LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln’s bike share program will likely begin this fall with 100 bikes and 17 stations across downtown and its university campuses.

The program will be operated by BCycle, the same company that runs the Omaha program.

Ben Turner, coordinator of Omaha’s Heartland BCycle, says the company will provide its latest equipment to the city, including lighter-weight bikes. The newer, solar-powered docking stations will give users the option to rent bikes using credit or debit cards, or through a smartphone app that allows the user to pay cash by going through a local merchant.

The city and BCycle are currently negotiating details of their contract, which is expected to go to City Council in the next few weeks.

BLAIR, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say an Omaha woman has died and her husband has been injured in a motorcycle crash north of Blair in eastern Nebraska.

The accident occurred around 11:50 a.m. Saturday on U.S. Highway 75. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office says Rick Juniel was driving south toward Blair when his motorcycle went out of control and hit a guardrail.

The Sheriff’s Office says Juniel’s wife, 57-year-old Maribeth Juniel, died after being flown to an Omaha hospital.

Rick Juniel has been hospitalized.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — A video spreading on social media shows a police officer in Colorado throwing a woman face-first onto a sidewalk after a scuffle.

Police spokeswoman Kate Kimble says the woman struck the officer in the university town of Fort Collins on Thursday after police detained her boyfriend. Kimble says the officer used “standard arrest control” to subdue her.

Kimble says the department has its own video from police body-worn cameras. She says that video hasn’t been released because the case is still open. The department will review the officer’s use of force.

Police identified the woman as 22-year-old Michaella Surat. She was arrested on suspicion of third-degree assault and obstructing a peace officer and released on bond.

No phone number could be found for her.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Construction is expected to start soon on a new addition for Omaha Central High School that boosters say will retain the historic downtown building’s charm while providing more space for music, art and a state-of-the-art library.

The public-private project was unveiled for the first time in July 2015. Now with fundraising from private donors wrapping up, the project has received approval from the city commission in charge of historic preservation. Construction is expected to start this summer.

The addition will add about 50,000 square feet. The school struggles with crowding due to its nearly 2,500 students. An additional existing 25,000 square feet will be repurposed for programs serving special education students and English language learners.

Construction is expected to be completed by winter 2018.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Grand Island Police are investigating a fatal stabbing that happened Saturday evening.

Police say 59-year-old Christian Peterson died after being stabbed several times at his home.

After the stabbing, Peterson sought help from neighbors before collapsing near Jefferson Elementary School about a block away from his home.

Neighbors called police and officers arrived shortly after.

No arrests had been announced in the case as of Sunday evening.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has ordered a lower court to review an Omaha man’s claim that authorities withheld evidence that would have helped him beat a murder conviction.

The state’s high court made the ruling Friday in a post-conviction appeal by 45-year-old Jack Harris.

Harris is serving a life sentence for the 1995 shooting death of 35-year-old Anthony Jones of Omaha. Prosecutors said Jones was killed in a plot by Harris and another man to rob his of drugs and money.

Harris said in his latest appeal that a witness gave police information in 1999 that implicated the other man.

On Friday, the state’s high court the lower court must reconsider the merits of the Harris’ claim.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A school bus driver has been placed on administrative leave and Omaha school officials have launched an investigation after a 10-year-old boy with autism was dropped off at the wrong bus stop this week.

A frantic search was set off Thursday when the fifth-grader didn’t arrive home from school. Officials say he was mistakenly dropped off about four miles from his home. He wandered for more than two hours before he was found that evening.

School officials say a substitute driver left the boy at the wrong stop after being given an outdated route sheet. The driver is on leave pending the results of a district investigation.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 5-year-old boy who started a fire in his Lincoln home was pulled away from the flames by his teenage brother.

Firetrucks were sent to the home around 8:30 a.m. Thursday. Lincoln Fire & Rescue Battalion Chief Jeremy Gegg says the younger boy had been playing with a lighter in the home’s basement when the blaze erupted.

Gegg says the older boy ran down into the basement when an alarm started sounding, grabbed his little brother and got them both outside to safety. Gegg says neither boy was injured.

The boys’ names haven’t been released.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska State Education Board and the Nebraska Education Department are looking at how the state can help Omaha Public Schools after its failed attempt to hire a superintendent.

Nebraska Education Commissioner Matt Blomstedt said Thursday that the board has heard from community members asking if the state can address issues that led to all three Omaha superintendent finalists withdrawing from consideration last month.

The state board and the education department don’t have authority to take over Omaha’s superintendent search, but they can offer assistance should the school district request it.

Omaha school board President Lacey Merica says she’s open to state advice but not formal intervention.

School board member John Witzel says the focus should be on making sure the 52,000 students in the school district are getting the education they need.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man who hit his roommate in the chest with a hatchet has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

32-year-old Jhon Arbelaez was sentenced Thursday in Lancaster County District Court after he pleaded guilty to second-degree assault and a weapons count.

Police say Arbelaez’s 38-year-old roommate woke up about 2 a.m. Oct. 3 to find Arbelaez had barricaded their front door. Arbelaez then threatened to kill the man before hitting him in the chest with a hatchet.

The two struggled, and the victim was cut in the head and neck with a kitchen knife before he escaped.

Police believed Arbelaez was mad at his roommate for calling police during a July disturbance in which Arbelaez hit and punched him.