PENDER, Neb. (AP) — A divided Thurston County Board of Supervisors has decided to add the motto “In God We Trust” on a prominent place in the county courthouse.

The supervisors voted 4-2 on Monday to put the phrase in letters of a readable size in the boardroom of the courthouse.

Valentine resident Barb Otto spoke to the board Monday before they voted. Otto is traveling the state to encourage county elected officials to add the religious-motivated phrase in public buildings.

Supervisor Darren Wolfe says displaying the motto isn’t good public policy because it violates the separation of church and state.

A conservative legal defense organization called the Pacific Justice Institute is ready to defend any lawsuit that would be filed against the county taking that step.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a woman who was fatally injured when her vehicle struck the back of a dump truck near Malcolm.

The woman died Monday afternoon after her sport utility vehicle hit the truck, which had stopped on a gravel road and was waiting to turn into a construction site.

The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office says rescue workers tried to revive the woman and called for a medical helicopter, but she died at the scene.

The Sheriff’s Office identified her as 74-year-old Veda Beckman, who lived in rural Pleasant Dale. The truck driver was identified as 55-year-old Madonna Rairigh, of Crete, who wasn’t injured.

COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say four people in a pickup were treated at a hospital after the truck was struck by a school bus.

The accident occurred around 4 p.m. Monday on a county road about three miles north of Columbus. Platte County Sheriff’s Lt. Kevin Schuller says the westbound bus was full of students from Shell Creek Elementary when their driver didn’t stop in time to avoid hitting the pickup. The truck driver had stopped and was waiting to turn south.

Schuller says none of the students or their driver was injured. Four of the five people in the pickup were sent to a hospital.

BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — A city council has fired a suburban Omaha city administrator who was charged with assault and other crimes after an altercation at a dentist’s office.

The Bellevue council voted unanimously Monday night to dismiss City Administrator Dan Berlowitz. He’ll receive health insurance benefits and 10 months of pay — about $120,000 — in exchange for a release of claims against the city.

He’s been on paid leave since the June 21 incident. A police report says Berlowitz poked a Bellevue dentist in the chest and then pushed the dentist in a shoulder. Berlowitz’s attorney says Berlowitz felt threatened and says Berlowitz denied assaulting the dentist.

Last month the 63-year-old Berlowitz pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor counts of assault, trespassing and disturbing the peace.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A woman was killed near Lincoln when her vehicle hit the back of a dump truck.

The woman died Monday afternoon when her sport utility vehicle collided with the truck, which had stopped on a gravel road and was waiting to turn into a construction site.

The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office says rescue workers tried to revive the woman and called for a medical helicopter, but she died at the scene of the crash.

The sheriff’s office hasn’t released the woman’s name.

The truck driver wasn’t injured.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A woman has pleaded no contest to helping her boyfriend dump his mother’s body in southeast Omaha.

Gabriela Guevara pleaded no contest Monday to being an accessory by helping her boyfriend, Roberto Martinez-Marinero, transport and dump his mother’s body in 2015.

Martinez-Marinero pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his mother, 45-year-old Jesus Ismenia Marinero, and his 4-year-old half brother, Josue Ramirez-Marinero. He was sentenced to life in prison.

After killing his mother, Martinez-Marinero took her two youngest children in an attempt to eliminate witnesses. He dumped his then-11-month-old half brother in a La Vista dumpster. The child was found later, bruised but otherwise uninjured.

He threw the older boy off a bridge to his death.

Guevara will be sentenced in October.

LYONS, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska State Patrol says a 54-year-old motorcyclist has died after a collision with a pickup.

The patrol says the collision occurred just before noon Saturday on U.S. Highway 77 on the east side of Lyons in Burt County. The patrol says the northbound pickup was turning west when it collided with the southbound motorcycle.

The patrol says the motorcyclist was pronounced dead at a hospital in Oakland. He was identified as Bruce Dannelly, who lived in Bellwood. The pickup driver was treated at the hospital and released. The patrol identified her as 63-year-old Elaine Climer, who lives in Lyons.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Authorities say a 45-year-old man was struck by lightning and killed in Colorado.

Chad Trover of Arvada died Friday during a severe thunderstorm northwest of Fort Collins.

Larimer County Chief Deputy Coroner Dianne Fairman says Trover was staying at a cabin in the mountainous Crystal Lakes area and was standing between trees when the lightning hit.

She says first responders temporarily revived Trover and he was taken to a hospital, where he died about six hours later.

Colorado is one of the top states for lightning deaths over the past decade. Last month, another man was struck and killed by lightning on a suburban Denver golf course.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The father of a toddler killed by an alligator at Walt Disney World last June reached into the animal’s mouth in an attempt to free his son’s head from the reptile’s jaws.

A final report on the death released Monday by Florida’s wildlife agency says that the 7-foot alligator bit 2-year-old Lane Graves’ head as the boy bent down at the edge of a lagoon at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission report says the boy died from a crushing bite and drowning.

The report says Lane did nothing to provoke the alligator and that the death is classified as a predatory attack.

The report says the alligator may have had a diminished fear of people by being in an area with lots of humans.