NEBRASKA CITY, Neb. (AP) — The Arbor Day Foundation and the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission have finalized a cooperative agreement that will see the foundation manage and operate Arbor Lodge State Historical Park.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission will retain ownership of the park, donated to the state in 1923.

The change will take effect on Nov. 1. Arbor Lodge will continue to offer weddings, family reunions, special events and educational tours of the historic home and surrounding arboretum.

The park, on which the 52-room mansion sits, had been the home of J. Sterling Morton, founder of Arbor Day, It was named a National Historic Landmark by the National Park Service in 1975.

The foundation currently manages Lied Lodge and Arbor Day Farm, which are adjacent to the park.

NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials are investigating nine cases of muscle weakness or paralysis in Colorado children and whether the culprit is a virus causing severe respiratory illness across the country.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday sent doctors an alert about the polio-like cases. The germ — enterovirus 68 — was detected in four of eight children tested.

Health officials don’t know whether the virus caused any of the children’s arm and leg weaknesses or whether it’s just a germ they coincidentally picked up.

The cases occurred within the last two months — during the same period the nation has seen a wave of severe respiratory illnesses linked to the virus.

WEBSTER CITY, Iowa (AP) — When the historic downtown movie theater in Webster City, Iowa, went bankrupt and shut down last year, some wondered whether it was further proof of the small town’s demise after a factory closure put hundreds out of work.

Instead, residents rallied. They held public meetings, hashed out volunteer work and launched a fundraising campaign. More than $200,000 later, the theater reopened Saturday.

Webster City’s story is playing out across the country, as residents of small communities work to save their historic downtown movie theaters. To many, the hope is that a theater’s revival could aid a community’s revival, too.

The National Main Street Center, a group that offers tools for revitalizing main street areas, says renovations become a rallying cry for communities.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha hospital that treated an American aid worker infected with Ebola has fired two workers accused of violating the man’s privacy by looking at his medical file.

The Omaha World-Herald first reported the firings Friday. In a written statement, the Nebraska Medical Center said an audit of the hospital’s electronic medical records led to the discovery that two employees had inappropriately accessed Dr. Rick Sacra’s file.

The hospital says the employees’ actions violated federal patient privacy regulations and that the hospital has “a zero tolerance” policy regarding unauthorized access to patient information.

The hospital said Sacra was notified in person and in writing of the breech.

Sacra returned Thursday to his home state of Massachusetts after being successfully treated for the virus he contracted working in Africa.

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.