LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to stealing a red-footed tortoise last year from the Lincoln Children’s Zoo has been sentenced to 180 days in jail.

25-year-old Michael Sullivan was sentenced Friday.

The tortoise named Captain Hook went missing in March 2013 from her enclosure. Zoo officials say they didn’t report her stolen or missing because they thought she would turn up.

But zoo officials say they received an anonymous tip in June that someone had stolen the tortoise and was keeping it as a pet.

A woman at the address where the tortoise was found said Sullivan showed up — covered in tortoise poop — around 3 a.m. one day and gave her daughter the tortoise as a present.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — State health and environment officials have issued a health alert for toxic blue-green algae in Rockford Lake near Beatrice in southeastern Nebraska.

The alert was issued following tests on the lake’s water earlier this week. Signs have been posted at the lake urging people not to swim there.

Officials say the alert will continue for at least two more weeks. People can still use the lake’s public areas for camping, picnics and other outdoor activities.

Skin exposed to the toxin can develop rashes and blisters. Someone who drinks water containing the toxin is at risk for headaches, nausea and muscular pain.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — Three new judges will preside over the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska’s tribal court.

The judges took their oaths at a ceremony Friday in Norfolk.

Omaha attorney Patrick Runge will serve as the chief judge. Runge has worked with Native Americans since 1995, most recently as chief judge for the Winnebago Tribal Court.

Theresa Barr and Jeffrey Kurtz will serve as associate judges. Barr is a member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation and worked in tribal law for six years. Kurtz is an enrolled member of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, and has been a presiding judge for the Winnebago Tribal Court for the past five years.

Judges serve six-year terms. The Ponca Tribe has a 15-county service area that includes parts of Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota.

GRETNA, Neb. (AP) — An eastern Nebraska man has been critically injured after falling out of a moving golf cart.

The Sarpy County Sheriff’s Office says 31-year-old Patrick Jurgensen, of Gretna, was one of four people in the golf cart Thursday night as it traveled in a residential area. The driver of the golf cart was making a turn when Jurgensen was tossed into the intersection and suffered a head injury.

Jurgensen was taken by medical helicopter to a hospital. He remained in critical condition Friday.

Lt. Brian Richards says the driver has been tested for alcohol and drugs, but additional information was not available.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP)–An Omaha couple has been accused of stealing nearly $150,000 from a family member diagnosed with dementia.

Investigators with the state’s Medicaid program say Jeffrey and Cheryl Negus took the money from an account belonging to Jeffrey Negus’ mother, Paula Negus. The money was allegedly taken over a two-year period while Paula Negus lived in a nursing home.

The couple is accused of using the money to buy a boat, sports tickets and other luxury items while Paula Negus’ bills to the nursing home went unpaid.

The couple turned themselves in Friday. They each face a charge of abuse of a vulnerable adult. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for the end of the month.

Court records do not list attorneys.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Experts have provided to a judge diverging viewpoints on whether a man convicted of killing four people in Omaha is mentally ill or faking it.

Judge Peter Bataillon (buh-TAL’-yuhn) had ordered mental tests for 27-year-old Nikko Jenkins to determine whether Jenkins would be competent to understand court proceedings next month on his possible death sentence.

On Thursday a defense psychiatrist testified at a hearing that Jenkins suffers a form of schizophrenia and perhaps a bipolar disorder. A prosecution psychiatrist said Jenkins acts out and is lying about his mental state.

The judge didn’t making a ruling on Thursday.

Jenkins is awaiting sentencing for the August 2013 deaths of Curtis Bradford, Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz, Juan Uribe-Pena and Andrea Kruger.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A judge has ordered a southeast Nebraska school district to pay $770,000 in damages to a pickup driver injured in a collision with a school bus nearly five years ago.

Jeff Hall had sued the Norris school district and Lancaster County, saying the bus driver was at fault for speeding through a blind rural intersection with no stop sign. The court awarded him $1.1 million but reduced it by 30 percent, saying Hall bore some responsibility for the August 2009 crash. The judge ordered the district to pay 50 percent and the county 20 percent.

In April the Nebraska Supreme Court cleared the county from responsibility and sent the case back to the trial court.

Last week the district was ordered to pay all but 30 percent of the judgment.

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — Fremont is still struggling to enforce part of its ordinance requiring people to obtain licenses and swear they have legal permission to live in the U.S. before renting homes in the Nebraska city.

Fremont Police Chief Jeff Elliott says nearly 500 rental licenses have been issued to people who applied and paid the $5 fee since the city started the process on April 10.

Only applicants who say they aren’t U.S. citizens are investigated, but none of the 17 people who said they aren’t citizens have been scrutinized.

Fremont lacks an agreement with the federal government, so Elliott says none of the applicants have been investigated.

The attorney who is negotiating that agreement for the city didn’t immediately respond to a message Thursday.