(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.

(AP) — A woman has died while riding an amusement park roller coaster in North Texas.

The incident happened just after 6:30 p.m. Friday at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington. A statement issued by park spokeswoman Sharon Parker says the woman died while riding the Texas Giant roller coaster.

Parker didn’t specify how the woman died. A message left for her by The Associated Press wasn’t returned.

An Arlington police spokesman referred all questions to Parker. No other details were available.

Six Flags said it was closing the section of the park around the accident site temporarily but didn’t say for how long. It also expressed sadness over the accident.

The Texas Giant reaches 14 stories high and has a drop of 79 degrees. It can carry up to 24 riders.

(AP) — Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert’s chief of staff has been given the OK to carry a concealed handgun in the City-County Building.

The administrator of the Omaha Douglas Public Building Commission granted the request for Chief of Staff Marty Bilek, who served for 38 years with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. He retired from his position as chief deputy to accept the position with Stothert.

Although federal law lets retired officers carry concealed weapons, Stothert had to seek approval because the City-County Building doesn’t allow weapons.

Stothert called it “another layer of caution.”

She says Bilek will carry a 9 mm handgun that he has owned for 25 years. Bilek will buy his own bullets for the gun.

(AP) — Lincoln firefighters rescued three cats from a two-alarm blaze in an apartment.

The fire was reported Friday morning, but before firefighters arrived a passing motorist stopped and kicked in a door after learning that cats were inside.

Firefighters arrived a short time later and rescued the cats.

Firefighters used special oxygen equipment designed for animals to treat the cats.

The animals were taken to a shelter and are believed to be healthy.

Investigators haven’t determined the cause of the fire.

(AP) — An Omaha firefighter candidate is recovering from injuries sustained after he fell 35 feet during a training exercise.

The Omaha Fire Department says the man suffered internal and external injuries from the accident Friday at the Rainwood Training Center. He is in stable condition.

The man, whose name hasn’t been released, was performing a search-and-rescue drill that involved finding a small child dummy. He was in a room with several people when he fell from a window on the third floor.

Officials say the first-year probationary firefighter candidate was hired in July 2012.

(AP) — A southeast Nebraska man has been accused of threatening another man with a knife.

28-year-old Christopher P. Kuhlman, of Fairbury, is accused of demanding money from a man Thursday morning.

Kuhlman is accused of pulling out a silver folding knife when the man refused to give him money.

Kuhlman was arrested on suspicion of making terroristic threats, using a weapon to commit a felony and trespassing. He was taken to the Gage County Detention Center.

The newspaper reports Kuhlman’s bond was set Friday at $15,000. His next court appearance is scheduled Aug. 2.

Court records do not list an attorney.

(AP) — The Utah Supreme Court has sided with a family that sued the state after a bear killed their 11-year-old son at a campground in 2007.

The court ruled Friday that a lower court erred in deciding the state was not at fault. The justices found that a bear shouldn’t be considered part of the “natural condition on the land” as the lower court ruled.

The ruling sends the case back to a lower court.

The family argued before the Supreme Court that Division of Wildlife Services workers should’ve warned them when they arrived at a campground in American Fork Canyon on Father’s Day 2007 that the site had been abandoned earlier that day because of a non-fatal bear attack.

Sam Ives was asleep that night when the bear ripped through his tent, pulled him out and killed him.

(AP) — A trial date has been set for a Columbus man accused of pushing another man down a flight of stairs.

36-year-old Jason Fisher has been bound for trial in district court on July 23 on a first-degree assault charge. He waived his right to a preliminary hearing in the case.

Fisher is accused of pushing 57-year-old William Jorgensen down the stairs of a downtown apartment building at the end of May. Jorgensen suffered a crushed pelvis from the fall.

Jorgensen said he and Fisher had a disagreement inside an apartment unit where the tenant was not home. Jorgensen told authorities that Fisher shoved him as hard as he could down the stairs.

Fisher was later arrested and remains at the county jail.

(AP) — A Nebraska bus driver who was fired after being caught on video punching a rider has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault.

Online court records show that 43-year-old Troy Fischer of Lincoln changed his plea Thursday. His attorney says Fischer will seek probation at his sentencing scheduled for Sept. 18. The charge carries a possible jail term of one year.

A surveillance video showed Fischer repeatedly punching passenger Torrance Rose on March 23. Fischer also is shown dragging Rose off the bus and leaving him on the roadway.

Fischer said he had told Rose he was on the wrong bus but that Rose didn’t seem to understand. Fischer said he’d felt threatened by Rose and pressed an emergency button on the bus seeking help before the confrontation.