(AP) — Seven-year-old Max Vertin has a disease that is weakening his muscles, but not his imagination.

Make-A-Wish Colorado says Max, who loves to pretend to fly like a superhero, soared Tuesday at an indoor skydiving facility near Denver called SkyVenture Colorado. The Hastings, Nebraska boy donned a yellow-and-red Iron Man costume and red helmet and broad smile for his wind tunnel adventure.

Max and his two brothers have Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a genetic disorder that primarily affects boys, often manifesting itself when patients are very young and causing their muscles to slowly deteriorate.

Until recently, according to the Muscular Dystrophy Association, patients did not survive much beyond their teens, when the disease begins to affect the heart and respiratory muscles. Life expectancy has been increasing because of advances in cardiac and respiratory care.

(AP) — A judge has given final approval to a $2 million state settlement with the family of a Lincoln woman who was struck and killed by a state prison van driven by an inmate.

The settlement will go to the husband and son of 47-year-old Joyce Meeks, who was killed in the crash on June 25 in Lincoln. Last month legislators approved the payment as part of the state’s annual claims bill.

The inmate driver, Jeremy Dobbe, was seen speeding and swerving erratically before he struck Meeks’ vehicle. Dobbe was driving to transport inmates as part of a state work-release program.

The lawsuit by Meeks’ husband, Leonard Meeks, and son, Martell Buchanan, alleges that Dobbe was under the influence of alcohol, drugs or some other intoxicating substance.

(AP) — A Nebraska man has been given 25 years in prison for sexually abusing girls ages 7 and 8 in western Iowa.

64-year-old John Schondelmeyer, of Bellevue, Neb., was sentenced on Monday. He’d been found guilty of two counts of sex abuse and two counts of lascivious acts with a child.

The Mills County Sheriff’s Office says Schondelmeyer was in the process of moving to Fayetteville, N.C., when he was arrested Oct. 17, 2013, at his Nebraska home.

Schondelmeyer will be transferred to Nebraska, where he faces more child sex charges.

(AP) — Lincoln council members have approved a new ordinance that will require all outdoor clothing donations boxes and huts to list the names of every nonprofit organization and private company that receives money or clothing from the donations.

The disclosure ordinance adopted Monday will provide some information without violating First Amendment rights of the companies or nonprofits.

Last May the council banned for-profit donation boxes after Linc-Drop Inc. placed about 70 donation huts in Lincoln. The company gives 10 percent of the clothing sales proceeds to the March of Dimes.

Linc-Drop filed a lawsuit, saying the ordinance violated its free speech rights. In February a federal judge said the lawsuit likely would succeed and barred the city from enforcing the ordinance passed in May.

(AP) — Authorities say an 18-year-old has been fatally shot at a park across a street from Omaha’s Benson High School.

An Omaha police news release says officers were sent around 9:10 p.m. Monday to investigate shots at the Gallagher Park pool parking lot. They soon were advised that two people with gunshot wounds had arrived at Methodist Hospital.

One of the wounded men was pronounced dead a short time later. He’s identified as Tielor (TYE’-lur) Williams, of Omaha. The other man is identified as 22-year-old Joshua Schmitt, also of Omaha.

No arrests have been reported.