DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Senators from Nebraska and Iowa have re-introduced a bill requiring immigration officials to hold in custody anyone who has entered the country illegally and charged with a crime resulting in injury or death of another person.

Sens. Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Deb Fisher and Ben Sasse of Nebraska introduced Sarah’s Law in June but it failed to advance.

The law is named after 21-year-old Sarah Root, of Council Bluffs, who died after the SUV she was driving was struck in Omaha by a pickup driven by Eswin Mejia (meh-HEE’-uh) in early February. Prosecutors say he was in the United States illegally and driving drunk.

He’s charged with motor vehicle homicide. Immigration officials declined to keep him in custody. He bonded out of jail and fled.

The bill was introduced again Thursday.

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (AP) — At three January meetings, several Nebraska ranchers and farmers will discuss their experiences in transferring property to the next generations of their families.

The Sandhills Task Force and other organizations are sponsoring the meetings, at which an estate planner will share some advice.

The meetings will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. local time on the following dates: Monday at the Panhandle Research Extension Center in Scottsbluff; Jan. 23 at the West Central Research Extension Center in North Platte; and Jan. 30 at the Peppermill Restaurant in Valentine.

The registration fee is $15 and covers lunch. Walk-ins are welcome, but registrations are requested a week in advance. People can register by contacting Shelly Kelly at [email protected] or by calling or texting her at 308-214-0065.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Lottery recently distributed nearly $10 million to education and environmental causes in the state.

The $9,898,760 distributed at the end of last year came from sales of lottery tickets during the last three months of 2016.

Most of the money from lottery games in Nebraska is split between an education fund and an environmental trust fund. Each of those received $4.4 million.

The Nebraska State Fair received about $990,000, and programs to help compulsive gamblers received nearly $100,000.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A trial is scheduled to begin April 19 for a former Shelton school superintendent accused of attacking his wife.

A Hall County district judge set the date Thursday for 46-year-old Brian Redinger. He’s pleaded not guilty to charges of terroristic threats, strangulation, domestic assault and criminal attempt at assault.

Sheriff’s investigators say that on April 10, Redinger attacked his wife, hitting her head on a car dashboard and later driving at her before she escaped to safety at a Hall County truck stop.

He resigned his position as superintendent of Shelton Public Schools some weeks after his arrest.

• Travis Lynn Theiler, 33, Paxton NE and Elizabeth Ann McCrone, 34, North Platte

• Joshua David Smith, 32, Hershey and Lauressa Marene Swedberg, 33, Hershey

• Juan Carlos Martinez, 38, Ogallala NE and Amanda Lynn Clouse, 34, Ogallala NE

• Jeremy Jay Meyer, 28, Elsie NE and Cari Sue Sorensen, 39, Elsie NE

LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) — A Lexington resident has been accused of killing a man whose remains were found last month near a farmhouse north of the Dawson County community.

Online court records say 40-year-old Jose Regalado-Mendez is charged with first-degree murder and use of a firearm. The records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for him. He’s being held without bail.

The records say the remains of 37-year-old Jose Hernandez were found Dec. 12. Investigators say in a court document that they think Regalado-Mendez shot Hernandez in early October. The document doesn’t include information about possible motives.

Regalado-Mendez’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for Jan. 26.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has refused to overturn the conviction of a man found guilty of fatally beating his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter in 2008.

Dustin Chauncey was convicted in February 2015 of child abuse resulting in the death of Juliette Geurts.

Chauncey and Juliette’s mother, Charyse Geurts, were living together when the girl was found dead in her crib. Autopsy results revealed she died from internal organ damage caused by blunt force trauma.

Chauncey said in his appeal that there wasn’t enough probable cause for a grand jury to indict him and that a prosecutor’s trial statements regarding DNA testing should have merited the mistrial Chauncey’s lawyer requested then.

The court rejected both points in the ruling it released Friday.

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (AP) — A 64-year-old Scottsbluff man has been arrested in connection with the death of a woman whose body was found in an apartment earlier this week.

Lucio P. Munoz was arrested Wednesday in Bradley, Illinois, after he was charged on suspicion of first-degree murder in an arrest warrant.

The body of 48-year-old Melissa May was found Tuesday morning after officers went to check on her welfare.

Authorities say they believe Munoz used a knife to kill May on Dec. 30.

Munoz is being held in lieu of $2 million bond.