(AP) — Police have released the name of a man whose body was found near railroad tracks in Lincoln.

He was identified Thursday as 36-year-old Tim Lanham, of Ravenna (ruh-VA’-nuh).

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe train crew found his body Wednesday morning. Police say he’d been hit by a train but not the train carrying the crew that found the body. An autopsy was done Thursday.

It’s unclear when Lanham died or the circumstances of his death.

(AP) — An ammonia leak and fire have shut down a beef processing plant in eastern Nebraska, but no employees were injured.

Workers at the Cargill plant in Schuyler detected the ammonia leak around 3:40 a.m. Thursday. Smoke and flames were reported several minutes later above an area where beef carcasses are trimmed to smaller cuts.

Company spokesman Mike Martin says local authorities responded and the fire was quickly extinguished. He says damage was limited and very little product was lost.

Many of the plant’s more than 2,100 employees weren’t there at the time because the leak occurred between production shifts. The cause of the incident remains under investigation.

Production at the plant was canceled for Thursday. It wasn’t clear whether it would reopen Friday.

(AP) — A former Nebraska waitress has been found guilty of serving alcohol to an underage teenager who later died in a car wreck.

A jury returned the guilty verdict Thursday for 21-year-old Amanda Heiman, of Fremont, on a felony charge of procuring alcohol for a minor resulting in death.

Prosecutors say Heiman was a waitress at a Waterloo bar in December 2012 when she served alcohol to 18-year-old Jacob Dickmeyer, of Valley, and another underage friend. Prosecutors say Heiman knew the men were not legally old enough to drink.

Dickmeyer died later that night when the car he was driving rolled. His passenger was injured.

The defense said during trial that Heiman was a scapegoat. Prosecutors said someone needed to be held accountable.

(AP) — Supporters of a Nebraska prison reform effort are arguing that the state needs to expand its supervised release programs and offer more services to help inmates return to society.

Sen. Brad Ashford of Omaha said Thursday that the current system forces inmates to “jam out” of prisons with inadequate medication, housing or oversight, and no real prospects for a job. The state’s prisons have collectively risen to 153 percent of their design capacity, with nearly 4,900 inmates.

Lawmakers have promised a series of prison reform efforts this year.

A new report by the Platte Institute for Economic Research suggests that the prison population soared with the passage of truth-in-sentencing laws.

(AP) — Gov. Dave Heineman is looking for applicants to fill a second vacant position on the Nebraska State Board of Education.

The governor says in a news release Thursday that there’s an opening in the eight-member board to represent residents of District 4. That includes portions of Douglas and Sarpy counties.

The announcement comes after the resignation Tuesday of board member Rebecca Valdez. She is the second board member to resign in a month, after Mark Quandahl of District 2 resigned in late January.

The terms for Valdez and Quandahl both run through 2016.

(AP) — The parties involved have settled a lawsuit filed after a southeast Nebraska barn was destroyed by a controlled burn that got out of control.

Terms of the Gage County lawsuit settlement have not been disclosed.

Court documents say the Barneston Rural Fire Department held a controlled burn on April 2, 2011, on property owned by Frank Borowiak. His property was adjacent to land owned by plaintiffs Vince and Charoyl Koenig near the village of Virginia.

The documents say the fire got out of control and a barn, several other outbuildings, fences and trees were burned.

The Koenigs had been seeking $40,000 in damages from the village, the fire department and Borowiak.

(AP) — A 63-year-old man is scheduled to be in a Polk County courtroom next week to face charges connected to an explosion that severely injured a 14-year-old relative.

Court records say the hearing is set Thursday for Russell Hilger, of David City. The charges include two for assault.

Authorities say Hilger made an explosive device by putting black powder into a pipe and covering it with towels. Then he set it off on July 4 last year during a family gathering at Ernst Lake, which sits a few miles south-southwest of Columbus.

Shrapnel from the device hit Lauren Campbell, who was in a tent. She spent two weeks in a hospital for treatment of internal injuries. Hilger is her great-uncle.

Hilger and his attorney have declined to comment.