RUSHVILLE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 21-year-old South Dakota man has been killed in the Nebraska crash of a sport utility vehicle.

The accident was reported around 4:10 p.m. Tuesday on Nebraska Highway 87, about 10 miles north of Rushville in the Nebraska Panhandle. The Nebraska State Patrol says the SUV driven by 25-year-old William Reddy, of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, went out of control on a curve and rolled.

The patrol says Reddy’s passenger, Michael Hawk, of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, was pronounced dead at the scene. Reddy has been hospitalized in Rapid City, South Dakota.

The crash is being investigated.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say some people helped sheriff’s deputies rescue 13 people from an apartment fire in Lincoln.

Lancaster County Deputy Sheriff Barry Barnett noticed smoke and reported the fire about six blocks southwest of the state Capitol around 7:15 a.m. Wednesday. He grabbed a fire extinguisher from his vehicle and ran toward flaming stairs leading to the second-story apartment.

Two more deputies soon joined him and two nearby men. Barnett says, “We could hear people screaming for help.”

One man aided occupants in the ground-level unit while Barnett battled flames on the stairs. But that escape route was blocked when the flames flared up. Barnett says the second-floor residents then climbed out a window onto a porch roof, where they were helped down to safety.

Two occupants were hospitalized for smoke inhalation.

ORLEANS, Neb. (AP) — An old high school and gymnasium on the southern border of Nebraska has been destroyed in a fire.

Orleans Volunteer Fire Chief Matt Massey said the building is a total loss after the early Tuesday morning. The building had sat vacant for years, and last spring, the south end of the building collapsed after heavy rains.

Massey says the fire was reported around 1:40 a.m. Tuesday, and arriving firefighters found the building fully engulfed in flames. Volunteer fire departments from Alma and Stamford were called to help.

No one was injured.

The Nebraska State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating the cause of the fire.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Firefighters and others have freed a worker trapped for nearly seven hours in a deep trench in west Omaha.

Officials say the worker became trapped when the walls of the 7- to 8-foot hole in a yard partially collapsed Tuesday, trapping the 23-year-old man’s legs. Temperatures during the ordeal ranged from about 20 to 30 degrees during the ordeal, leading to concerns that the worker could become hypothermic.

He was finally freed around 4 p.m. Tuesday.

Authorities say the man had been hired by the property owner to do sewer repair work.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal and state authorities have accused a Lincoln National Guardsman of producing pornography with a 16-year-old girl in Omaha.

37-year-old Matthew Rouse (rows) was named in a federal indictment unsealed Friday. Rouse also faces state porn charges in Douglas County. His attorney, John Berry, said Tuesday that Rouse will plead not guilty in both cases.

Authorities say Rouse went to an Omaha motel between Dec. 23 and Jan. 27 to meet the girl for sex, took video and then sent it to her.

A Guard spokesman, Lt. Col. Kevin Hynes, says Rouse is a master sergeant assigned to full-time work with the 92nd Troop Command in Lincoln. Hynes says Rouse has been placed on leave.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha man who robbed a Dunkin’ Donuts has been sentenced to prison by federal authorities who are helping local police deal with a jump in commercial robberies.

27-year-old Robert Brannon was sentenced Monday to six years in federal prison for interference with commerce by means of robbery and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

On January 2016, Brannon entered the Dunkin’ Donuts apparently armed, and stole about $150 from the cash registers. He was arrested two days later.

U.S. Attorney’s Office general crimes unit Chief Jan Sharp says the robbery can be prosecuted federally because the chain business operates in more than one state. Sharp says federal officials are aiding local authorities in handling a spike in commercial robberies.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha police union has approved a new contract with the city, exchanging raises over the next four years for higher health insurance deductibles and pension contributions.

The contract goes into effect March 22, having been approved by the City Council last week. There will be a 2.5 percent retroactive raise for 2016 and then yearly 3 percent raises until the contract expires in 2020.

The new contract arrives after years of wrangling.

In 2014 the union successfully sued to extend for a year the terms of the contract that expired at the end of 2013. Negotiations continued, but the issue of 2015 wages was taken to the State Commission of Industrial Relations.

Before the commission could rule, a tentative contract agreement was reached.