A 25-year-old Kearney man has been sentenced to jail for videotaping a woman who was taking a shower in his home.

Tony Quintana was given three months for misdemeanor unlawful intrusion. He also was fined $500.

In August Buffalo County District Court Judge Bill Wright found Quintana guilty of the misdemeanor after a one-day nonjury trial.

In March a woman told Kearney police that Quintana had videotaped her showering at his home. She said she was in the process of moving and had asked to use his shower. She gave police a copy of the video and a picture that was copied from Quintana’s computer.

Court records say Quintana’s girlfriend gave the woman the evidence that led to Quintana’s arrest.

A 26-year-old Lincoln man has been arrested, accused of sending threatening emails and graphically violent pictures to a Nebraska Department of Labor employee.

The man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of making terroristic threats, stalking and third-degree assault.

In court records, the Nebraska State Patrol described one email in which he questioned her description of him as a “job hopper,” then threatened to “slaughter you like a (expletive) cow.”

Investigators say the email included four images of severely mutilated female body parts.

Volunteers are being sought to help with the annual fall deer survey at Homestead National Monument in southeast Nebraska.

The count is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. Saturday.

Organizers say no experience is needed to count the deer. The volunteers should anticipate walking about three-quarters of a mile through the prairie. Other volunteers are needed to watch monument boundaries and count deer as they leave.

The survey is expected to be finished by noon.

The monument sits about four miles west of Beatrice, just off Nebraska Highway 4.

More information is available at 402-223-3514 or online at www.nps.gov/home/index.htm.

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission authorities are arranging special pheasant hunts for youths 15 and younger at nine wildlife management areas across the state.

The hunts are scheduled for the Oct. 20-21 statewide youth pheasant, quail and partridge season.

The special hunts are intended to increase youth participation in upland game hunting. Rooster pheasants will be released at all designated sites before the special season.

No registration or special permit is required but special regulations will be in effect.

The hunts will be held at the following wildlife management areas: Pressey; Sherman Reservoir; Oak Valley; Branched Oak; Twin Oaks; Hickory Ridge; Wilkinson; Peru Bottoms; and Yankee Hill.

More information is available from Jeff Lusk at 402-471-1756.

High school students will have a chance to learn about the beef industry during a symposium at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The Nebraska Youth Beef Leadership Symposium is offering two sessions in November. The sessions are designed to teach students about meat science, quality assurance, marketing and other careers in the industry.

The first session geared toward freshman and sophomores will take place Nov. 2-3. The session for juniors and seniors is set for Nov. 3-5, and will give students the chance to work with a professional chef.

Six students will each receive $500 from the university’s College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.

Many Nebraskans could be paying more for electricity next year if the NPPD board approves a rate increase.

The Nebraska Public Power District board will decide in November whether to approve the roughly 4 percent increase. The change would take effect in January.

NPPD spokesman Mark Becker says customers who use 1,000 kilowatt-hours per month would see a $9 increase in their monthly bills. The average Nebraska home uses about 1,200 kilowatt-hours per month.

The size of rate increase customers would see depends on what they use electricity for. Residential customers could see rate hikes as high as 6 percent while irrigation and lighting users could see smaller increases.

Becker says the rate increase is needed to cover NPPD’s costs.

The economy in rural parts of 10 Midwest and Western states continued to look weak in September as the drought weighed down agricultural businesses.

That was slightly better than August’s 47.1 and July’s 47.9, but any

score below 50 on the 1-to-100 index suggests that the economy will contract in months ahead.A new survey of bankers in the region released Thursday showed that the overall economic index remained in negative territory at 48.3 in September.

Creighton University economist Ernie Goss says the drought is already hurting businesses linked to agriculture like ethanol and farm equipment dealers.

The survey covers rural areas of Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming.

The confidence index was also weak at 43 in September, up from August’s 39.6.

Omaha police are warning of an apparent scam in which residents are receiving automated calls from someone claiming to be a security

company authorized by the city police department.

Police issued a news release Thursday that notes citizens have questioned the department about the calls, which say the company has been authorized to install security systems.

Police say the department hasn’t partnered with any security companies and that the calls appear to be a scam.

They warn against given personal information to such callers.

A 31-year-old Kansas man has been sentenced to prison for supplying crack cocaine to two Nebraska men.

A news release from the office of U.S. Attorney Deborah Gilg says Bobbie Keys has been given 121 months behind bars and must serve five years of supervised release after he leaves prison.

Keys, of Kansas City, Kan., was convicted in April of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. Prosecutors say Keys supplied two Lincoln, Neb., men who drove to Kansas for the drugs.