Shane Greckel filed the federal lawsuit last week against Monsanto and other companies whose products contain the herbicide dicamba.

Experts say problems have arisen with dicamba as farmers began to use it to kill weeds in soybean and cotton fields where specially engineered seeds had been planted to resist the herbicide. Because it can easily evaporate after being applied, the chemical sometimes settles on neighboring fields planted with seeds that are not resistant to dicamba.

Greckel says that’s what happened on his fields near Bloomfield.

Monsanto spokesman Jeff Neu told the Journal Star that the company hadn’t yet been served with the lawsuit but would review it.

Many of the 200 likely are former ConAgra Foods workers who worked for a ConAgra unit that TreeHouse bought in a deal announced in 2015. ConAgra had bought that unit — private-label food manufacturer Ralcorp — in 2013.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A judge has sentenced a 24-year-old man to prison for robbing a Lincoln bank branch.

Lancaster County District Court records say Roosevelt Q. Erving was sentenced Thursday to eight to 15 years. He’d pleaded guilty to the Sept. 25 robbery of a Union Bank branch. The judge credited him with 282 days already served.

His girlfriend, 27-year-old Danielle Lawson, faces aiding and abetting and other charges. She’s pleaded not guilty but is expected to change her pleas at a Sept. 6 hearing.

12:30 a.m.

A Missouri sheriff says at least 11 people have now been confirmed dead after a boat carrying tourists on a lake in a popular vacation city capsized and sank.

Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader says seven people have been hospitalized and five others remain missing. He says divers have ended their search of Table Rock Lake in Branson for the night.

The National Transportation Safety Board said on Twitter that investigators will arrive on the scene Friday morning.

Rader says stormy weather is believed to be what caused the Ride the Ducks boat to capsize Thursday night.

National Weather Service meteorologist Steve Lindenberg says the agency issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the Branson area Thursday evening. He says winds reached speeds of more than 60 mph.

Branson is about 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Kansas City and is a popular vacation spot for families and other tourists looking for entertainment ranging from theme parks to live music.

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9:50 p.m.

A sheriff in Missouri says a tourist boat has apparently capsized on a lake, leaving eight people dead and several others hospitalized.

The Springfield News-Leader reports that Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader says the accident occurred Thursday night after a Ride the Ducks tourist boat reportedly sank on Table Rock Lake.

Rader says an off-duty sheriff’s deputy working security helped rescue people. He says recovery efforts are ongoing, with some passengers still unaccounted for.

A dive team is assisting.

Rader says weather is believed to have caused the boat to capsize

The 26-year-old Keannan Simpson, of Yankton, South Dakota, died following a Monday afternoon crash on a rural road near Hartington.

Investigators say Simpson was driving when he lost control of his sport utility vehicle and rolled several times.

Officials say Simpson was thrown from the vehicle and taken to a Yankton hospital, where he died.

A 25-year-old Yankton woman who was riding in the SUV also was thrown in the crash and is in Sioux Falls hospital in critical condition.

The Cedar County Sheriff’s Office says neither Simpson nor his passenger were wearing seat belts.

Police in Troy, Missouri, say 29-year-old Raymond Davis of Des Moines, Iowa, and 20-year-old Krystal Martin of Hawk Point, Missouri, are jailed without bond, awaiting extradition to Nebraska.

Davis and Martin were arrested on June 30, but the arrests weren’t disclosed until Tuesday.

Troy police say in a news release that they were contacted by Bellevue, Nebraska, police on June 30. The Bellevue department had been tracking Davis’ movements and believed he was at or near the Walmart store in Troy.

Officers arrested Davis and Martin as they left the store.

Police have not disclosed details of the killing. Authorities in Bellevue did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says deputies discovered the drugs in a car they tried to pull over early Wednesday morning on Interstate 80 in Omaha. Deputies say the car left the interstate and stopped in a parking lot in eastern Omaha.

The deputies searched the car after detecting the smell of marijuana coming from it.

Officials say they found 14 pounds of marijuana in numerous heat-sealed bags inside a black trash bag, nearly five pounds of cocaine and 23 containers of hash.

The driver and a passenger, both of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, were arrested. Officials say they were driving from Colorado to Iowa.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A convicted sex offender in Omaha has been imprisoned for distributing child pornography.

51-year-old Lawrence Quignon was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Omaha to 15 years. He must serve 10 years of supervised release after he leaves prison. He’d pleaded guilty.

Prosecutors say Quignon admitted uploading images of child pornography onto an online chat service.

Quignon was previously convicted of sexual assault of a minor in Adams County in 1999. He is required by state law to register as a sexual offender for life.

Several firefighters suited up in their hazardous materials gear Wednesday for a training exercise with the department’s new safety tool. Federal grant money paid for the $46,000 mass spectrometer, which can identify 30,000 different substances.

The device identified the hazmat training substance in just seconds: baby powder.

Fire Capt. Nick Gangwish says the device will let authorities more quickly determine whether a suspicious substance poses a danger and whether public access can be resumed at some incident scene.