BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — Exmark is recalling several hundred riding lawn mowers because of a fire hazard.

The company said Tuesday that it discovered that the fuel filter on the mowers can break and leak fuel.

Exmark says consumers should stop using the mowers and contact a dealer? to schedule a free repair. About 500 of the mowers were sold nationwide.

Owners of the 2015 Exmark Quest riding mowers will receive letters about the problem, but information is also available online at www.exmark.com.

The affected mowers are red, black and gray with the word Exmark printed on the sides. The model number is QTS452CEM34200.

Exmark is a division of Bloomington, Minn.-based Toro, and it makes mowers at its Beatrice, Neb., plant.

CHADRON, Neb. (AP) — A trial is scheduled to begin with jury selection on Jan. 28 for a Tennessee man accused of sexually assaulting a student at Chadron State College in northwest Nebraska last year.

Online court records say 20-year-old Timothy Jungquist, of Nashville, has pleaded not guilty to felony charges of false imprisonment and forcible sexual assault.

A student contacted Chadron police on Oct. 7, 2014, saying she’d been sexually assaulted two days earlier in Andrews Hall on the campus. Jungquist was arrested the following day but has since been freed on bond. He also was a Chadron State student at the time.

Fifty-one-year-old Peter Draper was sentenced Monday morning in Adams County District Court. He was given 60 years for intentional child abuse resulting in death and 49-50 years for intentional child abuse resulting in serious injury. Judge Stephen Illingworth ordered that the sentences be served consecutively. Illingworth meted out the same sentences after Draper’s first trial.

The state Supreme Court in January overturned the Naponee man’s 2013 convictions in the death of Joseph Rinehart Jr. and granted him a new trial. The little boy died April 30, 2012.

Draper had appealed on the grounds that his wife should not have been allowed to be called as a witness for the prosecution.

HOLDREGE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a Bertrand man has died in a collision with a semitrailer in south-central Nebraska’s Phelps County.

The accident occurred around 5:30 p.m. Saturday. The Nebraska State Patrol says the collision occurred on Nebraska Highway 183, about three miles north of Holdrege.

The patrol identified the vehicle driver who died as 60-year-old Randall Kuck. The semitrailer driver suffered only minor injuries.

The accident is being investigated.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An inmate serving life for killing an Omaha woman is suing the state prison at Tecumseh in federal court for what he says was his unfair treatment over reports that he had sexual contact with two female prison employees.

The lawsuit claims a prison nurse discovered sexual activity between the inmate and a prison staff member in July.

The inmate says that following the discovery, he was handcuffed, put in a holding cell, questioned, humiliated and fired from his prison job.

State law says inmates cannot consent to sex with prison employees. No charges have been filed in the case, but the Nebraska State Patrol confirmed it’s investigating.

The AP generally does not name people who say they are sexual assault victims.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Workshops are being planned across Nebraska to help farmers plan for succession at their operations.

Nebraska Agriculture Director Greg Ibach says farm families should take advantage of the free workshops to begin the planning process.

The workshops will discuss trusts, wills, life estate deeds and programs to help beginning farmers.

The one-day workshops will be held at locations throughout the state. The first one is scheduled on Dec. 2 in Hartington.

More details are available online at www.nextgen.nebraska.gov .

ORD, Neb. (AP) — A former central Nebraska theater is set to reopen as a space for community events.

The former Ord Theater, which has been sitting unused, will reopen as the Golden Husk with a kickoff event on Saturday. The building was constructed in 1928, and has served as a theater, cinema and event space.

HomeTown Competitiveness Coordinator Dahn Hagge says that the opening will be the first effort to make space available for a variety of events in the city.

The Valley Performing Arts Theatre group purchased the space in July. The group hopes that the facility will host many events, including plays and operas. Hagge says the theater’s name was changed because the acoustic material in the walls was made of corn husks.