LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The downtown Lincoln sidewalk ban on bicycles may remain in place longer than expected.

City officials have been sharing with bike groups and people who live and work downtown the plans to eliminate the ban. The proposed changes are aimed at providing consistency across the city, promoting biking and bringing city ordinances in line with a new state law that now lets people ride their bikes in crosswalks through intersections, among other changes.

But city staffers fear opposition to removing the ban could derail the other local changes, so they probably won’t include the ban removal in the bike-related proposal heading to the City Council this fall.

The measure is expected to resurface when the city bike share program begins next year.

FULLERTON, Neb. (AP) — A sheriff’s deputy has shot at a mountain lion found in the front yard of an east-central Nebraska residence.

A resident on the west side of Fullerton reported the big cat around 9:30 a.m. Sunday. A Nance County deputy sent to investigate found the mountain lion resting in the yard. The deputy reported that the animal began pacing the yard and went toward the resident and the deputy. That’s when the deputy fired.

Chief Deputy Ben Bakewell says it hasn’t been confirmed that the mountain lion was hit before running away. Bakewell says the deputy shot because the animal poses a threat to the town’s residents. Bakewell says the resident had noticed mountain lion tracks on the property for a few days.

GREELEY, Neb. (AP) — A man suspected of burglarizing the home of the brother of the late Nebraska punter Sam Foltz has seen charges filed against him in Greeley County.

38-year-old Scott Davis, of Lennox, South Dakota, faces six counts, including burglary and theft. Greeley County authorities say Davis broke into the home of Jordan Foltz on Sept. 3 as the Foltz family attended a memorial for Sam Foltz at the Huskers’ home opener.

Davis is also suspected in a theft at a Greeley construction site.

Davis was arrested in York County on Sept. 4 on suspicion of driving drunk, and officers say they found items in his car believed to have been stolen from Jordan Foltz.

Davis’ attorney didn’t immediately return a phone message left Wednesday.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say a baby suffered only some scratches — and a big scare — in a fall from a second floor window in Omaha.

Officials were called to the home Tuesday morning for a report of a 10-month-old baby falling from the window.

When officers arrived, the baby boy had already been taken to a hospital.

Omaha police spokesman Phil Anson said that officers following up on the baby’s condition learned he had fallen into a mulched area and “was perfectly fine.”

Police say the baby’s father said the upstairs window was open. He says the boy pushed on the screen, it popped out and the boy fell through.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A law enforcement task force arrested 268 fugitives, gang members and violent criminals this summer in Omaha and Lincoln.

The U.S. Marshals Service worked with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies in the operation that was announced Wednesday.

The operation included 208 felony arrests.

In addition to the arrests, officers seized 101 guns, drugs valued at more than $443,000 and $11,202.35 cash between June 1 and Sept. 1.

Lincoln Police Chief Jeff Bliemeister says the joint effort will help make neighborhoods safer and stronger.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Firefighters have rescued from a creek a 78-year-old woman who fell around 30 feet into a ravine behind her west Omaha home.

Firefighters were called to the scene near Zorinsky Lake around 1 p.m. Monday. The woman had fallen when the ground crumbled beneath her while she was pulling weeds behind her house.

Her rescuers lowered a basket that she got into so she could be pulled to safety up the ravine bank. Firefighters say she suffered only minor injuries.

HEBRON, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say an 87-year-old woman has died at a hospital after a collision on U.S. Highway 81 near Hebron in southeast Nebraska.

The Thayer County Sheriff’s Office says Loetta Krause died at a Lincoln hospital. She lived in Hebron.

The collision occurred around 6:20 p.m. Saturday. The Sheriff’s Office says Krause’s car was eastbound on Dove Road when it was struck on the passenger side by a northbound sedan as she tried to cross the highway.

The other driver and a passenger in his car were taken to the Hebron hospital.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Department of Health and Human Services officials say a patient has been found after walking away from a Lincoln psychiatric hospital.

Department spokeswoman Kathie Osterman says the man left the grounds of the Lincoln Regional Center around 4 p.m. Saturday by jumping a security fence during designated outdoor time.

The man was located and returned to the hospital by 9 p.m.

State employee union director Mike Marvin says he was concerned that other hospital employees and the public hadn’t been notified about the escape. He says people should have been aware, particularly if the patient had a history of violence.

Osterman says information about specific patients isn’t released because of federal patient privacy requirements. Those requirements and state laws allow law enforcement to know minimal information for identification and location purposes.

ROSENDALE, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a 9-year-old girl rolled a utility vehicle, killing her 8-year-old passenger, on a rural road in western Missouri.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the crash happened Monday on a county road near Rosendale, about 75 miles north of Kansas City, Missouri. The patrol says the girl driving the Polaris Ranger UTV overcorrected, and the vehicle overturned on its side.

The patrol identified the girl who died as Alexis Walker of Leavenworth, Kansas. The young driver was rushed to a hospital in serious condition.

No other vehicles were involved.