BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — City officials in Bellevue could replace nearly 4,800 streetlights with more efficient LED lights in hopes of saving money.

The city is considering LEDs as a way to cut its $1 million annual power bill by more than one-third.

The city began exploring the idea in 2013. The Bellevue City Council has heard pitches from Siemens, Schneider Electric and Phillips over the past two months.

Assistant City Administrator Larry Burks says there’s no exact timeline for the possible change. If the lights were installed, the city would have to wait about six years before the savings offset the cost of the conversion.

The current lights cost about $207 a year each to operate, while LEDs each cost $133 a year.

FAIRBURY, Neb. (AP) — A man has drowned after swimming at the Fairbury Dam in Jefferson County.

32-year-old Christopher L. Troxel was found by emergency crews Sunday. Authorities said in a news release, that they responded to a call Sunday afternoon about a man who was swimming at the dam and had gone underwater and not come up.

Officials say Troxel was found under the dam’s power house.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A central Nebraska dance studio that announced it was closing last month is back in business, with help from a local church.

The Heartland School of Dance will remain in downtown Grand Island, but in a new building.

Owner Karen Jamieson announced in June that her second-floor studio was closing because the building’s owner, a law firm, needed more space for record storage. The studio has been in business for more than 60 years at the same location.

New Life Community Church board member Steve Johnson says he read about the closure in the newspaper and reached out to Jamieson. Board members agreed to offer her a lease for space in the church building, across an alley from the old location.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Work is scheduled to begin this coming week on the Interstate 80-U.S. 281/34 interchange south of Grand Island.

The Nebraska Roads Department says work will include concrete repair, pavement grinding and new pavement marking on all ramps and loops of the interchange as well as the northbound and southbound lanes of U.S. 281/34.

Traffic will be reduced to one lane, and ramps and loops will be closed while under construction. However, work will be suspended and all lanes and ramps opened during the weeks of the Nebraska State Fair and Husker Harvest Days, Aug. 22 through Sept. 18. The project is expected to be finished by mid-November.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A jury has awarded $30 million to an Omaha company that accused wireless provider Sprint PCS of violating its patents on security technology.

The technology helps smartphones, tablets and broadband mobile cards access the Internet. The verdict came at the end of a trial in U.S. District Court in Omaha two weeks ago.

Prism Technologies sued Sprint Spectrum LP, which does business as Sprint PCS, and other companies, for using systems that Prism “pioneered and patented,” even though Sprint had no legal right to do so.

Attorneys for Prism say the company’s predecessor, Prism Resources Inc., began work on the project that led to the patents by early 1996 and sought a patent in 1997.

Sprint can still appeal.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Members of a Lincoln church are working to establish a nonprofit radio station that could benefit refugees, prisoners and others whose voices are seldom heard.

Nik Sandman is preparing to launch the station on behalf of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church.

The Good Shepherd station will operate at 95.7 FM and will be called 95.7 The Cross. Its call letters will be KNNA, short for koinonia, the Greek word for community.

Sandman says the station will likely need $75,000 to $100,000 to launch, and will need to raise money annually to pay for its operation. He says he doesn’t plan to broadcast commercial advertising and likely will allow seek underwriters for programs.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The widower of an Omaha police officer killed in the line of duty is trying to provide for his family, but one challenge he faces is a long road to U.S. citizenship.

Hector Orozco said citizenship for him means being recognized as part of the community where he has worked and paid taxes. His wife, Kerrie Orozco, was fatally shot in May.

Hector crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in 1999, at age 17. He says leaving was not easy, but it was something he felt was necessary to succeed.

U.S. Rep. Brad Ashford is pushing for a law that would expedite the citizenship process for spouses of first responders who are killed on the job. Ashford says his proposal will be called the Kerrie Orozco Act.

MADISON, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska tourism group is seeking a bird’s-eye view to promote a local county fair.

The local visitors’ bureau has contracted with a drone company to fly over the Madison County Fair. The drones will shoot footage for the Norfolk Area Visitors Bureau, which will post the videos on its website.

Kim Kwapnioski, the bureau’s director, says drone footage marks the next step for a website that offers virtual tours, pictures and videos of the region.

Kwapnioski says the bureau wants to extend the drone technology to places like Cowboy Trail and AquaVenture water park so viewers get a complete sense of Norfolk’s attractions.

LINCOLN — A man drowned while swimming with his family at Branched Oak Lake Saturday, July 11.

Guerrero Perales, 67, of Crete, had been swimming at the Area 10 beach when a family member realized he had walked or swam toward the buoy line that separates the swimming area from the lake and not returned.

Perales’ family called 911 around 8:30 p.m. Saturday. Dive teams first searched for Perales, but were unsuccessful. Two teams of emergency responders in boats equipped with side scan sonar recovered his body at approximately 12:30 a.m. Sunday morning.

Emergency responders included personnel from the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Department, the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, Raymond Fire and Rescue, Ceresco Fire and Rescue, Lincoln Fire and Rescue and the Nebraska State Patrol.

DENVER (AP) — Environmentalists and the energy industry have fought decisive battles over fracking in New York, Oklahoma and Texas, but the outcome is still unclear in Colorado.

A ballot fight could be shaping up for Colorado’s 2016 election.

A task force convened by Gov. John Hickenlooper tried to find a compromise in the debate over how much the industry should be regulated, but it didn’t go far enough for fracking critics.

Karen Dike of Coloradans Against Fracking says the panel did little to address fracking’s potential health and environmental effects.

She won’t say if the group plans to put measures on the 2016 ballot, but she doesn’t rule it out.

Frank McNulty, a Republican former state lawmaker who sponsored a pro-industry ballot measure in 2014, expects opponents to turn to the voters.