Senior U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon ruled Brienne Splittgerber didn’t have enough evidence and dismissed her lawsuit, the Lincoln Journal Star reported.

“There is no evidence in the record, other than plaintiff’s bare hearsay and foundationless assertions, that the physical standards are medically inappropriate or that the examining physician inappropriately conducted the examination,” Bataillon wrote.

Splittgerber sued in 2017, alleging that she had to undergo a vaginal and rectal physical examination to check for a hernia and hemorrhoids before being hired in 2015. The exam was performed by a male doctor the state patrol selected, and men weren’t required to go through the examination, the lawsuit said.

Splittgerber complained to her superiors after being told by her family doctor that there was no legitimate medical purpose for the exam. She was told an investigation was underway but was disturbed that female patrol candidates from subsequent recruitment classes continued to be sent to the same doctor to submit to the exams, the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit also alleged that the state patrol tried to cover up wrongdoing and created a hostile work environment for Splittgerber after she complained. Splittgerber resigned from the patrol in May.

Bataillon said there was no evidence that similar exams weren’t conducted on male candidates. He said there was also no evidence of a hostile work environment or a cover-up, noting that a report about the complaint was issued and policy was adjusted to allow job candidates to request a doctor of a specific gender or have their own doctor perform the exam.

“We desperately need the supplemental funding,” Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said, citing hurricane damage to Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida last fall and flood damage at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska this month.

The call for emergency funding comes amid debate between the Trump administration and Congress over the White House’s proposal to repurpose billions of dollars in military construction money to help extend a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The money sought by the Air Force — $1.2 billion this year and $3.7 billion in the 2020 and 2021 budget years — would have to be approved by Congress. Wilson said that if Congress does not take action by May or June the Air Force will have to put off dozens of construction and other improvement projects and perhaps take other cost-saving measures.

Tyndall, which is a fighter base, took a direct hit from Hurricane Michael last October. Offutt, home to U.S. Strategic Command headquarters, which oversees the nation’s nuclear forces, was damaged by Missouri River flooding.

The Marine Corps says it sustained about $3.5 billion in damage at Camp Lejeune and surrounding facilities in North Carolina from Hurricanes Michael and Florence. Gen. Robert Neller, commandant of the Marine Corps, wrote in a recent memo that a number of unexpected costs, including hurricane damage and unplanned deployments to the U.S.-Mexico border, are forcing the Marine Corps to cancel training exercises.

The assault took place Monday night at the Nebraska Correctional Services Department’s Diagnostic and Evaluation Center in Lincoln. The department says the inmate punched the staffer several times in the torso and head before other staff members could restrain the inmate.

The injured staff member’s injury was diagnosed Tuesday.

No names have been released. The incident is being investigated.

(AP)–Flooding that has hit parts of the Midwest hard has nearly paralyzed an American Indian reservation in southern South Dakota, swamping roads, trapping people in homes and cutting off water supplies to thousands.

The situation on the sprawling Pine Ridge Reservation was improving Tuesday, but two weeks of severe flooding could put the Oglala Sioux tribe in recovery mode for months, if not longer, and deal a serious blow to its economy, President Julian Bear Runner said.

“This is going to have a devastating effect on us, I feel,” he said. “The tribe is utilizing any and all of its resources to try to help the communities that have been impacted.”

The prairie reservation is roughly the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined and is home to nearly 20,000 people, about half living in poverty, according to U.S. Census Bureau statistics. Heavy snowfall and a rapid melt this month led to overland flooding, swollen creeks and rivers, swamped roads and broken water lines.

“Pine Ridge is like a desert when it comes to resources,” said Peri Pourier, a tribal member and state representative. “We’re using horses to get out to communities that are away from the main roads. We have elders out there that are just isolated.”

Bear Runner, 33, said it’s the worst flooding he has seen and that some tribal elders say they haven’t seen so much water since they were children. He said the tribe was still on the “borderline” of emergency Tuesday with floodwaters receding, but many tribal members still don’t have easy access “to pharmacies, medication, grocery stores, anything to help sustain themselves.”

