FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Ferguson officials plan to address the resignation of a police officer who fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown, as his parents prepared to attend a church service where civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton was scheduled to preach.

Darren Wilson, who had been on administrative leave since the Aug. 9 shooting, resigned Saturday, effective immediately, according to his lawyer, Neil Bruntrager, who declined further comment. An attorney for Brown’s family didn’t immediately return messages seeking comment.

Stephanie Karr, city attorney for Ferguson, says officials planned to make a statement on Wilson’s resignation Sunday. Karr earlier this week said Wilson had been on paid leave pending the outcome of an internal police investigation.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A 5-year-old Iowa girl has died two weeks after she was hit by a truck while sledding down her grandfather’s driveway.

Kailey Maloney died Saturday at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. She had been treated there since her Nov. 16 injury.

Maloney was sledding down the driveway of her grandfather’s property. She was hit by a 2005 Chevrolet pickup truck after she slid into the street.

Police say no charges have been filed in this incident.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Three men have been hospitalized following a shooting at a nightclub in west Omaha.

The Omaha Police Department says officers responded to a report of a shooting early Saturday at Rehab Lounge.

Two men were found outside the nightclub with gunshot wounds. They were transported in critical condition to CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center. A third man was taken by private car to another hospital, but was eventually taken to CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center.

It’s unclear how the third man was injured. Authorities have also not released additional information about the men’s conditions.

The shooting remains under investigation.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln woman has been accused of cutting her adult daughter’s leg and stabbing a dog in the neck.

Police say 39-year-old Tanya Perez faces a charge of second-degree assault. She has also been cited on animal cruelty. Court records do not list an attorney.

Officers responded to Perez’ apartment Thursday night on a report of a domestic assault. Perez is accused of grabbing a steak knife and cutting her 22-year-old daughter’s leg. She is also accused of stabbing a pit bull in the neck as the dog tried to intervene in the alleged fight.

Police say the women had argued over drugs before the verbal argument turned physical.

Perez’ daughter was treated for her injury. Additional information about the dog is not available.

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a sixteenth person was arrested during an overnight protest near the Ferguson police station.

St. Louis County Police spokesman Shawn McGuire says only one of those arrested is from the St. Louis area and that eight are from New York City.

McGuire says 15 people were arrested on misdemeanor peace disturbance charges. He says Joygill Moriah, of the Bronx in New York City, was arrested on preliminary charges of assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest and disturbing the peace.

Jail records had no attorney listed for Moriah.

The demonstrators were protesting the grand jury’s decision Monday not to charge a white Ferguson police officer for shooting unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown in August.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police have arrested a man suspected of stabbing his older brother outside a movie theater in eastern Omaha.

Officers say the 20-year-old man was upset with his 30-year-old brother, possibly over a fire a few blocks away. Police say the younger man stabbed his brother near the Midtown Cinema and then fled. He was arrested a few blocks away inside a grocery store that had been broken into.

The man was arrested on suspicion of burglary, assault and other crimes. Online court records don’t yet show that he’s been charged.

His brother was taken to a nearby hospital. Police say he’s expected to survive.

PLATTSMOUTH, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska state trooper has found a woman who’d spent hours in the wreckage of her vehicle after it crashed off a highway south of Omaha.

51-year-old Laura Hazen thinks her sport utility vehicle crashed around 8 p.m. Wednesday. The SUV ran down into a ditch off the west side of U.S. Highway 75 about three miles south of Plattsmouth and rolled onto its top. The wreckage was all but invisible to motorists whizzing past.

Trooper Eric Aho (AH-‘hoh) noticed scattered dirt and damaged trees, though, as he passed by around 8 a.m. Thursday. He stopped and soon found Hazen in the back seat of her SUV, trying to keep warm and complaining of rib injuries.

Hazen was taken to a hospital.

 

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say one person has died in a single-vehicle rollover crash in Omaha.

Omaha police say the crash happened before 7 a.m. Friday near an intersection of Interstate 80 and Interstate 680.

The crash remains under investigation and authorities are seeking the public’s help in gathering details.

Additional information about the crash was not released.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln woman who fell down a ravine remains hospitalized in stable condition.

Lincoln Fire and Rescue say Penny Costello was walking her dogs Thursday afternoon on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s east campus when she fell down a 20- to 30-foot ravine. The ravine leads to Dead Man’s Run creek.

Costello used her cellphone to call a friend. That friend helped direct rescue workers to the remote area.

Costello was taken to a local hospital. A spokeswoman said Friday that she’s in stable condition.