News of the day from across the nation, Nov. 10

[...] that Nebraska voters have restored the death penalty, Gov. Pete Ricketts says he plans to meet with the attorney general to discuss how to resume executions.

Ricketts said Wednesday that it’s too early to know exactly how the state will acquire the lethal injection drugs it lacks or whether Nebraska will change its protocol.

3 Murder-for-hire: A Virginia grandmother will serve 12 years in state prison for putting a hit on relatives after losing custody of her grandson.

Authorities said Kelly lost custody of her grandson last fall and attempted to arrange the killing of his maternal grandparents and their two adult children.

Ohio researchers studying more than 100 pregnant women found that when a mom-to-bes water breaks too early, the culprit seems to be abnormal calcium deposits that make the normally elastic amniotic sac prone to rupture.

5 Police kill suspect: A man suspected of killing an Arizona police officer was fatally shot by officers who had surrounded a cabin where he was holed up, authorities said.

Erickson was a convicted felon who has served two prison sentences in Arizona — a four-year term for a drug conviction in 2009 and five months for an endangerment conviction in 2007.