BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — The Bellevue City Council has rejected a proposed “Citizen Code of Conduct.”

The council took the action Monday night, following public criticism and a lawsuit warning by the American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska.

City administrators had said they wanted a policy that would help the city deal with residents who cause problems for city staffers.

Council President Paul Cook said at Monday’s meeting, however, that the city instead can do better by training staff and developing internal procedures to deal with people whom city employees determine consume too much staff time.

The ACLU’s Amy Miller said in a letter to the city that the proposed policy was unconstitutionally vague and would have covered speech that is protected by the First Amendment.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Allied Insurance is giving employees lots of notice about job cutbacks at its regional office in Lincoln.

140 jobs will be eliminated in claims and customer service between 2017 and 2020. That will slice the Lincoln workforce in half.

Eric Hardgrove is a spokesman for Nationwide Insurance, which owns Allied, and he says the company wanted to give employees plenty of time to find other jobs, either with Allied or Nationwide or elsewhere.

Hardgrove says the jobs will be eliminated by attrition as much as possible, and employees who don’t find other jobs will be offered severance.

He says the Lincoln jobs likely will be consolidated to either Des Moines, Iowa, where Allied is based, or Columbus, Ohio, where Nationwide is based.

INMAN, Neb. (AP) — A 56-year-old O’Neill woman has died after crashing off U.S. Highway 20/275 in northern Nebraska.

The accident occurred west of Inman on Saturday. The Holt County Sheriff’s Office says Debra Christensen’s westbound vehicle crossed the center line and eventually slid sideways into a roadside ditch and rolled, landing on its top.

Christensen, who was ejected, was taken to an O’Neill hospital and then flown to Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City, Iowa. Mercy Medical Center spokeswoman Dianne Krier (kreer) said Tuesday that Christensen died around 5 p.m. Sunday.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A prison official says an Iowa work release inmate who’s been on the loose since Jan. 1 has been apprehended.

Corrections Department Assistant Director Fred Scaletta said Tuesday that Timothy Denney was caught somewhere in Nebraska. Denney was placed on escaped status after he didn’t return to the work release center in Sioux City on New Year’s Day.

Denney was sentenced in August 2004 to 15 years in prison on convictions for robbery and going armed with intent. He’d been transferred to work release on Oct. 8.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police have arrested a 31-year-old mother they believe was driving drunk with her 1-month-old girl in the back seat.

According to a police report, officers spotted a vehicle last week leaving a gas station and saw it swerve, nearly hitting a patrol car and another vehicle.

Police pulled over the vehicle, and noted the woman appeared highly intoxicated and smelled of alcohol. The woman denied drinking and refused to take alcohol tests, but police say she had a hard time standing up.

The woman faces a charge of driving under the influence.