MINDEN, Neb. (AP) – Two South Dakota men face attempted murder and several other charges in a high-speed chase through central Nebraska.
Aleksandr Voznyuk, of Sioux Falls, S.D., and Petr Strizheus, of Harrisburg, S.D., appeared Friday in Kearney County Court for preliminary hearings. Their cases were bound over for trial in district court.
Trooper Paul Hazard testified that the men led him on a high-speed chase on Interstate 80 on Jan. 27. He said Strizheus drove while Voznyuk shot at him from the passenger’s seat.
Hazard said that after a 39-mile chase, the men abandoned their car near Minden and fled on foot. They were arrested the next day.
The men are being held on $500,000 bond each.
Messages left Saturday for their attorneys weren’t immediately returned.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – The dozens of protesters who’ve camped out at Centennial Mall in Lincoln for almost six months are packing up.
The members of Occupy Lincoln have a Tuesday deadline to leave the grounds around the State Capitol. A construction crew needs the space for a renovation project.
The Occupy movement began last year in New York, decrying what protesters see as corporate greed and the growing gap between rich and poor.
The Lincoln offshoot took up residence on Oct. 15. Almost six months later, about two dozen tents remain with about 15 campers.
The protesters say Tuesday’s deadline doesn’t mean their work is over. A new camp has appeared nearby, and some members have vowed to remain at the current site despite the deadline.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Lincoln police say a young man suspected of trying to kidnap a 3-year-old and her baby sister from a sport utility vehicle may have been trying only to steal the SUV or something from it.
Nineteen-year-old Dalton Gilsdorf was arrested Thursday on suspicion of unlawful entry into a motor vehicle, trespassing and disturbing the peace.
The girls’ father says he fought with a man he’d found in the SUV where the girls had been strapped into car seats on Wednesday afternoon. The man rode away on a bicycle.
Police spokeswoman Katie Flood says a relative called police Thursday to say Gilsdorf had come home with a bicycle that wasn’t his.
A Lancaster County jailer said Gilsdorf remained in custody on Friday. Online court records don’t list the case yet.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) – Beef producer JBS suspended production at its Grand Island plant this week to clean up the facility after E. coli bacteria was found in some of the meat.
Production was expected to resume at the plant Friday, two days after the bacteria was found.
JBS SA spokesman Chandler Keys says the E. coli was found in a routine test of beef trimmings. The company had not shipped any of the meat from that batch because it waits for the test results, so no beef is being recalled.
Keys says workers cleaned the plant and retreated or cooked all the meat processed within half a day of the positive test.

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) – The body of a missing 78-year-old man has been found on the campus of Central Community College in Hastings in south-central Nebraska.
Thomas Zulkoski was reported missing Thursday. Police say he’d taken a relative to the college but didn’t show up later in the day to pick up the person.
Officers searched the campus for nearly two hours and found Zulkoski’s body in a restroom. Officials say he appears to have died of natural causes.

CRETE, Neb. (AP) – Authorities say a Doane College football player has died after falling out of a pickup truck near campus in southeast Nebraska.
Police say 20-year-old Cody Fanning was riding in the back of the truck around 3 a.m. Wednesday when the driver turned. Fanning fell out, striking his head on the street. He died at a hospital.
Crete Police Chief Steve Henzel says the driver, 21-year-old Cody Barnes, was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and released on bond. Prosecutors will determine whether to file charges.
The school listed Fanning and Barnes as football players. In a message on its website, the college said it was grieving Fanning’s death and confirmed accident details.
Five other people also were in the truck.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Lincoln police say the father of a 3-year-old and 8-month-old reported fighting off a man who was trying to kidnap them.
The man told police he had put the children in their car seats about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday while his sport utility sat in his driveway.
He says he went back inside to get a stroller.
Capt. Jim Davidsaver says that when the man went back outside, he heard the 3-year-old screaming and saw a man inside the SUV.
Davidsaver says the father struggled with the man and punched him in the face. Then the man got on a bicycle and raced away.
No arrest has been reported.

CHADRON, Neb. (AP) – The Nebraska State College System board of trustees has approved the selection of a Chadron State College vice president to temporarily lead the campus.
Vice president for enrollment management and student services Randy Rhine will become the interim president of the school, which has nearly 3,000 students. He’ll serve until a new president has been hired and can begin work.
Earlier this month College President Janie Park announced her intention to retire in May.
The 65-year-old Park has led the campus since August 2005.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Copper thieves have targeted the birthplace of President Gerald R. Ford in Omaha.
Police are investigating missing copper from a fountain at the Gerald R. Ford Birthsite and Garden.
Police say the fountain was shut off for the winter in November.
When a city employee went to open the fountain on Tuesday, she removed the cover and discovered the copper water lines had been cut and removed. A water meter and water pump were also stolen.
No arrests have been reported.
The site marks the house where Ford was born in 1913. According to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum website, Ford, the 38th president, lived in the house for two weeks. His parents separated and he and his mother settled in Michigan.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – A month-old giraffe calf at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo has died.
A zoo news release says the female giraffe born on March 25 died early Wednesday morning, despite round-the-clock care by zoo veterinarians and staff.
The calf had been under veterinary care for about 10 days for multiple problems, including a bacterial infection. She appeared to have recovered, but relapsed last weekend. Staff said the still-nursing calf was not gaining weight and had become less active. Staff began bottle-feeding the calf, but it grew increasingly weaker and died around 1 a.m. Wednesday.
It’s hoped a necropsy will determine the cause of death, although zoo staff say it will take weeks to receive the results.
The zoo says another giraffe born on March 16 is doing well and is on display.