LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police are warning Lincoln residents of a phone scam coming from a number that appears to belong to city mayor’s office.

Police say they’re aware of at least eight spoofed calls coming from a number that resembles the main number from the mayor’s office. The caller tries to get personal medical information from the caller, leading them to believe it is a health insurance scam.

Police say the mayor’s office would never solicit personal information over the phone.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man accused of raping a 10-year-old girl in Omaha has been charged with first-degree sexual assault of a child.

Police say 33-year-old Gabriel Cardona was caught Sunday in the act of assaulting the girl by his then-girlfriend and fled the house. Police were called and arrested Cardona after a search of the neighborhood.

Cardona was charged the next day. Police and prosecutors say Cardona had sexually assaulted the girl once before.

He’s being held on $750,000 bail and could not be reached for comment. Online court records do not list an attorney for Cardona.

His preliminary hearing is set for Aug. 2.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Army National Guard is inviting people to welcome home about 90 soldiers from a nine-month deployment in Iraq.

The ceremony is scheduled to begin around 11 a.m. Thursday at Haymarket Park in Lincoln.

The soldiers are members of the 1st Infantry Division Main Command Post-Operational Detachment. The unit’s mission: work with an active Army division headquarters staff during mobilizations. The detachment includes specialists in intelligence, legal affairs, infantry, artillery, aviation, communication, administration, military police, engineering, chemical, logistics and public affairs.

Officials say people planning to attend should expect increased traffic and random security inspections.

SHERIDAN, Wyo. (AP) — A northern Wyoming boy is hospitalized in stable condition after being hit by a freight train while crossing the tracks in Sheridan.

Police say the 2-year-old was with adults and other children when he was struck at 10 a.m. Monday. He was alert and crying afterward and was taken to Children’s Hospital Colorado as a precaution. Officers did not disclose his injuries.

The Sheridan Press reports (bit.ly/2ua2wu6) that police, the Wyoming Highway Patrol and BNSF Railway investigators are investigating the circumstances of the accident.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln resident barred from letting some plants in his garden grow to their full height says the city’s system of yard policing needs significant reform.

Bob Kuzelka is an associate professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln’s School of Natural Resources. He says Lincoln’s system of regulating what homeowners can grow in their own yards needs an update because it can be based on aesthetics rather than health and safety.

The city has ordered Kuzelka to cut his tall-growing bromegrass earlier than usual for the last three years. The orders respond to complaints from a neighbor about Kuzelka’s woolly yard.

County Weed Control Authority Superintendent Brent Meyer says he’ll enforce whatever the city wants to put into city code.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a Wood River bank to pay more than $30,000 to a female employee after ruling it unlawfully paid her less than a male counterpart.

Heritage Bank was ordered Tuesday to pay $30,598 to Christine Schwieger.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued the bank last month, saying it paid Schwieger $10,000 a year less than a male employee in the same position for several years for no reason other than her gender. The commission said the bank also ignored her complaints about the discrepancy, violating the Equal Pay Act of 1963.

The order also requires Heritage Bank to implement policy and procedural changes to prevent future discrimination.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium has reopened a portion of a new children’s playground that was closed when a girl seriously injured a leg on it over the weekend.

A slide on the Children’s Adventure Trail’s area was closed after the girl was hurt Saturday. Some parents have said the slide was too steep to be safe.

The zoo reopened the slide, which resembles a wrecked pirate ship, on Tuesday after adding a segment to the bottom of it to lessen its slope.

The new $27.5 million play area, just north of the Desert Dome, opened June 30.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Officials aren’t sure what’s killing the fish piling up along the shore of a lake in west Omaha.

Brook Bench is director of the Omaha Parks, Recreation and Public Property Department, and he said it’s not the first fish kill reported at Lake Zorinsky.

Omaha Public Works asked people to stay away from the lake in June after a storm-related power outage at a nearby sewage lift station caused let untreated sewage flow overland into the lake. That advisory was later lifted. It’s unclear whether the sewage intrusion is involved in the fish kill, however.

BANCROFT, Neb. (AP) — Two men have pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from a northeast Nebraska bank robbery.

Court records say Jeffrey Bonneau and Lenn Zuhlke entered the pleas Monday in U.S. District Court in Omaha. Both are charged with bank robbery. Bonneau also is charged with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. Both men live in Bancroft.

Authorities say Bonneau robbed the First Bank of Bancroft in Bancroft of more than $6,700 on April 20 and later crashed on an all-terrain vehicle as he tried to flee the area. Court documents don’t say what Zuhlke did to merit the charge.