LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska State Treasurer Don Stenberg has formally asked for an audit of a state finance organization that he alleges is trying to hide information from the public.

Stenberg sent a letter to State Auditor Charlie Janssen on Friday, arguing that the Nebraska Investment Finance Authority has denied him information that should be posted on the state’s spending transparency website.

Tim Kenny, the authority’s executive director, says the organization has offered to provide a web link to its financial data but cannot place information on a server it doesn’t control. Kenny says doing so would violate the organization’s cyber risk insurance policy.

Kenny says Stenberg’s allegations are false and misleading.

The Nebraska Investment Finance Authority provides financing for certain first-time homebuyers, farmers and ranchers, among other duties.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Officials say people who use Omaha’s airport soon can fly nonstop to Miami.

Eppley Airfield officials say the daily American Airlines flights will begin July 5. Miami will be the 27th destination travelers can reach by nonstop flights from Omaha.

American plans to use 76-passenger jet aircraft for the Miami flights.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s corrections department is shuffling its administrative staff after a prison warden was summoned for a deployment with the Army National Guard.

Nebraska State Penitentiary Warden Rich Cruickshank will go on a one-year deployment. Corrections Director Scott Frakes announced Friday that Robert Madsen, the warden of the Community Corrections Center — Lincoln, will take over Cruickshank’s position.

Charles West, the warden at the Community Corrections Center — Omaha, has been appointed warden of the Community Corrections Center — Omaha.

Ryan Mahr, the warden of the Nebraska Correctional Youth Facility, will continue to serve as warden of that facility but will also become warden of Omaha’s community corrections center.

Last year, 60 employees with the Department of Correctional Services were active National Guard members.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers are once again looking at a bill that would prevent the state from splitting its electoral votes, as it did for Democrat Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential race.

Sen. John Murante of Gretna argued to a legislative committee Thursday that his proposal would allow the state to speak with one voice in presidential elections.

The bill is backed by the Nebraska Republican Party and GOP elected leaders. Opponents say it reduces the incentive for Omaha-area voters to participate in elections in the overwhelmingly rural, conservative state.

Nebraska and Maine are the only states where it’s possible to divide electoral votes between opposing presidential candidates in a general election. Nebraska did so for the first time with Obama, who won the 2nd congressional district in 2008.

Two North Platte men are facing felony charges after an altercation at a party involving minors and alcohol.

At around 1:00 a.m., on March 4, deputies with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office responded to the emergency room at Great Plains Health where a man was being treated for injuries allegedly sustained in an assault.

Deputies met with the man who stated that he had been assaulted by “a bunch of people” while he was at a party on Platte Valley Road.  He reported that the suspects used stereo equipment and furniture to assault him.

Authorities investigated further and learned that the party was located at 8461 West Platte Valley Road, just west of North Platte. However, when deputies arrived, the party was over.

Following further investigation, deputies learned that the alleged victim, 20-year-old Terrence Alexander, was instead a suspect in the altercation.

On March 9, Alexander was arrested and charged with terroristic threats and use of a weapon to commit a felony, both felonies, and disturbing the peace.  Chief Deputy Roland Kramer said witnesses reported seeing Alexander display a large caliber semi-automatic pistol just prior to the altercation.

Also arrested was 19-year-old Jobie Loving.  Kramer says investigators determined that Loving was also involved in the altercation. He’s been charged with first-degree assault, a felony, and disturbing the peace.

Both men were jailed at the Lincoln County Detention Center.

The investigation is ongoing.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers are moving forward with a new effort to try to fix problems in a tiny village that sells millions of cans each year next to a South Dakota Indian reservation.

Senators gave first-round approval Thursday to a bill that would create a legislative task force to examine the public health problems in Whiteclay, a town blamed for fueling alcoholism on the neighboring Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Whiteclay’s four beer stores sold the equivalent of 3.5 million cans of beer in 2015, despite having only about a dozen residents.

Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks of Lincoln says she introduced the bill because the problem has festered for too long. Pansing Brooks worked with Sen. Tom Brewer of Gordon, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe whose district includes Whiteclay.