LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities in southeast Nebraska say an Iowa woman has died after being hit by a vehicle.

The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office says 19-year-old Merzedes Hart, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was walking Friday night near Waverly when she was hit by a vehicle. Hart was pronounced dead at the scene.

Authorities say the vehicle left the scene after hitting Hart, but it and the driver were soon found. No arrest or charges had been announced by Saturday morning.

The sheriff’s office says an autopsy has been ordered.

Hart was a member of the University of Nebraska-Omaha track and field team.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the more than 100-year sentence of a man convicted in a string of shootings that killed two and injured another.

Juan Castaneda was 15 when he and two other teens carried out a spate of street robberies the night of Nov. 12, 2008. They shot three people in separate attacks in the span of 30 minutes, killing Tari Glinsmann and Luis Fernando Silva and injuring another man.

Castaneda was convicted of first-degree murder and other counts in 2010 and sentenced to life in prison. But a resentencing was ordered following a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court decision that found it’s unconstitutional sentence juveniles to life without parole. He was resentenced last year to 105 to 125 years.

On Friday, the Nebraska Supreme Court rejected Castaneda’s claim that his new sentence is excessive.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A group of Omaha’s civic leaders has drawn up plans for an estimated $125 million mixed-use development in the heart of north downtown.

The development will be on an 8-acre lot across from the CenturyLink Center. A committee has spent nearly a year studying the site, which will be transformed into restaurants, stores, apartments, open space and possibly a hotel.

A final report on the project was sent this week to the city and the group.

Leaders seem to have resolved the issue of parking which has been an obstacle to the long-imagined project. Plans call for a new garage and other replacement parking for the 850 stalls that currently exist on the site.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police have arrested a 19-year-old man suspected of shooting an employee in a parking lot of the Nebraska Furniture Mart.

Police said late Thursday that the man was jailed on suspicion of assault, robbery and other crimes. Online court records don’t show that he’s been formally charged.

Police say the man used a shotgun to shoot 37-year-old Jared Clawson early Wednesday and fire at two of Clawson’s co-workers. One of the co-workers says he dodged gunfire in the parking lot when someone drove through, firing more than a dozen shots.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is working on new guidelines for how to handle situations where a wild animal is being kept as a pet after game wardens were criticized for shooting a family’s pet deer.

It is illegal in Kansas to keep a wild animal as a pet. Wildlife officials said they shot the Mark and Kim Mcgaughey family’s deer out of concern it could hurt people or spread disease.

Robin Jennison, secretary of the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism, says the situation could have been handled better. He wants new policies for similar situations in place quickly.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police have disclosed that Omaha’s first homicide victim of 2017 was killed when he was intentionally run over by a pickup.

Police said Thursday that investigators are searching for a white Ford pickup caught on surveillance video outside the convenience store where 40-year-old Seth Hansen was run over and killed early Jan. 7. Hansen worked at the Speedee Mart just north of 138th Street and West Maple Road.

Police said Thursday that its not known whether Hansen knew the driver of the truck that hit him.

Authorities are asking for the public’s help and are offering a $25,000 reward for any tip that leads to an arrest and conviction.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The city of Omaha could potentially face lawsuits from Old Market property and business owners after a fire broke out in one of the businesses housed in the building.

The city was notified this month by the property and business owners that they suffered losses in the fire that broke out January 2016 at the historic M’s Pub. Records with the City Clerk’s Office say 11 notices have been filed with the city, with proposed claims totaling more than $11.5 million.

The dispute that could decide if the city gets sued centers on whether or not a car was parked in a metered spot over a utility cover outside the pub, delaying emergency response to the blaze.

Old Market property and business owners must now wait a maximum of six months before receiving a response from the city.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Fans of venison in Nebraska can go from the end of deer hunting season this weekend to sandwich hunting season next week.

Arby’s says it will sell its venison sandwiches at two Nebraska stores next week because people in the state clamored for the creation after an initial offering elsewhere last fall.

Arby’s says the venison steak sandwiches will be offered at a restaurant in Lincoln near 55 and O streets starting on Wednesday, and a day later, an Omaha restaurant near 136th Street and Maple Road will start selling the item.

The restaurant chain says Nebraskans called, e-mailed and spoke out online most about wanting venison sandwiches after they were briefly sold at 17 stores in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Georgia during the fall.

VESTA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a woman has died after a rollover accident in southeast Nebraska.

The accident occurred sometime before 1:55 p.m. Tuesday on a county road south of Vesta. Johnson County Attorney Rick Smith says the vehicle ran off the roadway and rolled several times. Johnson County Sheriff Scott Walton suspects the woman was speeding.

Smith says she was pronounced dead later at Johnson County Hospital in Tecumseh.

He identified the woman as 46-year-old Cheri Speckmann, who lived in Lewiston.