OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha Police Department is sharing its plans to combat an increasing number of gang-related shootings in the city.

Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer and Mayor Jean Stothert spoke Monday about what’s driving violent crime and how they’re going to stop it. Although Omaha has less violent crime than it did four to eight years ago, Schmaderer and Stothert say gang and gun violence caused it to increase in January, May and June.

The Police Department has asked Nebraska State Patrol to help it patrol areas that have seen the most gang violence. Schmaderer says the joint patrolling effort will allow officers to arrest more violent gang members.

He says about 11 gangs are responsible for most of the violent crimes in Omaha.

DAKOTA CITY, Neb. (AP) — A northeast Nebraska jail administrator who faced possible discipline over a harassment complaint has quit his post.

Board member Rick Bousquet told the Dakota County Board of Corrections on Monday that Terry Kern had resigned for personal reasons. Bousquet says Kern mentioned he’d planned to retire in January when he turned 65 and that a family member had health problems.

The board had scheduled closed-session discussions about the complaint against Kern and a possible vote on whether to the longtime administrator. But the board took no further action Monday because Kern resigned.

Kern has said the complaint stemmed from a comment he’d made and that he should probably watch what he says.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — More rainfall than expected flowed into the Missouri River last month, but the river’s reservoirs still have plenty of room because of this year’s below-average snowfall.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it expects 26.6 million acre feet of water will flow into the Missouri River this year. That’s 105 percent of normal.

The Corps says last month’s runoff of 6.8 million acre feet was 125 percent of normal, so the amount of water released from the dam on the South Dakota-Nebraska border was reduced to minimize flooding.

The river’s reservoirs are using only 35 percent of the space reserved for flood control storage. It helps that the snowpack above Fort Peck Dam was 72 percent of normal and the snowpack below that dam was 78 percent of normal.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a 53-year-old man whose body was found on a bike path under a bridge in Lincoln.

Lincoln police identified the man as Robbie Young, a transient. An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday.

Lincoln Police Chief Jim Peschong (peh-SHAWNG’) says investigators are treating the case as a possible homicide. Peschong says Young had checked in and reserved a bed on Sunday night at the People’s City Mission, which provides housing and other services for the poor and homeless. Young’s body was found by a jogger early Monday morning.

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — The attorney for a former Hastings High School teacher has challenged the age of a girl who authorities say had sex with the man when she was 15.

Kevin Knake is the attorney for 38-year-old Johnathan Shafer, and in court on Monday Knake said it can’t be clearly established when the sexual relationship started. Under Nebraska law, people 19 and older cannot have sexual contact with people younger than 16.

Knake cited an email the girl sent to police saying she was mistaken about the time frame of the relationship. But prosecutor Cassie Baldwin said the girl is changing her story because of her feelings for Shafer.

The judge ruled there was probable cause to believe a crime could have been committed, so Shafer was bound over for trial.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 30-year-old Lincoln woman is recovering from two surgeries after being struck by a firework while shielding her 2-year-old daughter.

Shannon Tellier was hit Friday night during a family fireworks show. Tellier said Monday that she embraced her daughter to protect her after an errant artillery shell screamed overhead, and then Tellier was hit on the right side of her face by another errant shell.

The shell broke her upper and lower right jawbones and loosened some teeth. Surgeons stitched up her cheek after inserting metal plates. She’s been released from a hospital.

Tellier’s daughter, Haileigh, suffered only a small burn.