SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) — A northeast Nebraska renewable energy plant is facing more than $50,000 in fines from safety regulators.

The citations and subsequent fines follow a six-month Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigations at the Big Ox Energy plant in South Sioux City.

The investigation was spurred by worker exposure to hydrogen sulfide gas. OSHA investigators cited Big Box for a lack of protection, education and safety practices for employees.

Big Ox Energy spokesman Kevin Bradley says the company “responded immediately after being made aware of the issues, and we also brought in top experts to verify the facility was operating properly.”

Sewer odor issues blamed on the plant displaced as many as two dozen families at their height last fall.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a man accused of killing a deputy and wounding another while escaping from an Iowa county jail before being recaptured in Nebraska will be held at a different county jail once he returns to Iowa.

Twenty-three-year-old Wesley Correa-Carmenaty agreed to extradition during a hearing Thursday in Omaha.

Woodbury County Sheriff Dave Drew said Correa-Carmenaty will be held at his jail in Sioux City and that his officers will take great caution in handling him. Sioux City is 90 miles (145 kilometers) north of Council Bluffs, where Correa-Carmenaty escaped Monday.

Authorities say Correa-Carmenaty had just been sentenced to 45 years imprisonment in an unrelated case when he managed to grab one of the two deputies’ guns while being transferred the Council Bluffs jail.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police say a Lincoln man was arrested after two men fell out of the back of his pickup truck.

Court records say 33-year-old Jesse Rabago is charged with two felony counts of failing to stop and render aid. The records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for him.

Police say the two fell out of the pickup about 10 minutes apart at different locations in Lincoln on Tuesday night. One man was taken to a hospital for treatment of a brain bleed. The other also was treated for a head injury.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man accused of killing a deputy and wounding another while escaping from an Iowa jail before being recaptured in Nebraska is going back to Iowa to face charges.

Wesley Correa-Carmenaty agreed during a hearing in Omaha on Thursday to be extradited to Iowa to face charges of murder and attempted murder, among others.

Matthew Wilber, the head prosecutor for Iowa’s Pottawattamie County, says officials will likely wait until after the slain deputy’s funeral on Monday to retrieve Correa-Carmenaty. They have 10 days in which to do so.

Authorities say Correa-Carmenaty had just been sentenced to 45 years in prison in an unrelated case when he managed to grab one of the two deputies’ guns while being transferred to a Council Bluffs, Iowa, jail. He shot them both and used a van to escape but was recaptured across the state border in Omaha. d shoot them, killing one and wounding the other.

RAYMOND, Neb. (AP) — Rescue crews have saved a man trapped inside a southeast Nebraska grain elevator.

Officials were called shortly after 11 a.m. to the grain elevator in Raymond on reports of a man being stuck in the grain below the waist.

Officials say the man was in the middle of the bin in about 5 to 6 feet of grain, but was surrounded by walls of grain 20 feet high, which threatened to bury him if the grain collapsed.

Crews were able to cut hole on the side of the bin to get grain out. The man was freed after about two hours inside the bin.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An accountant has been accused of embezzling more than $310,000 while on the job in Lincoln.

Sarah Batenhorst is charged with stealing from the Nebraska Rural Electric Association, where she’d worked for more than 10 years. A federal court hearing for her is scheduled for Thursday. Her attorney didn’t immediately answer a message from The Associated Press.

Court documents say that between March 1, 2011, and Jan. 31, 2016, she defrauded the association by several means, including adjusting account ledgers to raise her salary for 2014, 2015 and 2016.

The association is a nonprofit organization for utilities providing electric service in rural areas and small towns in the state.

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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Court documents say the family of a 10-year-old boy who died on a giant waterslide at a Kansas water park will receive nearly $20 million in settlement payments.

$14 million of the payment to Caleb Schwab’s family will come from SVV 1 and KC Water Park. The two companies are associated with Texas-based water park company Schlitterbahn.

The rest of the money will come from the general contractor, the raft manufacturer and a company that consulted on the 17-story “Verruckt” waterslide that was dubbed the tallest in the world.

The waterslide at the park in Kansas City has been closed since Caleb’s death on Aug. 7, 2016.

The settlements were announced previously, but the amount involved wasn’t disclosed.

AURORA, Neb. (AP) — A Hamilton County sexual assault case against an Aurora man has been dismissed.

Court records say 41-year-old Ross Carstensen had pleaded not guilty to the charge of forcible sexual assault. An 18-year-old woman told police that she’d met a man on Facebook and that he raped her last October when they met at a park. Carstensen’s attorney has said the sex was consensual.

Court records say the prosecution moved for dismissal, which was granted by a judge Wednesday. The request didn’t cite a reason for the request. A spokeswoman for the Nebraska attorney general’s office, which handled the case, didn’t immediately return a call Thursday.

Because the case was dismissed without prejudice, it can be refiled.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska judge has set bail at $10 million for a man accused of shooting two Iowa deputies, one fatally, while escaping from jail earlier this week.

Wesley Correa-Carmenaty was surrounded by six officers Wednesday as the Omaha judge read off the Nebraska charges against him, including kidnapping, which carries a potential life sentence. Prosecutors allege that the 24-year-old carjacked a woman after escaping from the jail across the Missouri River in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and didn’t let her go until he drove to Omaha.

Correa-Carmenaty was being transported to the Council Bluffs jail Monday when officials say he managed to grab one of the deputies’ guns and shoot them both, killing Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Deputy Mark Burbridge.

He faces several other charges in Iowa, including murder and attempted murder.

SANTEE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 4-year-old boy was injured when he and his bike were struck by a police officer’s vehicle in northeast Nebraska.

The accident occurred Monday afternoon in Santee. The Knox County Sheriff’s Office says the boy rode the bike down a steep driveway into the vehicle path of Officer William Blevins, who works for the Santee Sioux tribal police. The officer’s view was blocked by shrubs.

The boy was flown to a hospital for treatment of a leg injury and a cut on his head. His name hasn’t been released.