OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha man convicted of killing four people in 2013 is arguing with his own lawyer and one of the judges who will determine whether he will face the death penalty.

A three-judge panel is scheduled to spend most of the week hearing evidence about whether Nikko Jenkins’ crimes warrant execution.

But Jenkins objected Monday to his lawyer presenting an IQ test that might disqualify him from execution.

The case will be the first opportunity for Nebraska’s death penalty to be imposed since voters voted to reinstate it last week.

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. Jenkins pleaded no contest to the charges.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln Police say a 13-year-old girl was hit by a truck and died while trying to cross the street on Saturday night.

The incident happened along West O Street around 10:30 p.m. Saturday.

The girl was walking with two friends when she was hit by a pickup truck headed east.

Lincoln school officials said the girl was Taylor Miller, who was an eighth-grader at Irving Middle School.

Irving Principal Jason Shanahan says crisis counselors will be at the school on Monday.

Police have not released the truck driver’s name.

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Arctic fox named Jax has been taken from north Omaha home by animal control officials.

A 24-year-old woman had been keeping the fox as a pet. A city ordinance forbids possessing non-domestic animals within city limits. A fox is classified as a wild animal.

The woman bought the fox in June for $650 from a seller in Indiana. Mark Langan with the Nebraska Human Society says the woman was not cited because she was cooperative and “didn’t realize that she wasn’t allowed to have a fox.”

The humane society is working to place the fox in an out-of-state sanctuary.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert will seek a second four-year term.

That’s according to a campaign news release saying the mayor will announce her re-election bid on Monday.

The announcement will be made at the Scott Conference Center in Omaha, with former Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman introducing Stothert.

Stothert, a Republican, was the first woman to become mayor in Omaha when she defeated incumbent Mayor Jim Suttle in 2013.

Prior to that, she served on Omaha’s City Council.

Stothert had planned to announce her re-election bid earlier this fall, but postponed the event to recover from a back injury.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — Sentencing for a former Bellevue city administrator has been postponed to give him time to continue anger management counseling for another month.

Judge Robert Wester on Thursday postponed Dan Berlowitz’s sentencing until Dec. 9. He said he’d likely give Berlowitz a fine at that time.

Berlowitz pleaded no contest earlier this year to disturbing the peace, a misdemeanor, after an altercation at a dentist’s office in June. He was placed on administrative leave by the city of Bellevue and then fired.

A police report says Berlowitz poked the Bellevue dentist in the chest and pushed the dentist. Berlowitz’s attorney, James Schaefer, has said Berlowitz felt threatened and that Berlowitz denied assaulting the dentist.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — Norfolk officials have acknowledged that the U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into a zoning dispute with a Norfolk church.

An Oct. 24 letter sent to Norfolk Mayor Sue Fuchtman by the federal agency says it has initiated an investigation into how the city’s zoning laws treats religious land uses. The agency says it also will review the city’s rejection of a building permit for renovations to a former beer distributing building now owned by Our Savior Lutheran Church in Norfolk.

City attorney Clint Schukei says a request to rezone the property was rejected because it came from a leasing company. He says city law requires rezoning application to come from a property’s owner.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A January sentencing has been scheduled for an Omaha woman accused of helping an escaped inmate who fled to Omaha.

Court records say 51-year-old Wanda Minor pleaded no contest last week in Douglas County District Court to a charge of being an accessory to the escape. Her sentencing is set for Jan. 23.

The judge has sealed an arrest affidavit that contains information about what she is alleged to have done.

Inmates Timothy Clausen and Armon Dixon escaped the Lincoln Correctional Center on June 10 by hiding in a laundry truck. Authorities have said the two ripped a hole in the truck’s roof, climbed out and jumped off for a brief span of freedom. Dixon was caught the next day. Clausen was captured at an Omaha apartment on June 15.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — Gage County supervisors have signed a contract with a Lincoln law firm that offers bankruptcy services.

Supervisors took the action Wednesday as they continue to struggle with a $28.1 million lawsuit judgment awarded six people who were wrongfully convicted for the 1985 murder of a Beatrice woman. County officials have said the county doesn’t have the financial resources to pay the judgment.

Gage County asked the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday to delay execution of the judgment, saying it far exceeds the $18.4 million the county spent on governmental operations last year.

The county’s private attorney said in her motion that bankruptcy “would cause serious harm to the taxpayers of Gage County, as well as the county’s other creditors.”

CRETE, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man who served in the Army in Vietnam is trying to honor other veterans by collecting their names on his 1946 Chevrolet Sedan Delivery as part of a rolling memorial.

Sam Aughe of Crete has gathered 1,300 names since just before Veterans Day 2015. Almost all of the names signed with a black marker are of people who served in the U.S. military, but the vehicle is adorned with the names of a few police officers, firefighters and members of the Mexican Army and Australian Air Force as well. Some people have signed for their loved ones who were killed in action, are still missing or have since died.

Aughe hasn’t placed his own name on the olive green vehicle with a white star on each door and a red, white and blue grill and fenders.