LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Satisfaction with park maintenance continues to decrease in surveys of Lincoln residents, with comments indicating people are unhappy specifically with grass mowing and trimming.

Fescue is allowed to grow up to 20 inches in long-grass areas, and is mowed just two to four times a year. Park staff mow more traditional park areas about every two weeks.

Parks and Recreation Department Director Lynn Johnson says the agency continues to receive complaints about long-grass areas, which cover more than 700 acres in more than 50 city parks.

Councilwoman Leirion Gaylor Baird says she gets complaints primarily about weeds and volunteer trees in the long-grass areas, not about the areas themselves.

Johnson says setting aside long-grass areas is both an environmental and a budget issue.

DENVER (AP) — A ban on gummy bears and other edible marijuana products shaped like animals, people and fruit takes effect this month in Colorado.

It aims to decrease the likelihood small children will mistake them for a favorite treat.

The change is less dramatic for Colorado’s cannabis companies than adapting to last fall’s rollout of exhaustive requirements for labeling, packaging and stamps on individual edible marijuana products.

But it’s motivated by the same concerns about children popping tasty-looking products into their mouths and getting sick or people who intend to use edible marijuana but accidently overdo it and need to visit a hospital.

Manufacturers say they’ve had more than year to prepare and don’t expect any problems meeting the deadline.

Other states where marijuana is legal have similar restrictions, including Washington.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A former police chief in an Omaha suburb who’s facing drunken driving charges has bonded out of jail.

Officers arrested 58-year-old Leonard Houloose on Thursday and booked him into Sarpy County Jail. He bonded out in less than two hours. A phone listed for Houloose rang unanswered Friday. Court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for him.

Papillion (puh-PIHL’-yuhn) officers stopped their former chief Sunday afternoon after receiving a tip that he was driving drunk.

He’d served 22 years in the Papillion force, including 14 as chief. He left the department in 2015 and is employed by the city as director of the Tara Hills and Eagle Hills golf courses.

COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — A former Platte County employee has been accused of stealing from the county while in charge of the county’s adult diversion program.

Court records say 43-year-old Traci Nelsen is charged with two counts of theft and one of tampering with evidence. A woman who answered Friday at a phone listed for Nelsen in Monroe said Nelsen doesn’t live there. Online court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for Nelsen.

Prosecutors say more than $10,000 is missing from the diversion program. Nelsen’s next court date is Oct. 18.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Residents, teachers, principals and students in Lincoln are brainstorming ideas for what the local school district’s next high school should look like.

Lincoln Public Schools Superintendent Steve Joel says the goal is to address dramatic enrollment growth at the high school level.

He says high school enrollment is at 106 percent. District officials expect another 5,000 students to enter the district in the next five years.

In addition to a new high school, the district’s 10-year plan calls for four new elementary schools and two new middle schools.

Joel says a traditional high school would cost about $80 million. He says it wouldn’t be feasible to build more than one new high school because the district wouldn’t be able to address space needs in elementary and middle schools.

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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Garland man who pleaded no contest to misdemeanor vehicular homicide has been sentenced to two years’ probation.

68-year-old Gary Jacobsen was sentenced Friday in Lancaster County Count.

Prosecutors say Jacobsen was driving a truck loaded with rock on Dec. 6, when he pulled across U.S. Highway 77 just north of Lincoln and hit a southbound semitrailer. The semi rolled onto its side and erupted into flames, killing 21-year-old driver Brandon Gerdes, of Osmond.

Jacobsen was also ordered to perform 120 hours of community service in 30-hour blocks during the weeks of June 26 and Dec. 6 — the weeks of Gerdes’ birth and death.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police have arrested a woman they say was in a car in Lincoln that intentionally hit a man, then sped off in a road rage incident.

It was 21-year-old Shaniece Turner’s car that hit Steven Collins on Aug. 31. Police say she had let Deaubre Gardner drive the car when the incident happened.

Gardner is charged in a warrant with first-degree assault and another count. Police have not found Deaubre.

Police say both men got out of their vehicles following a crash, then Gardner got back into Turner’s car and intentionally hit Collins, severely injuring his leg. The leg had to be amputated at a hospital.

Turner has been charged with being an accessory to a felony. She remained jailed Friday on $50,000 bond.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say two people were taken to a hospital after a school bus collided with another vehicle in Omaha.

The accident occurred around 6:50 a.m. Friday on the northeast side of the city.

Authorities say it isn’t immediately clear whether the two are students and how the accident occurred.

WAKEFIELD, Neb. (AP) — Federal officials say a worker has died in a fatal accident at a northeastern Nebraska food processing plant.

A worker at Michael Foods Egg Processing was fatally injured Tuesday morning when a dock leveler dropped unexpectedly. A dock leveler is used to span the distance between a loading dock and transportation truck.

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration says its Omaha office is investigating. Officials have not yet identified the man killed.

Michael Foods said in a written statement that the company is “deeply saddened by the loss” and offered condolences to the man’s family.

Michael Foods produces, markets and distributes specialty eggs, refrigerated potatoes and some dairy products.

WAHOO, Neb. (AP) — A grand jury has found no wrongdoing by officials in the death this summer of an inmate at the Saunders County Jail.

In a news release Wednesday, Saunders Count Attorney Steven Twohig says the grand jury came to the decision in the case of 45-year-old Robert Imus, who died July 29 at a hospital after being found unresponsive in his cell.

Imus had been arrested in Dodge County on drug charges and later taken to the Saunders County Jail. Officials say Imus’ death was determined to have been caused by a methamphetamine overdose.

Nebraska law requires a grand jury investigation whenever someone dies in custody.