inside a grain bin.

Polk County Sheriff Dwaine Ladwig said employees found Jeremy Zavdosky about 8 a.m. Monday in a bin a block away from the United Farmer’s Cooperative main office in Shelby. Ladwig says the man was not a cooperative employee, and his death is being investigated.

Sheriff’s investigators say they do not suspect foul play, and an autopsy was scheduled for Tuesday.

Zadovsky is survived by his wife and five children.

(AP) — An 82-year-old woman will face a misdemeanor motor vehicle homicide charge in connection to a crash that killed an Omaha cyclist.

Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine says Ruth A. Jeffers, of La Vista, will be charged Tuesday. If convicted, she faces up to one year in jail or up to two years of probation.

Authorities say Jeffers swerved across a traffic lane last month and struck 56-year-old Jim Johnston. He later died at a hospital.

Kleine says Jeffers swerved her vehicle to avoid a stopped car in front of her. Court records do not list an attorney for her.

(AP) — A bill intended to encourage Nebraska public power districts to consider more renewable energy is dead for the year.

The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Ken Haar of Malcolm, withdrew his proposal from consideration on Tuesday. Haar says he didn’t have the votes to advance the bill.

Current law states that public power districts should provide low-cost electricity. The measure would have required public power districts to consider economic development when building their energy portfolios.

Haar says the measure would get rid of an excuse that districts use not to consider wind and other forms of alternative energy. Opponents argued that the bill would impose a mandate on public power districts and increase costs for families and businesses.

(AP) — Six months after a Nebraska giant auction, buyers of some of the cars and trucks have begun restoration projects, enjoying the nostalgia surrounding their classic or beloved models.

More than 10,000 bidders registered for the September sale in Pierce of nearly 500 vehicles collected by Ray Lambrecht, who ran Pierce’s Chevrolet dealership for 50 years.

Jared Anderson and his father, Steve, found a 1954 Ford F-100 pickup in the field of Chevys. It was one of the few vehicles in their price range.

The once blue, now rusted hulk squats on the dirt-covered floor of a barn in rural Crete, awaiting the thousands of dollars in restoration work. It’s work the men know how to do, work that they’ll share, father and son.

(AP) — Discredited former Douglas County crime scene investigator David Kofoed has been ordered to pay a total of nearly $6.6 million to two men he’s accused of framing for murder.

U.S. Judge Joseph Bataillon issued the orders late Monday, entering judgment of $1.66 million to compensate Matthew Livers, as well as another $1.65 million in punitive damages. The judge also ordered Kofoed to pay nearly $1 million in Livers’ attorneys’ fees.

A separate order awarded $1.1 million to compensate Nicholas Sampson and another $965,000 in punitive damages. Kofoed was ordered to pay nearly $200,000 in Sampson’s attorneys’ fees.

Livers and Sampson initially were charged in the 2006 shotgun slayings of Wayne and Sharmon Stock and spent months in jail before being cleared. Kofoed spent two years in prison for evidence-tampering.