(AP) — A Nebraska man has been given probation and a suspended prison sentence for fondling a Sioux City girl around 15 years ago.

33-year-old Joshua Feenstra, of Norfolk, Neb., pleaded guilty on Monday in Woodbury County District Court to three counts of lascivious acts with a child. Prosecutors amended the charges from one count of second-degree sexual abuse as part of a plea agreement with Feenstra.

Judge Steven Andreasen suspended a 15-year prison sentence and placed Feenstra on five years of probation. Feenstra also must register as a sex offender and write a letter of apology to the girl.

Feenstra is accused of fondling the girl in 1997 or 1998, when she was about 8 years old and he was 17 or 18.

The Nebraska State Patrol seized 730 lbs. of marijuana with an estimated street value of $2.5 million.

Just before noon on Monday, November 4, troopers at the Waverly scales, eastbound Interstate 80, conducted a routine inspection on a J & J Transport semi-trailer truck out of San Bernardino, California. During the inspection, it was discovered the co-driver was wanted on an active warrant for failure to appear out of Lincoln County.  The co-driver, Marcel Bud, 40, Taylor, Mich., was lodged on the warrant in the Lancaster County Corrections. The driver of the semi, Julio Pena Sanchez, 48, La Palma, Calif., was allowed to continue on.

After further investigation, NSP investigators re-contacted the driver of the semi around 9:00 p.m., Monday, November 4, at a truck stop just off the Northwest 48^th street exit in Lincoln.  A probable cause search was conducted. The search led to the seizure of 730 lbs. of marijuana. The marijuana bundles were concealed in boxes of produce in the trailer of the semi. The marijuana has an estimated street value of 2.5 million dollars.

Sanchez, the driver of the semi was taken into custody and lodged in Lancaster County Corrections on a charge of possession of marijuana with intent to deliver. Marcel Bud, the co-driver of the semi, who was already incarcerated on an outstanding warrant, was also charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver.

(AP) — After years of increases, testing for colon cancer may be leveling off.

A large government survey of older adults last year found about two-thirds had gotten the recommended screening. That’s the same level as 2010, and the first year in a decade of no increase.

Last year’s survey included cellphones for the first time, which may have affected results. But other research has suggested the increase in screening is slowing down. Health officials say it’s not clear why.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the report Tuesday. It’s based on a national telephone survey of more than 200,000 adults ages 50 to 75.

(AP) — Prosecutors have filed charges against a man accused of trying to abduct an 8-year-old girl from her bedroom in Aurora, Colo.

Twenty-six-year-old John Stanley Snorsky was charged Tuesday with several counts including kidnapping, burglary and assault.

The attempted abduction happened early in the morning on Oct. 28. According to police, the girl escaped by pinching Snorsky and running away.

Investigators say his DNA was found on the girl’s clothing.

Snorsky had been on parole for a burglary conviction. He was arrested the day after the attempted abduction on an unrelated charge and later linked to the kidnapping case.

It’s not clear if he has a lawyer.

(AP) — A big new study says older men who use testosterone supplements may face increased risks for heart attacks, strokes and death.

Those risks were seen in veterans with low testosterone levels and other health problems. They were in their 60s on average.

The authors and other doctors say the results aren’t conclusive, but do raise concerns about widely used and heavily marketed testosterone gels, patches and injections.

Men in the study who used the products were about 30 percent more likely than nonusers to have one of the bad outcomes.

The results were published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

(AP) — Authorities are investigating the deaths of an elderly couple in their home near McCool Junction in southeast Nebraska.

Neighbors noticed smoke coming from the home between 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. Saturday as they were delivering breakfast to Myron and Charles Bailey. The neighbors called the fire department.

Arriving firefighters found a small fire in the home’s living room and the Baileys’ bodies in a bedroom. The couple were believed to be in their 80s.

York County Attorney Candace Dick says investigators think the fire started accidentally overnight and was just smoldering when neighbors arrived.

Dick says nothing suspicious has been found, but autopsies have been ordered.

(AP) — A government-funded study shows that teens seeking weight-loss surgery have a startling number of health problems that used to be seen only in adults.

Half the teens had at least four major illnesses linked with their excess weight. Three out of four had cholesterol problems; almost half had high blood pressure or joint pain; and many had diseased livers or kidneys.

Complications were uncommon during the first month after surgery.

There’s no official data yet on how much weight they lost, but anecdotal reports suggest these kids are now doing well.

The study involved more than 200 teens operated on a few years ago at five U.S. centers. Results were published online Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.

(AP) — The southeast Nebraska village of Malcolm is celebrating the acquisition of its very first ambulance.

Malcolm Fire & Rescue held an open house on Sunday to show off its shiny red rescue vehicle. The volunteer department used $172,000 in tax dollars for the ambulance, which has been in use for almost a month.

Malcolm resident Teena Hicken told the Lincoln Journal Star (https://bit.ly/HFbbsn) that the department “does a wonderful job, and I’m glad they have this piece of equipment.”

The village of about 380 sits 11 miles northwest of Lincoln. Chief Dale Heidtbrink says the volunteers responded to 280 fire or rescue calls last year.

(AP) — Federal safety authorities have cited a roofing company and proposed $70,000 in penalties for a worker’s fatal fall from one Omaha roof to another.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration says JMA Roofing committed one repeat violation and one other-than-serious safety violation. OSHA says in a news release that the worker was replacing a rooftop rubber membrane on July 17 when he fell to the top of an adjacent building.

OSHA says JMA didn’t ensure that its workers were using fall protection — a violation that OSHA says the company also committed in 2010.

A company representative didn’t immediately return a call Monday from The Associated Press.

(AP) — Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert says the city is sending layoff notices to 19 firefighters in an effort to cuts costs.

Stothert says in a news release Monday the layoffs are needed because the fire department is $6.2 million over its 2013 budget. She says the cuts could be avoided if the firefighters union agrees to change its contract.

The layoffs would be of probationary firefighters and would be effective Jan. 4.

Stothert says the city won’t lay off firefighters if the union reduces the 2014 paramedic training class from 48 to 12 members. The no-layoff pledge would continue through 2015 if the department stays within its 2014 budget.

Fire union president Steve LeClair says the union is considering Stothert’s proposal but needs assurances about future staffing.