DENVER (AP) — Union Pacific plans to close a repair facility in Denver and shift more than 200 jobs elsewhere because of the sharp decline in coal demand.

The railroad told workers at its Burnham Shop repair yard this week that the facility will close on Feb. 14.

Union Pacific spokeswoman Calli Hite says the number of coal trains originating in Colorado has declined 80 percent since 2005.

The Omaha, Nebraska-based railroad plans to keep about 90 workers at another Denver facility. The other 210 workers can transfer or accept a severance package.

Hite says other Union Pacific shops in North Platte and South Morrill, Nebraska, and in North Little Rock, Arkansas, will take over the locomotive repairs that had been done in Denver.

TECUMSEH, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Attorney General’s Office and the Johnson County Attorney say charges have been filed against five inmates in connection with a May riot at the prison in Tecumseh that left two inmates dead.

In a news release issued Thursday, the attorney general’s office said the five inmates charged face counts ranging from making terroristic threats to assault.

No one has yet been charged in the deaths of two sex offenders who were found dead at the prison once order was restored following the May 10 riot. The riot also left two guards and four inmates injured.

Officials said Thursday that property crimes and the homicides committed in the riot are still under investigation and additional charges may be forthcoming.

Two North Platte man are in jail on burglary charges after police caught them burglarizing a home.

At around 11:32 pm, on November 18, officers from the North Platte Police Department responded to the report of a burglary in progress in the 600 block of East 9th Street.  A neighbor contacted police after they thought they heard someone breaking into the house.

Police arrived and made contact with two suspects, Michael Davis and David Wehtje, who were standing near a car parked behind the residence.

Officers investigated and discovered that the duo had forced their way into the residence, then ransacked it and took items belonging to the victim.

According to police, items from the residence were found inside the vehicle Davis and Wehtje were standing by.

It was determined that there was probable cause to arrest both men for felony burglary.

They were transported to the Lincoln County Detention Center and jailed.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Supreme Court Justice Michael McCormack is set to retire after 18 years of service.

The judicial branch announced Wednesday that McCormack will step down effective Jan. 1.

McCormack was appointed to the bench in 1997 by then-Gov. Ben Nelson. He served as a deputy public defender in Douglas County after his graduation from Creighton University’s law school in 1963, and worked as a private practice lawyer from 1966 to 1997.

McCormack represents the fourth judicial district, encompassing portions of Sarpy and Douglas counties.

Justice Kenneth Stephan retired from the court in July, and Gov. Pete Ricketts chose Lancaster County District Judge Stephanie Stacy to replace him.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A new state savings program designed to help people with disabilities is set to launch next year.

State Treasurer Don Stenberg said Thursday that the Achieving a Better Life Experience program will be operational by summer 2016. First National Bank of Omaha will manage the program, which allows residents with certain disabilities to create tax-advantaged savings accounts.

Stenberg says the Nebraska ABLE program will be one of the first of its kind in the nation to become operational. The treasurer’s office will oversee the program.

The program allows adults with intellectual disabilities and their families to save for medical, housing and educational needs. In past years, disabled adults could have lost Medicaid coverage and Social Security benefits if they accumulated more than $2,000 in assets.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s largest refugee settlement agency says it will continue to help Syrians who are seeking asylum despite concerns raised by Gov. Pete Ricketts.

Lutheran Family Services says it will honor the governor’s request to suspend working with Syrians who wish to come to the country as refugees. But the group said that doesn’t prevent it from aiding Syrians who arrive by other means.

Ruth Henneman, the group’s vice president of development, says that includes helping Syrian families who have sought asylum in Nebraska since civil war engulfed their country in 2011. The organization has helped 10 such Syrians in the past three years.

Ricketts has asked the state’s resettlement organizations to halt efforts to bring Syrian refugees to Nebraska until security concerns are addressed.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A group of University of Nebraska-Lincoln students has launched a campaign to raise awareness about beer sales in Whiteclay, a Nebraska town on the border of an officially dry South Dakota Indian reservation.

A journalism class of 120 students is promoting the project to focus on social justice and human rights issues in the media.

Whiteclay sold the equivalent of nearly 4 million cans of beer last year despite having about a dozen residents. Most of the customers come from the neighboring Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where alcohol possession is illegal.

Rebekka Schlichting, a graduate teaching assistant for the class, says the project is designed to educate people and draw the attention of state and national governments.

A crash involving two semis closed a portion of Interstate 80 for about two hours and sent three people to the hospital on Wednesday evening.

According to the Nebraska State Patrol, a semitrailer was traveling westbound near the Maxwell interchange when it went across the median, just after 6:00 pm, and collided with a truck that was traveling eastbound.

Troopers say three people sustained injuries and were transported to the hospital, one was transported by helicopter with “serious” injuries.

The crash remains under investigation and the names of those involved have not been released.

Authorities say the eastbound lanes of the Interstate were closed for about two hours while debris from the crash was cleaned up.