(AP) — Officers are still searching for a 17-year-old who escaped while being picked up on a juvenile warrant in Hastings.

Hastings police and the Adams County Sheriff’s office said Friday that the boy remained at large.

He was handcuffed when he got away from officers around 5:30 p.m. Thursday. It’s unclear what crime was alleged on the warrant.

The Associated Press generally doesn’t name juveniles accused of crimes.

(AP) — Officials say aquatic improvements at Burchard Wildlife Management Area in southeast Nebraska are complete.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission says the rehabilitation includes the construction of a new outlet structure, a boat ramp facility, angler access nodes and a handicap-accessible fishing pier.

However, the reservoir remains low. The new boat ramp facility remains closed because water levels are seven- to eight feet below full pool. Small vessels are allowed if they’re launched from the shoreline.

Other improvements include offshore breakwaters to protect shorelines, and a sediment dike and basin on the reservoir’s north arm. Water levels have been deepened near new breakwaters and underwater rock shoals and cedar tree fish attractors have been added in the reservoir basin.

(AP) — Authorities say a Denver man accused of killing his wife while she was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher ate marijuana-infused candy before the attack.

Search warrants released Thursday said 44-year-old Kristine Kirk told dispatchers her husband bought and ate the candy before he started hallucinating and frightening the couple’s three children.

Police say 47-year-old Richard Kirk also may have taken prescription pain medication before he began acting erratically.

It was not clear whether the pot influenced his behavior.

Authorities say Richard Kirk shot his wife in the head about 12 minutes into her call with 911.

Police say she told dispatchers her husband was getting a gun from a safe before a gunshot sounded and the line went quiet. The department is investigating whether police responded quickly enough.

(AP) — Police have arrested a male suspect in a string of random Kansas City-area highway shootings that have wounded three people.

Kansas City, Mo., police Chief Darryl Forte declined to identify the suspect during a Thursday night news conference near the suspect’s home in Grandview. He says he will discuss the case in further detail at another news conference Friday.

Police are searching the suspect’s single-story home and a green Dodge Neon with Illinois license plates that was behind it has been towed away.

Police said last week that they had connected 12 shootings since early March in which vehicles were targeted on Kansas City-area highways and roads.

Most of the reported shootings were in the southern part of Kansas City, Mo., known as the Grandview Triangle where several highways intersect.