(AP) — Daredevil Nik Wallenda is in Chicago scouting possible locations for a tightrope walk between two Windy City skyscrapers in the fall.

The high-wire walker said that he first would check out Willis Tower, which was formerly known as the Sears Tower and was the nation’s tallest building.

Wallenda says he hasn’t ruled out Willis Tower, but that it would be problematic because there isn’t a nearby building tall enough to connect his rig to. He says, though, that he shouldn’t have trouble selecting a site.

Wallenda has walked across the Niagara Falls and Grand Canyon in the past two years. He’s part of a family of acrobats that has been thrilling audiences for decades as The Flying Wallendas.

(AP) — Officers are still searching for a 17-year-old who escaped while being picked up on a juvenile warrant in Hastings.

Hastings police and the Adams County Sheriff’s office said Friday that the boy remained at large.

He was handcuffed when he got away from officers around 5:30 p.m. Thursday. It’s unclear what crime was alleged on the warrant.

The Associated Press generally doesn’t name juveniles accused of crimes.

(AP) — Officials say aquatic improvements at Burchard Wildlife Management Area in southeast Nebraska are complete.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission says the rehabilitation includes the construction of a new outlet structure, a boat ramp facility, angler access nodes and a handicap-accessible fishing pier.

However, the reservoir remains low. The new boat ramp facility remains closed because water levels are seven- to eight feet below full pool. Small vessels are allowed if they’re launched from the shoreline.

Other improvements include offshore breakwaters to protect shorelines, and a sediment dike and basin on the reservoir’s north arm. Water levels have been deepened near new breakwaters and underwater rock shoals and cedar tree fish attractors have been added in the reservoir basin.

(AP) — Authorities say a Denver man accused of killing his wife while she was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher ate marijuana-infused candy before the attack.

Search warrants released Thursday said 44-year-old Kristine Kirk told dispatchers her husband bought and ate the candy before he started hallucinating and frightening the couple’s three children.

Police say 47-year-old Richard Kirk also may have taken prescription pain medication before he began acting erratically.

It was not clear whether the pot influenced his behavior.

Authorities say Richard Kirk shot his wife in the head about 12 minutes into her call with 911.

Police say she told dispatchers her husband was getting a gun from a safe before a gunshot sounded and the line went quiet. The department is investigating whether police responded quickly enough.

(AP) — Police have arrested a male suspect in a string of random Kansas City-area highway shootings that have wounded three people.

Kansas City, Mo., police Chief Darryl Forte declined to identify the suspect during a Thursday night news conference near the suspect’s home in Grandview. He says he will discuss the case in further detail at another news conference Friday.

Police are searching the suspect’s single-story home and a green Dodge Neon with Illinois license plates that was behind it has been towed away.

Police said last week that they had connected 12 shootings since early March in which vehicles were targeted on Kansas City-area highways and roads.

Most of the reported shootings were in the southern part of Kansas City, Mo., known as the Grandview Triangle where several highways intersect.

(AP) — A 48-year-old Grand Island man has now been found competent to stand trial on charges that he tried to kill his estranged wife.

Jesus Parra returned to court on Wednesday and was declared competent, as long as he continues to take his medication.

In February he’d been declared mentally incompetent and was sent to the state psychiatric hospital in Lincoln for treatment. He was to remain there until “the disability is removed.”

Parra already has pleaded not guilty to weapons charges and charges of assault, child abuse and attempted murder. Police say he attacked and injured Rosa Olivas de Parra at her home in April 2013. Police say the couple’s adult daughter was cut while trying to intervene.

(AP) — Nebraska health officials are offering information about job openings to potential employees via a drive-thru method.

The state Department of Health and Human Services says it’s hosting a job fair Tuesday in Omaha that involves people entering and exiting a parking lot. Officials will be at two stations to hand out information.

Potential employees will be able to park their vehicles and submit applications.

The agency will advertise openings in divisions including children and family services, developmental disabilities, Medicaid and others.

Officials say the drive-thru job fair has been well received in the past. The event will run from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. at 1215 S. 42nd St.

(AP) — A Nebraska school principal has apologized for sending students home with a flier that advises those who are bullied to not tattle on their tormentors.

Some parents of fifth-graders at Zeman Elementary, in Lincoln, complained and posted angry comments on Facebook.

Zeman principal Donna Williams apologized directly to the families on Wednesday, and the district posted the apology on its Facebook page.

Among other things, the flier says telling on the bully makes the bully want to retaliate. And the flier asks, “Would we keep our friends if we tattled on them?”

District student services director Russ Uhing says the LPS philosophy is: Ask the bully to stop. Walk away. If the bullying continues, tell a parent or teacher.

(AP) — A Nebraska-based information technology firm plans to move its headquarter to Kansas City with the aid of some government incentives.

MindMixer said Monday that it will create 85 jobs in Kansas City while consolidating its current Omaha headquarters and an office in Lincoln, Neb.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon says MindMixer already has a small office in Kansas City but will invest more than $1.5 million to expand its operations there.

MindMixer runs an online platform that encourages civic involvement and has more than 600 clients, including cities and school districts.

The Missouri Department of Economic Development says MindMixer could receive nearly $1.7 million of incentives if it meets job-creation and investment criteria.

The company says it chose Kansas City because of the availability of a skilled workforce.