OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha’s mayor has announced the elimination of a paid position that was created to help make the city friendlier to bicyclists and pedestrians.

Mayor Jean Stothert said Tuesday she doesn’t want to use city funds for the bicycle-pedestrian coordinator. The position was created by a former mayor in 2010. The $80,000-per-year position will be eliminated at the end of the year.

Stothert says the position’s duties will be replaced by a committee. She plans to sign an executive order to revive the largely defunct Bicycle-Pedestrian Advisory Committee.

The executive director of the nonprofit Live Well Omaha tells the Omaha World-Herald the elimination is a “blow” to the city. Cycling advocates say they are trying to figure out how to save the position.

DENVER (AP) — A storm system in Colorado that flooded streets and stranded drivers up and down the Front Range is being blamed for the death of a man on the southeastern plains.

The Baca County Sheriff’s Office says a trailer in Vilas collapsed in strong winds late Wednesday night, killing 84-year-old Donald Falconburg.

The National Weather Service is investigating how strong the winds were.

Elsewhere on the plains, 6 inches of rain fell in Eads, an area that’s been locked in extreme drought.

More rain was falling Wednesday across the eastern half of the state, but it was mostly expected to be light.

The rains haven’t caused any major problems in the foothills hit hard by last September’s flooding. Some rain stood on streets in Lyons, but sandbags protected vulnerable neighborhoods.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha residents will soon be able to select live farm animals for future meals and watch them get slaughtered.

The Omaha City Council on Tuesday approved the creation of a live meat market in the southern part of the city. The council debated for more than an hour on whether to grant a special use permit for Tom’s Live Market.

The business will process animals such as sheep, pigs, rabbits, goats and small cattle. Customers can pick animals from pens at the business and wait while they’re slaughtered, processed and packaged.

Council members have required owner Tom Meyer to post signs warning off children under 12 from areas where they could see the animals processed.

Meyer says the concept is new for Omaha but familiar in cities around the country.

DALLAS (AP) — Prosecutors in Dallas say a member of a “swatting” ring that made hoax 911 calls has pleaded guilty to computer-related conspiracy and retaliation counts.

Jason Allen Neff of Omaha, Nebraska, faces up to five years in federal prison in a plea deal over the investigation since 2006.

Six other people have been convicted and sentenced to prison over bogus emergency calls that sent SWAT law enforcement teams to various locations.

Neff pleaded guilty Tuesday to aiding and abetting the conspiracy to use access devices to modify telecommunications instruments and to make unauthorized access to protected telecommunications computers. Neff also pleaded guilty to obstruction by retaliating against a witness, victim or informant.

Neff was arrested in 2011 in Jackson, Missouri, and remains in custody pending sentencing.

DETROIT (AP) — A Texas lawyer has sued General Motors on behalf of 658 people injured or killed in crashes allegedly caused by faulty ignition switches.

The lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan names 29 people who were killed and 629 who were hurt. All the crashes occurred after GM left bankruptcy protection in July 2009. That makes them exempt from GM’s efforts to shield itself from claims due to crashes that happened before the bankruptcy, attorney Robert Hilliard said.

Hilliard said he wants to file another 248 cases from before the bankruptcy, including 21 deaths.

The lawsuit alleges GM knew about defective switches that can cause engines to stall since 2001, yet it didn’t recall any cars until this year. GM would not comment on the lawsuit.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man accused of sexually abusing a 7-year-old girl has received probation.

Eighteen-year-old Alex Buser recently received three years of probation after pleading no contest to attempted second-degree sexual assault and child abuse. Lancaster County District Judge Jodi Nelson told Buser she had some reluctance placing him on probation.

The 7-year-old girl told her father in May that Buser forced her to perform a sex act on him in a bathroom.

Buser will have to register as a sex offender for the next 25 years.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A woman has been accused of threatening to use a bomb before robbing a bank in Omaha.

Police say 23-year-old Shantoria Valentine entered a Wells Fargo bank Monday and gave a teller a note saying she had a bomb.

Valentine is accused of leaving the bank with an unknown amount of money. She was arrested a short time later near a school. She had no bomb or other weapon.

Valentine faces felony charges of robbery, making terroristic threats, and threatening to use explosives. Court records do not list an attorney.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — TD Ameritrade’s new headquarters tower in Omaha has been recognized for its efficient design that includes numerous features to conserve energy.

The $250 million, 12-story tower opened last year in west Omaha. TD Ameritrade said Tuesday the U.S. Green Building Council gave the building its highest platinum rating for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.

The building includes sensors to turn off LED lighting when workers aren’t at their desk or if sunlight is available, and rainwater is captured and reused in toilets.

There are also solar panels on the tower’s roof, a rooftop garden on another part of the building and four wind turbines.

TD Ameritrade officials say the environmental features cost more up front, but they will pay off over time because the building uses significantly less energy.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Mechanics have been checking an American Airlines jet that made a precautionary landing in Omaha after crew members reported what smelled like an electrical fire in the cockpit.

The Dallas-bound jet took off from Omaha just before 6:30 p.m. Monday but soon turned around and landed back at Eppley Airfield.

American spokesman Matt Miller told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Flight 2323 carried 62 passengers and five crew members. Miller says a replacement for the MD-80 aircraft took off about 9:30 p.m. and made it to Dallas without incident.

Miller says he had no word yet on what, if anything, was wrong with the flight’s original plane.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A judge has ordered a man convicted of killing four Omaha people last summer to a state psychiatric hospital for treatment in an effort to restore his mental competency to undergo sentencing.

The decision came Tuesday in a brief hearing before Douglas County District Judge Peter Bataillon held after the judge found earlier this month that Nikko Jenkins was not mentally fit enough for a sentencing hearing.

Jenkins pleaded guilty and was convicted in April of four counts of first-degree murder for the August 2013 shotgun deaths of Curtis Bradford, Jorge (HOR-hay) Cajiga-Ruiz (cah-HE-gah ROO-ez), Juan (WAN) Uribe-Pena (oo-REE-bay PE-nyah) and Andrea Kruger in separate attacks.

Public defender Tom Riley and Douglas County prosecutor Don Kleine both agreed that Jenkins should be sent to the Lincoln Regional Center.