GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska farmers will have a chance to visit a field with cover crops next month to learn more about the potential benefits of using them.

The free event on Aug. 11 is designed to teach farmers about the benefits of the practice.

Cover crops are planted between growing seasons to limit erosion and replenish nutrients in the soil, which can reduce the need for fertilizer.

The field day sponsored by the Natural Resources Conservation Service and University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension will be held at Mark Allen’s farm north of Lexington.

For more information, call (308) 325-1056.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska is giving away twelve $1,000 prizes to help people save for their kids’ college educations.

Students who want to enter the contest have to submit a picture of what they dream of becoming when they grow up. The pictures must be drawn on 9-by-12-inch paper and be landscape-oriented.

The entries will be judged by members of the Nebraska Art Teachers Association. The first 500 submissions received between Friday and Sept. 30 will be included.

Students in kindergarten through eighth grade are eligible to enter.

Anyone interested in entering the contest can learn more online at www.nest529.com.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska State Patrol says a state lawmaker’s concern that he was the target of an internet scam led to an investigation about whether the lawmaker had a sexually explicit video of himself on his state-owned computer.

In a statement, the patrol says it was contacted by Papillion Sen. Bill Kintner in July 2015 over a possible scam. The patrol says that following its investigation in October, it turned over information to the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office, which turned the matter over to the Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission. The commission oversees ethics complaints against public officials.

Gov. Pete Ricketts said in a statement late Friday that he became aware of the investigation into Kintner from the state patrol, but was unable to acknowledge it publicly because of the ongoing investigation.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska state lawmaker says he reported the possibility of a sexually explicit video involving another state lawmaker to Gov. Pete Ricketts’ office last year.

Omaha Sen. Bill Krist says he informed Ricketts’ office after someone contacted another state senator offering to sell an explicit video involving Papillion Sen. Bill Kintner.

Kintner told The Associated Press in an email Friday that he had no comment “until there is some finding, if any,” by the Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission. That office did not answer calls late Friday afternoon.

Ricketts issued a statement late Friday acknowledging a Nebraska State Patrol investigation into the matter and saying he has urged Kintner to resign “if the allegations were true.”

GERING, Neb. (AP) — A teenager accused of secretly recording activity in the girls locker room at Gering High School has made a deal with prosecutors.

The 16-year-old entered the juvenile court equivalent of a guilty plea Tuesday to a misdemeanor count of unlawful intrusion and three counts of felony unlawful intrusion by photograph. Prosecutors dropped the remaining 36 counts in return for the boy’s pleas.

A court document says the recordings show the girls “in a state of undress.”

The Associated Press generally doesn’t name juveniles accused of crimes. His sentencing is set for Sept. 15.

The West Central District Health Department is re-opening our Public Health Clinic beginning on August 1^st, 2016. The clinic will be located within its main location at 111 North Dewey Street North Platte, NE 69101.

Patients with or without insurance can make the Public Health Clinic their primary health care provider.  Services will include: yearly physicals, back to school physicals, sports physicals, preventative medical services, immunizations, travel immunizations, preventative screenings, and patient navigators to link our patients to other needs such as food, housing, transportation.

The public health clinic will provide quality health care services to those who previously had limited access to primary care. “Our commitment is to promote the care of the whole person by enhancing access to care through a comprehensive approach; addressing all patient needs that impact their health and empowering patients to actively participate in their care. WCDHD can provide individuals with dental care, preventative health care, education, and links to our partners through our patient navigators,” said Shannon Vanderheiden, Executive Director.

WCDHD would like to thank our community partners who helped in re-opening the public health clinic to increase the access to health care. The partnership and donations from Great Plains Health and Mid-Nebraska Community Foundation grant has allowed WCDHD’s public health clinic to begin seeing patients August 1^st.

LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) — The Lexington City Council has voted to let a former laundromat continue to be used as a mosque.

The council voted Tuesday to grant a conditional use permit for the Islamic Center of Lexington. The council originally voted Dec. 22 to deny the permit, citing concerns about parking and what was best for development and redevelopment of downtown. The mosque already was operating in the building.

City and mosque officials have been negotiating since the city sued the center in February, saying a certificate of occupancy hadn’t been obtained and a conditional use permit was required before the former laundromat can be used for religious purposes.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — No one has matched the jackpot-winning numbers in Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing, and the prize has increased to an estimated $478 million.

The next drawing will be Saturday. Nearly three months have passed without a winner of the big prize.

The chance of winning the Powerball is incredibly small, at 292.2 million-to-1. But players have much better odds, of about 1 in 25, of winning smaller prizes ranging from $4 to $1 million.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A drug used to sedate elephants and other large animals that is 100 times as potent as the fentanyl (FEHN’-tuh-nihl) already escalating the country’s heroin troubles is suspected in spates of overdoses in several states.

Authorities say they’ve found carfentanil (kahr-FEHN’-tuh-nihl) mixed with or passed off as much weaker heroin.

A central Ohio man suspected of selling carfentanil as heroin was indicted this week on charges including murder in connection with 10 overdoses, including one death. Investigators are still trying to track down the source.

Carfentanil also has been suspected in overdoses or found in Akron and Cincinnati, central Kentucky and western Florida.

A coroner in Cincinnati warned that the overdose antidote naloxone might not be enough to save people overdosing on carfentanil.