PLEASANTON, Neb. (AP) — One person is dead and another was injured in a highway crash in central Nebraska.

Authorities say 66-year-old Nancy Jackson of Ravenna was killed in the crash around 6:15 p.m. Thursday north of Pleasanton. James Psota, a 55-year-old man from Ord, was injured.

The crash occurred at the intersection of Highway 10 and 340th Road in Buffalo County. Authorities say Jackson was driving westbound on 340th Road in a 2007 Mazda sports utility vehicle. Psota was driving a 2013 Dodge Ram pickup northbound on Highway 10 when the vehicles collided in the intersection. No passengers were in either vehicle.

Authorities closed the intersection for four hours to investigate the crash. The Buffalo County attorney has ordered an autopsy for Jackson.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska activists are urging state officials to summon back the law enforcement officers who were sent to North Dakota to help respond to anti-pipeline protests.

Bold Nebraska organizers and activist Joseph Hams are planning to deliver 29,000 petition signatures to the governor’s residence on Monday. Protesters have gathered near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, to try to block construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Nebraska State Patrol troopers were sent at North Dakota’s request under a 50-state compact that allows states to support each other in an emergency.

Thirteen Nebraska State Patrol employees returned to the state from North Dakota earlier this month, but more were sent at North Dakota’s request. North Dakota is covering their costs.

The petition is directed at Gov. Pete Ricketts.

LOUP CITY, Neb. (AP) — A former Loup City teacher accused of placing spy cameras in a girls locker room been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.

The Nebraska Attorney General’s says in a news release that 25-year-old Anthony Rahe was sentenced Friday to seven to 15 years for a series of convictions. Rahe was found guilty in September of felony manufacture of visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct. A month earlier, he pleaded no contest to an identical charge and two intrusion counts.

Prosecutors say Rahe on several occasions placed motion-activated cameras in the high school girl’s locker room. He then took the cameras home and uploaded the images to his stored files on a cloud drive.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A new report says Nebraska’s unemployment rate inched up a tenth of a point to 3.3 percent in October.

The Nebraska Department of Labor said Friday that the preliminary rate was well below the preliminary national rate of 4.9 percent. The national rate dropped one-tenth of a point, to 4.9 percent.

The U.S. Labor Department says New Hampshire and South Dakota had the nation’s lowest unemployment rates, with each at 2.8 percent. North Dakota’s rate unemployment rate was 3 percent, and Hawaii and Utah were tied at 3.2 percent. Nebraska, Massachusetts, and Vermont were tied at 3.3 percent. A year ago, Nebraska’s rate was 3 percent.

Nebraska Labor Commissioner John Albin says his state’s rate appears to be due to people re-entering the labor market to look for work.