(AP) — Authorities in southeast Nebraska are trying to identify the body of a man found on the bank of the Missouri River.

The Nemaha County Sheriff’s Office says people fishing by the river north of Peru found the body Sunday. It’s unclear how long the body was in the water.

Sheriff Brent Lottman says deputies have contacted authorities in surrounding communities along Nebraska and Iowa to help identify the man. He declined to release additional information.

An autopsy has been ordered on the body, which was found two miles north of the Peru boat dock.

(AP) — The reward being offered to track down a man who tried to kidnap an 8-year-old girl from her bedroom in suburban Denver has been doubled to $20,000.

Police said Tuesday that a car dealership has added up to $10,000 to the reward previously offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect.

The attempted abduction happened just after midnight Monday. Investigators say the girl screamed for help and was able to get away from the abductor just as her father ran outside to help her.

Police say the investigation remains very active and that detectives are following up on numerous leads.

(AP) — A research report says states can combat rising prison health care costs by expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, outsourcing and other measures.

The report released Tuesday by Pew Charitable Trusts says that correctional health care spending in the 42 states examined grew by an average of 52 percent between 2001 and 2008.

The report relied on numbers from the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, The year 2008 was the most recent available.

Researchers listed four ways that states could reduce those costs, including Medicaid expansion. Under that method, health care inside prison walls wouldn’t be covered but treatment provided to prisoners at hospitals would be eligible for reimbursement.

Critics of expansion say states shouldn’t transfer the responsibility for prisoner care to the federal government.

(AP) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pressing for a four-year delay to changes to the federal government’s flood insurance program that are threatening to sock thousands of people with unaffordable premium hikes.

The move comes as the government is beginning to implement a significant overhaul of the much-criticized program that passed last year with sweeping support. The reforms were backed by both liberals and tea party conservatives but have caused a panic in places like Staten Island and the New Jersey coast and in flood-prone areas along the Gulf Coast, where higher rates threaten to push some people out of their homes.

The new rules have sent some home values plummeting because of uncertainty over rates and because subsidized rates can’t be passed along to buyers.

(AP) — The Nebraska Roads Department and public transit agencies in Webster County, Franklin County and Guide Rock will hold public information meetings to discuss a pilot program for coordinating services to Kearney, Grand Island and Hastings.

Officials will describe the service changes for the pilot program and take comments.

All three 90-minute meetings will be held on Nov. 5.

The first begins at 9 a.m. at the Franklin County Senior Center in Franklin. The second begins at 12:30 p.m. at the Elm Street Center in Red Cloud and the last begins at 3 p.m. at the Village Meeting Room in Guide Rock.

(AP) — Authorities say two robbers broke into a Ralston apartment and fatally shot a woman.

Police say officers were dispatched to the Orleans Square Apartments just before 11:45 p.m. Monday. The apartments are about a block north of Ralston Middle School.

Ralston Police Chief Ron Murtaugh says 32-year-old Aimee Kearns and another person were in her apartment when the men broke in and demanded money. Murtaugh says Kearns was shot but the other person wasn’t. Murtaugh wouldn’t identify that person.

Police have a description of a car seen leaving the scene. No arrests have been reported.

(AP) — A 31-year-old Milford woman is scheduled for a November trial on two counts of felony perjury.

Betsy Smith has pleaded not guilty in York County District Court.

Prosecutors say Smith sought a protection order against a York man, saying he was going “to slit her throat.” She later acknowledged under oath that the man had never threatened to hurt her.

Prosecutors also say Smith lied in a deposition for a criminal case and provided police with false information so they’d start a criminal investigation.

Her trial is set to begin Nov. 13.

(AP) — Senate Republicans and Democrats are debating the merits of state stand your ground laws, with Democrats urging a review and Republicans saying the policy is a matter of self-defense.

Under the gaze of Trayvon Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, Sen. Dick Durbin opened the hearing by saying the laws have been abused and urging Congress to consider how the policy would affect other gun legislation. Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz said the laws make possible the right to self defense.

At least 22 states have some form of the law, which generally cancels a person’s duty to retreat in the face of a serious physical threat.

The 17-year-old Martin, who was unarmed, was shot in 2012. A jury acquitted George Zimmerman earlier this year, sparking racial tension and debate over the laws.

(AP) — At least two Lincoln retailers have provided lounges for their customers to sample varieties of e-cigarettes.

Co-owner Greg Kimble at Lincoln Vapor says the lounge has been a popular feature for the “vapers,” as e-cigarette smokers are known.

The devices deliver nicotine through water vapor, rather than through tobacco smoke. Users can buy different flavorings for the cigarettes and can vary the amount of nicotine delivered in each puff.

Big Red Vapor Pleasures owner, Chad Svoboda, said the vapers “just like to hang out in our lounge area, talk vape and watch TV.”

(AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers says it expects higher-than-usual runoff in the Missouri River basin next year, but the system of dams along the river will still have minimum flows to recover from drought last year.

The corps says wet soil conditions from abnormally high precipitation in the upper basin this fall are expected to cause monthly runoff records for the Oahe (oh-AW’-hee) and Fort Randall areas this October. Total runoff for this year above Sioux City, Iowa, is expected to rank among the top five wettest years.

But despite the wet conditions, reservoirs still are below desired levels due to the 2012 drought, and the system is still expected to support less than full-service navigation downstream next year.