OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 40-year-old Norfolk man has been sentenced for producing child pornography.

Federal prosecutors said Monday that Darrin Mucker was given 18 years in prison and must serve 20 years of supervised release after he leaves custody.

Prosecutors say Mucker posed as a teenager on a social networking service and sent obscene messages, including a sexually explicit image of a child. Mucker communicated with at least 15 girls ranging in age from 12 to 15 years. Mucker asked for and received images and videos from many of the girls engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Prosecutors say that on at least one occasion he threatened to post on the Internet nude images he received of a 14-year-old girl unless she sent him more.

(AP) — A Purple Heart and other medals have been presented to the former wife of a soldier slain during combat in World War II.

In a ceremony Monday at the Capitol in Lincoln, 89-year-old Helen Minarik was given the medals awarded to U.S. Army Pvt. Joe Alberico. The two married on June 10, 1944, and spent two weeks together before he left. He served with the 101st Airborne and dropped into the Netherlands as part of Operation Market Garden. He was killed on Oct. 4, 1944.

His widow married a World War II veteran, Bernard Minarik, in 1946. They lived in Omaha and raised four children. The children worked with the office of U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns to secure the medals so they could be presented to their mother.

(AP) — A former prison inmate charged with killing four people in Omaha earlier this year will be evaluated to determine if he is competent to stand trial.

A Douglas County District judge approved the defense request for 27-year-old Nikko Jenkins to be evaluated by state psychiatric experts Monday.

Jenkins has pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder and 10 weapons counts in the killings that happened within a month of his release from prison on July 30.

But Jenkins has said in recent letters to prosecutors and local media that he now wants to plead guilty to killing 29-year-old Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz and 26-year-old Juan Uribe-Pena on Aug. 11, 22-year-old Curtis Bradford on Aug. 19 and 33-year-old Andrea Kruger on Aug. 21.

(AP) — Authorities say a Colombian man was arrested in last week’s federal raids of more than a dozen sites connected to Colorado’s marijuana industry.

Forty-nine-year-old Hector Diaz was charged in federal court Friday after authorities say they seized five assault-style rifles, five handguns, a shotgun and ammunition during a search of a home in Cherry Hills Village.

Diaz made his first court appearance Monday after court documents in his case were unsealed.

Diaz is in the United States legally but authorities say he is not allowed to possess firearms under his visa.

The court documents include a photograph that investigators say shows Diaz wearing a Drug Enforcement Administration hat and holding two semi-automatic rifles. Two handguns are also apparently stuck inside his pants.

His lawyer didn’t return a call seeking comment.

(AP) — A 17-year-old man has been sentenced to prison in connection with a robbery in Nebraska.

Davonte Jackson was sentenced Monday to two to four years in prison. He was given credit for 242 days served.

Jackson earlier pleaded guilty to attempted robbery in connection to the January incident. Lincoln police say he drove a getaway car for two teenagers accused of breaking into an apartment and demanding money from the people inside.

A man was shot in the chest during the robbery. He was treated at a hospital and later released.

The two teenagers were later arrested. They have entered pleas in their cases and are scheduled to be sentenced in January.

(AP) — Attorneys for six people cleared by DNA evidence in the 1985 killing of a Beatrice woman want a federal judge to limit insinuations of guilt during a civil jury trial.

Attorneys for the so-called Beatrice Six filed a motion Monday asking Judge Richard G. Kopf to limit arguments or suggestions that the plaintiffs were guilty in the rape and death of Helen Wilson. The motion states it would be irrelevant and distracting.

The six — James Dean, Kathleen Gonzalez, Debra Shelden, Ada JoAnn Taylor, Joseph White and Thomas Winslow — were convicted and spent years in prison before being exonerated in 2008. DNA testing implicated another man.

Lawsuits against several Gage County officials have been grouped together. A trial is scheduled for Jan. 6.

(AP) — The Lincoln Parks & Recreation will seek historic designation for the old Municipal Pool bathhouse, where black residents were once denied entry.

The city’s Historic Preservation Commission approved the parks department’s plans last week. The city-county Planning Commission and the City Council will review the recommendation before it goes to the Nebraska State Historic Preservation Office for approval.

The building is considered a good example of Spanish colonial architecture of the 1920s. The pool was closed in the 1970s, and the bathhouse was converted to offices in 2007.

When it opened in the 1920s, the pool was barred to black residents of Lincoln. It remained so until the late 1950s.

(AP) — A 61-year-old Georgia man has been given 270 days in a Nebraska jail following his conviction for misdemeanor vehicular homicide.

Online court records say James Smith, of Augusta, Ga., was sentenced on Monday in Lancaster County Court. He’d pleaded no contest.

Authorities say Smith’s semitrailer turned left in front of a car on Dec. 22 on a westbound ramp onto Interstate 80 in Lincoln. The collision killed 49-year-old Daniel Everhart and injured his wife, Teri. Smith repeatedly told officers and the judge at his sentencing that he hadn’t seen the car before his truck crushed it.