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stage one restrictions since late March.
• The Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands are located in central and western Nebraska and western South Dakota. The area is made up of two national forests, three national grasslands and a tree nursery.
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• HOUSTON (AP) -- The Army Corps of Engineers has approved part of a Canadian company's plan to build an oil pipeline along the Texas Gulf Coast.
• The corps said in a letter Monday that TransCanada has approval for a 115-mile portion of pipeline near Galveston. The company still needs approval for two other sections of the 485-mile line designed to transport oil to Texas refineries.

• TransCanada is pursuing this portion of the pipeline as it awaits federal approval for Keystone XL, a more ambitious plan to build a cross-border 1,700-mile pipeline to carry oil from Canada's Alberta region to Texas refineries. The proposal has hit several roadblocks, and the company is rerouting the line to avoid an environmentally sensitive area of Nebraska.
• If that is approved, the two pipelines will connect.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says a Canton man has been sentenced to prison for bank fraud.
• Thirty-eight-year-old Mark Ross was sentenced to 30 months in prison and five years of supervised release. He also was ordered to pay more than $52,000 in restitution. Ross pleaded guilty to the charge in April
• Prosecutors say Ross used checks by another person without their consent to open up an account with Home Federal Bank and deposit money. He withdrew funds and passed checks from the same account.
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