OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 71-year-old Omaha man has been hospitalized for a gunshot wound received when his son’s gun accidentally fired.

Police say Donald Dober was taken to Creighton University Medical Center on Thursday. He’s expected to survive.

Officers say the man’s son was handling the weapon when it fired. Officers at the scene say the bullet went through a wall before hitting Dober.

Police say Dober’s son has not been arrested or charged.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An 8-year-old Lincoln boy who had hallucinations and who tested positive for methamphetamine has been taken from his mother.

A judge on Thursday ordered the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services to take temporary custody of the boy and two siblings.

Court documents say the boy told an investigator about awakening Tuesday and seeing “bugs crawling everywhere and stuff dripping from the ceiling.” The boy says the hallucinations continued at school, where staffers called his family.

The documents say a subsequent urine test confirmed the presence of meth and other amphetamines.

The investigator says the boy’s mother showed signs of meth use when she was contacted. She declined to take a drug test. She has not been criminally charged or arrested.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 22-year-old Fremont man has been given two days in jail and two years of probation for vehicular homicide.

Online court records say Kyle Swatzell was sentenced on Thursday in Douglas County Court. He’d pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge.

Authorities say Swatzell was driving a semitrailer on Nebraska Highway 36 on Sept. 11 last year when he ran a stop sign and hit a sport utility vehicle, killing its driver, 36-year-old Ryan Boelman, of Bennington.

Swatzell’s two days of jail are to be served on Sept. 11 this year and next year. He was fined $1,000 and must perform 100 hours of community service. Judge Sheryl Lohaus also revoked Swatzell’s license for two years.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A July sentencing has been scheduled for a 57-year-old Florida woman convicted of drowning a puppy in a south-central Nebraska airport restroom.

Cynthia Anderson, of Edgewater, Florida, pleaded no contest on Thursday and was convicted of cruel neglect of animal, resulting in its death. She faces up to five years in prison on the felony charge. Her sentencing is set for July 30.

On Jan. 23 Anderson was barred from boarding a flight at the Central Nebraska Regional Airport in Grand Island because the puppy was so young and not properly contained.

Authorities say Anderson then was seen entering the restroom. Another woman soon reported finding a dead Doberman puppy in a toilet.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The bird flu outbreak that reached Nebraska earlier this week has spread to a second farm in the northeast corner of the state.

The Nebraska Department of Agriculture said Thursday that a second flock of 1.8 million chickens in Dixon County is infected.

The original farm where the disease was found earlier this week had 1.7 million chickens. All the chickens on both farms, which are owned by the same producer, will be killed to help limit the spread of the disease.

State Agriculture Director Greg Ibach says officials have established a perimeter around both farms.

Ibach says the spread of the disease is unfortunate, but not unexpected. The disease has been difficult to contain in other states.

Officials say the bird flu doesn’t represent a significant human health risk.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man has been sentenced to 16 years in federal prison for hiring someone to set his struggling manufacturing business on fire in an attempt to obtain $4.3 million in insurance money.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Nebraska says 53-year-old Thomas Schropp was sentenced Thursday and ordered to pay $7.6 million in restitution. He was convicted in February of arson and insurance fraud.

Upon release from prison, Schropp must serve three years of supervised release.

Prosecutors say Schropp’s business, PK Manufacturing in Nashville, Nebraska, was purposefully set on fire in November 2008 after he asked an associate to burn it down for $20,000. They say Schropp then filed an insurance claim, which was denied.

Schropp’s attorney previously said he plans to appeal the verdict.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A deadly Nebraska prison riot may have caused half a million dollars in damage, and is believed to have started when inmates complained about a lack of rehabilitation programs.

Lawmakers said Thursday that damage to the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution could total $350,000 to $500,000, although insurance will likely cover the expense.

Inmates took control of part of the prison on Sunday, and two inmates were killed. The facility was still on lockdown Thursday, and one section of cells was considered an active crime scene.

Separate investigations are being conducted into the deaths of the inmates and the cause of the riots.

Sen. Heath Mello of Omaha, who was briefed on the incident, says the riot may have started when inmates complained about a lack of programming.

DENVER (AP) — Colorado is slogging through a wetter than normal spring, with heavy rains restoring much-needed moisture to parched rangeland and sending some rivers over the banks.

But the precipitation isn’t helping downstream states in the Southwest that rely on the Colorado River, which originates in western Colorado.

The U.S. Drought Monitor said Thursday a series of recent storms have dropped up to four times the normal weekly rainfall in some areas of the West. However, three-quarters of the region remains in a long-term drought.

Morgan County in northeastern Colorado reported up to a foot of rain in a 10-day period in May. Creek beds that were dry for the past 40 years were filled to overflowing.

The rain is helping pull grazing land in southeastern Colorado out of a years-long drought.

BEAVER CROSSING, Neb. (AP) — Bayer CropScience hopes its new $17 million research station in Seward County will create wheat and soybean varieties that are more resistant to disease and drought.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Wednesday for the 53,000-square-foot facility situated on 400 acres of farmland between Goehner and Beaver Crossing.

A company official says 14 employees work full-time at the station. It’s expected to have up to 25 people working full-time, plus interns and seasonal employees for harvest and planting.

Gov. Pete Ricketts spoke at the opening and thanked Bayer CropScience for investing in the state. He noted that Nebraska is the eighth largest wheat producing state, with around 1.5 million acres harvested in 2014.