OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha’s mayor has announced the elimination of a paid position that was created to help make the city friendlier to bicyclists and pedestrians.

Mayor Jean Stothert said Tuesday she doesn’t want to use city funds for the bicycle-pedestrian coordinator. The position was created by a former mayor in 2010. The $80,000-per-year position will be eliminated at the end of the year.

Stothert says the position’s duties will be replaced by a committee. She plans to sign an executive order to revive the largely defunct Bicycle-Pedestrian Advisory Committee.

The executive director of the nonprofit Live Well Omaha tells the Omaha World-Herald the elimination is a “blow” to the city. Cycling advocates say they are trying to figure out how to save the position.

DENVER (AP) — A storm system in Colorado that flooded streets and stranded drivers up and down the Front Range is being blamed for the death of a man on the southeastern plains.

The Baca County Sheriff’s Office says a trailer in Vilas collapsed in strong winds late Wednesday night, killing 84-year-old Donald Falconburg.

The National Weather Service is investigating how strong the winds were.

Elsewhere on the plains, 6 inches of rain fell in Eads, an area that’s been locked in extreme drought.

More rain was falling Wednesday across the eastern half of the state, but it was mostly expected to be light.

The rains haven’t caused any major problems in the foothills hit hard by last September’s flooding. Some rain stood on streets in Lyons, but sandbags protected vulnerable neighborhoods.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha residents will soon be able to select live farm animals for future meals and watch them get slaughtered.

The Omaha City Council on Tuesday approved the creation of a live meat market in the southern part of the city. The council debated for more than an hour on whether to grant a special use permit for Tom’s Live Market.

The business will process animals such as sheep, pigs, rabbits, goats and small cattle. Customers can pick animals from pens at the business and wait while they’re slaughtered, processed and packaged.

Council members have required owner Tom Meyer to post signs warning off children under 12 from areas where they could see the animals processed.

Meyer says the concept is new for Omaha but familiar in cities around the country.

DALLAS (AP) — Prosecutors in Dallas say a member of a “swatting” ring that made hoax 911 calls has pleaded guilty to computer-related conspiracy and retaliation counts.

Jason Allen Neff of Omaha, Nebraska, faces up to five years in federal prison in a plea deal over the investigation since 2006.

Six other people have been convicted and sentenced to prison over bogus emergency calls that sent SWAT law enforcement teams to various locations.

Neff pleaded guilty Tuesday to aiding and abetting the conspiracy to use access devices to modify telecommunications instruments and to make unauthorized access to protected telecommunications computers. Neff also pleaded guilty to obstruction by retaliating against a witness, victim or informant.

Neff was arrested in 2011 in Jackson, Missouri, and remains in custody pending sentencing.

DETROIT (AP) — A Texas lawyer has sued General Motors on behalf of 658 people injured or killed in crashes allegedly caused by faulty ignition switches.

The lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan names 29 people who were killed and 629 who were hurt. All the crashes occurred after GM left bankruptcy protection in July 2009. That makes them exempt from GM’s efforts to shield itself from claims due to crashes that happened before the bankruptcy, attorney Robert Hilliard said.

Hilliard said he wants to file another 248 cases from before the bankruptcy, including 21 deaths.

The lawsuit alleges GM knew about defective switches that can cause engines to stall since 2001, yet it didn’t recall any cars until this year. GM would not comment on the lawsuit.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man accused of sexually abusing a 7-year-old girl has received probation.

Eighteen-year-old Alex Buser recently received three years of probation after pleading no contest to attempted second-degree sexual assault and child abuse. Lancaster County District Judge Jodi Nelson told Buser she had some reluctance placing him on probation.

The 7-year-old girl told her father in May that Buser forced her to perform a sex act on him in a bathroom.

Buser will have to register as a sex offender for the next 25 years.