(AP) — An Omaha firefighter candidate is recovering from injuries sustained after he fell 35 feet during a training exercise.

The Omaha Fire Department says the man suffered internal and external injuries from the accident Friday at the Rainwood Training Center. He is in stable condition.

The man, whose name hasn’t been released, was performing a search-and-rescue drill that involved finding a small child dummy. He was in a room with several people when he fell from a window on the third floor.

Officials say the first-year probationary firefighter candidate was hired in July 2012.

(AP) — A southeast Nebraska man has been accused of threatening another man with a knife.

28-year-old Christopher P. Kuhlman, of Fairbury, is accused of demanding money from a man Thursday morning.

Kuhlman is accused of pulling out a silver folding knife when the man refused to give him money.

Kuhlman was arrested on suspicion of making terroristic threats, using a weapon to commit a felony and trespassing. He was taken to the Gage County Detention Center.

The newspaper reports Kuhlman’s bond was set Friday at $15,000. His next court appearance is scheduled Aug. 2.

Court records do not list an attorney.

(AP) — The Utah Supreme Court has sided with a family that sued the state after a bear killed their 11-year-old son at a campground in 2007.

The court ruled Friday that a lower court erred in deciding the state was not at fault. The justices found that a bear shouldn’t be considered part of the “natural condition on the land” as the lower court ruled.

The ruling sends the case back to a lower court.

The family argued before the Supreme Court that Division of Wildlife Services workers should’ve warned them when they arrived at a campground in American Fork Canyon on Father’s Day 2007 that the site had been abandoned earlier that day because of a non-fatal bear attack.

Sam Ives was asleep that night when the bear ripped through his tent, pulled him out and killed him.

(AP) — A trial date has been set for a Columbus man accused of pushing another man down a flight of stairs.

36-year-old Jason Fisher has been bound for trial in district court on July 23 on a first-degree assault charge. He waived his right to a preliminary hearing in the case.

Fisher is accused of pushing 57-year-old William Jorgensen down the stairs of a downtown apartment building at the end of May. Jorgensen suffered a crushed pelvis from the fall.

Jorgensen said he and Fisher had a disagreement inside an apartment unit where the tenant was not home. Jorgensen told authorities that Fisher shoved him as hard as he could down the stairs.

Fisher was later arrested and remains at the county jail.

(AP) — A Nebraska bus driver who was fired after being caught on video punching a rider has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault.

Online court records show that 43-year-old Troy Fischer of Lincoln changed his plea Thursday. His attorney says Fischer will seek probation at his sentencing scheduled for Sept. 18. The charge carries a possible jail term of one year.

A surveillance video showed Fischer repeatedly punching passenger Torrance Rose on March 23. Fischer also is shown dragging Rose off the bus and leaving him on the roadway.

Fischer said he had told Rose he was on the wrong bus but that Rose didn’t seem to understand. Fischer said he’d felt threatened by Rose and pressed an emergency button on the bus seeking help before the confrontation.

(AP) — A Nebraska man has been given three years of probation in an Iowa case involving synthetic marijuana.

69-year-old Frank Firoz was sentenced Thursday in Woodbury County District Court. His 15-year prison sentence was suspended.

Firoz had made a deal with prosecutors. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy as a habitual offender after prosecutors dropped two drug charges.

Police say an undercover officer bought green, leafy substances in July 2011 at Exotica, a now-closed store Firoz owned in Sioux City. Police say they found large quantities of suspected synthetic marijuana in the store.

Firoz still faces federal charges in Omaha, Neb., involving the sale of drug paraphernalia and chemical compounds found in synthetic marijuana and designer drugs.

(AP) — A Lincoln attorney has been named to the Nebraska Court of Appeals.

The office of Gov. Dave Heineman said Friday that he’s selected Riko Bishop to replace Judge Richard Sievers, who stepped down on May 31.

The 56-year-old Bishop works with a Lincoln law firm. Her work includes domestic matters, workers’ compensation and school law.

Bishop’s law degree came from the University of Nebraska College of Law in 1992.

The governor’s office also announced that he’s named Lincoln lawyer Matthew Acton to the Lancaster County Court bench. Acton replaces Judge Mary Doyle, who retired.

(AP) — A 51-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to three counts of sexually assaulting children in Gage County.

Michael Pangborn made his pleas on Thursday in Gage County District Court. His trial is scheduled to begin on Oct. 29.

The Beatrice Daily Sun reports (https://bit.ly/12NYZxy) that Pangborn’s accusers say the assaults date back to 1984. Two women say Pangborn assaulted them at his Beatrice home when they were children. They contacted Gage County officials after he was cleared of a child sexual assault in nearby Lancaster County.

He was arrested on May 13.

(AP) — Participants at the Boy Scouts of America’s National Jamboree are turning each other into virtual zombies as part of an educational game that Virginia Tech researchers designed to show how disease spreads.

The Virus Tracker program combines technology with the game of tag.

At the Jamboree, Scouts earn points by “infecting” other players through bar-coded labels.

Codes can be activated at scanning stations or by troop leaders whose smartphones have the Virus Tracker app. The goal is to stay human. Individuals and troops that amass the most points each day win.

Scout Colin Slavin from Germantown Hills, Ill., says the chance to turn other Scouts into zombies is “really cool.”

Kristy Collins of the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech says about 3,000 Scouts have participated.

(AP) — A former U.S. postal worker in Fremont has been federally indicted on charges that he stole money, then lied about it in reports.

Federal officials say 48-year-old Michael Peitzmeier, a former counter worker at a Fremont post office, is charged in a two count indictment handed down Thursday.

The indictment says from 2011 through June of this year, Peitzmeier converted more than $1,000 that into his hands as a postal employee to his own use. It also says Peitzmeier made a false report of such monies.

If convicted of both counts, Peitzmeier faces up to 20 years in prison.

A public phone listing for Peitzmeier could not be found. It is not clear whether he has an attorney.