OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A gorilla injured in a fight at an Omaha zoo has returned to his home. Motuba, a 27-year-old silverback gorilla better known as “Tubby,” was treated at the Nebraska Medical Center on May 5 for a fractured jaw. Motuba and a younger gorilla apparently got into a fight that left the older gorilla with a fractured jaw that pushed three of his teeth outward. Doctors say the gorilla is doing well and is even eating carrots. Zoo officials say fights between gorillas aren’t unusual, but injuries are typically minor scrapes and bruises.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Grand Island man caught trying to bring methamphetamine through the security gates of a Lincoln courthouse has been sentenced to four to six years in prison. Richard Wittman attempted to run out the front door of the Hall of Justice on Nov. 2. That’s after a security sergeant looked in Wittman’s pack of cigarettes and saw a white powdery substance. Wittman and the sergeant got in a subsequent scuffle. Wittman pleaded no contest to attempted possession of meth and third-degree assault on an officer for the Nov. 2 incident. Wittman had originally gone to court on an assault case stemming from an incident Oct. 12 in Lincoln. He pleaded no contest to attempted third-degree assault in that case.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska State Penitentiary inmate is recovering after being stabbed in the neck by a fellow inmate.

Media reports  that 31-year-old Adam Sommer is expected to recover from the Wednesday assault.

The Nebraska State Patrol is investigating the attack on Sommer, who is imprisoned for first-degree murder.

A homemade knife was recovered after the assault at the prison in south Lincoln, and a suspect has been identified. Officials would not identify the suspect, but they say he has been separated from the rest of the prison population.

Sommer is serving a life sentence out of Douglas County for the 2004 killing of an Arizona woman.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s top election official says turnout for the primary topped 25 percent, and the percentage will grow once all provisional ballots are counted. Secretary of State John Gale said Wednesday he was pleasantly surprised by the number of registered voters who showed up at the polls. Preliminary figures show 24 counties had at least 35 percent turnout. Boone County had the highest, with nearly 60 percent of registered voters casting a ballot. Gale predicted a very high turnout for the November general election, which will include the presidential contest and a nationally watched U.S. Senate race between Democrat Bob Kerrey and Republican Deb Fischer.

SIDNEY, Neb. (AP) — A Sidney woman who was ordered to stop providing child care services to anyone but her own children has been arrested on a child abuse charge. Police say 55-year-old Nancy Gipfert was arrested on Tuesday on a warrant regarding an incident that happened last September that resulted in a 2-month old child being hospitalized. Cheyenne County Attorney Paul Schaub had previously forwarded the case to the Nebraska attorney general’s office. Schaub says Gipfert’s bond is set at $75,000. A telephone message left for her attorney, Donald Miller, of Sidney, was not returned on Wednesday. The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services issued an emergency order against Gipfert in September 2011. The department did not elaborate on why the order was issued.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man convicted of raping a woman during a home invasion in April 2009 has been sentenced to 80 to 140 years in prison. 32-year-old Armon Dixon was sentenced for sexual assault, robbery and a weapons charge on Wednesday in Lancaster County District Court. He was convicted in February of pushing his way into an apartment in Lincoln, pulling a gun on the woman and assaulting her while her son was in a room down the hall. The sentence is in addition to a 70- to 120-year term he’s already serving for robbing a Lincoln convenience store and raping a clerk in March 2009.