HALSEY, Neb. (AP) — Students ages 14 through 18 who want to learn about the outdoors are encouraged to attend the 52nd Nebraska Youth Range Camp.

The camp is scheduled to run June 8-12 at the Nebraska State 4-H Camp in Halsey.

The camp curriculum includes sessions on rangeland management, conservation, ecology, animal science and wildlife. There will be field activities, lectures, hands-on sessions and recreational leadership and team-building activities.

Camp director Shelly Kelly with the Sandhills Task Force says registration costs $325 but students will pay no more than $100, with either the Nebraska Grazing Lands Coalition or local natural resources districts picking up the remainder.

The camp application form can be found at https://bit.ly/1ExWpuP or can be obtained by sending an email to Shelly@SandhillsTaskForce.org. Applications must be submitted by May 29.

CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average national price of a regular gallon of gasoline has jumped 22 cents in the past three weeks to $2.80.

Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg said Sunday that higher crude prices caused by a weaker U.S. dollar and strong gasoline demand drove the increase.

However, she says the price was 93 cents lower than a year ago.

The average national price for midgrade was $3.00 and premium was $3.16. Diesel was $2.97.

In a survey of cities in the Lower 48 states, Los Angeles had the highest-priced gasoline at $3.95 a gallon. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, had the lowest at $2.32.

The average price in California was up 53 cents to $3.76 a gallon.

Lundberg says gasoline price hikes will likely slow or stop because of an expected increase in supplies.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Two U.S. Marines with Nebraska ties were among the six Marines and two Nepalese soldiers killed last week in a helicopter crash in Nepal.

On Sunday, the Defense Department identified all the Marines killed in Tuesday’s crash.

One of the pilots, Capt. Dustin Lukasiewicz, grew up in Wilcox, Nebraska, before joining the Marines.

Lance Cpl. Jacob A. Hug was working as a videographer on board the flight delivering supplies to earthquake victims. Hug is an Arizona native, but several of his family members live in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska.

Nepalese soldiers recovered the bodies of the eight people who died in the helicopter crash on Saturday.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A powerful storm system stretching from Texas to Minnesota raked the nation’s midsection Sunday after kicking up damaging tornadoes in Oklahoma and heavy wind and rain elsewhere.

There were no immediate reports of any deaths or injuries.

Tornadoes touched down Saturday in Oklahoma near the towns of Elmer and Tipton, said National Weather Service forecaster Daryl Williams. He says another tornado touched down near Elk City along Interstate 40. Authorities say yet another tornado reportedly touched down late Saturday northeast of Tulsa as storms moved off into neighboring Missouri.

Oklahoma emergency officials say they also received reports of damage Saturday to homes and businesses and significant damage to power lines. Rain and winds were also moving overnight across parts of Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas and other states.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Attorney General’s Office says that public officials’ text messages regarding public business are subject to the state’s open record laws.

But Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert on Friday said she doesn’t yet know whether she’ll comply with the opinion from the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office that said she should produce her text messages.

The newspaper asked the state’s top legal office in April to clarify the status and public’s access to officials’ texts involving government business. That request came after the city of Omaha denied the newspaper’s request for texts Stothert sent to City Council members and department heads.

Opinions issued by the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office are advisory and not legally binding.

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Another round of strong storms and heavy rain is moving across the nation’s midsection.

The National Weather Service had issued tornado watches Saturday for areas including parts of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and Nebraska. In Minnesota, the weather service says a trained observer reported a brief tornado touchdown just before 4:30 p.m. in Lac qui Parle (lak-kwih-PARL’) County, on the South Dakota border. There were no immediate reports of damage.

Jared Guyer of the Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center said there was a risk of large hail, strong winds and several tornadoes, adding that “certainly, some of those tornadoes could be strong.” The greatest chance of severe weather stretched from southern Nebraska to central and western Kansas and Oklahoma.

Last weekend’s weather caused several tornadoes, flooding and at least four deaths.

