VALLEY, Neb. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to add a Valley intersection to its list of Superfund national priorities.

The intersection announced Wednesday is located at Old Highway 275 and 288th Street. The designation notifies the public that the EPA believes a site requires further study and cleanup.

The EPA says the site consists of contaminated groundwater which has affected one Pines Public Water Supply well and four private wells.

Adding the intersection to the agency’s national priority list makes it eligible for federal money to investigate and address site contamination. It also guarantees the public an opportunity to participate in the cleanup decisions.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The American Cancer Society has announced it will break ground later this month on an $11.5 million housing facility for people and their families traveling to Omaha for cancer treatment.

The Hope Lodge Nebraska will be located just off of Dodge Street near the Nebraska Methodist Hospital System. Lodging there will be free of charge for patients and their families traveling more than 40 miles for treatment.

Plans for the three-story, 34,543 square-foot lodge includes 32 private rooms with baths. Sitting/television areas and laundry facilities are located on each floor. Common areas include kitchen, dining room, library, conference, exercise, game and meditation rooms. Free transportation will be available to local treatment centers for patients staying at the Hope Lodge.

Officials are set to break ground on the lodge on Sept. 29.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the robbery convictions and prison sentence for the sister of Nikko Jenkins, who was convicted of killing four Omaha residents in 2013.

Erica Jenkins had appealed her convictions for her role in luring Juan Uribe-Pena and Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz to an Omaha park in August 2013 and robbing them before Nikko Jenkins killed them. She was sentenced to 60 to 100 years for the two robbery counts.

The high court on Friday said it found no merit to any of Erica Jenkins’ arguments, including that prosecutors’ acquisition of her cellphone records amounted to an unconstitutional search.

Erica Jenkins is also serving a life sentence for helping her brother kill another of his four victims, Curtis Bradford.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — The state has issued a new health alert at Big Indian Creek Lake in southeast Nebraska’s Gage County.

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services says samples taken earlier this week at the lake indicated high levels of a toxin produced by blue-green algae blooms.

The department also says earlier alerts at Kirkman’s Cove in Richardson County, Rockford Lake in Gage County, Iron Horse Trail Lake in Pawnee County and Willow Creek Lake in Pierce County will continue.

Skin exposed to the toxin can develop rashes and blisters. Someone who drinks water containing the toxin is at risk for headaches, nausea and muscular pain.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a man has been arrested after drugs were seized from his vehicle along Interstate 80 in Omaha.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says a deputy made a traffic stop around 11 p.m. Thursday and soon became suspicious of the driver. A department dog was taken to the scene, and the dog alerted officers to the odor of drugs.

The Sheriff’s Office says 18 pounds of marijuana and about a pound of suspected hashish butter were found in the car’s trunk, along with drug paraphernalia.

The driver was arrested on suspicion of possession of drugs for sale and other crimes. Online court records don’t show Friday whether he’s been formally charged.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld a nearly $260,000 judgment against the city of Lincoln and a local Crime Stoppers organization for wrongly accusing a woman of theft on TV and online.

The high court in its ruling Friday rejected the city’s arguments that Shayla Funk was not entitled to damages.

Funk sued the Lincoln Police Department after her image from bank surveillance video appeared on the Lincoln-Lancaster County Crime Stoppers website with the claim that she was a “crook” who made ATM withdrawals using a stolen credit card. Police also made the claim on local TV news.

But the bank had given police video of the wrong person — a problem the Supreme Court said could have been avoided if police had simply verified the accuracy of the video.

AURORA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man accused of being recruited to kill another man’s wife has taken a plea deal.

Court records say 30-year-old Derrick Shirley, of Bradshaw, is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 1. He pleaded no contest last week to a felony charge of possessing a firearm while committing a felony. Prosecutors lowered the original charge of conspiracy to commit murder.

Investigator say 38-year-old Robert Honken paid Shirley $400 to kill Honken’s wife. They say Shirley did surveillance around the woman’s Hamilton County home but never tried to kill her.

Honken has pleaded not guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit murder. Authorities say he also tried to hire another person, but that man turned out to be an undercover officer.

Honken’s trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 14.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a driver has died after being pinned between his truck and a trailer he was hooking to it at a south Omaha meatpacking plant.

Police and medics were called around 3 p.m. Thursday to the facility operated by Greater Omaha. Police spokesman Michael Pecha says the man was found next to a semitrailer. The man was pronounced dead later. His name hasn’t been released.

Greater Omaha spokesman Mark Theisen says the man was a driver for the company’s trucking subsidiary.

The company declined to comment on what caused the accident.

BLAIR, Neb. (AP) — A new filing with the Nebraska Department of Labor says about 400 Omaha Public Power District employees involved with the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant will lose their jobs by the end of 2019.

District spokeswoman Jodi Baker said the number of affected employees is an estimate. The utility expected to have a more precise figure as it creates a clearer plan for closing the plant.

The filing says the layoffs will occur in “several rounds.” The utility notified the first group of 58 employees on Sept. 1 that it would terminate their positions on Oct. 31, a week after the nuclear plant is scheduled to permanently halt operations.

The Fort Calhoun nuclear plant is 20 miles north of Omaha. It employed about 700 people at its peak.

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) — Offutt Air Force Base just south of Omaha has been selected as one of five finalists for location of a drone wing mission control unit.

Drones would be controlled from that site, but no aircraft would be assigned to Offutt.

The announcement that Offutt was chosen as one of the five finalists out of nearly 20 bases that applied to host the unmanned aerial vehicle mission follows the Pentagon’s decision in June to allocate $55 million to repair Offutt’s deteriorating runway.

Democratic state Rep. Brad Ashford of Omaha says the future of Offutt and the entire Omaha area will be strong if it’s selected for the new mission.

Gov. Pete Ricketts says the mission could help Offutt thrive for years to come.