LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska residents still have time to apply for a 2016 bighorn sheep lottery permit.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission says the application period closes on Aug. 5.

One lottery permit will be issued in 2016. Residents who will be at least 12 years of age by the opening day of the bighorn sheep season may apply. Residents may apply once per calendar year and may receive one permit per lifetime.

The nonrefundable application fee is $25. Nonresidents are not eligible.

In-person applications must be received at the commission’s Lincoln office by 5 p.m. on Aug. 5. Online applications will be accepted through 11:59 p.m. that day.

The permit for the bighorn sheep hunting season starting Nov. 29 will be drawn Aug. 18.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Those not happy with their choices for president this November could find another option on the Nebraska ballot: the Marijuana Party.

The Nebraska Secretary of State’s office says the Marijuana Party of Nebraska turned in about 9,000 petition signatures this week seeking recognition and a spot on the general election ballot.

The party’s emphasis is legalizing marijuana and promoting hemp farming.

The party must have valid signatures equal to at least 1 percent of the total votes cast for governor in 2014, or 5,397 signatures statewide. It must also have a certain number of signatures from each of the state’s three congressional districts.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A sheriff’s department official says Nebraska punter Sam Foltz and former Michigan State punter Mike Sadler have died in a car crash in Wisconsin after coaching at a kicking clinic. Louisiana State’s kicker was injured in the crash.

Waukesha County Lt. Thom Moerman said speed was likely a factor in the single-vehicle crash that happened around 11:45 p.m. Saturday night.

The 24-year-old Sadler, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was driving. He and 22-year-old Foltz, of Greeley, Nebraska, both died. LSU kicker, 21-year-old Colby Delahoussaye, was also a passenger and was injured in the crash.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln said Sunday the team will skip this week’s planned Big Ten media days in Chicago because of Foltz’s death. Officials with Michigan State didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average price of gasoline has dropped 7 cents over the past three weeks to $2.22 a gallon for regular grade.

Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg said Sunday lower oil prices and an abundant gasoline supply caused the decline. She says the price is 60 cents less than it was a year ago.

The Lundberg Survey found the average price of midgrade unleaded is $2.51 a gallon and $2.72 for premium.

The highest average price for regular gasoline in the Lower 48 is $2.83 a gallon in the San Francisco Bay Area. The lowest is $1.81 in Charleston, South Carolina.

The U.S. average diesel price is $2.39 per gallon, down three cents from two weeks ago.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Some of Nebraska’s largest agricultural groups will push again for lower property taxes in next year’s legislative session, but key senators say any proposal should be coupled with income tax cuts.

Sen. Jim Smith of Papillion says combining the two could make the package easier to pass when the Legislature reconvenes in January because a larger coalition of senators would support it. Gov. Pete Ricketts is considering both income and property tax reductions.

Lawmakers have spent the last several years focusing on property taxes to address complaints from farming and ranching groups, but Smith and others hope to expand on the income tax cuts approved under former Gov. Dave Heineman.

Passing a major package could be difficult because of a projected $234 million state budget shortfall.

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — A man shot by a Kearney police officer last month has been sentenced to four years’ probation.

35-year-old Jose Klich was sentenced Friday for a felony drug possession count. He must also complete a substance abuse treatment program, undergo counseling, take classes in money management, sobriety and employment and abide by a curfew to be set by the state probation department.

Klich was shot once in the torso by Officer Derek Payton on June 5 when Klich tried to flee a traffic stop, clipping Payton’s police cruiser in the process. The officer was trying to serve an arrest warrant for the drug charge at the time of the altercation and chase.

HOLDREGE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have identified a woman killed in a crash near Holdrege as a 24-year-old Atlanta, Nebraska woman.

Officials say Tracy Stewart died in the early Thursday morning crash about six miles north of Holdrege in south-central Nebraska.

Investigators say the vehicle Stewart was driving went out of control and rolled, throwing her from the car.

A male passenger in the car was treated at a Holdrege hospital for injuries and released.

GOTHENBURG, Neb. (AP) — A south-central Nebraska man is dead following a single-vehicle crash near Gothenburg.

The Dawson County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the late Friday morning crash. Officials say 50-year-old Brock Johnson, of rural Gothenburg, was driving a pickup west on Highway 30 west of Gothenburg when he left the road and hit a ditch embankment.

No one else was in the pickup.

Investigators say Johnson was not wearing a seat belt.

SHELTON, Neb. (AP) — The owner who planned to refurbish an abandoned 107-year-old school building is offering a $10,000 reward for information on whoever was responsible for a fire that destroyed it.

Thomas Johnson, of Juniata, put up the reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those who caused the July 5 fire south of Shelton.

Johnson moved the school building in 1998 from Assumption in Adams County to south of Shelton on the banks of the Platte River. Johnson initially wanted to remodel the school into a bed and breakfast.

At the time of the fire, the building and one acre of land was for sale for $198,000.

Anyone with information about the fire is asked to contact the Buffalo County Sheriff’s Office.

Two men are facing felony charges after they allegedly entered a North Platte apartment and threatened the occupants with a handgun.

At around 5:21 a.m., on July 9, North Platte police responded to an apartment in the 400 block of North Dewey Street, on the report of a prior disturbance.

Officers met with three individuals who reported that 27-year-old Taylor Trembly and 25-year-old Joshua Lucero came to their apartment and knocked on the door.  They stated that when the door was opened, Trembly and Lucero entered the apartment and confronted them about spreading rumors about them.

According to Investigator John Deal, the victims told officers that Lucero showed the butt of a semi-automatic gun in his waistband.  Trembly then allegedly pointed at the gun and told the victims he would, “make them disappear.”

At one point, Deal says Lucero removed the gun, racked the slide and pointed it at one of the victim’s heads.

Investigators say the duo then told the residents they would come back if they reported the incident to police, and there “wouldn’t be any witnesses.”  They then fled the scene.

After a lengthy investigation, investigators established probable cause to arrest both Trembly and Lucero for felony terroristic threats.  On July 21, Lucero was taken into custody during a traffic stop at 4th and Poplar Streets, and Trembly was arrested at a residence in the 1500 block of East 12th Street.

Deal says the handgun has not been located.