The tribe estimates as many as 8,000 people have had water supplies disrupted and another 2,000 have been hampered or trapped by floodwaters. Three people who suffered medical problems died before ambulances slowed by floodwaters could get to them, the tribe said, though it released no other details.

Gov. Kristi Noem sent National Guard soldiers to the reservation over the weekend to help distribute drinking water after floodwaters washed out a rural waterline. The state also sent a water rescue team to help move some tribal residents from isolated homes.

The soldiers ended their work Monday after the water line was repaired and water service restored. They distributed about 9,500 gallons of water in seven communities.

The federal Bureau of Indian Affairs also has provided manpower and equipment. The agency didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on its efforts.

Bear Runner said the tribe hasn’t had time to estimate the amount of damage or detail what repairs will be needed.

“I’m hoping if the state and federal government help out to the best of their abilities in assisting us, I suppose we can have this (recovery) done in a matter of months,” he said. “But without necessary equipment, if we have to do it on our own, it could take up to a year.”

Also Tuesday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a statement saying it’s assessing two Superfund sites in states affected by the flooding. The EPA identified the Superfund sites as the Nebraska Ordnance Plant in Mead, Nebraska, and the Conservation Chemical Corporation in Kansas City, Missouri. Superfund is a law that gives the EPA funding and authority to clean up contaminated sites.

The Mead site operated as a munitions plant from 1942 to 1956 and its disposal of radioactive waste and other chemicals led to groundwater contamination. The EPA said it has not found evidence that any hazardous contaminants were released by the flooding.

The federal agency added that it will evaluate the sites further as floodwaters recede.

Elsewhere in the flood-fighting Midwest , levees shored up by sandbags were keeping the surging Missouri River at bay east of Kansas City. About 140 volunteers were sandbagging to protect a school in Norborne, Missouri. The Mississippi River was expected to flood some parks and railroad tracks as it crested Tuesday in Hannibal, Missouri.

Flooding along the Missouri River and its tributaries has caused at least $3 billion in damage and contributed to at least three deaths. Floodwaters are receding but the National Weather Service forecast says significant rain is possible later in the week.

To the north, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday said people should be on guard for localized flooding but that ideal snowmelt conditions have lessened fears of catastrophic flooding.

“I don’t want anybody to let their guard down (but) when it comes to the actual boots on the ground and the organization, very confident,” Walz said of flood preparations.

The weather service is expecting moderate to major flooding in the Red River Basin of northwestern Minnesota and eastern North Dakota, and sandbag-filling efforts are underway in the Fargo-Moorhead metro area. However, the two cities have implemented significant flood-fighting measures in the last decade.

“If we had the same water levels (in Moorhead) that we had back in 2011, we would need (3 million) sandbags today to protect that critical infrastructure,” Walz said. “We need a little over 100,000 now.”

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — University of Nebraska President Hank Bounds is stepping down from his position and leaving the state late this summer, the university announced Monday.

Bounds, a Mississippi native, said in a statement that he plans to return to the South with his family after four years at the university’s helm.

“While rewarding, this job has also been personally demanding,” Bounds said. “I have done everything I could to serve our students and the people of Nebraska effectively. Now it’s time to recharge and reconnect with my family.”

Bounds gave no indication of what his next job might be. He previously served as commissioner of higher education for the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning.

Bounds became the University of Nebraska’s seventh president in April 2015, overseeing a campus with 52,000 students with campuses in Lincoln, Omaha, Kearney and Curtis. He replaced J.B. Milliken, who left to become chancellor of the City University of New York.

University of Nebraska Regents Chairman Tim Clare thanked Bounds for his service and said the regents were “despondent” to see him go. Clare said the regents tried to persuade Bounds to stay, but understood and appreciated his decision “to put family first.”

“He was a tireless leader who always put the university’s interests first,” Clare said. “Hank was the right person, at the right time, for our university, and we will forever be indebted for his great work.”

Regent Jim Pillen said Bounds’ departure will be a loss for the state, but thanked him for putting the university in a strong position for the future.

Under Bounds, student enrollment reached a record-high of 53,000 in 2017 and the university experienced record graduation rates. Bounds launched a “Commit to Complete” initiative in 2016 to help students graduate on time so they could join the workforce sooner with as little debt as possible.