(AP) — The Kearney City Council is considering a proposal to contribute $100,000 to help market the city’s new veterans home.

The Council will meet Tuesday to discuss the proposal, which would give the money to the Kearney Area Chamber of Commerce to help the city market the new Central Nebraska Veterans Home.

The resolution would allow the chamber to help the city with services and initiatives to assist veterans and others with relocating from the Grand Island area to Kearney.

Kearney beat out Grand Island, Hastings and North Platte to become the new home of the veterans home. Grand Island, where the veterans home is currently located, has vowed to fight the move.

Two North Platte woman have been charged after they got stuck while driving through a farmer’s soybean field.

At around 12:05 p.m. on August 25th, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputies received a report of a vehicle trespassing in the Bignell Hill area.  A local farmer advised there was a car stuck in his soybean field.  When the farmer offered assistance, he said the two female occupants were very rude to him.

Deputies responded to location and met with 28-year-old Emily Werts and 50-year-old Amy Norrie.

Deputies say prior to getting stuck, the vehicle caused and estimated $300 damage to the soybean field.  Both Norrie and Werts were cited by the responding Deputy for Criminal Mischief and Trespassing.

Additionally, Werts had a local warrant and was transported to the Lincoln County Detention Center.

The vehicle was towed and impounded.

Deputies say alcohol was a factor.

Students throughout the Midwest are getting out of school early this week because of sweltering temperatures and a lack of air conditioning in some classrooms.

Schools in Nebraska, Iowa, the Dakotas and Illinois planned to release children in the early afternoon, before temperatures reached expected highs — nearly 100 degrees in much of the central United States.

School administrators in several states said they were letting school out early because of safety concerns for students and teachers. Many schools have air conditioning systems that don’t extend throughout the entire building.

The National Weather Service says a prolonged heat wave of this magnitude is unusual for this time of year, but not unprecedented.

At this point, North Platte Public Schools have not announced any plans for early dismissals.

A Sutherland man has been charged with child abuse after he allegedly handed his teenage daughter a shotgun and told her to use it to kill herself.

Shortly after midnight on August 25th, Deputies with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a female juvenile wanting to harm herself in Sutherland.  Deputies responded to a residence in Sutherland and made contact with the juvenile, her parents and several other witnesses.

Deputies spoke with the juvenile who told them she had been to the Hershey Teen Dance and met a boy.

When she arrived home, she told her father, 42-year-old Shane Halcott about the boy.  Deputies say Halcott began to berate the juvenile and told her she was not allowed to date any boys.

The juvenile became distressed and an argument began.  Authorities say at one point, the juvenile commented that she wanted to hurt herself.

The juvenile and other witnesses reported that, at this time, Halcott retrieved a pump shotgun, loaded it and tried to hand it to the girl.  Halcott allegedly told her to use the gun to kill herself on several occasions.

Deputies then interviewed Halcott who did not deny the allegations.

As a result, Halcott was placed under arrest and charged with Felony Child Abuse.  He was incarcerated at the Lincoln County Detention Center.

Deputies say the investigation is ongoing.