TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is working on new guidelines for how to handle situations where a wild animal is being kept as a pet after game wardens were criticized for shooting a family’s pet deer.

It is illegal in Kansas to keep a wild animal as a pet. Wildlife officials said they shot the Mark and Kim Mcgaughey family’s deer out of concern it could hurt people or spread disease.

Robin Jennison, secretary of the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism, says the situation could have been handled better. He wants new policies for similar situations in place quickly.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police have disclosed that Omaha’s first homicide victim of 2017 was killed when he was intentionally run over by a pickup.

Police said Thursday that investigators are searching for a white Ford pickup caught on surveillance video outside the convenience store where 40-year-old Seth Hansen was run over and killed early Jan. 7. Hansen worked at the Speedee Mart just north of 138th Street and West Maple Road.

Police said Thursday that its not known whether Hansen knew the driver of the truck that hit him.

Authorities are asking for the public’s help and are offering a $25,000 reward for any tip that leads to an arrest and conviction.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The city of Omaha could potentially face lawsuits from Old Market property and business owners after a fire broke out in one of the businesses housed in the building.

The city was notified this month by the property and business owners that they suffered losses in the fire that broke out January 2016 at the historic M’s Pub. Records with the City Clerk’s Office say 11 notices have been filed with the city, with proposed claims totaling more than $11.5 million.

The dispute that could decide if the city gets sued centers on whether or not a car was parked in a metered spot over a utility cover outside the pub, delaying emergency response to the blaze.

Old Market property and business owners must now wait a maximum of six months before receiving a response from the city.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Fans of venison in Nebraska can go from the end of deer hunting season this weekend to sandwich hunting season next week.

Arby’s says it will sell its venison sandwiches at two Nebraska stores next week because people in the state clamored for the creation after an initial offering elsewhere last fall.

Arby’s says the venison steak sandwiches will be offered at a restaurant in Lincoln near 55 and O streets starting on Wednesday, and a day later, an Omaha restaurant near 136th Street and Maple Road will start selling the item.

The restaurant chain says Nebraskans called, e-mailed and spoke out online most about wanting venison sandwiches after they were briefly sold at 17 stores in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Georgia during the fall.

VESTA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a woman has died after a rollover accident in southeast Nebraska.

The accident occurred sometime before 1:55 p.m. Tuesday on a county road south of Vesta. Johnson County Attorney Rick Smith says the vehicle ran off the roadway and rolled several times. Johnson County Sheriff Scott Walton suspects the woman was speeding.

Smith says she was pronounced dead later at Johnson County Hospital in Tecumseh.

He identified the woman as 46-year-old Cheri Speckmann, who lived in Lewiston.

COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — A Columbus woman accused of stabbing her brother is scheduled to be sentenced Friday.

Online court records show 21-year-old Alicia Martinez has taken a plea deal and pleaded no contest to attempted assault. Prosecutors dropped a charge of attempted murder and weapons, drugs and traffic charges in exchange for her plea.

The court records say prosecutors will recommend Martinez be sentenced to no more than 364 days in jail. The records also say the judge is not bound by the recommendation.

Court documents say Rogelio Barrios told officers that when he awoke in his bedroom during the stabbing July 11, he found his sister standing by his bed, holding an 8-inch boning knife. The documents say he was stabbed six times, suffering wounds in his chest, arms and a hand.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man released on parole less than two years ago for a Minnesota slaying has been charged with fatally shooting an Omaha woman and injuring her fiance last fall.

Omaha police say 31-year-old Tyeric Lessley was arrested Tuesday in Omaha and is scheduled to appear before a judge Thursday afternoon. Court records say he’s charged with first-degree murder, assault and three weapons crimes. He’s accused of killing Suzanne Pope and wounding Curtis Goodwin on Oct. 29. Court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for Lessley.

Police have not said what led up to the shooting.

Authorities say Lessley was sent to a Minnesota prison after pleading guilty in 2010 to unintentional felony murder in Minneapolis. He was paroled in April 2015.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say a man and woman were fatally shot and another man was wounded in three Omaha shootings.

The woman was shot about 1:15 a.m. Wednesday and found inside her house by officers who’d been sent to the area to check on gunshots. Police say the woman was pronounced dead later at a hospital. She’s been identified as 27-year-old Darnesha Mitchell.

The body of the slain man was found in a north Omaha street about 2:30 a.m. Police identified him as 28-year-old D’Angelo Branch.

Officers say the wounded man was hit by a shotgun blast and found in a parking lot of the Nebraska Furniture Mart around 4:40 a.m. He was identified as 37-year-old Jared Clawson.

No arrests have been reported. It’s unclear whether any of the shootings were related.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police have charged a man with murder in the shooting death last year of an Omaha teen.

Omaha police say an arrest warrant was issued Wednesday charging 21-year-old Otis Walker with first-degree murder and weapons counts in the November death of 16-year-old Markeise Dunn.

Police say Walker is already in a Nebraska prison on other charges.

On Nov. 26, officers responded to a report of a shooting in northeast Omaha and found Dunn suffering from gunshot wounds. Dunn was rushed to Creighton Medical Center, where he died of his injuries.