(AP) — Two former American soldiers and a German ex-soldier have been arrested in New York and charged with plotting to kill a U.S. drug enforcement agent.

The charges were announced Friday by federal prosecutors in Manhattan.

The government says the plot was part of a conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States. The defendants are charged with various counts of conspiracy.

Among those charged is Joseph Hunter, also known as “Rambo.”

According to an indictment, he served in the U.S. Army from 1983 to 2004 before becoming a contract killer. The indictment in Manhattan says he had successfully arranged several killings.

It was not immediately clear who will represent the defendants at their initial court appearance.

(AP) — A 41-year-old man has been given 30 to 40 years in prison for stabbing his estranged girlfriend outside a Grand Island church.

Aslin Nabarro had pleaded no contest to attempted first-degree murder.  Nabarro was sentenced on Thursday. He said in court that he regretted what he did.

Nabarro was arrested after a May 17 assault in a parking lot of St. Mary’s Cathedral.

After an argument with a woman identified as Mirna Medina-Colocho, Nabarro stabbed her 20 times in the upper torso and head.

He then cut his own throat and fled but collapsed less than a block away.

(AP) — A 2-year-old boy has been found unhurt in a northeast Nebraska cornfield.

The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office says the boy was reported missing from his Walthill home around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Several volunteers and agency staffers joined in the search for him. A volunteer found the boy around 11 p.m. in a cornfield not far from the boy’s home.

He was soon returned to his family.

(AP) — A 30-year-old driver has died after a rollover crash in northeast Nebraska’s Boone County.

The crash occurred a little before 12:30 a.m. Thursday on Nebraska Highway 91, just west of Albion.

The Nebraska State Patrol says Shane Thome, of Albion, was driving east when he lost control of his vehicle. It rolled after entering a ditch, ejecting him.

The accident cause is being investigated.

(AP) — A 24-year-old former Hastings College soccer player is scheduled to be sentenced in November for killing a roommate in Omaha.

Twenty-four-year-old Greg Dodds pleaded no contest to second-degree murder and a weapons charge on Wednesday.

Authorities say Dodds stabbed and slashed to death 22-year-old Vedant Patel March 5, 2012. Officers who arrested Gregory found him sitting in a vehicle, making comments about being responsible. He said God told him to kill Patel.

Two doctors later found Dodds insane at the time of the killing and blamed it on his drug use.

Dodds pleaded no contest after making a deal with prosecutors who lowered the charge.

The sentencing is set for Nov. 18.

Dodds graduated the Hastings school in 2011.

(AP) — The trial of a lawsuit filed by Nebraska landowners challenging Gov. Dave Heineman’s decision to approve a new route for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline through the state will be held Friday afternoon in Lincoln.

In June, a Lancaster County District judge rejected a motion by state officials to dismiss the lawsuit, filed by three Nebraska landowners. They say a law passed during a special legislative session in 2011 as a way to reroute the pipeline away from Nebraska’s environmentally sensitive Sandhills was unconstitutional.

The landowners say the law doesn’t allow for judicial review and doesn’t spell out what criteria should be considered when a pipeline project is being evaluated.

Those who favor the pipeline have cited the nation’s need for more oil and praised its potential economic impact.

(AP) — An autopsy has been scheduled on the body of an infant found not breathing at a Lincoln motel.

Paramedics and police officers responded to a report about the child a little after 2 p.m. Thursday at the Sharon Motel, a few blocks north of downtown.

Police Capt. Jim Davidsaver said the child was less than a year old.

The child’s death is being investigated.