(AP) – A 26-year-old Kansas City, Kan., woman has died after falling out of a party bus on Interstate 35 and being struck by three other vehicles.

The Associated Press reports the victim has been identified as Jamie N. Frecks. The Kansas Highway Patrol says she fell out of the emergency door of the party bus around 9:50 p.m. Saturday as it was northbound near the Southwest Boulevard exit in Kansas City, Kan.

Frecks was 1 of 16 passengers on the bus. The Highway Patrol says 2 of the vehicles that struck her after she fell out did not stop.

Nobody else on the bus was injured.

The crash report doesn’t identify the company that operates the bus, which was driven by a 49-year-old Basehor, Kan., woman.

Check out Fox 4 Kansas City for more information:

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(AP) — Authorities say a 24-year-old Colorado man accidentally shot himself while cleaning his handgun.

Police say the man, whose name has not been released, was sitting in his vehicle in Colorado Springs when he spilled soda on the gun Saturday afternoon. The man wiped the gun clean, and the weapon accidentally discharged as he was replacing the magazine.

He was taken to a hospital in fair condition after suffering injuries to his left hand, left thigh and left calf.

 

(AP) — Toys R Us will go before Massachusetts’ highest court Monday to appeal a $20 million jury award to the family of a Colorado woman who died after an inflatable in-ground pool slide partially collapsed.

Robin Aleo was attending a pool party in Andover in 2006 when she slid head first down a “Banzai” slide sold by Wayne, N.J.-based Toys R Us. The slide partially collapsed and she slammed her head on the concrete pool deck. Aleo died the next day.

In 2011, Toys R Us was ordered to pay Aleo’s family $20.6 million.

During trial, lawyers for Aleo’s family said the slide didn’t comply with federal safety standards.

Toys R Us’ attorneys say the Consumer Product Safety Commission regulation cited by Aleo’s family only applies to rigid slides, not inflatable ones

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has canceled its outdoor commencement ceremonies due to bad weather.

School officials announced the decision early Saturday, just hours before the event at Memorial Stadium was set to begin. But they say graduates can receive diplomas from their college dean or associate dean at the Hawks Center on campus.

Students will be professionally photographed with their cap and gown. Family members also can take photos.

The diplomas will be distributed throughout the morning based on the student’s college and a scheduled time.

Officials at the University of Nebraska at Omaha say their graduation ceremonies are still being held, but they’ll be inside.

A Lincoln man has been given prison time for selling crack cocaine to an undercover police officer.

A judge on Thursday sentenced 20-year-old Edward Wilkins to six to 10 years in prison. He pleaded guilty to two counts of delivery.

Courts records show Wilkins sold $100 amounts of crack cocaine to an undercover police officer near the east campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The deals happened within 1,000 feet of the campus.

The incidents happened in June and July of last year, while the officer was working with a narcotics task force. Wilkins was arrested in August.

(AP) — A jury has convicted a man of raping and murdering a mentally disabled woman in Colorado Springs nearly 20 years ago.

58-year-old Jose Burciaga-Ruiz was found guilty Friday of first-degree murder, second-degree murder and sexual assault in the death of 38-year-old Sharon Lee Sklavos. His sentencing is set for May 31.

Sklavos’ partially nude body was found in a field July 31, 1994.

Investigators always suspected Burciaga-Ruiz was involved, but the case against him was circumstantial — until police resubmitted evidence for DNA testing by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation with the help of a cold-case grant. The results came back in 2012 with a match to Burciaga-Ruiz, who was working as a roofer in Nebraska.

Burciaga-Ruiz dated Sklavos’ sister at the time of the slaying.

Students at an Omaha elementary school have held a rally against bullying, just months after reports of an attempted sexual assault in their playground.

Students, parents and teachers held signs and chanted Friday as they walked out of Belvedere Elementary School. Participants say the rally is part of a national campaign, but it’s particularly relevant after reports of an attempted sexual assault in February involving an 8-year-old girl.

Parents say the rally couldn’t have come at a better time.

The girl says she was pinned down by three boys and they tried to remove her clothes. The third-grade boys have been charged as juveniles with attempted sexual assault.

The school has been criticized for failing to immediately call police.

(AP) — Disturbed by the nationwide epidemic of cellphone robberies and thefts, law enforcement officials are looking to the wireless industry for help.

In San Francisco, where half the robberies were phone-related last year, District Attorney George Gascon is calling on major companies in nearby Silicon Valley to create new technology such as a “kill switch” to permanently and quickly disable stolen smartphones to render them worthless.

Stakes are high. Nearly 175 million cellphones were sold in the U.S. in the past year, accounting for $69 billion in sales, according to research firm IDC.

And the Federal Communications Commission says almost one out of three robberies nationwide involves the theft of a mobile phone as a highly-anticipated national database system to track cellphones reported stolen will start this fall.

(AP)-A Nebraska high school senior says he plans to walk across the stage at his graduation despite the return of an aggressive form of leukemia.

Malique Anderson is receiving treatment at Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha. The 17-year-old says the cancer has returned twice.

Malique says he tries to stay positive but he has tough days. He’s determined to walk across the stage at his graduation, and the upcoming event motivates him to receive treatment.

Malique’s parents say they are planning a bone marrow transplant. A dinner to raise money for his treatment is scheduled Saturday.

Authorities say a man accused of shooting a Sioux City police officer has been captured in Texas.

Police announced on Saturday that 21-year-old Jamal Dean was arrested without incident during a traffic stop in Riviera, Texas.

Several agencies learned on Friday that Dean may be in Texas. They believe he was headed to the border between the United States and Mexico. He was stopped in a Dodge Durango going south on Highway 77.

The manhunt for Dean began Monday. He is accused of firing several shots from a rifle at Officer Kevin McCormick during a routine traffic stop. The hunt spread to Omaha, but it turned up nothing.

McCormick, who was shot in the forehead, is expected to make a full recovery.