BELDEN, Neb. (AP) — A 74-year-old Randolph man has died in a two-vehicle crash in the northeast corner of Nebraska.

Delbert Stevens died at the scene of the accident that occurred just before 11:30 a.m. Friday one mile west of Belden.

The Cedar County Sheriff’s Office says Stevens was driving a pickup eastbound on Highway 20 when the truck crossed the center line and collided head on with a westbound semi-trailer truck driven by a 23-year-old man from Canada.

Investigators say Stevens was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash.

The semi driver was taken to a Norfolk hospital with injuries not believed to be life-threatening.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The presence of invasive zebra mussels has been confirmed at an Offutt Air Force Base lake south of Omaha.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission says a federal wildlife specialist discovered live adult zebra mussels in Offutt Base Lake on May 1, while checking rocks in the shallow water.

The commission has now forbidden any water to be removed from the lake, including by bait buckets and coolers for caught fish.

The species can attach themselves to boat motors, bait buckets and other equipment and make their way from one body of water to another.

Once transferred, they can attach themselves to pipes or other structures, damaging boat motors and reducing the ability to draw water into facilities like water treatment and power plants.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska prison officials are appealing a judge’s order to give drawings made by an executed child serial killer to a former TV reporter and book author.

Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning filed the appeal Friday.

Last month, a judge ruled that the prison system must permit author Mark Pettit to inspect and reproduce the drawings.

Pettit is the author of “A Need to Kill: The True-Crime Account of John Joubert, Nebraska’s Most Notorious Serial Child Killer.” He has been trying for more than 25 years to get access to the drawings in which Joubert said he depicted his fantasies to kill again.

Joubert was executed in 1996 for the fatal stabbings of two Bellevue boys in 1983.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Fear of being sued has led Hall County’s jail to become Nebraska’s first law enforcement agency to stop honoring federal “immigration detentions.”

Other Nebraska counties may follow suit, thanks in part to efforts by civil rights organizations.

The 48-hour immigration detainers are issued to local law enforcement by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. They ask that immigrants who have been arrested be held for two days after they would normally be released to give federal officials time to initiate an investigation and take the person into custody for deportation, if necessary.

The practice is under scrutiny, and several agencies around the country have stopped complying with the requests.

Hall County jail director Fred Ruiz said the move followed consultation with attorneys for the county and its insurance carrier.

ABIE, Neb. (AP) — Cover crops as part of a diverse cropping system will be part of the discussions during organic farm tours next month.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension says the first tour will begin at 1:30 p.m. Aug. 16 at the Larry Stanislav farm two miles north of Abie in eastern Nebraska’s Butler County. Stanislav will discuss his cropping system and how he’s reduced tillage and managed weeds by using a roller crimper and flamer.

The next tour begins at 3:30 p.m. at Randy Fendrich’s farm nearby.

After the tours, the Fendrich family will serve a free dinner at 5 p.m. Reservations are needed. Call 402-584-3837 to RSVP or for more information about the tours or to get directions.

NEMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An erroneous evacuation warning about a hazardous material spill has sounded in a village of 150 people that sits a couple of miles from a nuclear power plant in southeast Nebraska.

The vocal warning went out once or twice over a siren speaker in Nemaha while a technician from Cooper Nuclear Station worked on the siren Thursday. Nebraska Public Power District owns the plant, and district spokesman Mark Becker said Friday that the technician accidentally played a recorded message that had been loaded by the manufacturer but is not part of the plant’s procedure. The plant’s warning system triggers sirens within 10 miles of the plant for three minutes, alerting people to seek more information from television or radio.

Becker says federal regulators will be notified about the error.

HENDERSON, Neb. (AP) — Workers are fixing up old headstones that were vandalized last year in a Nebraska cemetery.

More than 40 headstones had been damaged in August in Farmers’ Valley Cemetery. Some headstones were from the 1870s.

Over the past two weeks, Debi Hacker and Michael Trinkley have worked on more than 20 headstones in the cemetery that’s in Hamilton County.

Hacker and Trinkley work for the Chicora Foundation in South Carolina. They say they have spent about four hours on each of the damaged stones.

Nineteen-year-old Robert Kelly Jr. was sentenced in January to 180 days in jail for pushing over the headstones. The Clay County man also received five years of probation.

FAIRFIELD, Neb. (AP) — A former city clerk in the south-central Nebraska town of Fairfield has been sentenced to five years of probation and must pay back $55,000 to the city she’s convicted of embezzling.

Jennifer Bassett appeared at a restitution hearing in Clay County District Court at which prosecutors showed that she took $96,000.

Special Prosecutor for Clay County Tim Schmidt says he would have liked to have seen the city get all of its money back but the court had to consider Bassett’s ability to pay.

Bassett pleaded no contest to theft by deception in April.

FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) — Two soldiers based at Fort Carson were killed when their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan.

The Department of Defense says 30-year-old Staff Sgt. Benjamin G. Prange, of Hickman, Nebraska; and 19-year-old Pfc. Keith M. Williams, of Visalia, California, were killed in Kandahar Province on Thursday. They were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson.

The Defense Department did not release any other information.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Police have rescued an 81-year-old Colorado woman who spent several days stranded in her bathtub, apparently after taking a tumble.

Worried neighbors called Colorado Springs police on Wednesday because they hadn’t seen her recently. An officer found her later that day, dehydrated and disoriented and unable to get out of the tub.

She was taken to a hospital. Her name and condition haven’t been released. Police say she lives alone.

Police said Friday it’s not clear how long she was stuck but one neighbor hadn’t seen her for 11 days. The officer found newspapers and mail piled up at her door.

Neighbor Tom Wolf said he decided to call police after noticing the woman’s flower garden was untended and her car hadn’t moved lately.