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1122 PM CDT FRI MAY 15 2015 /1022 PM MDT FRI MAY 15 2015/

...SEVERE STORMS MOVED ACROSS WESTERN NEBRASKA FRIDAY NIGHT...

THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED THROUGHOUT THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE FRIDAY 
AFTERNOON AND MOVED INTO SHERIDAN AND GARDEN COUNTIES EARLY 
EVENING...DROPPING LARGE HAIL. STORM COVERAGE ACROSS WESTERN 
NEBRASKA INCREASED HEADING INTO THE MID EVENING HOURS...MAINLY 
ALONG AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 61. STORMS CONTINUED TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL 
AS THE WINDS STRENGTHENED...ESPECIALLY IN THE OGALLALA VICINITY. 
TORNADO REPORTS WERE ALSO RECEIVED TOWARD THE NORTHERN END OF THE 
SYSTEM IN NORTHEAST SHERIDAN AND NORTHWEST CHERRY COUNTIES AROUND 
THIS TIME. AS OF 11 PM CDT FRIDAY...THE LINE OF STORMS WAS 
APPROACHING HIGHWAY 97 AND HAD GENERALLY WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE 
LIMITS. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED ALONG AND NORTH OF 
INTERSTATE 80 IN LINCOLN AND CUSTER COUNTIES DURING THE LATE EVENING 
AND PRODUCED SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN. 

BELOW IS A SUMMARY OF SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS RECEIVED.

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0525 PM     HAIL             4 N ANTIOCH             42.13N 102.62W
05/15/2015  E0.88 INCH       SHERIDAN           NE   PUBLIC          

            GROUND COVERED WITH HAIL...MOST WERE DIME SIZE WITH SOME 
            PENNY AND NICKEL

0615 PM     HAIL             5 NNE LISCO             41.57N 102.58W
05/15/2015  E1.00 INCH       GARDEN             NE   PUBLIC          

0620 PM     HAIL             18 S HAY SPRINGS        42.42N 102.69W
05/15/2015  E2.75 INCH       SHERIDAN           NE   PUBLIC          

            HAIL RANGED FROM GOLF BALL TO BASEBALL SIZE

0715 PM     HAIL             7 E ANTIOCH             42.07N 102.48W
05/15/2015  E1.75 INCH       SHERIDAN           NE   PUBLIC          

0830 PM     HAIL             5 N VENANGO             40.83N 102.04W
05/15/2015  E1.00 INCH       PERKINS            NE   PUBLIC          

0832 PM     HAIL             5 E GORDON              42.81N 102.11W
05/15/2015  E1.00 INCH       SHERIDAN           NE   PUBLIC          

0834 PM     TORNADO          12 E GORDON             42.81N 101.97W
05/15/2015                   CHERRY             NE   STORM CHASER    

            TORNADO CONFIRMED BY CHASERS AT 734 MDT. 

0840 PM     HEAVY RAIN       LAKESIDE                42.06N 102.46W
05/15/2015  M1.40 INCH       SHERIDAN           NE   PUBLIC          

            STORM TOTAL RAINFALL

0855 PM     HAIL             5 NW ELLSWORTH          42.11N 102.36W
05/15/2015  E1.00 INCH       SHERIDAN           NE   PUBLIC          

0857 PM     TSTM WND GST     18 NE OSHKOSH           41.59N 102.10W
05/15/2015  E60.00 MPH       GARDEN             NE   PUBLIC          

            WIND SPEEDS ESTIMATED AT 50 TO 60 MPH

0900 PM     HAIL             15 NW ELLSWORTH         42.21N 102.49W
05/15/2015  E1.00 INCH       SHERIDAN           NE   PUBLIC          

            ESTIMATED TIME OF 900PM CDT

0915 PM     TSTM WND GST     25 N ELLSWORTH          42.42N 102.29W
05/15/2015  E60.00 MPH       SHERIDAN           NE   PUBLIC          

