WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal safety enforcement agency is citing a Missouri-based communications company for “willful” and “serious” safety violations in the death of two workers in the collapse in March of a cell tower they were dismantling in Blaine, Kansas.

The Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, issued the citations against Wireless Horizon, Inc., of Saint Peters, Missouri.

Dr. David Michaels, the assistant secretary of labor who heads OSHA, said in a statement that the nation’s growing need for telecommunications should not cost workers’ lives.

OSHA proposed penalties of $134,400 for the company.

Two tower technicians, ages 25 and 38, were killed when a cell tower they were trying to dismantle collapsed on top of them.

OSHA says so far this year, 11 workers have died in such mishaps.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nearly 20 Omaha flights into or out of Chicago airports have been canceled because of a fire at an air traffic control facility in a Chicago suburb.

Omaha Airport Authority officials urged travelers to check with their airlines or go online at www.flyoma.com to see whether their flights have been affected.

Officials say Friday’s early morning fire started in the basement of the Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center in Aurora, forcing evacuation of the center. More than 850 flights had been canceled in Chicago alone, and more cancellations were expected.

Lincoln Airport operations director Bob McNally says one inbound and one outbound flight have been canceled.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — About 60 people have volunteered to help plant Grand Island’s first public bioinfiltration garden on Saturday at the city library.

The garden will not only serve as a place for water to pool after heavy rains, but will also catch runoff pollutants from the library’s parking lot. It will use the garden’s plants to cleanse the pollutants from the water before it enters the city’s storm water system.

Grand Island received a Greener Nebraska Towns grant for nearly $43,000 to cover the majority of the garden’s cost.

Plants that will be included in the bioinfiltration garden include the blue flag iris, barren strawberry, hot lips turtlehead and Cheyenne sky switchgrass.

COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska prosecutor says he will recommend probation for a Columbus man who pointed a pellet handgun in the face of a police officer.

Platte County Attorney Carl Hart said 31-year-old Aaron Lotspeich agreed to a plea deal. He pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of attempted terroristic threats.

He was originally charged with a felony in the January incident and faced up to five years in prison. Police say two officers responded to a report that Lotspeich might harm himself. They say he pointed the gun at the officer before surrendering.

Hart says they will recommend probation because the gun was a toy and Lotspeich has taken steps to improve unspecified health issues.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Creighton University has decided to pull television ads after receiving bad reviews from alumni and students.

The Jesuit university abandoned the advertisements on Thursday. The videos showed actors playing students who described why they picked Creighton. In one ad, a golfer tells another that he chose the university so that he would one day be his boss.

A student described the segment as prideful and arrogant.

The university released a statement that says the “passion” of alumni and students led to the decision to cancel the advertisements.

University staff say they will also honor students’ request to create a student marketing oversight committee.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — A 47-year-old man has died after his vehicle ran off a highway in northeast Nebraska’s Madison County.

The accident occurred a little before 1:30 p.m. Wednesday on U.S. Highway 275 west of Norfolk. The Nebraska State Patrol says Brian Gillmore, of Norfolk, was eastbound when his vehicle veered north across the westbound lanes and rammed into a tree. He was pronounced dead at the scene.