(AP) — McDonald’s is in the early stages of looking at whether it can extend its breakfast hours.

Fans of the Egg McMuffin have long wanted the option to get breakfast at McDonald’s after 10:30 a.m. But offering both breakfast and lunch was considered logistically impossible give the limited space in kitchens.

Still, it’s an option the chain is eyeing more seriously as people’s eating habits change, particularly for people in their 20s and 30s.

“We know, as an example, that breakfast on the weekend cut off at 10:30 doesn’t go very well,” Jeff Stratton, head of McDonald’s USA, said in an interview.

Stratton declined to provide details on how McDonald’s would serve breakfast later in the day, saying, “We’re just beginning.”

(AP) — Relatives have sued the state over a fatal Lincoln collision that involved a state-owned van driven by a Nebraska inmate.

The lawsuit was filed last week against the state and the inmate driver, 36-year-old Jeremy Dobbe. He has pleaded not guilty to a manslaughter charge and awaits trial.

Joyce Meeks’ husband, Leonard, and son, Martell Buchanan, say in the lawsuit that the state was negligent for letting Dobbe behind the wheel of the van that hit Joyce Meeks’ vehicle on June 25 last year.

The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services has since ended the prison-driver program, which allowed inmates to transport other prisoners to and from work-release sites.

(AP) — A 41-year-old Columbus man who stole ornamental vases and military veterans nameplates from graves has been given up to eight years in prison.

Steven Bequette was sentenced last week in Platte County District Court.

Online court records say Bequette had pleaded no contest to drug possession and to attempted theft. He was given 20 to 60 months on the theft charge and 18 to 36 months for the drugs. The sentences are to be served consecutively.

A prosecutor says at least 40 families were victimized by the graveyard thefts. Police say a scrap metal yard worker reported that the yard bought more than 200 pounds of brass from Bequette last summer.

(AP) — Creighton University President Timothy Lannon has announced his intention to leave his post in June 2015.

Lannon returned to Creighton in 2011 as Creighton’s 24th president. He said in an announcement Monday that when he returned he wanted “to give back to what the institution gave to me.”

Lannon says there’s another role ahead for him, one “that will be even more pastoral and less administrative.”

He says his announcement gives the Creighton University board of trustees more than a year to find and confirm his successor.

(AP) — Governors are quoting President Barack Obama as saying he expects to decide on the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline in the next couple of months.

Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman, a Republican who supports the pipeline, said Obama was asked about Keystone Monday at a White House meeting with about 40 governors. Heineman and Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin said Obama told governors he expects a decision “in the next couple of months,” but didn’t offer a specific timetable. Fallin, a Republican who chairs the National Governors Association, also supports Keystone.

A White House spokesman said he would not provide details of a private discussion with governors, and said review of the Canada-to-Texas pipeline remains at the State Department.

A Nebraska judge struck down the route through that state last week.

(AP) — A county attorney says an Omaha teenager will be charged as an adult in the killing of another teen.

Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine announced Monday that 17-year-old Christopher Spears would be prosecuted as an adult. He’s charged with second-degree murder and use of a weapon to commit a felony.

Spears, a student at Northwest High School in Omaha, was arrested after the killing of 17-year-old Dominique Hollie.

Kleine says 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.

Kleine alleges that after an argument, Spears went to Hollie’s room, returned with the shotgun and shot Hollie in the face.

Police arrested Spears a few blocks away.

(AP) — A bill to expand Medicaid in Nebraska as part of the federal health care law has been sent to the full Legislature for debate.

The Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee voted on Monday to advance the “Wellness in Nebraska Act,” a new version of a Medicaid-expansion proposal.

The new bill was introduced after a Medicaid expansion bill stalled in the Legislature last year. The rewritten proposal makes use of private insurance, cost-sharing and wellness incentives.

Committee members voted 5-1 to advance the bill. Sen. Dan Watermeier of Syracuse voted against it, and Sen. Bob Krist of Omaha did not register a vote.

Gov. Dave Heineman and a group of conservative state senators say they’re still opposed to expanded Medicaid.

(AP) — The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission recently placed tracking collars on 11 elk in north-central Nebraska to better determine the population and to track the animals.

The state hired a helicopter animal capture crew to tranquilize and place GPS tracking collars and ear tags on the animals.

A bull, two cows and a female calf were collared near the Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge on Friday. Later that day, a bull and six cows near Bassett were tagged and collared.

At Fort Niobrara, biologists are using the data to determine if there are enough elk in the area to warrant hunting on the refuge.

Six elk in that region received collars by the same process in 2013.

(AP) — Education groups are supporting a Nebraska lawmaker’s effort to increase the number of students eating breakfast at school.

Sen. Bill Avery of Lincoln introduced a bill that would encourage schools to create alternative breakfast programs, such as grab-and-go breakfast or breakfast in the classroom through a grant program.

The bill was presented to the Education Committee on Monday. Avery says Nebraska has one of the lowest school breakfast participation rates in the country. Supporters of the bill say eating breakfast leads to better educational outcomes for students.

Norris School District Superintendent John Skretta testified in support of the bill.

Skretta says his school has seen higher participation rates at schools with grab-and-go breakfast than those with a traditional breakfast.