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Omaha city pools open Monday, with some pools sporting new equipment for the summer.

Tourniquets part of the kits, which also will include such items as pressure dressings, decompression needles and trauma shears.

M. David Steier, 63, and his wife, Arlene, 61, members of a widely known Omaha family, died as a result of a plane crash Sunday morning that occurred shortly after takeoff.

Nickole Wheeler, 33, has been charged with leaving the scene of a personal injury accident resulting in death and theft by deception of $5,000 or more.

Police were investigating four cuttings that occurred Wednesday and Tuesday in Omaha.

Also, Lake Street between North 40th and North 33rd Streets is closed for two days for road milling and paving.

Each year, Give to Lincoln Day keeps growing, and the seventh annual donation day has more participating nonprofits than ever before and its largest challenge match pool.

Also, motorists should be mindful that westbound Interstate 80 has been reduced to one lane at 24th Street through June 13.

There is a chance of rain Friday night and Saturday, when a high in the lower 80s is forecast.

The crash occurred about 5:40 p.m. Monday when a 2004 Chevrolet Trailblazer sport utility vehicle and a 2007 Buick Lucerne sedan collided at Curtis Avenue and Fontenelle Boulevard. The boy had been a rear-seat passenger in the Buick.