COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — An October trial is scheduled for a Columbus woman accused of stabbing her brother.

20-year-old Alicia Martinez has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and a weapons charge. Her trial is set to begin Oct. 11.

Court documents say 33-year-old 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 to his chest, arms, and a hand.

Police say Martinez doesn’t live at Barrios’ home.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Douglas County jury has convicted a 61-year-old man of murder in Omaha.

On Monday James Cotton was found guilty of killing 24-year-old Trevor Bare and of three other crimes. Prosecutors say Cotton shot Bare during an argument outside Bare’s apartment on Aug. 7 last year. Cotton’s attorney says he will be filing an appeal.

Cotton’s attorney had been criticized for temporarily hiring a witness in the case. Cotton told the judge last week, however, that he understood the ramifications of what could be seen as ethical violations by his attorney but said he wanted to continue with the trial.

His attorney, Travis Penn, has said he researched ethics rules and didn’t see that he wouldn’t be allowed to have a business agreement with a witness.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha school board has advanced a measure updating the district anti-discrimination policy to include gender identity or gender expression, weathering a stormy debate.

Community members on both sides of the issue spoke at Monday night’s meeting. Some critics of the proposal said the district was opening a Pandora’s box, asking for more trouble. Others said the transgender students needed safe spaces to go to the bathroom or change clothes for physical education classes.

The district’s policy was written in 2014 and bans discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religion, disability and age. The proposal approved on the board’s first vote Monday would add gender expression and identity to the policy. A final vote is scheduled for next month.

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — Police believe three girls who accidentally drowned in a southern Colorado swimming pool last week jumped into the deep end.

Pueblo police Sgt. Eric Gonzales said Tuesday that a nearby adult heard the young sisters and their teenage babysitter jump into the 8-foot-deep section of a pool at a mobile home park.

He said that an unidentified adult soon saw one of them floating in the water and notified staffers, who tried to save the girls before police arrived.

Other children were in the pool at the time. There was no lifeguard.

Initial autopsies showed that 17-year-old Joo Hyun Lee, 6-year-old Amaya Gandarilla and her 3-year-old sister Azucena accidentally drowned Aug. 8.

Final autopsy reports will be released in about a month following toxicology tests.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police say a Lincoln woman has died after being hit by a bicyclist along the Antelope Valley Trail.

Sgt. Kathleen Phillips says Paulette Johnson had suffered head injuries when she was struck along the Lincoln trail Friday morning while picking up trash. The 62-year-old Johnson died Saturday.

Police say no one has been cited or arrested as a result of their crash investigation.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha councilman wants the city to commit taxpayer dollars to a sports organization in which police officers work with at-risk youths.

Councilman Pete Festersen will propose amending the city’s 2017 budget to give $20,000 to Police Athletics for Community Engagement. The council will vote Aug. 23 on the proposed $917 million budget, along with any amendments.

The city indirectly supports the organization through the officers’ volunteer work and the organization’s use of city parks. But Festersen said this would be the first time the city contributed money directly.

He says that, given recent protest nationwide about police shootings, he thinks it’s important for cities to focus on prevention and police-community relations.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lancaster County officials say they want to handle Lincoln’s juvenile court cases and plan to notify the city of their consolidation wishes.

The county won’t ask the city for financial support. City Attorney Jeff Kirkpatrick has said he won’t be able to cut his staff if all juvenile cases were to move to county prosecutors.

A task force looking at a county-city merger recommended in 2013 that county prosecutors handle all juvenile cases to avoid confusion for youths and their families. Judges also have said having one office handle the cases is in the best interest of those directly involved.

The city attorney’s staff handles only cases involving juveniles ages 16 and 17 who are accused of committing misdemeanors within the city limits.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Police say combined weights for a 10-year-old boy and two other people riding a raft with him at a water park when he was killed were within the ride’s limits.

Caleb Schwab died August 7 while riding the 168-foot “Verruckt” at Schlitterbahn WaterPark in Kansas City, Kansas. Riders are weighed to ensure each raft carries between 400 pounds and 550 pounds.

Police Monday released a report showing one rider at 140 pounds, another at 170, and an unclear weight for Caleb. He would have to weigh 90 pounds to make the trio’s weight reach 400 pounds.

But police said weights taken at a hospital after the accident show one person weighed 275 pounds, another weighed 197 pounds and a third weighed 73 pounds, putting the combined weight at 545 pounds.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — A 53-year-old Lincoln man accused of trying to sell stolen cattle has been given two years in prison.

Cork Tyan was sentenced Friday. Tyan had taken a deal in which he pleaded guilty to theft and attempted theft. Prosecutors lowered one of the theft charges in exchange for Tyan’s pleas.

Authorities say Tyan went to a Gage County sale barn in February and tried to sell some calves that later proved to have been stolen from a rancher in Hayes County. Authorities also say Tyan admitted stealing barbed wire from a Beatrice store.