OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The family of a woman charged with the death of a 4-year-old girl has been issued an order protecting them from the dead child’s mother, who is accused of threating them.

The mother Chelsey Cook sought the protection order against Lakisha Morrow. Cook is charged with child abuse resulting in the death.

Morrow is the mother of 4-year-old Alicia Morrow, whose body was found in Cook’s unheated house in January. The two women had agreed that Cook would care for the girl.

In an affidavit for the protection order, Cook’s mother says Morrow angrily confronted her and another family member last month. The woman said Morrow yelled at her to call the police, because she wanted to go to jail and kill Cook.

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BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — Police say a woman has died in a Bellevue house fire.

The woman died Friday in the fire, which drew multiple fire departments.

Firefighters had to cut a hole in the roof while battling the fire near 29th Avenue and Jefferson Street. Utility crews also responded to neighboring homes to turn off some services.

Authorities did not reveal the woman’s name, and the fire remains under investigation.

SCHUYLER, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 24-year-old Schuyler man was fatally injured in an accident less than a mile from where another victim of another crash died a day earlier.

Wednesday’s crash was reported a little after 4:30 p.m. and occurred on a rural road north-northwest of Schuyler. The Colfax County Attorney’s Office says Moises Aguilar-Aguilar was pronounced dead later at a Schuyler hospital. He was a passenger in a pickup that went out of control. The driver, 25-year-old Jesus Vasquez-DelaCruz, was hospitalized.

On Tuesday 24-year-old Jason Saalfeld, of Schuyler, was killed when the pickup he was driving crashed into a creek bank less than a mile from Wednesday’s fatal accident.

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NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — A July trial has been scheduled for a Norfolk woman accused of intentional child abuse resulting in the death of her 4-year-old daughter.

21-year-old Carla Montoya pleaded not guilty Thursday in Madison County District Court in Madison. Her trial is set to begin July 11.

Court documents say Montoya told Norfolk investigators that she had tossed her daughter Caylee into her bed three times between 11 a.m. and noon on March 12. Montoya said she thought her daughter may have hit her head on the bed frame or a wall. The girl was pronounced dead at an Omaha hospital.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a woman was struck and killed after stepping into traffic as she left her vehicle on the northeast side of Lincoln.

The incident occurred around 2:15 p.m. Thursday. Lancaster County Sheriff’s Capt. Tom Brookhouser says the woman stopped her eastbound vehicle on the south shoulder of U.S. Highway 6. Brookhouser says the woman then got out and walked into the eastbound lane, where she was struck by an eastbound semitrailer.

The truck driver and another witness told investigators there wasn’t enough time to stop or to avoid the woman.

The woman’s name hasn’t been released.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln couple who say police illegally raided their home and seized their life savings and other property have filed a federal lawsuit against the city, Lancaster County and several police officials.

David Tarrence and Tamara Geis filed the lawsuit Thursday, nearly a year after filing a $2.7 million claim that officials declined to accept. Tarrence says police seized $224,000 in cash, firearms and a coin collection from a safe in the couple’s home in 2014. Police believed Tarrence’s brother had a large amount of marijuana and cash at Tarrence’s house.

No drugs were found at Tarrence’s house and he was never charged with a crime. He says some of the collectible coins are missing and several coins and guns were damaged by the saw used to open the safe.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 58-year-old man has died after being pinned down by a concrete wall at a Lincoln recycling plant.

Lincoln Police Capt. Danny Reitan said one of two employees who were taken to a hospital has died after the wall fell over Thursday afternoon at the Mid America Recycling plant.

Reitan says employees were cleaning up when a skid loader hit a concrete dividing wall. A portion of the wall apparently collapsed, pinning one employee and grazing another.

The condition of the other injured employee is unknown.

Police have not released the names of those involved as they continue to investigate the incident.

DENVER (AP) — Investigators have raided about 30 homes and warehouses throughout the Denver area as part of a multi-state investigation into the illegal distribution of marijuana outside Colorado.

A law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation says dozens of people were arrested in Thursday’s raids. The official says the investigation began after residents living near the grows complained about the smell of weed and involves people who moved to Colorado specifically to illegally grow marijuana for export.

The official wasn’t authorized to comment on the ongoing case and did so on the condition of anonymity.

At one home in a residential neighborhood, agents laid out confiscated grow lights on the lawn and driveway. In an industrial spot in Denver, large pot branches were stacked up outside a trailer.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln Police are investigating the shooting deaths of two people who were found inside an apartment complex for senior citizens.

The deaths were reported around midday Thursday.

Officer Katie Flood said the deaths appear to be a murder-suicide, but the case is still being investigated.

Capt. Danny Reitan said the man and woman were found dead inside an apartment at Stonecliff Estates in north Lincoln.

The apartment complex sells and rents condominiums to senior citizens.

Few other details about the victims were immediately released.