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AUBURN, Neb. (AP) - A state judge has dismissed a family's lawsuit that sought to hold the Nebraska State College Board of Trustees responsible for the 2010 disappearance of a 19-year-old Peru State student.
Judge Daniel Bryant Jr. ruled Wednesday that college officials could not have foreseen that another student, Joshua Keadle, posed a possible threat to Tyler Thomas.
Thomas disappeared in December 2010 after leaving a party near the campus. The 33-year-old Keadle, who's been imprisoned for an unrelated rape conviction, has not been charged in the Thomas case. Authorities have said he made several statements that led investigators to believe he was involved. He's denied the allegations.
In July a federal judge dismissed a similar lawsuit filed Thomas' family against the college board. A death certificate was issued for Thomas in 2013.
© Associated Press
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