LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska regulators have decided to require stores to complete long-form applications for liquor licenses if they want to continue selling millions of cans of beer to residents of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

The Nebraska Liquor Control Commission voted Tuesday to impose the more arduous requirement on the four beer stores in Whiteclay, which sits across the state line from the reservation in South Dakota. The reservation is plagued by poverty, alcoholism and high rates of fetal alcohol syndrome.

Nebraska Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks says the long-form process will require all parties to demonstrate the adequacy of law enforcement in Whiteclay. Nebraska requires adequate law enforcement near establishments that sell alcohol.

Officials have said the county doesn’t have sufficient resources to police Whiteclay.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court is scheduled to consider approving a rule change that would allow cameras in courtrooms across the state.

Judges in seven of 12 judicial districts have already allowed expanded media coverage in their courtrooms.

Justice Jeff Funke says judges and attorneys have been working on the issue since May 2015.

Funke says a March 1 start date will give time to address comments sent to the clerk of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals by Nov. 15.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An unseasonably warm week has aided farmers in getting crops out of fields in Iowa and Nebraska although both states remain slightly behind the five-year average.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday in its weekly crop update that in Iowa 71 percent of corn is harvested, about two days behind the average. The soybean crop is 89 percent harvested, about five days behind average.

Farmers in southwest and south central Iowa still have a third or more of their soybeans to harvest.

Nebraska experienced a week with temperatures averaging nine degrees above normal helping to get 91 percent of the soybean crop in, near the 96 percent five-year average.

Corn farmers in Nebraska are 69 percent harvested which is near the 70 percent five-year average.

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — A December sentencing hearing is scheduled for an 18-year-old accused of assaulting an employee at the state Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center in Kearney.

Court records say Marco Pena pleaded no contest to felony assault and two counts of misdemeanor assault after prosecutors agreed to not file eight more assault-related counts. His sentencing is set for Dec. 6 in Buffalo County District Court.

Officials say that on Aug. 24 Pena was given a broom to sweep his room. He soon menaced staffers with it and then broke it into pieces. Staffers forced their way back into Pena’s room and gained control of him after a melee. One of the staffers suffered a rib wound that required treatment at a hospital.

LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say an Omaha woman has died after a collision on Interstate 80 in central Nebraska.

The collision occurred late Saturday afternoon at the Lexington interchange in Dawson County. The Nebraska State Patrol says a westbound car ran off the roadway, across the median and into an eastbound vehicle.

The dead woman was a passenger in the car. The patrol identified her as 19-year-old Lexa Douglas.

The patrol says five other people in the two vehicles were hospitalized.

The crash is being investigated.