            ESTIMATED 50 TO 60 MPH WINDS 

0918 PM     HAIL             5 W GRANT               40.84N 101.82W
05/15/2015  E1.00 INCH       PERKINS            NE   PUBLIC          

0924 PM     HAIL             8 N GRANT               40.96N 101.73W
05/15/2015  M1.75 INCH       PERKINS            NE   TRAINED SPOTTER 

0939 PM     TSTM WND GST     2 N OGALLALA            41.16N 101.72W
05/15/2015  E70.00 MPH       KEITH              NE   STORM CHASER    

            ESTIMATED WIND SPEEDS OF 60 TO 70 MPH

0941 PM     HAIL             1 SSE OGALLALA          41.12N 101.71W
05/15/2015  M1.75 INCH       KEITH              NE   STORM CHASER    

0945 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     E GORDON                42.81N 102.20W
05/15/2015                   SHERIDAN           NE   TRAINED SPOTTER 

            FUNNEL REPORTED EAST OF GORDON ESTIMATED TIME OF 845 MDT.


0950 PM     HAIL             6 SW ROSCOE             41.07N 101.68W
05/15/2015  E2.00 INCH       KEITH              NE   STORM CHASER    

            60 MPH WINDS REPORTED AS WELL

1010 PM     HAIL             6 E ARTHUR              41.57N 101.58W
05/15/2015  E1.00 INCH       ARTHUR             NE   TRAINED SPOTTER 

1010 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     1 S RUSHVILLE           42.70N 102.47W
05/15/2015                   SHERIDAN           NE   TRAINED SPOTTER 

            FUNNEL REPORTED ESTIMATED TIME 0F 910 PM MDT. 

1016 PM     HAIL             ROSCOE                  41.13N 101.60W
05/15/2015  E1.50 INCH       KEITH              NE   TRAINED SPOTTER

...RAINFALL REPORTS PAST 24 HOURS ...

