(AP) — A judge has dismissed a libel lawsuit filed by a Nebraska farmer against an inspector of organic food.

Lancaster County District Judge Paul Merritt Jr. last week granted a summary judgment sought by Evrett Lunquist, of Raymond. Lunquist had been sued by Paul Rosberg, of Wausa (WAH’-sah).

Lunquist performed inspections at Rosberg’s farm from 2003 until 2007 and reported Rosberg for suspected fraud to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Rosberg sued Lunquist after an official from the USDA’s National Organic Program mistakenly included Lunquist’s name in a report about the allegations.

Rosberg, who said Thursday that he is appealing revocation of his organic certification, says in his lawsuit that Lunquist misrepresented facts about the operation to the USDA.

Rosberg says he intends to seek reconsideration of Merritt’s ruling.

(AP) — Authorities say a 73-year-old man has died after a collision between a tractor and a semitrailer tanker truck on a rural highway in northeast Nebraska.

The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department says the accident occurred Wednesday about a mile northwest of Foster on Nebraska Highway 13.

The southbound tractor driven by Dallas Oestreich, of rural Hadar, turned onto the highway and collided with the tanker. The department says Oestreich died while being taken to an Omaha hospital.

The truck driver was identified as 60-year-old Richard Myers Jr., of Norfolk. He was taken to a Norfolk hospital.

The highway was closed while spilled diesel fuel was cleaned up.

(AP) — Nearly three months after a twister blasted through Moore, Okla., and destroyed two elementary schools, students are going back to class.

And although many families are ready to return to a familiar routine, parents and teachers say many children in the Oklahoma City suburb have fears that are still fresh and a lot more healing to do.

One young girl is so afraid of the wind that she carries headphones to block out the noise. Other kids are traumatized by memories of their narrow escape and friends who died just a few feet away from them.

Classes resume Friday in temporary buildings until Plaza Towers Elementary and Briarwood Elementary are rebuilt. The May 20 tornado killed 24 people and wrecked scores of homes and businesses.

(AP) — The Navy and NASA have completed their first tests showcasing how they’ll recover astronauts from the ocean following future missions to deep space.

On Thursday, a team of Navy divers and the crew of the USS Arlington retrieved a mock-up of the Orion space capsule from waters at Naval Station Norfolk.

The Navy hasn’t been used to recover astronauts since 1975, when the USS New Orleans recovered the Apollo spacecraft. After that, astronauts began returning to Earth via the space shuttle. Once the space shuttle program was shuttered, U.S. astronauts began hitching rides aboard a Russian rocket that lands in a Kazakhstan desert.

Unlike in past recovery efforts, the Navy didn’t use helicopters to retrieve Orion. Instead, a winch pulled the spacecraft into the Arlington’s well deck.