LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Four finalists have been selected after a national search for a new chancellor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

University of Nebraska President Hank Bounds announced Tuesday that the four will visit Lincoln over a two-week period, beginning Monday.

The four are Sabah Randhawa who is provost and executive vice president at Oregon State University; April Mason, who is provost and senior vice president at Kansas State University; Daniel Reed, who is vice president for research and economic development at the University of Iowa; and Ronnie Green, who is vice president for agriculture and natural resources for the University of Nebraska system.

Bounds will choose one of the four to replace Chancellor Harvey Perlman, who plans to leave the office on June 30 and return to the law school.

CLAY CENTER, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas mother has died just more than a week after delivering triplets.

KWCH-TV  reports that Casi Rott of Clay Center delivered the babies Jan. 29 at a Wichita hospital. She had spent the proceeding three months in Wichita away from her husband and 6- and 2-year-old daughters.

She was treated for a blood clot in her lungs before returning home. Her husband, Joey Rott, says that upon her return, she snuggled with her two older daughters for about five minutes before she began having health issues. She died on Feb. 8.

Joey Rott says that he had never “met a soul as kind as she was.”

Friend Kelsey Wuthrich says she “loved her kids more than anything.”

An online fundraising effort is underway to help the family.

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is recalling about 200,000 Saab and Saturn cars in the U.S. and Canada to replace the Takata driver’s air bag inflators.

The move is part of a broader recall of over 5 million vehicles announced last month by U.S. safety regulators.

Takata inflators can explode with too much force in a crash and hurl metal shrapnel into drivers and passengers. At least 10 people have died worldwide and 139 have been hurt due to the problem.

The GM recall includes the Saab 9-3 from 2003 to 2011 and the Saab 9-5 from 2010 and 2011. Also included is the Saturn Astra from 2008 and 2009.

Dealers will replace the inflators. Owners will get letters notifying them of the recalls and another letter when parts are available.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Health officials say about 50 University of Kansas students have been screened for tuberculosis after a case was confirmed.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the student with the confirmed case has started therapy. Watkins Health Services director and chief of staff Douglas Dechairo says the student will remain quarantined until he tests free of the disease.

Dechairo says the student contracted the disease in his home country, outside of the United States. The student lives alone off campus.

Dechairo says none of the students who potentially were exposed have developed symptoms. Those students will be screened again in eight weeks.

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that attacks the lungs and can be fatal if not treated with antibiotics. It is generally spread by coughing and sneezing.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — An animal rights group has sued to stop zoos in Kansas, Nebraska and Texas from bringing in new elephants from Africa.

The Wichita Eagle reports that the Friends of Animals filed a lawsuit last week in federal court against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Last month, the agency issued permits allowing the importation of 18 African elephants from Swaziland. The elephants would be divided among the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas, the Dallas Zoo in Texas and the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in Omaha, Nebraska.

The three zoos agreed to spend $450,000 over several years on black rhino conservation.

The environmental lawsuit argues the service did not take into account how the transfer would negatively hurt the social, mental and physical well-being of the 18 elephants.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Court of Appeals says Lansing Correctional Facility officials acted properly when they punished Scott Roeder for making a threat against a woman who reopened a Wichita abortion clinic.

Roeder is serving a life sentence for killing abortion provider George Tiller on May 31, 2009, while Tiller was serving as an usher at a Wichita church.

Roeder suggested during an interview in April 2013 with an anti-abortion activist that Julie Burkhart had a target on her back for reopening Tiller’s clinic.

The Wichita Eagle reports Roeder was given 45 days in solitary confinement, 60 days of restricted privileges and a $20 fine after the interview was aired on YouTube.

Prison records show Roeder has been disciplined 22 times by prison officials since 2011 for a variety of offenses

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A man has died after being shot in what Topeka police believe to be a drive-by shooting.

Topeka police Lt. Bryan Wheeles said that 25-year-old Deljuan Patton was shot early Sunday morning and transported to a hospital by a private vehicle. Police responded to the hospital, where Patton later died.

According to Wheeles, preliminary information indicates that Patton was struck during a drive-by shooting as he was seated in a vehicle.

An investigation is ongoing.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 53-year-old man has been arrested after Wichita police say he stabbed his 32-year-old son and threatened his 11-year-old grandson with a knife.

Wichita Police Department Sgt. Steve Yarberry said that the incident happened shortly before 9:40 p.m. Saturday. Police say someone called 911 and reported that the suspect stabbed his son with a pocketknife after a verbal and physical altercation.

Yarberry said that the son was stabbed in the abdomen and was transported to a hospital in critical condition. The grandson was not injured in the incident.

The 53-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of aggravated battery, domestic violence and aggravated assault.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislative negotiators have agreed on the details of a plan for balancing the state’s next budget.

The plan drafted Monday by three senators and three House members would eliminate a deficit of nearly $200 million in the state’s $16.1 billion budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1. It would do so mostly by juggling funds.

But the plan does not add extra money for public schools to respond to a Kansas Supreme Court decision striking down an education funding law.

The court said last week that poor school districts have been shorted by a 2015 law that distributes more than $4 billion in aid a year to the state’s 286 local districts.

Both chambers must approve the agreement for the plan to go to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Secretary of Corrections would be able to sell prison-made goods to more entities under two bills before a House committee.

Both of the measures would allow the secretary to sell products to any person or organization in Kansas. One would allow a vocational building program to manufacture housing units for sale or donation to the public.

Corrections Secretary Johnnie Goddard told the House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development on Monday that the program would reduce the recidivism rate from 35 percent to 18 percent.

Proponents from Ellsworth say the program also would address the shortage in rural housing. A representative of the Kansas Manufactured Housing Association argued that the measures would create unfair competition.

The Department of Corrections would pay inmates up to $1.05 a day.

LOS ANGELES – A Kansas State University professor won a Grammy award on Monday night for his solo performance on an album with the Kansas City Chorale

Bryan Pinkall, assistant professor of music, and the Kansas City Chorale won in the categories of Best Choral Performance for the album “Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil.”  He is a 2003 graduate of Great Bend High School

We won!!! pic.twitter.com/z7WcWjW59y

— Bryan Pinkall (@pinkall) February 15, 2016

 

The album was released last March and debuted at No. 1 on the Classical and Traditional Classical Billboard charts.

pic.twitter.com/j4SMdHGVCQ — Bryan Pinkall (@pinkall) February 16, 2016

SALINA- Law enforcement authorities in Saline County are investigating an attempted robbery.

Just after 1:30a.m. on Sunday, Police were called to the 100 block of East Prescott after a report of a robbery in progress.

When they arrived, officers found Danny Barnhouse, 44, had tried to rob two men by pointing what appeared to be an assault rifle at them, according to police.

The victims were able to wrestle the toy airsoft gun and a knife from Barnhouse and hit him in the face several times.

Barnhouse was booked into the Saline County Jail on requested charges of attempted aggravated robbery, attempted aggravated burglary, and aggravated assault.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Bill Snead, an award-winning news photographer from Kansas whose career included covering wars and national political conventions, has died. He was 78. You can see some of his amazing work here.

Snead’s wife, Dona  Snead, said Monday that Snead died at his Lawrence home Sunday after struggling for several months with advanced lung cancer.

Snead spent 21 years with The Washington Post, including as a staff photographer and assistant managing editor for graphics.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports Snead also served as picture editor for National Geographic and bureau manager for United Press International in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Snead was later a senior editor at The Lawrence Journal-World until 2007.

He won the newspaper photographer of the year award from the White House News Photographers Association in the early 1990s.