LOCATION                     AMOUNT    TIME/DATE       LAT/LON              
OGALLALA                     1.76 IN   0700 AM 05/16   41.13N/101.72W       
1 ENE VALENTINE              1.27 IN   0700 AM 05/16   42.88N/100.53W       
VALENTINE 1W                 1.23 IN   0600 AM 05/16   42.88N/100.56W       
VALENTINE AIRPORT            1.19 IN   0652 AM 05/16   42.88N/100.55W       
VALENTINE                    1.08 IN   0834 AM 05/16   42.88N/100.56W       
OGALLALA AIRPORT             0.72 IN   0655 AM 05/16   41.12N/101.77W       
THEDFORD AIRPORT             0.68 IN   0655 AM 05/16   41.96N/100.58W       
VALENTINE 27S                0.62 IN   0814 AM 05/16   42.48N/100.52W       
STAPLETON 5W                 0.60 IN   0700 AM 05/16   41.46N/100.60W       
BROKEN BOW AIRPORT           0.48 IN   0653 AM 05/16   41.43N/99.65W        
MULLEN                       0.48 IN   0600 AM 05/16   42.05N/101.05W       
SWAN LAKE                    0.39 IN   0700 AM 05/16   42.19N/99.09W        
KILGORE 1NE                  0.35 IN   0800 AM 05/16   42.95N/100.95W       
EWING 12S                    0.34 IN   0700 AM 05/16   42.09N/98.38W        
BARTLETT 4S                  0.30 IN   0800 AM 05/16   41.83N/98.55W        
OSHKOSH 10NE                 0.28 IN   0655 AM 05/16   41.49N/102.19W       
WALLACE 2W                   0.27 IN   0700 AM 05/16   40.84N/101.21W       
AINSWORTH AIRPORT            0.22 IN   0655 AM 05/16   42.58N/99.98W        
NORTH PLATTE 1ESE            0.22 IN   0835 AM 05/16   41.13N/100.75W       
MASON CITY                   0.22 IN   0800 AM 05/16   41.22N/99.30W        
SARGENT                      0.20 IN   0824 AM 05/16   41.64N/99.38W        
CRESCENT LAKE                0.18 IN   0758 AM 05/16   41.76N/102.44W       
CALLAWAY 8WSW                0.15 IN   0700 AM 05/16   41.25N/100.08W       
ROSCOE 1ESE                  0.15 IN   0730 AM 05/16   41.13N/101.58W       
EWING 1N                     0.14 IN   0745 AM 05/16   42.27N/98.34W        
BUTTE                        0.12 IN   0600 AM 05/16   42.91N/98.85W        
IMPERIAL AIRPORT             0.12 IN   0653 AM 05/16   40.53N/101.63W       
SPRINGVIEW                   0.12 IN   0600 AM 05/16   42.82N/99.75W        
HALSEY 2W                    0.11 IN   0823 AM 05/16   41.90N/100.31W       
SPRINGVIEW 6S                0.09 IN   0832 AM 05/16   42.74N/99.74W        
4 NNE NORTH PLATTE           0.07 IN   0832 AM 05/16   41.19N/100.75W       
ONEILL AIRPORT               0.06 IN   0655 AM 05/16   42.47N/98.68W        
ERICSON 6WNW                 0.05 IN   0700 AM 05/16   41.80N/98.79W        
NORTH PLATTE 2S              0.05 IN   0800 AM 05/16   41.06N/100.75W       
NORTH PLATTE                 0.04 IN   0835 AM 05/16   41.14N/100.77W       
NORTH PLATTE AIRPORT         0.04 IN   0653 AM 05/16   41.13N/100.70W       
NORTH PLATTE 3ENE            0.04 IN   0600 AM 05/16   41.13N/100.70W       
NEWPORT                      0.02 IN   0800 AM 05/16   42.60N/99.33W        
CHAMPION 5ESE                0.01 IN   0730 AM 05/16   40.43N/101.62W       

OBSERVATIONS ARE COLLECTED FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES WITH VARYING
EQUIPMENT AND EXPOSURE. NOT ALL DATA LISTED ARE CONSIDERED OFFICIAL.

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Forecasters say the Midwest could be in for another round of strong storms and heavy rain.

The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center says that severe thunderstorms may develop in parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Texas on Saturday.

The center says there is a risk of large hail, strong winds and several tornadoes with the system.

The greatest chance of severe weather stretches from southern Nebraska to central and western Kansas and Oklahoma.

Last weekend’s weather caused several tornadoes, flooding and at least four deaths.

CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials say farmers and ranchers who depend on the Ogallala Aquifer will benefit from $6.5 million in funding.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced this week that it would be investing in projects in a handful of states with the goal of conserving billions of gallons of water to extend the life of the aquifer.

Underlying eight states, the Ogallala supports nearly one-fifth of the wheat, corn, cotton and cattle produced in the United States. It has long been the main water supply for communities throughout the Great Plains and is being depleted at an unsustainable rate.

In eastern New Mexico, the Natural Resources Conservation Service plans to work with farmers to convert irrigated cropland to dryland systems and to restore grasslands.

Projects also are planned in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and Texas.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The ACLU of Nebraska is investigating the state’s purchase of new lethal injection drugs to carry out executions.

The civil liberties group filed an open records request Friday to review whether the acquisition was lawful.

Gov. Pete Ricketts announced Thursday that state officials have bought all three drugs required for executions. Nebraska lost its ability to execute prisoners when its supply of sodium thiopental, a required lethal injection drug, expired in December 2013.

ACLU of Nebraska executive director Danielle Conrad says the state has faced legal problems in its past efforts to obtain lethal injection drugs, and her group will hold officials accountable.

Nebraska Solicitor General Jim Smith, who handled previous death penalty cases, has said the issues raised in past cases were later resolved.