SERGEANT BLUFF, Iowa (AP) — One worker died and another was hospitalized while working to build a massive fertilizer plant in northwest Iowa.

The Sioux City Journal reports the two men were working inside a tower tank Saturday afternoon when the problem occurred at the CF Industries construction site near Sergeant Bluff.

The man who died fell unconscious inside the tank and couldn’t be rescued before his death. The second man escaped the tank, and was hospitalized in Sioux City.

CF Industries says the area where the incident occurred isn’t in operation now, so it shouldn’t be a danger to other workers.

The company is nearing the completion of a $2 billion expansion of its Port Neal fertilizer plant. The project includes new ammonia and urea plants.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa suspended its inspections of egg farms last year during the bird flu outbreak, and the state still hasn’t resumed the routine checks.

State officials followed the lead of federal investigators in stopping inspections to help limit the spread of bird flu, which prompted the slaughter of 48 million birds nationwide.

Federal inspectors are responsible for large egg-laying farms that typically have more than 3,000 birds. State inspectors make sure smaller farms are following safety regulations.

Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey says the state plans to resume its inspections when the Food and Drug Administration lifts its own ban on them.

Several other states where bird flu was found also suspended inspections for several months, but most resumed inspections late last year.

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Masons from 220 lodges in Kansas have donated a total of $2.5 million to three Kansas State University programs.

The Kansas Masonic Foundation’s gifts will support the Kansas PRIDE program, the Center for the Advancement of Entrepreneurship and the Office of Military and Veterans Affairs.

Kansas PRIDE encourages volunteers to work with local governments to improve their communities. The Center for the Advancement of Entrepreneurship works to improve entrepreneurial opportunities at Kansas State and throughout Kansas. The Office of Military and Veterans Affairs focuses on military-related institutional policies, education, research and outreach.

Foundation president Michael Tavares says the organization wants to expand its partnership with the university through the three programs. The foundation also is celebrating its 50th anniversary by launching a $20 million fundraising campaign for community improvements.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Low-risk juvenile offenders and those who violate probation could be referred to community-based programs instead of being placed in juvenile detention centers under a proposal being considered by Kansas lawmakers.

House representatives gave the measure first-round approval vote Friday. It passed 38-2 in the Senate last month. The House is expected to vote on final approved Monday. A Senate conference committee will then review changes to the measure.

The House Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee added a provision to reserve up to 50 beds in group homes for offenders without a safe home. The measure approved by the Senate said all group homes would close by July 2018.

Some law enforcement agencies worried that offenders committing higher-level misdemeanors would be likely to re-offend if all homes closed.

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A month after St. Louis County police began carrying Narcan, the opiate overdose antidote has already saved a life.

Police responded to a car crash on Wednesday on Interstate 55 in south St. Louis County. Officers saw that the 42-year-old driver’s skin was turning blue and he was sweating profusely. No pulse could be found and the officers began CPR.

Police spokesman Brian Schellman says the officers determined the symptoms were consist with opiate overdose and administered Narcan in each of the man’s nostrils. Paramedics arrived and continued treatment before taking him to a hospital.

Police say the victim is expected to make a full recovery.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A southwest Missouri woman and Kansas City-area man have admitted they helped distribute large quantities of methamphetamine for more than a year.

Federal prosecutors say 37-year-old Kenna Harmon, of Republic, and 41-year-old Carlos Tapia, of Lee’s Summit, pleaded guilty Thursday to drug conspiracy charges.

Prosecutors say Harmon and her husband, Daniel Harmon, led the conspiracy, which distributed meth in Greene, Polk, Christian, Jasper, Laclede and Webster counties. The drug ring distributed more than 45 kilograms of methamphetamine from June 2013 to November 2014.

Tapia admitted providing about 10 pounds of the drug every two weeks to the operation.

Daniel Harmon was arrested in December 2013 outside of St. Louis and was incarcerated after pleading guilty to drug and weapons charges.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders says he will not seek a recount of results in Missouri’s Democratic primary, conceding defeat to Hillary Clinton.

Sanders says in an interview with The Associated Press that it’s unlikely the results will affect the awarding of delegates in the state and he would “prefer to save the taxpayers of Missouri some money.”

Clinton led by 1,531 votes, but under state law Sanders could have sought a recount because the margin was less than one-half of one percent. Clinton will get an extra two delegates from Missouri for winning the statewide vote.

WINFIELD, Kan. (AP) — An inmate has escaped from a minimum-security prison in southern Kansas.

The Kansas Department of Corrections says 37-year-old Bradley Wayne Struble was last seen about midnight Wednesday during the prison’s inmate count. The Winfield Correctional Facility is a minimum-security facility where inmates are supervised, but the grounds are not fenced in.

The department says Struble remained at large Thursday afternoon.

The Wichita Eagle reports that Struble is serving a sentence for violating parole. His most recent criminal conviction was in 2004 for battering a correctional officer.

He was sent to Winfield in February and was due to be released in October.