(AP) — Community outrage over the firing of Central City High School’s head football coach has spurred a new effort to recall two school board members.

The Grand Island Independent reports (https://bit.ly/1bRiZml) that central Nebraska community has been in turmoil since the April firing of football coach Darin Garfield, and school board meetings have been filled with people demanding his reinstatement.

Merrick County Clerk Marcia Wichman says Kip Lenhart, of Central City, filed paperwork last month to start the recall process against Board President Dale Palser and Board Secretary Steve Belitz.

The petitions are now being circulated in hopes of gathering the 449 signatures needed to force a recall election.

(AP) — A 6-year-old Wichita boy is recovering at a Nebraska rehabilitation hospital after a deadly car-horse crash.

Eddie Caddell was riding the horse with a family friend when a driver crashed into them and fled. After two bystanders ran to their aid, a second vehicle struck. The family friend, 59-year-old Lloyd “Sonny” Ferguson, died. His horse was euthanized. Eddie’s injuries included a broken femur.

Police say the second driver stopped to help. But the driver of the first car remains at large. Authorities are looking for a damaged, silver Mercury Grand Marquis.

In the meantime, Eddie is working to regain his ability to walk and improve his speech. He’ll receive therapy at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Lincoln, Neb., for at least 30 days.

(AP) — An Arlington police sergeant says a woman who died while riding a roller coaster at a Six Flags amusement park in North Texas fell from the ride.

Sgt. Christopher Cook told The Associated Press on Saturday that police believe the woman fell Friday at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, and that there appears to have been no foul play.

He says police, fire and emergency medical services responded to the park around 6:45 p.m. Friday in reference to a woman who had fallen from a train car while riding a roller coaster. He says she was pronounced dead at the scene.

She had been riding the Texas Giant. Dubbed the tallest steel-hybrid coaster in the world, it reaches 14 stories high, drops 79 degrees and banks 95 degrees.

(AP) — A man has lost his right hand and will likely to lose a foot after being dragged 400 feet by a train in west Lincoln.

The accident happened around 2 a.m. Saturday when a 23-year-old man tried to coax a puppy from underneath a stationary Burlington Northern Santa Fe train.

Police say the man was with a woman and two dogs, when one of the dogs ran under the train. The man was reaching under the train to try to get the puppy when the train started moving.

The woman was able to flag down someone in the train.

The man’s right hand was severed, and he sustained severe damage to his right arm and left leg and foot.

The puppy was unhurt.

(AP) — All seven people injured when a boat on a ride at an Ohio amusement park accidentally rolled backward down a hill have been treated and sent home.

The Cedar Point amusement park says operators stopped the Shoot the Rapids water ride Friday evening after the accident, which occurred on the ride’s first hill. It says park police, medical technicians, ride operators and park visitors helped passengers off the boat.

Cedar Point officials won’t say how the boat landed after rolling downhill. They say six of the seven boat passengers were treated at the park and the other was treated at a hospital.

Cedar Point is in Sandusky, along Lake Erie between Cleveland and Toledo. It bills itself as the best amusement park in the world.

The accident is being investigated.

(AP) — A Lincoln man faces up to 30 years in prison if he’s convicted of two federal child pornography counts.

A federal grand jury has indicted 39-year-old David Romanski on a count of receiving and distributing child pornography from about October 2008 until sometime in May. He is also charged in the indictment with possession of child pornography.

Federal prosecutors are asking that Romanski’s property used in the crimes — including a laptop computer and a computer hard drive — be forfeited to the U.S. government.