CHICAGO (AP) — The nation’s largest pediatricians’ group says parents should read aloud to their children every day starting in infancy.

Doing so can enhance child development and prepare young minds for early language and reading ability.

That’s according to a new policy from the American Academy of Pediatrics issued Tuesday.

The academy wants pediatricians to spread the message to parents of young children and to provide books to needy families.

To help promote reading, the doctors’ group is teaming up with the Clinton Foundation’s Too Small to Fail program, children’s book publisher Scholastics Inc., and a group called Reach out and Read. That nonprofit group works with doctors and hospitals to distribute books and encourage early reading.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police have issued warrants for two prison inmates in connection with a 2012 killing of an Arizona man whose burned body was found in an eastern Nebraska farm field ditch.

Omaha police spokesman Michael Pecha, on Monday, said warrants were issued to 29-year-old John Meyers and 33-year-old Joseph Fleming for use of a weapon to commit a felony and suspicion of first-degree murder in the killing of Jose Quintero.

Sarpy County farmers found Quintero’s burned body in September 2012 after noticing smoke between their fields.

Investigators believe Quintero, of Phoenix, was dead when his body was dumped early on Sept. 24, 2012. They believe he was killed in Omaha.

The men are imprisoned on other charges. They will be booked on the new charges.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a car driver and his passenger have been arrested after a fatal hit-and-run crash in Omaha.

Omaha police say the accident occurred at 4:45 p.m. Sunday a couple of miles west of downtown. Police say the man was walking across Dodge Street when he was struck by a westbound vehicle that didn’t halt for a red light. The man was pronounced dead about 30 minutes later at an Omaha hospital. His name hasn’t been released.

The vehicle that hit him was found abandoned a few blocks away. The driver and his passenger were soon found and taken into custody. They have yet to be charged in court.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska congressman says he’ll seek federal recognition and a special designation for the trail the Ponca tribe took during a forced march more than 135 years ago.

Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska’s 1st District plans to introduce a resolution that would create federal recognition for the Chief Standing Bear Trail.

The Nebraska Legislature has passed a resolution supporting the trail.

The route taken in 1877 runs from the Niobrara River in Nebraska to near what now is Ponca City, Oklahoma, and back to the Omaha site of the 1879 trial of Chief Standing Bear. The chief and his tribe became the first Native Americans to be recognized as people under the law in the federal court decision.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union says Lincoln police have settled a lawsuit filed on behalf of the web-based magazine Slate for access to investigative reports about an alleged rape in 2004.

The ACLU of Nebraska said Monday that Slate is dropping the lawsuit and the woman who reported being raped will be able to review findings from the police investigation, including the results of a rape test she underwent.

The lawsuit was filed in December in Lancaster County District Court by the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic at Yale Law School and the ACLU on behalf of Slate.

A Lincoln police spokeswoman says Police Chief Jim Peschong (peh-SHAWNG’) is in union negotiations and can’t immediately comment about the settlement.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 26-year-old man has been arrested, accused of fatally shooting another Lincoln man.

Lincoln police spokeswoman Katie Flood said Monday that 26-year-old Danny Tucker has been booked into jail on a murder allegation. Jail records say Tucker remained in custody. Online court records don’t list the name of his attorney.

Flood says Tucker is suspected of killing 31-year-old Earl Richardson III. The shooting occurred late Friday night at a home about a miles east of downtown Lincoln. Richardson was pronounced dead at the scene.

KIMBERLING CITY, Mo. (AP) — The body of a 30-year-old Nebraska woman was found in a Missouri lake two days after she went missing.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol says Sara Deines, of Lincoln, Nebraska, disappeared Friday evening at Table Rock Lake near Kimberling City while diving with a group.

Sgt. Terry Sanders says Deines was separated from a diving partner after she went under water with 40 minutes of air. Rescue officials were called when she did not resurface with only 20 minutes of air remaining.

An investigation into the drowning is continuing.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Federal assistance is available to northeast Nebraska producers who lost livestock in the June tornadoes.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is offering $100,000 to producers to help them properly dispose of animal carcasses. Producers have until July 18 to apply.

The USDA can also provide technical assistance in safely disposing the carcasses.

The assistance is available through the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service. Producers in Stanton, Wayne, Dixon, Thurston, Cuming and Cedar counties may be eligible. Other counties may be added if other storms hit before the July 18 deadline.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln police say a woman was stabbed in the face and abdomen after an early morning argument.

Police were called to a stabbing report at an apartment around 5 a.m. Sunday.

Lincoln Police Capt. Michon Morrow says a woman was stabbed multiple times. Morrow says a witness tried to intervene and suffered a bite on his chin and small cuts from the knife before the suspect fled on foot.

Morrow says the woman’s injuries were not life-threatening. She underwent surgery Sunday morning.

Police have identified a suspect but are not releasing a name. Morrow says the suspect violated a protection order by entering the apartment.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police and the FBI are investigating an armed bank robbery involving four to six suspects.

Police say officers were called to the robbery at Five Points Bank at 10:45 a.m. on Saturday. According to police, four to six males entered the bank dressed in black tops and black pants, and two of the suspects had hand guns.

Police say the suspects took an undisclosed amount of cash and ran out the bank’s east doors.