NELIGH, Neb. (AP) — The Neligh-Oakdale school district this year will have new leadership to help find solutions to old safety concerns at what’s called the East Ward school.

The interconnected buildings house grades three through 12 and the district’s central office.

Officials say a failed $6.9 million bond measure leaves the district without enough money to resolve security and fire safety issues. The district was able to obtain a two-month delay for a fire safety plan that was supposed to be send to the state fire marshal last month.

Two school board members were defeated in the November election, and district Superintendent Kim Lingenfelter is resigning at the end of the school year.

Lingenfelter said she will move in whatever direction the school board wants to go.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A Hall County supervisor has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and refusing a chemical test.

Grand Island police say 50-year-old Dave Ziola was taken into custody around 1:30 a.m. Sunday after he failed a breath test. Officers say his vehicle had been stuck in a snowdrift.

Ziola told Hastings television station KHAS that the situation is all a misunderstanding. He says he doesn’t think his blood alcohol was anywhere near the legal limit. Ziola also says he took all the tests the officers asked but that he may not have heard the request to take another, because his hearing has been affected by the flu.

Ziola’s been a supervisor for the past four years. He was beaten in his bid for re-election and will leave office soon.

GLENWOOD, Iowa (AP) — A former Glenwood teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a student and of giving alcohol to a minor has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge as part of a plea deal.

39-year-old Russell Crouch was arrested and charged in May with sexual exploitation by a school employee and supplying alcohol to a minor.

Crouch was given deferred judgment, meaning if he successfully completes a year of probation, the charge of misdemeanor aggravated assault will be removed from his record. A district court judge has ordered him to complete counseling and therapy.

Crouch taught at Glenwood High School before he resigned. He had been a teacher in the district since 2006 and taught in Hyannis and Ansley, Nebraska.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police have released the names of two people whose bodies were found inside an apartment in north-central Omaha.

They were identified as 25-year-old Dexter Joseph and 26-year-old Marcel Lovejoy. Both had been shot.

The bodies were discovered around 11:30 p.m. Saturday as a winter storm moved through the city.

Officer Michael Pecha (PEH’-kuh) says both died at the scene. No arrests have been reported.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Anyone who wants a souvenir, or maybe a walk-in freezer, from Lincoln’s idle Pershing Center will soon be able to buy it.

The city is getting ready to sell nearly everything it can from Pershing, which closed last fall after 57 years.

Fred McCoy is closing down the building where he’s worked for 36 years. He says nearly everything will be for sale at bigiron.com starting in mid-January.

The sale closes Feb. 11, but buyers have to pick up whatever they buy themselves.

But until the auction wraps up, the city is trying to save money by setting the boilers to 40 degrees and keeping the lights off.

Pershing was replaced by the new Pinnacle Bank Arena that opened in 2013.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Part of the fun of sledding is the risk that comes with flying down a steep hill.

But that risk leaves cities open to potential bills from sledding injuries, and some have opted to close hills rather than risk large liability claims.

No one tracks how many cities have banned or limited sledding, but the list grows every year. One of the latest is in Dubuque, Iowa, where officials are moving ahead with a plan to ban sledding in all but two of its 50 parks.

Parks manager Marie Ware says Dubuque is hilly and the risk is too prevalent.

In meetings leading up to the ban, City Council members lamented the move but say it’s the only responsible choice given liability concerns and demands from Dubuque’s insurance carrier.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha Police say a 52-year-old man became the city’s first homicide victim of 2015 after he was found with a gunshot wound in a park Saturday.

Police said Tommie Harden was found around 10:15 a.m. Saturday.

A woman who lives near Adams Park in northeast Omaha called police after Harden was found lying in the park.

Harden was bleeding from a gunshot wound in his chest when he was found. He was taken to an Omaha hospital where he died.

Police did not announce any arrests immediately, and they asked anyone with information on the death to contact investigators.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska medical officials say an American health care provider who experienced high-risk exposure to the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone will be observed at the facility’s biocontainment unit in Omaha.

Nebraska Medicine says in a release that the unidentified patient will arrive about 2 p.m. CST Sunday aboard a private air ambulance.

Phil Smith, M.D., medical director of the facility’s biocontainment unit, says the patient “is not ill and is not contagious.” He says officials will take “all appropriate precautions.”

The patient will be observed for possible infection during the 21-day incubation period of the disease, both by monitoring for symptoms and through blood tests.

Three patients with Ebola have been treated at Nebraska Medicine, which is a clinical partner of the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha City Council will consider major changes to the city’s housing code inspection and enforcement regulations just two weeks after a fatal fire in a south Omaha boarding house killed two people.

The City Council will discuss the changes at a meeting Tuesday. The timing is coincidental, as the changes are part of a proposed settlement to a federal lawsuit that landlords filed against the city.

The proposed ordinance would establish standard procedures and deadlines for inspections, violation reports and follow-up inspections. It would also set specific deadlines for repairs based on the severity of violations.

The inspection and enforcement changes would primarily affect landlords, but would also apply to private homeowners when complaints are filed against their properties.

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — An elderly Fremont woman has died in a crash on a city street.

The Fremont Police Department says 82-year-old Phyllis Eichmeier was traveling eastbound on a city street Friday night when her car crossed the center line and hit a westbound car.

Eichmeier was taken to a Fremont hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The 57-year-old male driver of the other car was treated at the hospital and released.

Police and the Nebraska State Patrol are investigating.