LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 34-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of a sixth drunken driving offense after police say he was found passed out near a riding lawn mower on a Lincoln street.

A 911 last Thursday night reported an intoxicated man lying near a lawn mower in the intersection at 10th and Peach streets.

Police say they found Ryan O’Toole asleep in that spot and say he smelled strongly of alcohol. Police say O’Toole was arrested on suspicion of DUI. If convicted, officials say, it would be his sixth.

A publicly listed phone number for O’Toole could not be found Wednesday.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The father of an 18-month-old girl shot in the face at an Omaha apartment has appeared in court to face charges in the case.

Marquell Buie was in Douglas County Court on Wednesday morning. He’s charged with child abuse.

Prosecutors say Buie was smoking marijuana at his apartment in April when he placed his loaded gun on a counter, which led to another toddler grabbing the weapon and shooting Buie’s daughter.

Buie’s next court date is June 26.

The girl’s mother, Ragome Moore, says she doesn’t blame Buie and called the shooting an accident. Moore says the girl is out of the hospital and had her first day of rehabilitation Wednesday.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A Florida woman who drowned a puppy in a central Nebraska airport toilet has admitted violating probation by possessing a dog.

Court records say Cynthia Anderson made the admission during a Tuesday hearing in Hall County District Court. Her sentencing is scheduled Aug. 4.

Police in Edgewater, Florida, say Anderson had a dog with her when she was arrested there in October on an unrelated theft allegation. As part of Anderson’s two-year Nebraska probation sentence rendered in July 2015, she was barred from possessing animals for five years.

Officials wouldn’t let Anderson board a January 2015 flight in Grand Island because the puppy with her was so young and inadequately contained. She then was seen entering a restroom. Another woman soon reported finding the Doberman puppy dead in a toilet.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska authorities are awaiting the return of an Omaha homicide suspect from Colorado.

Authorities say 31-year-old Antoine Johnson was taken into custody Monday in Denver. An Omaha police spokesman, Officer Michael Pecha, said Wednesday that Johnson’s not expected to be back in Omaha until next week, following extradition procedures.

Johnson is charged in an arrest warrant with second-degree murder and a weapons count. He’s suspected of shooting 29-year-old Trent Stutheit on April 16 in an apartment complex parking lot.

NORDEN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of an Iowa man who’d been canoeing on the Niobrara River in northern Nebraska.

Keya Paha (kee-AH’ puh-HAH’) County Attorney Eric Scott said Wednesday that 68-year-old Garry Kaufman was pronounced dead on the scene Saturday after being removed from the river near Norden. Kaufman lived in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Scott says Kaufman had been canoeing with a group. The attorney also says the circumstances leading up to Kaufman’s death remain unclear, but there’s no indication that any crime was involved. No autopsy has been ordered.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Horse riders in Lincoln are worried that the city is trying to drive them out of a park because of new attention to cross country runners.

Veteran Pioneers Park riders have started a petition and one stable owner has filed a tort claim against the city seeking restoration of the entire bridle trail, a feature of the original park that has now deteriorated due to lack of maintenance.

Horse owners say the city has not maintained the horse paths but instead has put lots of effort into establishing and maintaining trails for runners.

Lincoln Parks and Recreation Director Lynn Johnson says the department has no intention of closing horse trails and wants to work with horse riders regarding their concerns.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — An autopsy report concludes that a toddler fatally injured at a carnival in Wichita, Kansas, died after grabbing an electrically charged fence.

15-month-old Pressley Bartonek of Conway Springs was diagnosed as being brain dead five days after being shocked May 12.

According to the report, the toddler was at a small carnival on a parking lot when she grabbed metal fencing and became unresponsive by the time her father freed her hands.

The report says that a test by an electrical company showed about 300 volts coming from the fence.

The carnival operator, Evans United Shows based in Plattsburg, Mo., has not publicly commented about the matter.

Wichita police are investigating.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Temporary nighttime closures have been scheduled for three Interstate 80 interchanges in Lincoln.

The Nebraska Roads Department says that, beginning Tuesday, the ramps on exits 397, 399 and 401 will be closed Mondays through Thursdays from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. and on Sundays from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.

The department says the closures are required to seal concrete joints on the ramps. Detours will be marked.

The work is expected to be finished by late June.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A three-judge panel has sentenced a man convicted of killing four people in Omaha to death.

The panel issued its ruling Tuesday in the case of Nikko Jenkins. It had the option of sentencing Jenkins to death or life in prison.

Jenkins was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder for the August 2013 shooting deaths in and around Omaha of Juan Uribe-Pena, Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz, Curtis Bradford and Andrea Kruger in three separate attacks.

Kruger was his final victim. Prosecutors say Jenkins pulled Kruger from her car, shot her four times in the street and then stole her vehicle.

Jenkins pleaded no contest in 2014, but his sentencing has been delayed for years because of concerns about his mental competency.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say two Lincoln firefighters have been injured by the explosion of a propane gas grill.

Residents using the grill alongside a garage behind an apartment building called 911 for help Monday evening when they noticed flames coming from a tube that attached the propane tank to the grill burners. The two firefighters were injured when the gas tank exploded.

The blast shattered apartment windows, blew a hole in the garage and scattered grill parts all over the area.

None of the apartment residents was injured. Lincoln Battalion Chief Leo Benes says the firefighters were treated for minor injuries at a hospital and then released.