(AP) — A 36-year-old Illinois truck driver has pleaded no contest to five felony counts for a crash last year that killed a family.

Court records say 37-year-old Josef Slezak pleaded no contest Friday to four counts of motor vehicle homicide and one count of motor vehicle homicide involving an unborn child. In exchange, prosecutors dropped four counts of manslaughter. Slezak will be sentenced on Oct. 16.

Authorities say Slezak had been driving virtually nonstop from Milwaukee, Wis., and was in western Nebraska on Interstate 80 when he fell asleep at the wheel last September. His semitrailer slammed into the back of a car, killing Christopher Schmidt, his wife Diana Schmidt, and the couple’s two young children. Diana Schmidt was 30 weeks pregnant at the time.

(AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court says state laws regarding notification in child welfare cases are constitutional, but has ruled that a biological father who pays child support must be notified of any action to place his child in foster care.

The case stems from a 2008 lawsuit filed by Michael Eggleston against the state. Eggleston said state employees violated his rights when they failed inform him that his 3-year-old had been taken into protective custody after her mother attempted suicide. Eggleston said the state had his contact information, because he faithfully paid child support.

The ruling Friday reversed a lower court’s finding that the state’s notification laws are unconstitutional because they don’t require the state to notify a noncustodial parent when a child has been taken into emergency protective custody.

(AP) — A 26-year-old Burwell man is scheduled to be in court Monday for a hearing in his manslaughter case.

Authorities suspect Joseph White was exchanging texts with his wife when his car rammed into the rear of a tractor near Westerville in south-central Nebraska’s Custer County on April 30. The tractor driver died. He was identified as 55-year-old Joe Willhoit.

In court records a Nebraska state trooper says an examination of White’s cellphone and cellphone records showed that just about the time of the crash, White received a text from his wife and that an unsent text to his wife was still on his phone.

A public phone listing for White couldn’t be found. Online court records don’t list the name of his attorney.

(AP) — Johnson & Johnson is recalling 200,000 bottles of Motrin Infants Drops formula due to the risk that they contain tiny particles of plastic.

J&J’s McNeil unit says it is unclear if the recalled bottles actually contain the particles, which were found in a different product during the manufacturing process. The company decided to issue the recall because both products contain the same shipment of ibuprofen from a third-party supplier. Ibuprofen is a common pain reliever and fever reducer, also used in Advil.

The company is asking retailers to take the affected products off store shelves. Consumers should stop using the bottles and throw them away.

Friday’s announcement is the latest in a series of about 40 product recalls announced by the U.S.-based company since 2009.

(AP) — Officials have issued health alerts for toxic blue-green algae at three lakes in eastern Nebraska.

The state Department of Health and Human Services says water samples at the lakes were above the Nebraska’s health alert threshold for a toxin released by certain strains of blue-green algae.

The lakes are Bluestem Lake in Lancaster County, Kirkman’s Cove in Richardson County and Willow Creek Lake in Pierce County.

A late August alert for Lake McConaughy near the Nebraska Panhandle has ended.

The alerts will continue at the lakes for at least two more weeks for additional testing.