(Scottsbluff, Neb.)- The Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) Troop E Headquarters- Scottsbluff is reminding motorists of special enforcement efforts planned in conjunction with the Scotts Bluff County Fair in Mitchell.

The special enforcement is the second in a series of enforcement efforts conducted during summer celebrations in and around Scotts Bluff County. A July 13-14 special enforcement effort led to the arrest of eight impaired drivers

Friday & Saturday, August 3-4, Troopers in conjunction with the Scotts Bluff County Sheriff’s Office will hold a series of DUI checkpoints and high visibility patrol in and around Scotts Bluff County. A grant from the Nebraska Office of Highway Safety (NOHS) will help fund the extra enforcement.

Motorists are reminded to buckle-up, obey the posted speed limit and never drive impaired or distracted.

MINATARE, Neb. (AP) — One man is dead and another is behind bars in a rollover crash near Minatare in western Nebraska.

The 21-year-old Taylor Magdaleno, of Gering, died in the late Friday night crash. Investigators say Magdaleno had been one of six men in a pickup that went off the road and rolled several times. Magdaleno died after being thrown from the truck.

The five others were taken to a Scottsbluff hospital for various injuries. Only one remained hospitalized Saturday, but his injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.

The 21-year-old driver of the truck was arrested on suspicion of a second offense of driving drunk and motor vehicle homicide.

VALENTINE, Neb. (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration is looking into what caused a pilot to land his small plane on top of another plane at the Valentine municipal airport in north-central Nebraska.

An FAA spokeswoman based in Kansas City says no one was killed in the Friday afternoon crash, but one person suffered minor injuries.

Neither the FAA nor local officials would identify the person hurt in the crash.

Elizabeth Cory with the FAA says the federal agency is investigating.

AURORA, Neb. (AP) — Findings from an archaeological dig at Fort Robinson in northwestern Nebraska will be revealed at a meeting next month of the Nebraska Archaeological Society.

The group will hold its quarterly meeting on Aug. 4 in Aurora in central Nebraska. The meeting is open to the general public and gives people a chance to bring in arrowheads and other finds for possible identification by members of the society.

The guest speaker will be preservation archivist Kelli Bacon, who will give a presentation on an excavation earlier this summer at an adobe officers’ quarters at Fort Robinson.

Today: Partly sunny, with a high near 93. Calm wind becoming east southeast 5 to 9 mph in the afternoon.

Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 67. South southeast wind 5 to 7 mph becoming calm after midnight.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 96. Light southeast wind becoming south southeast 6 to 11 mph in the morning.

Today: Sunny, with a high near 96. Light and variable wind becoming south southeast 5 to 10 mph in the morning.

Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 66. Southeast wind 10 to 13 mph.

Saturday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 99. South wind 9 to 13 mph becoming west in the afternoon.

HOLDREDGE, Neb. (AP) — Several cases of whooping cough have been reported in central Nebraska.

Two Rivers Public Health Department in Holdrege has reported three cases in central Nebraska. So far, state health officials say, 69 cases have been confirmed this year in Nebraska.

There has been a spike in cases across the country this year, with nearly 18,000 cases so far, and health officials say this is shaping up to be the worst national epidemic in more than 50 years for the highly contagious disease.

Whooping cough, also known as pertussis  is highly contagious and is spread when infected people cough or sneeze. It starts like the common cold, but can progress into violent coughing spells and can last for weeks.

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — A convicted felon has been sent back to prison for his role in robbing a Kearney man of marijuana and money.

reports 24-year old Joshua Lewis, of Grand Island, was sentenced Wednesday in Buffalo County District Court to 15 to 25 years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and felony robbery of a Kearney man on Feb. 3.

Lewis’ co-defendant, 20-year-old Jason Warrington, of Kearney, has been convicted of being an accessory to a felony for providing Lewis the gun used in the incident.

Warrington remains at the Buffalo County Jail on a $100,000 bond. He will be sentenced in August.

In 2010 Lewis was convicted of felony assault on a police officer in Hall County and served eight months.