OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The son of a man who died after fracturing his skull at an Omaha bar says Nebraska should hold bars liable for injuries and deaths caused by drunken customers.

Michael Drahota fell in the bar’s bathroom and slipped into a coma after drinking over six hours in January.

He died two months later. The Omaha World-Herald reports state law doesn’t cover overserving adults, unlike Iowa and many other states’ so-called “dram shop” laws.

Drahota’s son, Mike Drahota Junior says he’s working to get a new dram shop law introduced during next year’s legislative session.

The bar was given a 20-day suspension of its liquor license by the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission. The bar’s manager says it will avoid the suspension by paying $2,000 in fines.

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A Zimbabwe Cabinet minister says the country is no longer pressing for the extradition of James Palmer, an American dentist who killed a well-known lion called Cecil.

Environment minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri had said in July that Zimbabwean police and prosecutors would work to ensure Palmer returned to Zimbabwe to face poaching charges.

But on Monday she told reporters in Harare that Palmer can now safely return to Zimbabwe as a “tourist” because he had not broken the southern African country’s hunting laws. She said the police and the National Prosecuting Authority had cleared Palmer of wrongdoing.

Palmer was identified as the man who killed Cecil in a bow hunt. Cecil, a resident of Hwange National park in western Zimbabwe, was well-known to tourists and researchers.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The president of the Olive Garden restaurant chain has apologized to a Kansas City police officer after a restaurant employee asked him to leave because he was armed.  Officer Michael Holsworth says he was on duty and in uniform Sunday when the employee at the Olive Garden in Independence, Missouri, asked him to leave because guns aren’t allowed in the restaurant.

Holsworth says he was there to celebrate his birthday with his family. He says he thought the employee was kidding, but she wasn’t.

Olive Garden spokesman Rich Jeffers told The Kansas City Star that Olive Garden president Dave George called to apologize to Holsworth later Sunday.

Jeffers says the employee’s request was unacceptable and that the restaurant chain welcomes law enforcement.

BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Ozarks tourist attraction Branson is getting a $10 million adventure park. The 80,000-square-foot project, called Fritz’s Adventure, will feature rock-climbing walls, zip lines, a rope course, and a water tower, tubes and slides in a three-story building. It will also have a restaurant.

Developers expect the attraction to open next summer at site of the former Silver Fountain Inn, next to the Dixie Stampede along Missouri 76.

Officials say the project is among early efforts to revitalize Branson’s popular strip of theaters and other attractions. The makeover also looks to make the corridor more accessible for pedestrians and bicyclists, as well as to bring in a trolley.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 32-year-old man has been arrested after police say he shot his 7-year-old daughter in the hand inside their Kansas City home.

According to police, officers responded to reports of a shooting just after 11 a.m. Sunday. Kansas City Police Chief Darryl Forte says the girl was taken to the hospital with injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening.

The shooting remains under investigation.

Douglas County residents are being encouraged to either get rid of their ash trees or commit to a lifetime of treating them against the emerald ash borer, an invasive insect that has devastated tree populations elsewhere.

State and U.S. departments of agriculture confirmed the presence of the insect last month in a tree in Eudora, southeast of Lawrence.

Kansas State University Extension horticulture agent Marlin Bates says with the insect so close, it’s best to assume every ash tree in the northeast Kansas county is in danger of infestation.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports the mortality rate for infected trees is 100 percent.

Bates says ash trees need to be treated every year, and owners who don’t want to do that should consider removing the tree before it becomes infected.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — At least 16 children in the Kansas City metropolitan area have died in homicides in the last 12 months, with many of them being killed as their homes were shot up by reckless gunfire.

Police say this year does not appear statistically worse than most in the past decade.

A common denominator for most is parents who are either perpetrators of the violence or the target of gunfire that instead claims their children.

The Kansas City Star reports five of the 16 cases remain unresolved. The killings have swelled the ranks of anti-violence neighborhood activists holding vigils and releasing balloons on city streets to draw attention to them.

Prosecutors say the senseless slayings of innocent children draw attention to the larger problem of violence in the area.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Recently released reports show that 154 same-sex couples wed in Kansas during a volatile period in late 2014, months before the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that legalized the unions nationwide.

Newly compiled data from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment show that those unions made up less than 1 percent of the 17,655 marriages statewide in 2014. The agency says marriage data so far for 2015 isn’t yet available.

Tom Witt of the gay rights group Equality Kansas says roadblocks to marriage in 2014 were “substantial,” but he expects far more same-sex unions this year.

Confusion reigned in Kansas after the U.S. Supreme Court in October turned away appeals from five states seeking to retain gay-marriage bans. One was in the same federal appeals court circuit as Kansas.