COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific intends to tear down its old depot in Columbus early next year, ending its more than 100 years of service to the public and the Omaha-based railroad.

The railroad had talked to the city about acquiring and moving the building, which U.P. spokesman Mark Davis says is only 12 feet from the rails — too close for public safety. It had to be moved at least 35 feet from the tracks.

City officials looked into moving the depot but determined the estimated $750,000 cost would have been too high.

Union Pacific is erecting another building to house offices and locate equipment for a signal team.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — The Sioux City school district is donating excess desks, tables and shelving units to help out some northeast Nebraska students whose middle school in Pilger (PIHL’-gur) was heavily damaged by a tornado.

The items will be delivered on Monday to a makeshift middle school of three modular buildings on the grounds of an elementary school in Wisner, Nebraska. Wisner sits about 12 miles east-southeast of Pilger.

About two-thirds of Pilger was destroyed or heavily damaged by an EF4 tornado on June 16. The school was too damaged to save and was razed earlier this month.

Sioux City schools superintendent Paul Gausman says he began his teaching career in Pilger as a band director and had spent time in the Pilger school building.

CHICAGO (AP) — A drugmaker is clashing with pediatricians over new recommendations to limit use of a costly medicine for preventing serious lung problems in preemies and other high-risk children.

The dispute involves new American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines that say medical evidence shows the drug has limited benefits. The influential group says the drug is best suited for only very young preemies.

The drug is sold by MedImmune under the brand name Synagis (SIN’-uh-jis). MedImmune is fighting back with full-page newspaper ads that say the updated policy threatens the most vulnerable babies.

The drug is used to prevent problems linked with a common germ called RSV or respiratory syncytial (sin-SISH’-uhl) virus. Most kids get it but only mild cases with cold-like symptoms.

The new policy was published online Monday in Pediatrics.

WINNEBAGO, Neb. (AP) — The leader of the Winnebago Tribe’s economic development company is receiving a national award for leading a successful minority-owned business.

Ho-Chunk President and CEO Lance Morgan will be honored in Washington, D.C., during events promoting minority business development.

Morgan will receive an Advocate of the Year award for what he has accomplished leading Ho-Chunk.

The company the tribe started in 1995 has grown to include 35 subsidiaries that generate roughly $260 million revenue and have more than 1,000 employees.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln first responders have completed an hour-long rescue of a man who fell 30 feet down an embankment.

The man and a friend were walking along the embankment Sunday afternoon prior to the fall.

Lincoln Fire and Rescue got the man over some broken concrete and into a rescue basket. He was then hoisted up the sloped embankment with a pulley.

Authorities say the man suffered no visible injuries.

Fire Capt. Jim Bopp says the department performs about three or four similar rescues per year.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln police say a man who was found covered in blood was likely attempting to take his own life.

Rescue crews were called to a neighborhood on 24th Street just a few blocks north of O Street around 5 a.m. Sunday.

Rescuers took the man to a hospital for treatment, and his injuries are considered life threatening.

HICKMAN, Neb. (AP) — A 30-year-old Army staff sergeant from Nebraska man is being remembered as a devoted family man after his death in Afghanistan.

Benjamin G. Prange died Thursday after the vehicle he was riding in hit an explosive device.

Prange would have celebrated his eleventh anniversary with his wife, Liz Prange, on Saturday. The couple have two sons and lived in Hickman.

Former neighbor Josh Hicks says Prange was a nice gut who worked hard to take care of his family.

Prange was on his third tour in Afghanistan when he died. Another soldier — Pfc. Keith M. Williams, 19, of Visalia, California — was also killed in the same explosion.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A nurse at a suburban Omaha abortion clinic has had her nursing license suspended for 60 days and has been issued a two-year probationary license in an agreement with the state’s top prosecutor.

The Nebraska Attorney General’s Office had originally sought to revoke Lindsey Creekmore’s registered nursing license.

In May 2013, the office filed a petition accusing Creekmore of failing to follow patient medication orders accurately and improperly delegating some patient care to unlicensed staff. The case was based partly on information from another nurse who had worked at Dr. LeRoy Carhart’s clinic.

Creekmore reached the settlement earlier this month, ahead of a disciplinary hearing that had been set for next week.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Prosecutors say a Lincoln woman found slain in her home in April was strangled before she was decapitated.

The death certificated of 41-year-old Bettina Burklund spells out her death and mutilation.

County Attorney Joe Kelly says she was dead before her head was cut off.

The woman’s husband has been charged with second-degree murder in her death.

Forty-one-year-old Kent Burklund is being held on $1 million bond. A judge has ordered a psychological evaluation of him.

Burklund’s next court appearance is scheduled for mid-August.

MURDOCK, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say they have found the body of a motorcyclist in a bean field in southeast Nebraska.

Cass County Sheriff’s deputies found the body of 36-year-old John Thompson, of Elmwood, Friday afternoon southwest of Murdock.

Investigators say Thompson had been driving his motorcycle west on Nebraska Highway 1 around 2 a.m. Friday when he failed to negotiate a curve in the road.

Family members called authorities when he didn’t reach his destination.

Thompson was pronounced dead at the scene.