LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Voters will have an opportunity Tuesday to reverse an action taken by the Legislature and reinstate Nebraska’s death penalty, but moving forward with executions could take years.

Nebraska’s last execution was in 1997, using the electric chair, and the state has never carried one out using its current three-drug lethal injection protocol. Even though several executions have been scheduled, legal and logistical problems have kept the state from using lethal injection before the necessary drugs expired.

Death penalty opponents say the state will never execute another inmate without shrouding its process in secrecy. Supporters say a strong showing of support from voters will increase pressure on public officials to find a workable solution.

CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average price of gasoline in the U.S. inched up about a penny over the past two weeks to $2.26 for regular grade.

Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg said Sunday that the price rise came despite a dramatic drop in crude oil prices.

Lundberg says refiners and retailers kept the margins from oil price cuts to recover from previous losses. She also says a big gasoline tax hike in New Jersey helped push up the national average.

The Lundberg Survey found the average price of midgrade gasoline remained at $2.54 a gallon while premium rose a cent to $2.76.

The highest average price for regular gas in the contiguous U.S. was $2.83 in Los Angeles. The lowest was $1.84 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The average price for diesel was $2.46.

KIMBALL, Neb. (AP) — Conservation officers in western Nebraska are looking for those responsible for illegally killing several pronghorns and leaving their carcasses to rot.

Officials said the remains of four buck pronghorns — three without heads — were found Oct. 17 on private land south of Kimball. Officer Scott Brandt says that since then, three or four more pronghorn remains have been found in southwestern Nebraska.

In north-central Nebraska case, officers are looking for the person who killed a cow elk on Oct. 14 or Oct. 15 and left to rot near a road northeast of Valentine.

Rewards of up to $1,000 are being offered for information leading to conviction of people responsible for the animals’ deaths. Informants can contact the Nebraska Wildlife Crimestoppers program at 800-742-7627 and may remain anonymous.

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — Landowners and fire professionals have been invited to the Prescribed Fire Conference on Dec. 2 in Kearney.

Conference organizers say they want to facilitate the discussion of challenges and successes associated with prescribed burns.

The day will include a meeting of the Nebraska Prescribed Fire Council, which was formed by landowners to provide education and training for prescribed burns.

The conference is scheduled to run from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Conference Center. Conference fees are $25 if paid by Nov. 15 and $30 afterward. Registration for volunteer fire professionals will cost $15.

Go online at NEFireCouncil.org/Conference for more information.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A federal grant will fund internship training for 21 counselors to expand behavioral health services in underserved areas of Nebraska.

The Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska and the Munroe-Meyer Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center were recently awarded a $300,000 grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration.

The one-year grant will support stipends for 21 counseling interns from graduate counseling programs at the schools participating in the Nebraska Counseling Internship Collaborative. Those schools include Chadron State College, University of Nebraska at Kearney, University of Nebraska at Omaha, and Wayne State College.

Training will focus on child and adolescent behavioral health needs to address the gap of children-adolescent behavioral health providers in underserved areas.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraskans and Iowans are being reminded to set their clocks back an hour before going to bed Saturday.

Standard time returns this weekend at 2 a.m. Sunday.

The change means most Americans will get an extra hour of rest, but those working overnight shifts might toil an hour longer. It also means some will forget to change their clocks, and show up early for church or other events on Sunday.

Daylight time returns to Nebraska and Iowa in March.

Not everyone in the United States makes the switch from standard time. The exceptions are Hawaii, most of Arizona, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Marianas.

• Martin Leroy Bomberger, 78, North Platte and Vagene Edgington, 67, North Platte

• James Arthur Robinson, 34, North Platte and Stephanie Ann Gutherless, 33, North Platte

• Bruce Lee Fromme, 37, North Platte and Lindsey Renae Pankonin, 38, North Platte

• Randy Lee Slaba, 27, North Platte and Lisa Danyielle Dame, 28, Iowa Park TX

• Gage Michael Dike, 20, North Platte and Ashley Jo Henkel, 25, North Platte

• Charles Ronald Gill Jr, 32, North Platte and Leva Janeen Miller, 42, North Platte

• Dustin Scott Daniel, 22, North Platte and Samantha Zoe Miller, 21, North Platte

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Attorney General’s Office has issued an opinion saying the state cannot loan money to Gage County so it can pay off a $28 million civil judgment for the wrongful conviction of six people for a 1985 murder.

The attorney general said Friday that because the damages were awarded under federal law, the Nebraska State Treasurer could not loan the county money.

State Treasurer Don Stenberg had sought the legal opinion in the case of the so-called Beatrice Six. The six sued Gage County for violating their civil rights. Together, they spent a combined 77 years in prison in the rape and killing of Helen Wilson before they were exonerated by DNA evidence.

A jury awarded $28.1 million, plus attorneys’ fees, to the six people in July.

LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) — A man who was 17 when he killed a Gothenburg police officer more than 26 years ago has been resentenced.

Forty-three-year-old Eric McCain was given 80 to 99 years in prison at a hearing Thursday in Dawson County District Court in Lexington. He’d been sentenced to life for killing Sgt. Glenn Haas in the Gothenburg Police Department building on July 2, 1990.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that people who committed murder before turning 18 could not automatically receive life sentences without the possibility of parole. The Nebraska Legislature subsequently passed a measure that instead allowed a minimum of 40 years and a maximum of life, with the possibility of parole.