LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline will participate in a walk across the nation to draw attention to climate change.

Dozens of Nebraskans are expected to join the Great March for Climate Action on Saturday for a portion of the 3,000-mile walk from Los Angeles to Washington. The group’s destination for the day is the renewable energy barn built by Bold Nebraska on the pipeline’s proposed route.

Speakers will include Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Dave Domina, Bold Nebraska director Jane Kleeb and Julia Trigg Crawford, a Texas landowner who fought an eminent domain claim for the pipeline on her land.

The 10-mile walk will start at 9 a.m. at St. John’s Church in Marquette. A separate mile-long walk will start at 1 p.m. near the barn northwest of York.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A federal appeals court has reversed the lone conviction against a Lincoln woman accused of helping smuggle cigarettes from Vietnam.

In an opinion Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said federal prosecutors did not present sufficient evidence to show that Tang “Janny” Nguyen knowingly trafficked in contraband cigarettes.

Nguyen was one of five Lincoln people accused in the scheme. Prosecutors said the group had more than 10,000 cigarettes shipped to homes in Lincoln and Nebraska City, and then resold them without paying state and federal taxes.

In 2012, a jury found that Nguyen wasn’t actively involved in the operation, but had possessed contraband cigarettes.

Nguyen’s argued that Nguyen didn’t know it was illegal to get cigarettes from Vietnam and didn’t intend to defraud anyone.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Lancaster County Board of Commissioners is considering paying $75,000 to settle a lawsuit filed over the suicide of a 16-year-old in county custody.

The settlement is scheduled to be reviewed by commissioners at Tuesday’s meeting.

The lawsuit was filed by the father of Jonathan Kennedy. The boy hanged himself in the county’s Youth Services Center on Feb. 26, 2012, and died later at a Lincoln hospital.

The lawsuit argues that staffers should have realized the boy had mental problems and should have more effectively supervised him. He had been a state ward since April 2011 and had been sent to the center because of drug usage and self-harming behavior.

STROMSBURG, Neb. (AP) — A 20-year-old Stromsburg woman has died after her car collided with a farm machine at a rural intersection in eastern Nebraska’s Polk County.

The Polk County attorney’s office says the accident occurred about 4:30 p.m. Saturday about four miles west of Stromsburg on County Road 125. The office says Lindsay Larson was driving her car west when it was struck by a self-propelled corn tassel chopper that was northbound on County Road I.

County Attorney Ronald Collins says it appears the 17-year-old driver of the farm machine didn’t halt at a stop sign, so the machine collided with Larson’s car in the intersection.

The crash is being investigated.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Eastbound Interstate 80 traffic in Lincoln is scheduled to be diverted this week so a contractor can work on lanes near the bridges.

The Nebraska Roads Department says the lanes will be temporarily closed between Exit 405 and Exit 409. They will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday nights at 11 p.m. and be reopened at 6 a.m. the next day.

Daytime closures of one lane and other nighttime closures are also possible in the area.

The work is expected to be finished in three days.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha man has been accused of intentionally crashing his pickup truck into a utility pole in a collision that killed his girlfriend.

26-year-old Nicholas Marescalco appeared Monday in court bruised and in a wheelchair. He faces a manslaughter charge. Court records do not list an attorney.

Prosecutors say Marescalco was driving and arguing with his girlfriend, 25-year-old Sharlee Arnett, when he intentionally crashed the vehicle on July 6. Neither he nor Arnett were wearing seat belts.

Police have found no signs that Marescalco used the brakes on his car before the crash.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man who’s already serving a life sentence for shooting his ex-wife to death has pleaded no contest to killing the attorney who represented him in his divorce.

Hall County officials say 58-year-old Michael Petersen of rural Glenvil pleaded no contest to first-degree murder on Monday as part of a deal with prosecutors.

In return for Petersen’s plea in the Nov. 13 shooting death of 52-year-old attorney Todd Elsbernd, prosecutors dropped a weapons charge and agreed not to seek the death penalty.

Petersen was sentenced in May for killing 58-year-old Nancy Petersen outside her home in rural Buffalo County.

Defense attorney Jeff Pickens has said Petersen was bitter about the financial terms of his 2005 divorce, and he had lost much of his remaining savings to two scams.

GLENWOOD, Iowa (AP) — A body found earlier this month in the Missouri River in southwest Iowa has been identified as that of a Council Bluffs man.

Authorities identified him as 49-year-old Robert Jensen. His body was found around 4:45 p.m. on July 1 in the river at Lincoln’s Landing campground, near the U.S. Highway 34 bridge that connects Mills County to Plattsmouth, Nebraska.

Relatives of Jensen contacted law enforcement after reading some reports about tattoos on the body.

Jensen’s death is still being investigated.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A fire investigator suspects arson in a fire that damaged a Lincoln apartment.

The four people in the apartment awoke Sunday to find walls and a refrigerator door scorched. No injuries have been reported.

Lincoln Police Capt. Danny Reitan estimated the damage at $500.