GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) – As the second Nebraska State Fair at its Fonner Park location in Grand Island was winding down, officials were looking ahead at solving problems for next year. Atop the list was transportation and parking. With nice weather abounding and a Willie Nelson concert on the schedule, fairgoers soon filled overflow lots on Sunday. State Fair Board chairperson Jana Kruger says the JBS Swift Plant let fairgoers use shuttles from its big parking lot. But fairgoers complained about waiting lines for shuttles and about the lines at the fair entry gates. Kruger says the crush of people was a great problem to have. But Kruger also says the parking and transportation problems will be worked on so they won’t recur next year. The fair run ended on Monday.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) – A 40- year-old man has been arrested in Hall County, accused of stealing grave vases and copper markers from the graves of veterans. The Grand Island Independent reports that Omer Butler faces felony and misdemeanor charges for the thefts last month. Butler has also been charged with obstructing a police officer for an incident in July and two counts of trespassing for incidents in June Court records don’t list a home address for Butler but say he has a Georgia driver’s license. Butler remained in Hall County custody on Monday. His attorney didn’t return a call from The Associated Press. Hall County Sheriff’s Capt. Jim Castleberry told The Independent that deputies can’t determine where the markers came from because the markers list only the wars the veterans served in.

SEWARD, Neb. (AP) – A federal investigator doesn’t expect a quick answer to the question facing him: What caused the fatal plane crash near Seward airport in southeastern Nebraska? The crash of the Christen Eagle II biplane into a cornfield Sunday morning killed 58-year-old Jeff Clausen, of Lincoln, and 56-year-old Mark Pearson, of Plymouth. At a news conference Monday, National Transportation Safety Board investigator Tim LeBaron said he’d spent much of Labor Day the crash site near Seward Municipal Airport. LeBaron says he expects to have some information available in about a week, but his full investigation could take six months. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that Pearson had just bought the plane and was flying it under the instruction of Clausen, who was director of operations for Lincoln’s Silverhawk Aviation.