RAVENNA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska community has developed 125 lakeside campsites for people journeying to see the total eclipse of the sun next month.

75 recreational vehicle sites and 50 for tent campers have been set up near Ravenna (ruh-VEH’-nuh). The city sits about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Kearney in central Nebraska, along the forecast path of the Aug. 21 total eclipse.

Officials say state campsites have been booked up, and other Nebraska accommodations along the path are hard to find.

The Ravenna Economic Development Corp. is advertising Eclipse Camping at Buffalo County Lake east of Ravenna. Each site must be reserved for all four days of the town’s eclipse celebration, Aug. 18-22. RV sites cost $300 for that span; tent sites are $100.

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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A former security supervisor for the Nebraska Health and Human Services Department has been given five years in prison for possessing child pornography.

The sentence was handed down Friday in U.S. District Court in Lincoln to Brian Farrar, of Kearney. He’d pleaded guilty.

Federal officials say a tip in late 2015 to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children indicated Farrar had uploaded 50 child porn images to his email account. Prosecutors say a search of Farrar’s Kearney home turned up child porn on Farrar’s desktop computer.

A Health and Human Services Department spokeswoman has said Farrar was a security supervisor at the Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center in Kearney and that’d he worked for the department from June 1996 through September last year.

KIMBALL, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a woman has been killed while running along a roadway in western Nebraska.

The incident occurred around 9:40 a.m. Saturday, about a half-mile (1 kilometer) west of Kimball.

Authorities say 33-year-old Erin Aerni was running west on the north shoulder of U.S. Highway 30 when she was struck by a westbound vehicle driven by 62-year-old Caroljo Nagel.

The accident is being investigated.

Aerni lived in Kimball.

INDIANOLA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a southwest Nebraska crash has killed a driver and injured his passenger.

The accident occurred around 1:45 a.m. Sunday about 3 miles (5 kilometers) northeast of Indianola in Red Willow County. The Nebraska State Patrol says a southbound pickup went out of control on a gravel road and rolled into a ditch.

The patrol identified the driver as 23-year-old Aaron Jones, who lived in Cambridge. His passenger, 19-year-old Holly Myers, of Horace, Kansas, was taken to a McCook hospital and then flown to a Kearney hospital.

The crash is being investigated.

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — A 50-year-old Kearney woman accused of child abuse has been given a year of probation.

Online court records say Rebacca Hofaker-Zeller pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor assault charge. In addition to the probation, she also was sentenced last month to a day in jail already served.

A court document says a Buffalo County sheriff’s deputy arrested Hofaker-Zeller in December after day care workers discovered bruises and red marks on the face of one of her daughters. The girl and two sisters told social workers about being struck with an open hand and spanked with a belt.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska attorney general’s office is warning the public about a Florida-based company that officials say is running an insurance scam.

The attorney general’s office said in a news release Monday that it received notice this morning that scam artists are posing as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska. Officials say the scam artists are using fake Google and Manta listings bearing Blue Cross’s logo and web address, along with bogus physical addresses in Omaha.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield investigators believe the scam is connected to a group called Simple Health out of Hollywood, Florida. They say the scam artists collect personal information and offer insurance plans well below market value. Customers have reported that the company charges their credit card monthly but never provides insurance cards.

CHADRON, Neb. (AP) — A Chadron man has won the men’s 18-and-older title at the World Championship Buffalo Chip Throw contest in Chadron.

23-year-old Dylan Brant tossed a piece of dried bison dung 110 feet, 1 inch to win Saturday during the 41st annual Fur Trade Days celebration. His victory returns to men’s title to Chadron, having been lost last year to Kingi Snelgar, of Oakland, New Zealand.

Brant’s toss fell far short of the individual competition record of 186-7 set by Gary Lackey of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 2000, and the 204 feet thrown by Kail Bowman in 1990 during a since-discontinued team event.

The women’s title this year was won by 29-year old Carmen Barth, of Lincoln. Her heave went 80 feet, 10 inches.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Gov. Pete Ricketts has named a four-member committee to help him select a new Nebraska State Patrol Superintendent.

The committee unveiled Friday is comprised of Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer, who will serve as chairman; retired FBI executive Weysan Dun; former U.S. attorney Deb Gilg; and Hall County Public Defender Gerry Piccolo.

Committee members will seek and vet candidates to replace former Col. Brad Rice, who was fired last month in the midst of an internal review that found “inappropriate conduct” among the patrol’s senior staff. Six other employees were placed on paid administrative leave.

Officials have not disclosed everything from the ongoing review. It began after officers were accused of changing their story about a crash that killed a South Dakota driver during a high-speed chase.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Lottery recently distributed more than $11 million to education, environmental and other causes in the state.

The $11,236,782 distributed at the end of June covered a three-month period of sales of lottery tickets.

Most of the money from lottery games in Nebraska is split between an education fund and an environmental trust fund. Each of those received $5 million.

The Nebraska State Fair received more than $1.1 million, and programs to help compulsive gamblers received more than $122,000.

The Nebraska Lottery says more than $648.6 million has been distributed since the state lottery began operating in 1993.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska officials are working to redesign the state’s rumble strips to give highway cyclists a smoother and safer ride.

The new plan calls for regular breaks in rumble strips to help cyclists, and the design of rumble strips will be altered so they’re not the same as center line strips. The state also will add uniformity to where it puts rumble strips, giving cyclists more predictable shoulders.

State Sen. Robert Hilkemann of Omaha contacted the Department of Transportation about the issue after experiencing discomfort due to rumble strips on a biking trip in Wyoming.

The Nebraska Bicycling Alliance and Susan Larson Rodenburg, whose annual Tour de Nebraska takes hundreds of cyclists on five-day rides through the state, joined Hilkemann’s efforts to refurbish the roads.

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