RALSTON, Neb. (AP) — An early morning crash into an apartment building in the Omaha suburb of Ralston led police to the body of a 23-year-old man in a nearby garage.

The crash happened around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, when a pickup truck smashed into the garage. The driver — and sole occupant of the truck — suffered only minor injuries.

But apartment managers cleaning debris from the crash site hours later discovered the body of Jessi Domingo in a nearby garage, bringing police back to the scene.

Police are investigating the cause of Domingo’s death and whether it was connected to the crash.

U.S. regulators have approved a more convenient version of a blockbuster drug for treating three common blood cancers.

The Roche Group’s Rituxan, on the market for 20 years, is administered in a hospital or clinic through an intravenous drip that can take several hours.

On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration approved the Swiss drugmaker’s new version, Rituxan Hycela (RIH’-tux-en HEYE’-cell-uh). It’s injected in about six minutes, shortening clinic visits.

It’s given every three weeks for six months to treat diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, for a total cost of about $48,600 without insurance — the same as for Rituxan.

Rituxan Hycela also was approved for treating follicular lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Rituxan, which will still be available, is Roche’s top seller. It had 2016 sales of $7.5 billion.

LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a man suspected of shooting at a Kansas state trooper has been arrested in south-central Nebraska.

The Dawson County Sheriff’s Office says 39-year-old Richard Gathercole, of San Jacinto, California, was arrested early Tuesday morning at a gas station on the south side of Lexington. A sheriff’s deputy had spotted a pickup truck that Kansas authorities had said was stolen by a man who’d fired at the trooper Monday along Interstate 70 near Goodland. The trooper wasn’t hit.

It’s unclear what led to the shooting. A Kansas Bureau of Investigation representative didn’t immediately return a call Wednesday.

Gathercole is charged in Nebraska with theft and with possession of stolen firearms. He remains in Dawson County Jail on Wednesday. Nebraska court records don’t list the name of his attorney.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska county election commissioner will serve as the state’s new deputy secretary of state for elections.

Sarpy County Election Commissioner Wayne Bena will replace Neal Erickson, who retired in December 2016 after 22 years with the secretary of state’s office. Secretary of State John Gale announced the appointment Wednesday.

Bena will report to Gale, the state’s chief elections officer, starting Sept. 1.

Bena has served as Sarpy County election commissioner since 2010. His new role will include managing the secretary of state’s elections division and coordinating with 93 county election officials, among other duties.

Bena was appointed Sarpy County election commissioner in 2010 by then-Gov. Dave Heineman and reappointed in 2014. Election commissioners are appointed in counties with more than 100,000 residents. Gov. Pete Ricketts will appoint Bena’s replacement.

TECUMSEH, Neb. (AP) — An attorney for an inmate accused of strangling his cellmate has asked a judge to declare Nebraska’s death penalty unconstitutional.

Concerns over the lethal injection procedure are among the 11 arguments in a motion filed Monday by Todd Lancaster, attorney for Patrick Schroeder.

Capital punishment was repealed in 2015 but recently reinstated by voters.

The move prompted a delay in Schroeder’s arraignment that was set for Tuesday.

Schroeder has been serving a life sentence for murder but now also faces a potential death sentence for allegedly choking cellmate Terry Berry Jr. to death in April at the Tecumseh State Prison.

Lancaster says the state’s death penalty is racially and geographically discriminatory. He says the decision to seek it is arbitrary because it’s left to individual county attorneys.

NEW YORK (AP) — The flu vaccine was ineffective in protecting older Americans last winter against the illness, even though the vaccine was well-matched to the flu bugs going around.

U.S. health officials on Wednesday released new vaccine data. They showed the vaccine did a so-so job overall— it was about 42 percent effective in preventing illness severe enough to send a patient to a doctor’s office.

But it did a poor job protecting some age groups. That includes people 65 and older — the group that’s hardest hit by flu, suffering the most deaths and hospitalizations.

The data were presented at a medical meeting in Atlanta. Annual flu shots are recommended for virtually all Americans age 6 months or older.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A number of private colleges in Nebraska and Iowa have come up with creative ways to compete for new students due to the number of high school graduates leveling off nationwide.

National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities spokesman says the fairly flat numbers of prospective students mean colleges are competing harder to boost enrollments.

To help attract students, the College of St. Mary in Omaha has dropped the tuition price for this coming school year by 33 percent, to just under $20,000.

The college says a price of more than $30,000 would scare off potential students.

College spokeswoman Sarah Kottich says since the reduction, applications and deposits at the school are up by 15 percent over any of the past three years.

LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) — Testimony has resumed in a lawsuit that alleges religious and other bias on the part of a south-central Nebraska apartment owner and his property manager.

The trial began Monday in Lexington for Gerald Rich, owner of the Cottonwood Apartments complex, and his property manager, Laurie Reinick. The state attorney general’s office filed the action in November 2015. Among the allegations: The two disparaged the tenants’ national origin and their Muslim religion, entered the apartments at unreasonable hours and without notice, didn’t do repairs and charged the tenants for damage they didn’t cause.

The defense attorney said in his opening remarks Monday that there was no discrimination, that landlord-tenant disputes are common and that the allegations against Rich and Reinick have been blown out of proportion.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Gov. Pete Ricketts plans to lead a trade delegation to Canada in August to promote business relationships with Nebraska.

Ricketts announced the trade mission Tuesday with state agriculture and economic development officials. He’s encouraging agricultural and business leaders to considering joining the trip.

Officials say roughly one-fifth of Nebraska’s exports go to Canada. Ricketts describes Canada as the state’s best customer.

The trip comes at an uncertain time for the North American Free Trade Agreement between the U.S., Mexico and Canada. The Trump administration has said it wants to rework the agreement. Ricketts says he hopes to hear any of the concerns Canadian officials might have.

Ricketts also plans to visit Japan in September on a trade mission that will include the Midwest U.S.-Japan Association’s annual conference.

CHADRON, Neb. (AP) — A western Nebraska judge has ordered a Chadron-area mental health therapist to pay more than $300,000 to the state for improper Medicaid billing.

A Dawes County District Court judge on Tuesday ordered Anna Young to pay after the Nebraska Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud and Patient Abuse Unit found she had billed Nebraska Medicaid nearly $103,000 for mental health services. The Attorney General’s office says Young admitted to knowingly failing to maintain documentation to support the submission of the claims, as required by law.

She was ordered to repay triple the amount she billed to Medicaid, per the Nebraska False Medicaid Claims Act.

Officials say Young submitted the claims while employed by Ann Brost Counseling Agency. Brost settled a separate action with the state that stemmed from the same incident.