LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A teenager convicted of stabbing a classmate in a Lincoln high school bathroom has been given five years of probation.

Online court records say Sarah Piccolo was sentenced Thursday in Lancaster County District Court. She’d pleaded no contest in August 2014 to felony assault after prosecutors lowered the charge.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports that Piccolo has been receiving treatment at an Omaha center as part of a separate, sealed juvenile court case.

Police say Piccolo used a hunting knife and a claw hammer to attack a 17-year-old girl at Lincoln Pius X High School in October 2013. The girl was hospitalized.

Piccolo was 16 at the time but was being prosecuted as an adult. Court records show that she’ll turn 19 Sunday.

AUBURN, Neb. (AP) — A woman who pulled her 3-year-old grandson from a pond in southeast Nebraska says he wandered off while she was doing farm chores.

Authorities say Wayne Brown died Tuesday in an Auburn hospital after attempts to resuscitate him failed.

Wendy Presley said Wayne and his mother were moving in Tuesday to stay with her at her rural home southwest of Auburn. Presley says she told Wayne to go back to the house for lunch while she ground some corn and saw him head that way.

When she went to the house he wasn’t there, so she began searching and found him in the pond.

Presley told the station she tried to revive the boy and said his death “is a tragic, horrible accident.”

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A Nebraskan who took a long test drive in a vehicle from an Iowa dealer has been sentenced for theft.

28-year-old Michael Detty, of Lincoln, pleaded guilty. He was sentenced Monday to five years in prison.

An arrest affidavit says Detty took a sport utility vehicle from Fleming Motors in Council Bluffs on Jan. 14. He called a couple hours later to say he was going to pick up his father and have lunch. A Fleming salesman asked Detty to bring back the SUV.

The affidavit says the SUV was found four days later in Urbandale, about 115 miles away.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha Planning Board vote means the city may build an outdoor shooting range at the Public Safety Training Center.

The board approved changes Wednesday to the permit that governs use of the site. Last month the City Council changed an ordinance that barred outdoor shooting at the center, which sits on the city’s northwest side.

Officials have said the range is needed so officers can train with rifles in an outdoor environment that simulates job conditions. But several area residents balked at the idea, citing concerns about noise and safety and what they said was a city promise years ago not to allow an outdoor range at the center.

The council vote followed negotiations that led to an agreement that addressed neighborhood concerns.

AUBURN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 3-year-old boy has died after being found in a pond near his southeast Nebraska home.

The Nemaha County Sheriff’s Office says deputies and medics were sent to a rural Auburn residence a little before 1 p.m. Tuesday. They found people there already had begun CPR. The little boy was taken to Nemaha County Hospital and pronounced dead there.

The Sheriff’s Office identified the boy as Wayne Brown.

TECUMSEH, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a southeast Nebraska man whose body was found in a burned vehicle last month.

Johnson County Attorney Rick Smith identified the man as 52-year-old Michael Carpenter, of Cortland. Smith says the causes of the fire and Carpenter’s death are being investigated. No crime is suspected.

Johnson County deputies found the vehicle and body the morning of March 18, about three miles south of Vesta.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The city of Lincoln will pay $5,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man over his failed plans for a downtown nightclub.

The settlement was reached Monday with Shane Harrington. He’d filed a federal discrimination lawsuit in 2014, alleging in part that former Lincoln police chiefs Tom Casady and Jim Peschong had religious beliefs that led their department to unfairly treat Harrington and the women he worked with. The lawsuit says the police actions influenced a state agency to reject his request for a liquor license.

Harrington told the newspaper that although the $5,000 is far short of the millions he sought, money was not the measure of his victory. In the settlement the city doesn’t admit any fault.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha private investigator convicted of fraud has been given a year and a day in prison.

Federal prosecutors say 70-year-old Patricia Walker-Halstead was sentenced Friday to two years of supervised release after she leaves prison and was ordered to pay restitution of $500,000.

Walker-Halstead pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud after prosecutors dropped 10 other counts in exchange for her plea.

Prosecutors say Walker-Halstead lied to a client about developing evidence and conducting background checks. Court records say Walker-Halstead told the unnamed client she asked a Nebraska State Patrol investigator named “Scott” to help investigate the client’s security concerns. She asked her client to give Scott money because of his financial problems and medical bills. Authorities say there was no Scott on the case.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have released the names of three people whose bodies were found in a wrecked pickup in a creek in west Omaha.

A police helicopter crew spotted the truck Tuesday afternoon. The three people were reported missing Sunday.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office identified the driver as 22-year-old Robert Baker III, of Omaha. His passengers were identified as 21-year-old Patricia Padron and 24-year-old Jonathan Rodriguez, of Grand Island. Autopsies have been scheduled for Wednesday.

The Sheriff’s Office says appears the truck was headed south on 180th Street, crossed over Blondo Street into a cornfield and struck some trees at the edge of the creek. The pickup went across the creek, struck the bank and then rolled down the bank and came to rest at the bottom.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Wilkinson Wildlife Management Area in eastern Nebraska has reopened after three whooping cranes left the area.

Officials with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission say the endangered birds came to the park March 25 and migrated north on Tuesday. The commission temporarily closed off the area to protect the cranes.

The birds’ total wild population of about 300 individuals migrates through Nebraska each fall and spring between wintering sites along the Texas coast and breeding areas in northern Alberta.

They are protected by state and federal endangered species laws. Penalties for killing, possessing or harassing whooping cranes may include fines of up to $50,000, up to a year in jail, or both.