(AP) — Small-town public libraries have until Oct. 1 to submit applications for grants from the Kreutz Bennett Donor-Advised Fund.

The fund was established to provide support for public libraries located in communities with populations of less than 3,000.

The late Shirley Kreutz Bennett, of Lincoln, established the fund through the Nebraska Community Foundation because she wanted to help smaller communities gain better access to knowledge and information.

All grants require a certain level of matching funds and evidence that the project has broad community support. Approximately $70,000 is available each year. Grant seekers are encouraged to review the guidelines and application procedures at www.nebcommfound.org/fund/kreutzbennett.

Earlier this year, grants were approved in Albion, Ashland, Hildreth, Mitchell, Osmond, Valley, Walthill and Wausa.

(AP) — Union Pacific is reminding everyone to be careful around railroad tracks over the Labor Day holiday.

The Omaha-based railroad says it is especially important to be careful at railroad crossings during such a busy travel weekend.

UP’s director of public safety Dale Bray says motorists should always look for trains when they come to crossings.

The Federal Railroad Administration says 271 people died and 930 were injured last year in grade crossing accidents nationwide.

(AP) — The organizer of free Honor Flights to Washington, D.C., for Nebraska and western Iowa veterans of the Korean War says he’s booked a plane that he can’t yet pay for.

Bill Williams of Patriotic Productions in Omaha says he has a goal of $80,000 but has only $20,000 in donations so far.

Williams said he’s joined forces with his counterpart in southwest Iowa, who is in the same bind. The Iowa organizer also has raised just $20,000 toward his $80,000 goal.

They’ve booked the same plane for consecutive flights: Oct. 29 for the Nebraskans, Oct. 30 for the Iowans. Williams says that will save them about $20,000.

(AP) — A Kansas man has been given 20 years in a Nebraska prison for vehicular homicide in Lexington.

23-year-old Destry Swartz, of Coats, Kan., was sentenced Friday. He’d pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide while driving drunk and to flight to avoid arrest. Prosecutors dropped three other charges in exchange for Swartz’s pleas.

The Nebraska State Patrol says Swartz violated a Lexington traffic signal and raced south on U.S. Highway 283 to get away from a state trooper on Oct. 8 last year. The patrol says Swartz ran a red light and slammed into a pickup driven by 68-year-old Ruben Maravilla-Cortes, of Lexington. Maravilla-Cortes died at the scene.

(AP) — The county sheriff is more than willing to handle part of the Nebraska state prison overflow at the Lincoln County jail.

The idea of housing some state inmates in county jails arose last month as some legislators looked at ways to solve prison overcrowding without building another prison.

Lincoln County Sheriff Jerome Kramer said he would “strongly entertain” the idea. Kramer says there’s already some room available in the jail, and it was built in a way to facilitate expansion.

The jail is a moneymaker. Kramer says that in fiscal 2013, the jail made $100,000 from housing inmates from other counties.

(AP) — U.S. auto safety regulators are investigating complaints that transmission cooler lines can leak fluid in some 2013 Nissan Pathfinders and Infiniti JX models, leading to a sudden loss of transmission power.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it has received reports of problems from five owners of Pathfinders. No injuries have been reported. The probe covers an estimated 110,000 cars.

The NHTSA has begun an evaluation to assess the size and safety-related consequences of the issue. Such probes can often lead to recalls.

Emails were sent seeking comment from Nissan but they were not immediately returned.

The Nissan Pathfinder and the Infiniti JX are both sport utility vehicles.

(AP) — Authorities spent hours searching for a Lexington man in Johnson Lake before discovering his body Saturday morning.

The search for 29-year-old Gilberto David Salcedo began Friday evening, but it had to be suspended that night because of severe weather.

Salcedo was found in a 9-foot-deep swimming area at 8:30 Saturday morning.

Officials from Gosper and Dawson counties assisted the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission in the search.