LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska hunters killed 102 bull elk this year in the state’s second-largest harvest.

The state Game and Parks Commission says this year’s campaign is second only to the 2012 hunt that killed 105 bull elk.

In addition to the bull elk killed this fall, 31 cows and six calves were harvested. Those numbers will grow when elk cow season reopens Dec. 1.

Big game program manager Kit Hams says the numbers show the state has been successful in managing the elk population.

When the state’s elk hunting season began in 1986, 15 elk were harvested. Last year, hunters killed 95 bull elks and 81 cows and calves.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A meat company based in Nebraska is recalling 167,427 pounds of ground beef that might be tainted with E. coli bacteria.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Sunday that All American Meats Inc. is recalling the meat that was sold to retailers nationwide. No illnesses have been linked to the beef.

The recalled meat was produced on Oct. 16, and it was sold in either 60-pound or 80-pound packages.

All the meat that is being recalled had a sell-by date of Nov. 3 and establishment number 20420 in the USDA inspection stamp.

Jennifer Fuller of the Nebraska Childrens Home Society sits down with News Director Scott Carlson to discuss some of the services offered in Nebraska and a great event in North Platte later this month.

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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A group that has helped thwart repeated attempts to expand gambling in Nebraska is gearing up again to fight a ballot campaign that would allow casinos at licensed horse racing tracks.

Gambling with the Good Life will campaign against the casino ballot measure and is looking for possible legal challenges similar to one last year, which knocked a historic horse racing proposal off the 2014 ballot. The group also plans to follow and videotape ballot petition circulators to see if any violate state rules.

The petition group, Keep the Money in Nebraska, began collecting signatures in October and has raised nearly $255,000.

Former state Sen. Scott Lautenbaugh, a group spokesman, says casinos would provide a new revenue source for state and local governments.

MINDEN, Neb. (AP) — Central Nebraska firefighters say a fire has caused about $80,000 damage to a Minden home.

The fire happened early Friday morning.

The Minden Volunteer Fire Department Chief Tom Brown says the fire was contained to a bedroom in the upper level of the house.

The seven occupants of the home — three adults and four children — were home at the time of the fire but were not injured.

Brown says the cause of the fire is still under investigation, but that the Nebraska State Fire Marshal has determined that it was started unintentionally.

The American Red Cross is helping the residents find shelter and other essentials.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska and Iowa residents are being reminded to set their clocks back an hour before going to sleep 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.

HOLDREGE, Neb. (AP) — Police have arrested a man accused of stabbing a woman at a grocery store in Holdrege.

Officers who were sent to the Sun Mart Foods a little before 3 p.m. Thursday found a 49-year-old Beaver City woman who’d been stabbed in the back. She was taken to a hospital for treatment and soon released.

The 27-year-old suspected of assailing her was later found at a Mosaic facility and taken to the Phelps County Jail, where he was booked on suspicion of theft, assault and use of a weapon to commit a felony. He has not yet been charged. Mosaic is a faith-based organization that treats people who have intellectual disabilities.

Holdrege police say the attack appears to be random because the man and woman apparently are not acquainted.

CHADRON, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say they’ve found no engine problems so far that would have caused a Nebraska Panhandle plane crash that killed its Texas pilot.

A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board says it’s found no evidence of engine malfunction or failure. The single-engine Beechcraft P35 Bonanza went down on Oct. 6, killing 61-year-old John Prickett, of Double Oak, Texas. It crashed 10 miles south of Chadron Municipal Airport, a few minutes after takeoff on a flight to Alliance.

Safety board spokesman Keith Holloway says a final crash report normally takes a year or more to complete.