OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha Fire Department wants the city to charge a $400 fee for helping pick up people who have fallen off a bed or chair onto the floor, even when they haven’t been hurt.

The Omaha World-Herald reports that the department said it happens up to 350 times a year: An assisted living facility or a nursing home calls 911, asking the department to help a resident who has fallen onto the floor. It is not a medical emergency call. Just a call for assistance.

Each call costs the city at least $1,000 and leads to longer response times for higher priority calls, the department said.

“The hope is by charging this fee, it will dissuade calls for service for nonemergency matters,” Fire Chief Dan Olsen said in a letter to the City Council, which is scheduled to take a final vote Tuesday on the request.

The fee would apply only if first responders were to determine there were no medical problems involved. The department’s proposal is based largely on a Lincoln practice in which the Lincoln department charges $349 for such nonemergency “lift assists.”

Assisted living facilities are not required to have a nurse on staff 24 hours a day, said Julie Sebastian, CEO of New Cassel Retirement Center.

“Sometimes, when we call the Fire Department, it’s because we aren’t sure that someone is safe to get up,” Sebastian told the Omaha council at a meeting last month. “If they try to get up from having fallen, they might further hurt themselves. We need medical professionals on-site to help determine that.”

She also said a fee could lead to discrimination against larger people if providers fear that they will face fees for getting help when the people fall because they require more help getting up than staffers can easily provide.

“That could result in providers potentially declining admission because of the worry of a fall,” Sebastian said.

Assistant Fire Chief Kathy Bossmann said firefighters would still be happy to respond.

“We just want to recoup a portion of the cost,” she said.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln authorities have released the name of a woman who died after either falling or jumping from a pickup truck.

Police identified the 25-year-old woman as Amanda Terrell. She lived in Lincoln.

A police report says the pickup ran over Terrell after she left it around 6 p.m. Wednesday, north of the Nebraska Innovation Campus in north Lincoln. She died later Wednesday night at a hospital.

The pickup driver was cited on suspicion of driving under the influence. Court records don’t show that he’s been formally charged.

WEST POINT, Neb. (AP) — New trial dates have been given two men accused of killing a man in his northeast Nebraska home.

Cuming County District Court records say 49-year-old Jody Olson will go on trial Jan. 14. Twenty-nine-year-old Derek Olson’s trial is set to begin March 11.

Both Olsons have pleaded not guilty to murder, arson and other charges stemming from the death of 64-year-old Ernest Warnock. His body was found March 11 in the burned rubble of his Rosalie home. He’d been fatally stabbed.

One of two women charged in the case has pleaded guilty to being an accessory. The records say 42-year-old Becky Weitzenkamp is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 4.

The other woman charged as an accessory, 32-year-old Jenna Merrill, is set to begin trial Nov. 13.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Two of nine current and former Omaha Tribal officials who admitted to using federal funds to give themselves bonuses have been sentenced to probation and ordered to repay the money.

The Sioux City Journal reports that 64-year-old Rodney Morris and 65-year-old Barbara Freemont were both sentenced Friday in Omaha’s U.S. District Court to five years’ probation. Morris, a former tribal councilman, was ordered to pay $13,404 in restitution, and Freemont, a former employee, was ordered to pay $89,000.

Both had previously pleaded guilty to one count of misapplication of health care benefit program funds.

They are among nine tribal officials charged in a case that accused the officials of misusing federal funds by awarding nearly $389,000 in bonuses to themselves. Officials say the bonuses were paid from Indian Health Service funds meant to provide health care to members of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska, who reside on the Omaha Reservation in Macy in northeastern Nebraska and in western Iowa.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police in Omaha say they’ve arrested a man for an August shooting death.

Police said in a news release that 22-year-old Brian Haywood was arrested Friday on suspicion of first-degree murder in the fatal Aug. 23 shooting of 22-year-old Keith Chambers. Haywood also faces weapons counts and charges of shooting into an occupied vehicle.

Police say Chambers was shot outside an apartment complex in north Omaha. He died Aug. 27 at an Omaha hospital.

Two women also have been charged as accessories in the shooting death.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A driver who drove his vehicle into another driver in a Lincoln road rage incident has been sent to prison.

Lancaster County District Court records say 29-year-old Deaubre Gardner was sentenced Wednesday to 27 to 43 years for the assault in north Lincoln and for punching another jail inmate later.

Police say Gardner was behind the wheel Aug. 31 last year when his vehicle crashed into one driven by Steven Collins. Police say both men got out of their vehicles and exchanged words. Gardner then got back into his car and intentionally drove into Collins, severely injuring one of Collins’ legs. Police say Gardner then drove away. Collins’ leg later was amputated.

Gardner was arrested in Detroit in December.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Authorities in south-central Nebraska have identified a man killed in a rollover crash on Nebraska Highway 2 near Grand Island.

Hall County sheriff’s deputies and other first responders were sent just before 7 a.m. Thursday to the scene about 4 miles (7 kilometers) west of Grand Island.

Investigators say 29-year-old Andrew Howard, of Grand Island, died in the crash.

The sheriff’s office says a preliminary investigation shows Howard was eastbound on the highway when his car failed to negotiate a curve, went into a ditch and rolled. Howard was the only occupant of the car.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man has pleaded guilty to first-degree sexual assault of a child after being accused of raping a toddler.

22-year-old Wesley Reiner faces 50 years in prison when he’s sentenced in December. Prosecutors say the victim was 3 years old when Reiner assaulted the child in 2015 in a Bellevue home.

Investigators say a 5-year-old child witnessed the crime.

In exchange for his plea, a second count of third-degree assault was dropped.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha Public Schools’ new superintendent wanted to find out what students wanted to know, so she held a town hall-style meeting.

Superintendent Cheryl Logan answered questions from middle and high school students on Thursday evening at the district’s headquarters. Others texted or emailed their queries. Topics included ACT scores, school security and school lunches.

Logan, who came to Omaha from Philadelphia, asked for the students’ ideas and told them they were the district’s “ultimate consumer.”

When one student asked how the district could improve its ACT scores, Logan said ACT scores begin in kindergarten, which is where the accumulation of knowledge begins. She says the district can’t wait until 10th grade to get students ready for the college entrance exam, which is taken in 11th grade.

GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — A man has been sentenced to four years in a Colorado prison for leaving his friend as she died of a methamphetamine overdose.

Jefferson and Gilpin Counties District Attorney Pete Weir says Nathan Hale pleaded guilty in May to charges of reckless manslaughter and distribution of a controlled substance in relation to the death of 25-year-old Natasha Rowley.

Prosecutors say Hale, who is 37 and lived in Nebraska, brought 14 grams of methamphetamine when he came to Arvada to help Rowley move in June 2017. They say both used the drug but Rowley soon went into “medical distress” and by morning had begun “moaning and gasping for air.”

They said Hale left the house without helping Rowley or calling for help. He was arrested in December.