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The Freeman Public Schools district board will be asking voters to approve a nearly $5 million bond measure.

Flooding along the Missouri River has closed several roads Nebraska residents use to cross it, such as Highway 2 into Nebraska City.

Gov. Dave Heineman's request for federal disaster declaration includes 18 counties that border the Missouri River or the Platte River.

The counties likely to suffer flood damage along the Missouri River in Iowa and Nebraska aren't the top corn producers in their respective states, but they have yielded corn at approximately their states' averages.