PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A 27-year-old Omaha man has been given probation and some jail time for the crash death of a motorcyclist in Sarpy County.

Online court records say Joshua Spencer was sentenced Thursday to 20 days in jail and two years of probation and ordered to pay a $1,000 fine. Spencer had pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of vehicular homicide. A traffic violation was dismissed in exchange for his plea.

The accident occurred May 29 on the west side of La Vista. Police say the eastbound motorcycle collided with Spencer’s westbound car that turned left in front of the motorcycle. The motorcyclist was identified as Jeremy Liford.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — State regulators have reinstated the license of a Lincoln surgeon who was accused of practicing medicine while impaired.

Dr. Scott Strasburger’s license was reinstated last week. In December 2014 he agreed to a suspension after he was accused of being impaired when he arrived at work in November 2014. He was on track to reinstatement until June 2015, when he was involved in a hit-and-run traffic accident. This past February the 53-year-old was sentenced to a year of probation.

State health officials say Strasburger will be subject to drug and alcohol testing for the next five years.

Strasburger played football for the Nebraska Cornhuskers from 1981 through 1984.

TEKAMAH, Neb. (AP) — About 75 people have helped harvest the corn planted by a man who died in October after driving into a cloud of anhydrous ammonia that leaked from a pipeline near his home north in northeast Nebraska.

Authorities say the anhydrous ammonia, a farm fertilizer with suffocating fumes, leaked from the pipeline near Tekamah on Oct. 17.

Hazmat workers and Tekamah firefighters responded to reports of a motorist who needed help and moved 59-year-old Phillip Hennig to a safe area, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Friends and neighbors came out Wednesday to harvest Hennig’s 650 acres of corn. Neighbors have already harvested Hennig’s bean crop.

Magellan Midstream Partners, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been repairing the 8-inch-diameter pipeline that carries the fertilizer.

EMERSON, Neb. (AP) — Northeastern Nebraska authorities have identified human remains found in rural Dakota County as those of a 41-year-old man.

The Dakota County Attorney’s office on Thursday identified the man as Kraig Kubik, of Emerson.

Authorities found parts of Kubik’s body at a trailer home near Emerson on Wednesday afternoon, and officials have determined that Kubik is dead. Officials have not said how they believed he died, but have begun a homicide investigation. Investigators continued Thursday to search for Kubik’s other remains.

Authorities say people are being questioned, but no one had been charged by Thursday afternoon.

Authorities say Kubik was last seen Tuesday night at his home. Investigators believe an altercation took place there, and he was forcibly taken from the residence.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — A 37-year-old Diller man has pleaded no contest to an amended charge in the abuse case of a Beatrice State Developmental Center resident.

Shawn Ebeling entered the plea Thursday to a misdemeanor charge of attempted abuse of a vulnerable adult. In exchange, prosecutors dropped a more serious felony charge.

Ebeling faces up to a year in jail when he’s sentenced Jan. 5.

Another employee of the center reported that Ebeling punched a patient on Aug. 24, and then manhandled the patient until the patient’s face struck the handle of a fuse box. Ebeling told investigators he got upset when the resident tried to bite him and he pushed “a little too hard.”

The facility houses and treats disabled residents.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man who helped another man rob a 76-year-old woman at Omaha’s St. Cecilia Cathedral has been given six to eight years in prison.

Online court records say 21-year-old Larry Leggett was sentenced Wednesday. He’d pleaded no contest to robbery. The judge credited him with 439 days already served.

Surveillance video of the Aug. 16, 2015, crime shows the woman was reading the parish newsletter at the cathedral entrance when two men approached her. One stole her purse and the other punched her in the head, causing the woman to hit her head against the side of a table as she fell.

Leggett’s accomplice, 24-year-old Wayman Clark, last month was sentenced to 10 to 12 years in prison for robbery and assault.

RAYMOND, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln firefighter has been injured while battling a house fire near nearby Raymond.

Authorities say Raymond Fire & Rescue requested aid from the Lincoln, Malcolm and Air National Guard fire departments early Thursday. The home’s occupants fled to safety before firefighters arrived, but some family pets died in the blaze. The fire cause is being investigated.

The injured firefighter was taken to a hospital. Lincoln Battalion Chief Jeremy Gegg says the firefighter’s injuries are believed to be non-life-threatening.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — Two southeast Nebraska public power districts are discussing a merger.

Officials with Norris Public Power District and Seward County Public Power District have each approved a memorandum of understanding on their intent to merge.

Norris Public Power District Manager Bruce Vitosh (VIT-awsh) says the discussions began when Seward County Public Power District contacted Norris about the possibility of a merger.

Norris Public Power District has about 18,900 customers and 76 employees in Gage, Jefferson, Lancaster, Saline and Thayer Counties. Seward County Public Power serves 4,900 customers and has 17 employees.

Vitosh says the planned effective date for the merger is May 1. The boards of both utilities and the Nebraska Power Review Board would have to approve the merger.