ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police have arrested a 48-year-old suspect they say intentionally rammed into two police vehicles with officers in them in St. Louis’ Baden neighborhood. Authorities say police were patrolling the area around 8:30 pm Friday when an officer’s vehicle was deliberately struck from behind multiple times.

Police say the suspect then tried to pull alongside the police vehicle and hit the curb of a median and went airborne after striking an ornamental planter.

Officers say the suspect’s vehicle rolled and hit a fire hydrant before coming to a stop.

Authorities say there were three other occupants inside the suspect’s vehicle, including a 4-year-old girl. They were transported to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries. The suspect and two officers were also taken to a hospital for treatment of injuries that were described as minor.

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — Officials say the West Nile virus has been detected in Dodge County for the first time this year. The Three Rivers Public Health Department is monitoring the situation with tests in Dodge, Washington and Saunders counties.

The virus is transmitted to humans through mosquitoes which acquire the virus by feeding on infected birds. Most people who are infected have no symptoms or only mild flu-like symptoms. Roughly one out of 150 people infected with the virus become severely ill. People with weakened immune systems are especially vulnerable.

People can lower their risk by using insect repellant, wearing long-sleeved shirts and long pants, removing standing water where mosquitoes breed and taking extra care when going outdoors at dawn or dusk, when mosquitoes are most active.

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — A 9-year-old newspaper carrier is being hailed as a hero for rescuing a Nebraska woman who was trapped in her pickup for more than an hour.

Skyler Wilson was on his route delivering the Kearney Hub newspaper on July 20th when he heard 69-year-old Rosy Drake crying for help from inside her garage. Drake, who lives north of Kearney, became trapped because her truck’s door is broken and only opens from the outside.

Drake says when she tried to start the truck, the battery was dead, which prevented her from opening the window, and the passenger-side door was wedged shut by a picnic table in the garage.

After hearing Drake’s cries, Skyler ran to the driver’s-side door and freed Drake.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The future of The Woodlands racing complex in eastern Kansas remains up in the air even after a billionaire businessman bought the property. Las Vegas casino owner Phil Ruffin paid an undisclosed amount for the facility that once was one of Wyandotte County’s main attractions.

Competition from Missouri casinos and a lagging interest in dog racing became a drag on the complex before it closed in August 2008.

Some hoped slot machines lawmakers approved in 2007 could fix the facility’s financial woes, but Woodlands supporters said the state wanted too much in taxes from the slots.

Ruffin also owns two other tracks in Kansas and says he would like to open them all again if the state changes the tax structure on racinos.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 9-year-old bat boy has died after he was accidentally hit in the head during a National Baseball Congress World Series game in Kansas.

The Wichita Eagle says that the general manager of the Liberal Bee Jays team, Mike Carlile, confirmed late on Sunday the death of Kaiser Carlile.

The boy was struck by a follow-through swing near the on-deck circle on Saturday afternoon. A spokesman for the National Baseball Congress says the child was wearing a helmet, which is mandatory.

Home-plate umpire Mark Goldfeder, who is a longtime paramedic, treated the boy until an ambulance arrived. The team played a game on Sunday, winning 8-0.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Organizers of a campaign to reinstate Nebraska’s death penalty say they’re cautiously optimistic they’ll gather enough signatures to place the issue on the 2016 ballot.

Nebraskans for the Death Penalty has less than a month remaining to gather about 58,000 signatures before an August 27th deadline.

The group was launched on June 1st, with heavy financial backing from Governro Pete Ricketts and his father, billionaire TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts.

Spokesman Chris Peterson says the group has collected signatures from all counties except for Sioux County, but declined to release how many have been gathered so far.

Danielle Conrad, who is leading the Nebraskans for Public Safety campaign against the referendum, says her group will prepare a “strong and competitive” campaign if the issue makes it to the ballot.

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — An 80-year-old Kansas woman is accused of threatening animal control officers and firing a handgun as they were attempting to remove a dog from her property.

The Hutchinson News reports the woman was arrested Wednesday evening on suspicion of disorderly conduct and other charges.

Police say animal control officers were called to her rural Hutchinson home after a black Labrador bit a Reno County Area Transit driver. Sheriff’s spokesman Darrian Campbell says the woman seemed OK with the dog being removed until the officers started tracking it with tranquilizer guns.

Campbell says the woman went into her house and came out with a .22-caliber semi-automatic handgun, forcing the officers to take cover.

He says the woman fired one round, but it’s unclear if she was aiming at anyone.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice has released a report critical of the St. Louis County Family Court, alleging that black youths are treated more harshly than whites, and juveniles are often deprived of constitutional rights.

The investigation was initiated in 2013, addressing issues that drew increased scrutiny last year after the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was black, by a white police officer in Ferguson, a St. Louis County town. The new report was issued just over a week before the anniversary of Brown’s death, Aug. 9.

The report says the Justice Department will seek negotiations to resolve the concerns.

St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger says that although the court is operated by the state, not the county, he is “deeply concerned” about the findings.