LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 2-year-old was taken to a hospital after being bitten by an animal at Lincoln Children’s Zoo.

Lincoln fire medics were sent to the zoo around 3:30 p.m. Sunday, and they say the child’s injury was not life-threatening.

Zoo spokesman Ryan Gross said the child was bitten by a fossa, which the zoo website describes as a catlike species from Madagascar that’s related to the mongoose family.

Gross did not provide details about how the child got so close to the fossa but says the animal had not escaped its habitat and that the child was not inside the habitat when bitten.

NORTH BEND, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say the body of a man pulled from the Platte River near North Bend was that of a man reported missing in Rogers.

The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office says two kayakers spotted the body caught in some limbs about 12:45 p.m. Sunday at a spot about two miles west of North Bend. The body was recovered later in the afternoon.

The Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Monday that tattoos helped officials identify the man as 29-year-old Alex Orellana. An autopsy has been ordered to help investigators determine how he died.

SUPERIOR, Neb. (AP) — The National Weather Service says a tornado has touched down in south-central Nebraska, but there are no reports of injuries or serious damage.

Jeremy Wesely, lead forecaster in the weather service’s Hastings office, says the tornado touched down in Nuckolls County just after 6 p.m. Sunday. He says it traveled through mainly rural areas of the county.

He says no “substantial” damage was reported as of Sunday night.

Just over the border in northern Kansas, some structural damage was reported and at least two people were injured in the small town of Munden.

Parts of Nebraska and Iowa could see thunderstorms overnight, and the weather service is warning that parts of the southern and central Great Plains could see significant severe thunderstorms on Tuesday, with some strong tornadoes possible.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The principal of a northwest Omaha elementary school has died unexpectedly at the age of 47.

Superintendent Mark Evans sent a note to parents at Dodge Elementary School saying that Crystal Simpson died Friday.

Evans wrote that the death was unexpected, but he didn’t say what caused it.

Simpson had been Dodge Elementary’s principal since 2012. Before that she had also been an assistant principal at Standing Bear Elementary.

Simpson previously won a national teaching award from the Milken Foundation in 2008.

The district plans to have counselors at Dodge Elementary when classes resume on Tuesday.

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SPRAGUE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 29-year-old Lincoln woman is dead after falling from the back of a pickup.

The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office says the accident happened around 2:30 a.m. Saturday near Traditions Pub in Sprague, just south of Lincoln.

The office says Amanda Bundy fell from the truck’s tailgate as the pickup headed southbound on Market Street. Bundy was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators are asking for witnesses to come forward.

SOUTH YANKTON, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have identified a man who died in a mobile home fire in northeast Nebraska.

The Cedar County Sheriff’s Office on Friday said 70-year-old Daniel Leader, of Crofton, died in the fire. Leader died of smoke inhalation.

Firefighters were dispatched around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday to the mobile home about three miles south of South Yankton.

Sheriff Larry Koranda said in a statement that Leader was found and pronounced dead at the scene.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man accused of having sex with a 12-year-old girl has been sentenced to eight to 10 years in prison.

22-year-old Dakota Campbell was sentenced Thursday. He had pleaded no contest to third-degree sexual assault of a child and felony child abuse. Campbell has been ordered to register as a sex offender once his prison sentence is complete.

Police say the sexual abuse was reported after the girl told a family friend, who told the girl’s father.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — A 25-year-old Beatrice man caught with methamphetamine at the Gage County Courthouse has been given a year in prison.

Joshua Weeks was sentenced Thursday for possession of a controlled substance. His sentence will be served at the same time as his 20- to 48-month sentence for theft.

Weeks was arrested Dec. 31 after he arrived at the courthouse in Beatrice for hearings on two cases. Authorities say a metal detector alerted deputies that Weeks had metal on him. He gave a glasses case to a deputy, who opened it and found plastic bags, syringes, and a spoon.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An officer killed in the line of duty has been honored by the Omaha Police Foundation with its highest award.

The foundation named Kerrie Orozco as its Officer of the Year at a ceremony Thursday. She’s the first officer to be given the honor posthumously.

Police say Marcus Wheeler fatally shot Orozco on May 20, 2015, when he opened fire on officers trying to arrest him. Wheeler was killed when another officer returned fire. Orozco was one day away from going on maternity leave to care for the daughter she had delivered prematurely three months earlier.

Orozco’s mother, Ellen Holtz, and grandmother accepted the honor for her daughter. Holtz said, “Thank you so much for remembering Kerrie.”

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a Lincoln woman used stolen credit card data to buy more than $190,000 worth of laptop computers.

The 34-year-old woman was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of theft and criminal possession of a financial card. Online court records don’t show that she’s been formally charged.

A Wisconsin law enforcement agency contacted Lincoln police April 4 about credit card information from a Wisconsin business being used for purchases in Lincoln. Lincoln investigators soon learned about credit card data being stolen from business accounts in other states also being used by the same person in Lincoln. Security videos from Lincoln stores show the woman buying nearly $194,000 worth of laptops.

Police say the laptops haven’t been found.