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A cooler air mass rolling into eastern Nebraska and southwest Iowa will drop high temperatures into the near-normal range.

With their new authority, board members could have levied up to 9 cents beyond the state-imposed $1.05 levy limit for general fund expenditures. But during the override campaign, school board members said they did not want to exceed 4 cents.

The Elkhorn Public Schools board voted Monday night to hire an additional school resource officer who would split time among three of the district’s middle schools.

About 2,000 people will attend, making it the biggest such conference in recent years, said John Nelson, marketing director for BBI International, which sponsors the annual event and publishes Ethanol Producer magazine.

Elkhorn stuck to its playbook of geographically based names Monday night, when the school board voted 5-0 to christen the new school Elkhorn North High School. Board member Aaron Clark was not present.

The up to $4,500 in grants are efforts by the Nebraska Community Energy Alliance to see whether such rebates might get more people off the fence and buying electric vehicles.

Once again, Warren Buffett and a famous visitor ended up in a selfie and prompted a social media frenzy.

Markese L. Davis' arrest was made in connection with the June 2 shooting death of Jasmine Harris, 20, in downtown Omaha, according to Omaha police. Harris was an innocent bystander in a gang-related conflict that occurred shortly before midnight.

Authorities believe the barber alerted Richodd Mackins that Johnson was at the barbershop. Mackins is accused of fatally shooting Marcus Johnson in retaliation for a fight the two had outside a Bellevue bar four days earlier.