OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say an officer has wounded a man during a chase in northwest Omaha.

Capt. Scott Gray says officers were responding to a call about a man with a knife a little before 9:45 a.m. Friday when they found the man. Gray says officers chased the man and then struggled with him. Gray says an officer then fired. No officers were injured.

The man was taken to an Omaha hospital. His name hasn’t been released.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An 87-year-old man has died after a pickup struck him and his riding mower in eastern Nebraska’s Douglas County.

The accident occurred around 6 p.m. Thursday on 261st Street, about a mile east of the Platte River. The Sheriff’s Office says the pickup was heading north when it hit the mower being driven on the road. The man on the mower was identified as 87-year-old Donald Fitzwater, who lived in the area. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The 54-year-old woman driving the truck was taken into custody on suspicion of drunken driving.

COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — A 32-year-old Columbus man accused of several crimes in a carjacking has taken a plea deal.

Eric Kluthe is scheduled to be sentenced June 17. Kluthe pleaded no contest to false imprisonment and guilty to a weapons charge after prosecutors lowered the weapons charge and dropped two related charges.

Prosecutors say Kluthe put a handgun to the head of a Norfolk man who was sleeping in his sport utility vehicle March 1 and forced the man to accompany him and another man to Columbus. The victim called authorities after being released in Columbus, and Kluthe was arrested after the stolen SUV was spotted at a convenience store. The man with Kluthe wasn’t arrested.

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — State authorities say 10 cases of mumps have been reported among students at Midland University in Fremont.

A state news release sent Friday says the Three Rivers Public Health Department received the initial reports and is working with state officials to investigate the cases. A health advisory had been sent to health care providers statewide, asking them to be watch for mumps cases and to contact local health departments.

The viral infections symptoms include swollen salivary glands, fever and muscle aches. It spreads easily in confined spaces. Pregnant women and people with weakened immune systems are at increased risk of complications.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Fire officials say a fire that destroyed a longtime grocery store near downtown Lincoln has been ruled an accident.

Firetrucks were dispatched a little before 2:15 a.m. Thursday to Ideal Grocery on South 27th Street. Investigators say flames reached upward of 30 feet and some were still visible 2½ hours after the first alarm.

After getting the fire under control, firefighters remained on the scene for several additional hours to pour water on hot spots.

Officials say they believe the fire started in the store’s compressor room where Freon was pumped into coolers.

A portion of the store’s roof collapsed but no injuries were reported.

The store opened in 1920. Battalion Chief Jeremy Gegg told the Lincoln Journal Star that the building is a total loss.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a wounded man who died at an Omaha hospital.

Omaha police identified the man as 55-year-old Terry Kelley.

Officers sent around 4:45 a.m. Thursday to investigate a shooting in northeast Omaha found Kelley. Police say he was taken to Nebraska Medical Center, where he died.

No arrests have been reported.

BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — Census figures show that the Omaha suburb of Bellevue is Nebraska’s fastest-growing city.

New U.S. Census data shows that Bellevue added 738 residents to have 55,510 residents by July 1 2015. That made Bellevue the 249th fastest growing city nationwide out of cities with at least 50,000 people.

Lincoln was just behind Bellevue and ranked 264 on the national list. The state’s capital gained 3,443 people to have 277,348 residents.

Both Bellevue and Lincoln had a roughly 1.3 percent growth rate.

Grand Island gained 188 residents to have a population of 51,440 and rank 501st.

The state’s largest city of Omaha grew 1,569 to have 443,885 residents and rank 510th nationally.

Omaha and Grand Island both grew about 0.4 percent between 2014 and 2015.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — An effort to get some new Grand Island businesses to file overdue personal property schedules has backfired.

Hall County assessor Jan Pelland told the Hall County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday that she asked her staff to prepare the schedules for the businesses, supply inflated values and then send them to the businesses with directions to correct the values and send the schedules back.

Six of the businesses didn’t notice the valuations — and Pelland says she didn’t check — so the values were reflected on tax bills sent out in December. That’s when they noticed.

Pelland took full responsibility for the office action, and the board voted 7-0 Tuesday to reduce those inflated personal property values by nearly $5.3 million.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has refused to reinstate an attorney for a former doctor accused of killing four people with ties to an Omaha medical school.

On Wednesday, the court rejected an appeal by Anthony Garcia’s attorneys to let Allison Motta rejoin his defense team. A Douglas County judge removed Motta from the case after she made public comments about DNA evidence days before Garcia’s trial was to begin. The judge says the comments violated ethical rules and could have swayed a jury.

Garcia has pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder. Prosecutors say he was motivated by revenge over professional grudges, including his being fired from Creighton University’s pathology department.

Earlier this month Garcia told the judge in a letter that he didn’t want Motta reinstated.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Firefighters have been battling flames at a longtime grocery store a few blocks from downtown Lincoln.

Firetrucks were dispatched a little before 2:15 a.m. Thursday to Ideal Grocery on South 27th Street. Investigators say flames reached upward of 30 feet and some were still visible 2½ hours after the first alarm.

No injuries have been reported.

The store opened in 1920. Battalion Chief Jeremy Gegg told the Lincoln Journal that he would call it “a total loss at this point.”