LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The developer of the Keystone XL pipeline is reversing course in Nebraska and will drop its eminent domain lawsuits against landowners who don’t want the pipeline running through their property.  TransCanada Inc. announced Tuesday that it will stop pushing for the project under a state law that’s now being challenged in the courts.  The company says it will instead seek approval through the Nebraska Public Service Commission, an agency that regulates pipelines, warehouses and grain bins.

TransCanada won approval from former Gov. Dave Heineman, but the state law that allowed him to do so remains mired in court.  TransCanada spokesman Mark Cooper says the company believes that applying through the commission will reduce the local conflicts.

Jane Kleeb, a leading pipeline opponent, says the company was losing ground in Nebraska.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska officials say they are willing to offer ConAgra Foods economic incentives to persuade the company to keep its headquarters in Omaha.  Gov. Pete Ricketts tells the Omaha World-Herald he has talked to ConAgra CEO Sean Connolly about a possible new state aid package.

Company employees and investors are waiting to hear what changes Connolly plans at the packaged food company.  He told shareholders that the company would likely announce job cuts and some reorganization moves this week.  ConAgra is expected to cut jobs in Omaha and expand its presence in Chicago.

Omaha leaders are concerned that the company headquarters might move as well.  The company has around 3,000 employees at the headquarters campus in Omaha, in Lincoln and across the Missouri River in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal appeals court will not reconsider its decision that an abortion opponent must stand trial over a letter she sent to a Wichita doctor saying someone might place an explosive under her car.

The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected on Tuesday a move seeking either a rehearing by the three-judge panel or by the full court.

A three-judge appeals panel ruled in July that the decision about whether anti-abortion activist Angel Dillard’s letter constituted a “true threat” should be left to a jury.

The Justice Department sued Dillard in 2011 for sending the letter to Dr. Mila Means, who had been training to offer abortions. At the time, no doctor was performing abortions in Wichita in the wake of Dr. George Tiller’s murder by an anti-abortion zealo

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska attorney general’s office is objecting to a new effort by a civil liberties group to have both same-sex spouses listed as parents on their children’s birth certificates.

State attorneys argued in a news release Tuesday that plaintiffs in the case are adding statements from couples who were not part of their original lawsuit and claiming additional rights not addressed in the original filings. The original lawsuit challenged Nebraska’s same-sex marriage ban.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska asked a judge last week to order state officials to list both spouses on birth certificates. The group says the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services has refused to provide married gay couples with birth certificates for their children on the same conditions as married straight couples

O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Police in the St. Louis suburb of O’Fallon say three boys are believed to be responsible for spray-painting offensive drawings, swastikas and other graffiti on dozens of vehicles, garage doors, mail boxes and driveways.

All told, there were 46 victims in the Monticello subdivision of O’Fallon on the morning of Sept. 20. Two of the boys were arrested and turned over to juvenile authorities. The third hasn’t been taken into custody. One of the boys is 13, the other two are 14.

The boys do not live in O’Fallon but were spending the night at the home of a relative. In addition to damage at homes, street signs, fencing, landscaping lights and a fire hydrant were defaced.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Five California teenagers have been arrested in Nebraska, suspected of operating an ATM fraud scheme.

The five remained at the Lancaster County youth detention center Monday after their arrests Friday.

Court documents say Pinnacle Bank staffers found on three of its ATMs electronic devices that surreptitiously record bank card numbers and PIN information.

Lincoln Police Chief Jim Peschong says forgers use the information to create new cards for looting the accounts.   Police staked out the ATMs and soon arrested two boys who’d returned to remove the devices.

Cellphone information led police to the three other teens.  Investigators suspect the five might be tied to a national criminal enterprise composed mainly of Romanian citizens.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A conservative group is launching an advertising campaign against Missouri Republican lawmakers who don’t support right to work.

Television ads paid for by Americans for Prosperity began running in Rep. Kathie Conway’s district Tuesday.

The St. Charles Republican didn’t immediately return requests for comment.

At issue are Republican House members such as Conway who helped defeat a measure that would bar mandatory union fees in Missouri. It fell 13 votes short of a veto override in the House earlier his month.

The advertisements generally attempt to tie House Republicans who voted against right to work to Democratic President Barack Obama, who also opposes it. One ad urges voters to call Conway and ask her to support the measure.