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NE Settles With Retired State Troopers

A Massachusetts state trooper salutes Wednesday during the memorial service for Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police officer Sean Collier on the school's campus in Cambridge, Mass.
Brian Snyder
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Reuters /Landov
A Massachusetts state trooper salutes Wednesday during the memorial service for Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police officer Sean Collier on the school's campus in Cambridge, Mass.

The state of Nebraska is settling with more than 400 current and former state troopers in one of the state's longest-running civil case. Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers announced that the state had agreed to an 18-point-seven-five-million-dollar settlement for underpayment of state retirement funds. Plaintiffs' attorneys reportedly had alleged that state officials had breached their fiduciary duty by going with a "underperforming" investment fund. The legal battle reportedly spanned more than a decade, a period during which at least one of the three original plaintiffs passed away.