(AP) — Supporters have begun searching for more money to maintain Bader Memorial Park in central Nebraska.

The Hamilton County Board of Commissioners has decided not to continue its funding agreement with adjacent Merrick County to support the park. The popular park sits southeast of Chapman, in Merrick County.

Pat Carlson is director of Platte Peer Group, which manages the park. Carlson says receipts, donations and concessions bring in about $75,000 a year. She says the park needs about $110,000 a year to keep it maintained.

(AP) — Authorities have released the name of a 9-year-old boy who died after he was struck and pinned by a skid steer loader near Greenwood in eastern Nebraska.

The boy was identified Sunday as Grant Johnson. He was a third-grade student at Ashland Elementary School.

Authorities say the boy stepped into the path of the machine as it was backed up around 4 p.m. Saturday. The machine was being used by 35-year-old Augusto Figueroa to clear brush and debris in a grove of trees.

Capt. Dave Lamprecht with the Cass County Sheriff’s Office says the death appears to be a “total accident.”

(AP) — There’s new evidence that the potent painkiller codeine is being given to hundreds of thousands of children in emergency rooms despite guidelines on limiting its use.

That is the conclusion of a study based on an analysis of 10 years of national data.

Codeine prescriptions were given in about 3 percent of kids’ ER visits in 2010. But that amounts to more than half a million visits.

The Food and Drug Administration issued its strictest warning last year about a rare risk for life-threatening complications or death in children given the drug after certain surgeries. It advises using codeine for children’s pain only if anticipated benefits outweigh the risks.

The study was published online Monday in Pediatrics.

(AP) — Lincoln’s city council will decide on whether to lease land for a new police shooting range, but the police chief is looking at larger options.

Council members will decide whether to lease 80 acres of land for a shooting range. Lincoln Police Chief Jim Peschong says he is talking with other local and state agencies about pooling their money for a Lancaster County public safety training campus.

Peschong says a larger, county training campus could include three or four classrooms, half a dozen offices and a course where crews could practice emergency driving.

Lincoln officers have stopped using the old shooting range on the east side of Lincoln Airport Authority Land.

(AP) — Omaha police are investigating an early-morning drive-by shooting that injured a 16-year-old girl.

Police said the girl was a passenger in a maroon Chrysler when a gray car pulled up beside her, and someone opened fire around 1:30 a.m. Sunday.

Police say the girl’s injuries were not life-threatening. Multiple bullet holes were found in the car. Two other girls with her in the car were not injured, and they were still able to drive to the hospital.

(AP) — Authorities say a 9-year-old boy was killed after he was pinned beneath farm equipment that was being used to clear brush.

The boy was standing behind the machine around 4 p.m. Saturday near Greenwood, in Cass County, when it backed over him.

Capt. Dave Lamprecht of the Cass County Sheriff’s office says authorities consider the incident an accident. Lamprecht says the boy’s family is from Ashland, and owned property with residences in Cass County. Lamprecht declined to identify the boy.

(AP) — An Omaha teenager has been arrested in connection with an armed robbery of a Lincoln convenience store.

Police say the 17-year-old and three other males entered the U-Stop store shortly before 1:30 a.m. Sunday and demanded money, while one of the suspects flashed a gun. The four males took beer, cigarettes and cash, and three got into a vehicle and drove away.

The fourth ran away, but was later caught with a large sum of money and a .50-caliber revolver.

The 17-year-old faces charges of armed robbery and used of a weapon to commit a felony. He was still in police custody on Sunday.

(AP) — A large brush fire in eastern Nebraska forced the evacuation of a farm and educational complex that houses dozens of animals.

Fire crews from Omaha and Bellevue spent hours on Saturday fighting the blaze, which had flames that reached 20 to 25 feet high. Crews brought the fire under control, but were still working Sunday morning to tamp down smoldering hot spots.

The fire Fontenelle Forest in Bellevue was between a Missouri River levee and nearby railroad tracks. It forced the evacuation of the Gifford Farm, an educational complex that houses dozens of animals. Bellevue firefighters were expected to meet with farm employees Sunday to determine when the workers and animals can return.

The fire’s origin has not been confirmed.