(AP) — An Ohio boy with brain cancer has died two weeks after he came home for an early Christmas given to him by residents who put up decorations and sang carols.

A family friend in Port Clinton says 13-year-old Devin Kohlman died Monday afternoon.

Doctors had told Devin’s family that he didn’t have long to live, so the city along Lake Erie spent the last few weeks trying to fulfill his wish of being home for his favorite holiday.

The city put up a Christmas tree within view of the family’s apartment and tons of shaved ice shaped drifting snow outside his window. Santa even showed up on a motorcycle.

Family and friends gathered for a vigil Monday night after his death while an early-season snow fell over the city.

(AP) — The University of Nebraska-Lincoln wants middle school students to get excited about science, technology, engineering and math.

The school’s engineering school will host three days of a workshop beginning Tuesday that will teach students about certain mechanical, electrical and biological engineering techniques.

Discover Engineering Days will feature UNL engineering students and faculty leading interactive sessions aimed at problem-solving. Several middle schools are expected to participate each day.

Officials say the event will introduce kids to fields that help solve the world’s problems and provide lucrative careers.

A traffic stop for speeding on Interstate 80 in Seward County, led to one arrest and the seizure of more than 83 pounds of marijuana.

Around 10:00 a.m., on Sunday, November 10, a trooper stopped an eastbound 2012 Buick for speeding on eastbound I-80 near the Crete exit. An NSP canine indicated the odor of drugs coming from the car. A search of the vehicle led to the seizure of 83.3 lbs. of marijuana. The marijuana was contained in two duffel bags and several loose packages in the trunk of the vehicle.

The driver and lone occupant, Kris A. Robertson, 55, of Camas, Wash., was lodged in the Seward County Jail on a charge of possession of marijuana with intent to deliver.

(AP) — A 28-year-old man sought in an Omaha assault case has been arrested after a two-state chase.

Omaha police say Allen Williams was spotted late Saturday night in a pickup that soon halted after officers deployed stop strips that flattened the truck tires. But police say Williams then threatened a woman at a gas station nearby, stole her car and then took off on a chase that coursed across the Missouri River into Iowa and then back again.

Police say Williams was arrested after the car plowed through some backyards in western Omaha. Police say an officer fired his gun but didn’t hit anyone.

Williams faces robbery, drug, assault and other charges. Online court records don’t include the name of his lawyer in this case. He’s previously served prison time.

(AP) — The nation’s newest state would be about the size of Vermont but with the population of a small town spread across miles of farmland if eastern Colorado residents had their way. There wouldn’t be civil unions for gay couples, new renewable energy standards, or limits on ammunition magazines.

After all, those were some of the reasons five counties on the state’s Eastern Plains voted on Election Day to approve the creation of a 51st state.

Secession supporters know the votes were symbolic. But they say the votes emphasize a growing frustration in conservative prairie towns with the more populous and liberal urban Front Range.

More than 80 percent of Colorado’s 5 million residents live on the Front Range, and that has helped solidify the Democrats’ power in the Colorado Legislature.

(AP) — Authorities in southeast Nebraska have identified the body of a man found on a bank of the Missouri River.

The Nemaha County Sheriff’s Office says the body was that of 43-year-old Mark Miller, of Omaha. People fishing by the river north of Peru found the body Oct. 27.

Miller was presumed missing Oct. 2 after a boat he’d borrowed was found unoccupied floating down the river. Miller had been camping near the river in Fremont County, Iowa.

A crime is not suspected.

(AP) — A soldier who was wounded in combat and his family received a mortgage-free home to mark Veterans Day on Monday.

The home was presented to Kyle and Brittany Foster at halftime of Monday’s Creighton University basketball game.

Kyle Foster joined the Army in 2010. After he finished his training, he was deployed to Afghanistan where he was wounded.

Once Foster returned home to the Omaha area, he married Brittany, and the couple had a daughter.

The cost of the mortgage is being covered by Chevrolet, the Military Warriors Support Foundation and Chase Bank.

(AP) — Police have begun investigating the stabbing of a Lincoln man who showed up at a hospital.

The man had several stab wounds and was rushed into surgery early Monday morning. Police say the wounds are life-threatening.

The man’s name hasn’t been released. No arrests have been reported.

(AP) — Firefighters from at least three departments have battled a house fire in eastern Nebraska.

The fire was reported about 6 p.m. Sunday. It was at a house that sits a few miles southeast of Cedar Bluffs in Saunders County, near U.S. Highway 77.

No injuries have been reported.