OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The city of Omaha has temporarily stopped grinding some neighborhood streets into dirt roads as officials decide whether to pay for repairing those streets instead.

Mayor Jean Stothert gave the directive about a week after city officials held a public meeting with Omaha residents whose streets were going to be ground up.

Stothert wasn’t at the meeting, but she says she heard that residents expressed concern with a city policy that says the Public Works Department won’t maintain residential streets that weren’t constructed to current city code. Under the policy, the city turns the crumbling streets into dirt roads unless property owners pay to repave them.

Stothert says she intends to offer policy change suggestions in her 2017 budget proposal, which is scheduled to be unveiled this month.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A fire truck and a car have collided at an intersection in Lincoln.

The accident occurred around 6:20 p.m. Sunday. Lincoln Battalion Chief Leo Benes said the car didn’t halt for a light change and struck the passenger side door of the fire truck, causing up to $6,000 in damage.

One of the firefighters suffered minor injuries. There was no word on whether the car driver was injured.

Benes says the fire truck was returning from a call.

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — Health officials say Fremont residents no longer need to boil their water before using it because no contamination was found.

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services lifted the boil order that had been in place since Thursday when storms knocked out power to Fremont’s water treatment system.

Roughly 200 samples of Fremont’s water have been collected and sampled since the storm.

Fremont Mayor Scott Getzschman thanked everyone for complying with the boil order even while the city celebrated its annual Fremont Days festival.

HOOPER, Neb. (AP) — The congregation of St. Paul Lutheran Church in rural eastern Nebraska is grateful most of their church survived a strong storm last week.

Winds over 60 mph toppled the church’s steeple and bell tower last Tuesday, but fortunately the structure fell into the church’s parking lot.

The sanctuary and the rest of the church’s interior was spared.

Longtime church member Molly Brockemeier says she’s grateful the steeple fell away from the rest of the church.

Church council member Todd Meyer says he’s sure the church will rebuild, but it will be a question of how tall the new steeple might be and how quickly it can be built.

In the meantime, the 200-member congregation should be able to continue using the 114-year-old church building.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A year after bird flu forced fairs across Iowa to cancel poultry shows, the competitions are returning this summer.

4-H members who raise chickens are glad they should have a chance to show them at this year’s fairs.

Organizers banned live poultry at fairs a year ago because of the bird flu outbreak that ravaged the industry. Both Iowa and Nebraska lifted their ban on poultry shows this year.

Kerri Wede with the East Pottawattamie County Extension office says the ban was “heartbreaking for the kids.” But they adapted.

Last year, some fairs held egg judging contests and some had students give presentations about their chickens. Organizers are looking forward to returning to normal this year.

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — A free workshop will be held later this month about using birds to teach science lessons to young children.

The Hastings Museum will host the workshop on the evening of July 21 for day care workers and teachers.

The workshop will look at bird-focused books and ways to connect them with science investigations.

Participants in the workshop will get several sample lessons, a Nebraska bird guide and a bird feeder.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — Part of a human skull found by a kayaker along the Big Blue River in southeastern Nebraska has been identified as that of an early American Indian.

The remains are being turned over the Nebraska State Historical Society.

Gage County Sheriff Millard Gustafson says the discovery was made northwest of Beatrice on a river sandbar the evening of June 27. Gustafson says the kayaker first believed it was a turtle shell, but upon closer inspection, thought it might be part of a human skull and called sheriff’s officials.

The item was sent to the Forensic Anthropological Consultants Laboratory in Manhattan, Kansas and was identified as a human frontal bone.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln police officer is suffering from cuts, bruises and a broken nose after a fight with a hospital patient.

The officer had been called Thursday morning to help with a 34-year-old patient in the emergency room. Police say the patient had been taken into protective custody a week earlier and was being released. The 35-year-old officer was escorting the patient back to his room when the patient attacked.

Police say the man continued punching the officer until he started trying to get the officer’s gun out of his holster. The officer was then able to call for help on his radio.

The patient ran from the emergency room, but was soon captured.

Police say the officer is recovering at home.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — The first phase of a 96-acre development in Grand Island will include a 64-bed hospital, a hotel with conference space and a three-story medical office building.

The Grand Island Independent reports (http://bit.ly/29FVKl6 ) that work is slated to begin on the project located at the intersection Highway 281 and Highway 34 this fall.

The full-service hospital will be the anchor tenant for the development.

Chief Industries, a construction company in Grand Island, and HDR, an architectural, engineering and consulting firm based in Omaha, announced the development this week.

A consortium of 60 local doctors, part of Grand Island Hospital Holding, retained the development firms for the project earlier this year.

The scope of the project, such as total square footage and size and type of procedure rooms, are being determined.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — About 300 people have gathered in southwest Omaha to protest recent fatal police shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana.

The group discussed Friday afternoon how to conduct a peaceful protest before moving with signs to all four corners of the intersection of 120th and West Center streets. Omaha police were also present, with several police cruisers in the area and several police officers stationed on the roofs of nearby businesses.

The protest comes a day after a man shot and killed five police officers in Dallas. Seven others were injured.

Rene Harper, an organizer of the protest in Omaha, says the Dallas shooting has kept some people away from the event.