A 52-year-old northeast Iowa man accused of video recording female co-workers in a company locker room faces sentencing next month.

The Sioux City (Iowa) Journal reports that Larry Wolf made a deal with prosecutors and pleaded no contest to a lone count of unlawful intrusion. Prosecutors had lowered the charge and dropped another one.

Court documents say Wolf, of Ponca, was arrested in July. Documents say a technician who was working on Wolf’s personal computer found a file that contained about 60 video clips of the women’s locker room at Solbar, a soy protein production company in South Sioux City.

A police affidavit says images on the computer showed Wolf’s tattoos as he placed the camera in the locker room.

Police say a missing 13-year-old girl has been found unharmed, two days after disappearing in the Salt Lake City area without her shoes, coat or cellphone.

Brooklyn Gittins was located late Thursday night after she called her grandmother from a Wal-Mart store in South Jordan.

Unified Police spokesman Lt. Justin Hoyal says the woman then called police and officers went to the store and found the child.

Her disappearance caused widespread concern and some 1,000 volunteers joined police in searching 17 square miles Thursday in the area near Gittins’ home in Herriman, a Salt Lake City suburb about 18 miles southwest of downtown.

Hoyal says, “Brooklyn was not injured and is fine,” and still did not have on shoes or a coat.

Authorities suspect that she was picked up and harbored by one or more people and police are trying to find out who they are.

The New York City medical examiner is reviewing hundreds of rape cases for possible DNA evidence errors.

The New York Times reports that a lab technician may have mishandled critical DNA evidence in over 800 rape cases.

The ME’s office says so far it has found 26 cases in which the technician failed to detect the DNA evidence when some actually existed.

It says in seven of the cases, full DNA profiles were developed.

In one case, the new profile matched a convicted offender’s sample, leading to an indictment a decade after the evidence was collected.

In two other cases, the new DNA evidence was linked to people already convicted or under suspicion.

The cases span from 2001 to 2011.

The technician wasn’t identified. She resigned in 2011.

A Castro Valley man is in jail and an alligator authorities say he likely had to protect a stash of marijuana has been taken to a zoo.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports when Alameda County deputies entered the home of Assif Mayr Wednesday afternoon for a probation check, they found 34 pounds of marijuana and five-foot alligator in a tank in the bedroom.

Sheriff’s Sgt. J.D. Nelson says the alligator was likely used as deterrent against marijuana thieves.

Nelson says Mayr was arrested and booked into jail on suspicion of possessing marijuana for sale. He was being held in lieu of $160,000 bail.

The alligator was taken to Oakland Zoo. Officials there described it as very sick and said it was being cared for at the zoo’s veterinary hospital.

A free online course is aimed at helping people who have intellectual or developmental disabilities, the people who provide contracted services and support, and family members.

Lincoln-based Southeast Community College says the Together We Can! course will be offered at no charge through Dec. 31. The course was developed by Fritz & O’Hare Associates and the college through a grant from the Nebraska Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities.

The course’s six modules provide information on how an individual and his or her service provider can increase the individual’s opportunities to live, work and participate in the community.

The people with the disabilities can take the modules with or without their service providers or family members.

Registration and more information are available from Diane Siefkes at 402-323-3386, or dsiefkes(at)southeast.edu.

A former police officer in southeast Nebraska faces sentencing March 5 after making a plea deal in a crash death case.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports that 36-year-old Steven Darveau Jr., of Falls City, pleaded no contest to misdemeanor vehicular homicide after prosecutors lowered the felony manslaughter charge.

Prosecutors say that on Aug. 5, 2011, Darveau made a left turn in front of a motorcycle at the intersection of U.S. Highway 73 and South 703 Loop, three miles south of Falls City.

The motorcyclist died at the scene. He was identified as 64-year-old Edward Packard, of Cleves, Ohio.

Darveau had worked as a police officer for the Sac and Fox Nation in northern Kansas and as a Falls City police officer before that.

Police say a Bellevue man was dragged into a street when he tried to stop a thief from stealing his sport utility vehicle.

Omaha television station KETV reports  the incident began Wednesday morning when the man left his SUV running in his driveway to warm it up. When he came outside, another man had gotten into the SUV to steal it.

Police say the owner opened the driver’s door in an attempt to pull the man out, but was dragged off his feet and thrown across the street.

The owner called 911, and police chased the SUV through a city park. The thief abandoned the SUV and got away on foot.

The SUV, which was damaged after mowing down residential fences, was returned to its owner.

Federal appeals court judges seem skeptical of a group’s efforts to force the government to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos.

Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, is seeking the images through a Freedom of Information Act request. The Central Intelligence Agency found 52 responsive records, but withheld all of them, citing exemptions for classified materials and information specifically exempted by other laws.

Judicial Watch argued before a federal appeals court panel Thursday that the government didn’t provide a specific enough basis for denying the request. But Judge Merrick Garland said the government cited specific concerns that the images could be used by al Qaida for propaganda and to incite anti-American sentiment.