DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Part of the fun of sledding is the risk that comes with flying down a steep hill.

But that risk leaves cities open to potential bills from sledding injuries, and some have opted to close hills rather than risk large liability claims.

No one tracks how many cities have banned or limited sledding, but the list grows every year. One of the latest is in Dubuque, Iowa, where officials are moving ahead with a plan to ban sledding in all but two of its 50 parks.

Parks manager Marie Ware says Dubuque is hilly and the risk is too prevalent.

In meetings leading up to the ban, City Council members lamented the move but say it’s the only responsible choice given liability concerns and demands from Dubuque’s insurance carrier.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha Police say a 52-year-old man became the city’s first homicide victim of 2015 after he was found with a gunshot wound in a park Saturday.

Police said Tommie Harden was found around 10:15 a.m. Saturday.

A woman who lives near Adams Park in northeast Omaha called police after Harden was found lying in the park.

Harden was bleeding from a gunshot wound in his chest when he was found. He was taken to an Omaha hospital where he died.

Police did not announce any arrests immediately, and they asked anyone with information on the death to contact investigators.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska medical officials say an American health care provider who experienced high-risk exposure to the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone will be observed at the facility’s biocontainment unit in Omaha.

Nebraska Medicine says in a release that the unidentified patient will arrive about 2 p.m. CST Sunday aboard a private air ambulance.

Phil Smith, M.D., medical director of the facility’s biocontainment unit, says the patient “is not ill and is not contagious.” He says officials will take “all appropriate precautions.”

The patient will be observed for possible infection during the 21-day incubation period of the disease, both by monitoring for symptoms and through blood tests.

Three patients with Ebola have been treated at Nebraska Medicine, which is a clinical partner of the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha City Council will consider major changes to the city’s housing code inspection and enforcement regulations just two weeks after a fatal fire in a south Omaha boarding house killed two people.

The City Council will discuss the changes at a meeting Tuesday. The timing is coincidental, as the changes are part of a proposed settlement to a federal lawsuit that landlords filed against the city.

The proposed ordinance would establish standard procedures and deadlines for inspections, violation reports and follow-up inspections. It would also set specific deadlines for repairs based on the severity of violations.

The inspection and enforcement changes would primarily affect landlords, but would also apply to private homeowners when complaints are filed against their properties.

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — An elderly Fremont woman has died in a crash on a city street.

The Fremont Police Department says 82-year-old Phyllis Eichmeier was traveling eastbound on a city street Friday night when her car crossed the center line and hit a westbound car.

Eichmeier was taken to a Fremont hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The 57-year-old male driver of the other car was treated at the hospital and released.

Police and the Nebraska State Patrol are investigating.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A large sinkhole opened up on a street near downtown Omaha this week, but no injuries or property damage was reported.

The sinkhole, which consumed the width of the street, was reported Thursday afternoon near 20th and Pierce streets.

Lesley Mosley, a resident in the area, says she heard a loud noise and thought it was a car accident.

No injuries or property damage were reported.

It’s at least the third large sinkhole in the area since mid-June. On June 22, one at 22nd Street and Saint Mary’s Avenue swallowed a woman’s car, who suffered minor injuries. In September, another sinkhole opened up nearby at 20th and Farnam streets because of a water main break. No injuries were reported from that incident.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police in Lincoln say at least one man has been arrested after a father interrupted a break-in at his home.

The father called police around 11:30 a.m. Friday after he went home to have lunch with his children and found his back door kicked in. Police say the would-be robbers were still inside the home — as were the children.

Police say the father chased one of the robbers and saw another get into a car and drive away. Police say officers were able to catch the man who fled on foot.

Officers also found evidence at the father’s home.

Police say no one was hurt during the robbery.