BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — Gage County has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court decision that gives six people wrongly convicted of a 1985 murder another chance at suing officials who prosecuted them.

An attorney for the southeastern Nebraska county is hoping to reverse the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling issued in December.

That ruling revived the federal lawsuit of the wrongly convicted people — known as the Beatrice Six — against Gage County and the officials who built the murder cases against them.

The six served a combined 77 years in prison for the 1985 killing of Helen Wilson in Beatrice before DNA testing cleared them in 2008.

SCRIBNER, Neb. (AP) — High water has led officials to close portions of an eastern Nebraska recreational area.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission says parts of Dead Timber State Recreation Area have been closed until further notice.

The commission says the road beyond the electrical camping area has been closed, and that the closure has been marked. The electrical camping area remains open.

FORT CALHOUN, Neb. (AP) — Omaha Public Power District officials are considering closing a more than 40-year-old nuclear power plant in Fort Calhoun, causing concerns about the potential economic fallout.

Officials announced potential plans Thursday to close the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station at the end of the year. The district chief executive has recommended the closure, but the move still requires the utility board’s approval next month.

About 150 of the nearly 700 workers at the plant live in Fort Calhoun, Blair or elsewhere in Washington County. Local businesses often reap benefits from workers who commute there.

A local economic development official says there is enough time to assess the workers’ skills and find a way to keep them in the area.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A jury couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict in the case of a former public address announcer at Nebraska’s Memorial Stadium accused of bilking thousands of dollars from an elderly woman.

A judge declared a mistrial Thursday for 50-year-old Patrick Combs. After deliberating for more than two days, jurors had voted 11-1 to acquit Combs of theft, abuse of a vulnerable adult and other charges.

Prosecutors accused Combs of writing over $100,000 in checks on the woman’s account for personal expenses, charging more than $2,200 on her credit card and attempting to transfer $1.75 million from her account.

Combs testified the woman and her husband, who have both died, wanted him to inherit their money.

Combs will go to trial in June for a separate theft case involving an elderly woman.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man says he’s not dead, despite what the Social Security Administration has said.

Chuck Zellers said he learned the sad news in March after his Social Security deposit was removed from his bank account while he and his wife, Alice, were in Ajo (AH’-hoh), Arizona. They drove to Phoenix and talked to a woman at the Social Security office. She checked her computer and then told him, “‘Oh, by golly, you are dead.'” He laughed.

She told Zellers that somehow, someone or something mistakenly told the government that Zellers had died.

So he’s spent the past few weeks going from agency to agency, business to business, proving with various documents that Charles Richard Zellers II, of Lincoln, Nebraska, is not dead yet.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Two Omaha agencies have collaborated to create a $31 million village to house older adults, troubled kids and mothers seeking treatment for substance abuse.

An open house Thursday evening will mark the completion of the North Omaha Human Services Intergenerational Campus established by Heartland Family Service and Holy Name Housing Corporation.

The campus features dormitories for troubled kids, cottages for older adults and nearby housing that allows mothers to live with their children while getting treatment for addiction. Residents receive supplemental services, such a meals and medical care.

Sister Marilyn Ross, the retired executive director of Holy Name Housing who helped organize the project, says the project was initiated out of the need to stabilize low-income families in north Omaha.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A former village board chairman is scheduled to be sentenced next month for child enticement.

Court records say 56-year-old Steven Klingelhoefer pleaded guilty to enticement with an electronic communication device and to possession of child pornography. He entered the pleas after prosecutors lowered the enticement charge. His sentencing is set for June 21.

He resigned in November as chairman of the Amherst Village Board.

Prosecutors say Klingelhoefer tried to arrange a sexual encounter with a 15-year-old girl in Lincoln, where he was arrested on Nov. 20. Authorities say the person he was exchanging emails and text messages with was actually an undercover officer working for the Nebraska attorney general’s office.