LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A state board has pardoned a 25-year-old Nebraska man who videotaped girls using a shower at his house when he was 14.

Randy Weich was pardoned on Tuesday, and his name will be removed from the state’s sex offender registry.

In 2003 he and two teenage buddies made a secret video of two or three female classmates using a shower at his mother’s house in Pierce. The girls learned of the tape’s existence three years later and notified police.

In August 2007 he was convicted as an adult on a charge of creating child pornography and one of possessing child pornography. His sentence included jail time and 18 months of probation. The two other boys were not charged.

More than 90 letters supporting Weich were submitted to the Pardons Board.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln resident who used a hatchet to kill a cat has been given probation for animal cruelty and must write an essay.

The 18-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday. The 250-word essay must cover the hunting and trapping laws of Nebraska and South Dakota, where his father lives.

In November police received a report about a pool of blood in a driveway. Officers twice talked to the man, who lived nearby and was 17 at the time. During the second interview he said the blood belonged to a cat that got caught in a squirrel trap. He couldn’t free the cat’s leg, so he struck the animal with a hatchet and disposed of it.

The Associated Press generally doesn’t name juveniles accused of crimes.

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is adding 218,000 subcompact cars to its growing list of recalled vehicles.

The new recall covers certain Chevrolet Aveo cars from the 2004 through 2008 model years. GM says the daytime running light module in the dashboard center stack can overheat, melt and cause fires.

The recall posted Wednesday on a U.S. government website is GM’s 30th this year. It brings the total number of vehicles recalled by the company since January to 13.8 million, breaking its own annual record.

Recall documents didn’t say if the problem has caused any fires or injuries. GM says it will provide a plan to fix the problem as soon as possible.

The high number of recalls is fallout from a deadly ignition switch problem that is responsible for at least 13 deaths.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Two men accused of conspiring to hack into the computer systems of the Navy have each pleaded guilty in an Oklahoma federal court.

Sentencing is set Aug. 27 for 27-year-old Nicholas Paul Knight of Chantilly, Virginia, and 20-year-old Daniel Trenton Krueger of Dix, Illinois. Federal prosecutors said Tuesday the men could each face up to five years in prison.

Federal prosecutors say the men hacked a system that stores personal information for 220,000 service members. The two also accused of hacking more than 30 other websites for public and private organizations, including the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The case was prosecuted in Tulsa because the Navy servers that were hacked are situated there.

YORK, Neb. (AP) — An eastern Nebraska truck stop has been renamed to honor a driver who sets a positive example for other truck drivers.

The Petro truck stop at the York exit on Interstate 80 is now known as the Charley Endorf York Stopping Center.

Werner Enterprises says Endorf received the honor because the company that runs the York truck stop gave him named him one of its citizen drivers of the year. Endorf’s name is featured on the building in two places.

The company says Endorf has logged more than 5 million miles without an accident in his career, and he’s a leader in his profession.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — In the 2008 movie “Iron Man,” the main character becomes a superhero after building a suit of armor with an exoskeleton that gives him incredible strength.

Now, US special operations forces may be a few years away from donning a similar suit, one that can monitor the user’s vital signs, give him real-time battlefield information and be bulletproof from head to toe. It might eventually have other capabilities unheard of only a few years ago, including an exoskeleton made of liquid armor and smart fabrics that could help stop hemorrhaging.

The Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS) project is coordinated through the Special Operations Command headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida.

Some companies working on TALOS are in Tampa this week for the International Special Operations Forces conference.

NEWARK, Del. (AP) — Delaware State Police say as many as 20 million swarming bees released after a tractor-trailer carrying them overturned near Newark have shut down a highway ramp. Troopers are telling travelers to stay away from the area.

Sgt. Paul Shavack says the tractor-trailer fell on its side about 6:10 p.m. Tuesday on a curve on the ramp from Route 896 to Interstate 95.

Troopers say the driver and two passengers were able to get out of the vehicle, but were stung 50 to 100 times each and were taken to a hospital. Shavack says there were reports of passers-by being stung.

Shavack says troopers called three bee handlers to the scene, who are working with firefighters to spray water to disperse the insects.