FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say one person is dead following a rollover crash on Highway 275 near Fremont in eastern Nebraska.

Local media reports that the crash happened Saturday afternoon.

Witnesses told investigators that a driver was weaving in and out of traffic on the highway between Freemont and Valley. Investigators believe the driver passed a vehicle on the shoulder of the highway, crossed two lanes of traffic, went into the median and rolled.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says the driver was thrown from the car and was found dead on the side of the road.

Authorities have not yet identified the person killed.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Rod Bates, longtime general manager of Nebraska Educational Telecommunications, has announced he will retire next year.

Bates is only the second leader in the statewide public broadcaster’s 58-year history. He was hired when the network’s founding general manager, Jack McBride, retired in 1996.

Bates said Friday he plans to retire on March 31.

As general manager, Bates is in charge of a staff of more than 200 employees with an annual budget of $22 million from state, federal and private sources. He is also the director of University Television and the general manager for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s station, KUON-TV.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped an assault on an officer charge against a man already serving prison time for two rapes and robberies in Lincoln.

Local media reports that a third-degree charge of assault on an officer was dismissed Wednesday against Armon Dixon. The decision came a month after Dixon was sentenced to 80 to 140 years for raping woman during a home invasion in 2009.

Dixon is also serving a 70- to 120-year sentence for raping a convenience store clerk in 2009 during a robbery.

Authorities say Dixon lunged for the gun of a police investigator who had been questioning him in 2009 about the rapes and robberies. Prosecutors say the assault charge was dismissed because prosecuting Dixon again wouldn’t be worth the cost.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln Public Schools has agreed to pay a former middle school student and his parents $30,000 after a classroom stunt left the student with a broken wrist.

Local media reports that the settlement comes in a lawsuit filed by a mother on behalf of her son, who was an eighth-grader at Irving Middle School in 2009 when his wrist was broken in a social studies class.

The lawsuit says the boy’s teacher was leading the class in a game in which the boy lay on the floor and two others tried to lift and heave him into the air. The exercise was an attempt to demonstrate the operation of a catapult.

A school district official says the activity is no longer performed in the class.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Fremont man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for a wire fraud conviction that cost banks and insurance companies in Nebraska and Iowa millions of dollars.

Thomas Herink was sentenced Thursday in Omaha’s U.S. District Court. In addition to prison, Herink was given three years of supervised probation following his release and ordered to repay more than $5 million to his victims.

U.S. Attorney Deborah Gilg says Herink falsified financial statements for his golf course construction company to defraud lenders and insurers.

Gilg says Herink carried out the scheme in order to participate in large construction contracts throughout the country. Prosecutors say when Herink defaulted on some of the projects, the banks and insurance companies lost more than $8 million.

HEMINGFORD, Neb. (AP) — The western Nebraska town of Hemingford has worked out an agreement with the IRS to pay off delinquent payroll withholding taxes owed by the Hemingford Community Care Center.

Local media says that an audit earlier this year found the city-owned nursing home was two years behind on its payroll taxes. Including interest and penalties, the city owed about $250,000.

But the management company that operates the nursing home for Hemingford negotiated a payment for $101,000.

Half will be paid off with a six-month, 4.75 percent interest bank loan. The remainder will be paid off by the village at a rate of $5,000 a month.

The management company blamed the delinquent taxes on problems using the IRS electronic transfer service.