Investigators say remains found in a remote West Texas location last month are those of a 13-year-old middle school cheerleader missing since December 2010.

Scurry County Sheriff Trey Wilson said Friday that the human remains found near Lake J.B. Thomas in Scurry County on March 16 have been identified as Hailey Darlene Dunn’s.

At a news conference in Snyder, Wilson said the girl’s disappearance and the cause of her death remains under investigation. He said the Scurry County District Attorney’s Office received written confirmation of the identity of the remains on Friday.

A 23-year-old Lincoln man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for receiving and distributing child pornography.

U.S. Attorney Deb Gilg says Nicholas Plachy was sentenced Friday in Lincoln’s federal court. He will be required to register as a sex offender when he’s released from prison. There is no parole under federal sentencing guidelines.

Gilg says police learned of Plachy’s activities through a file-sharing investigation conducted by the Lincoln Police Department. A forensic examination of Plachy’s computers revealed videos and still images of child pornography.

Police say a 76-year-old woman has died after being hit by a four-wheeler.

Jeanette Peters of rural Ericson died Friday after she was struck by a four-wheeler operated by her husband. He was trying to move the vehicle up a ramp when he accelerated instead of braking, causing the four-wheeler to pin his wife against a building.

Peters was flown to a Kearney hospital, where she later died.

A funeral is planned for Tuesday at Bethel Baptist Church in Ord.

Police in Washington may soon find themselves in real trouble if they ignore a judge’s order to return marijuana they seized from a man during a traffic stop.

Municipal Court Judge Jack Emery told Tacoma Police on Thursday to return the drug to Joseph L. Robertson within seven days, or they could be found in contempt.

The judge first ordered police to return the drug on Feb. 28, but they have refused. It was seized in May when an officer pulled over the Tacoma man for speeding. He was cited for driving without a license and misdemeanor marijuana possession.

Prosecutors dismissed the drug charge in December, after state voters decided to legalize small amounts marijuana. Robertson then asked for his pot back, and provided proof of medical marijuana authorization.

Three elementary-age boys have been charged with attempted sexual assault, with authorities saying the boys pinned down a classmate on the school playground and tried to remove her clothes.

Authorities say the boys and the victim were all 8 years old when the assault happened in February at Omaha’s Belvedere Elementary School. An attorney for the girl’s family, Brian Jorde, says a group of other third-graders rescued the girl, whose nose was bloodied in the assault, from her attackers.

The girl’s parents say they weren’t contacted about the assault until hours after it had happened, and that the school did not call police. The girl’s mother called police the evening of the attack.

School officials did not immediately return messages Friday. The girl has transferred to another school.