LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 21-year-old Lincoln man who police say swung a crowbar at his sister has been sent to jail for a year.

Court records say Ahmed Tuma was sentenced on Wednesday. He’d pleaded no contest to four misdemeanor counts after prosecutors lowered the charges, including one alleging a hate crime.

On Nov. 7 Tuma and a friend confronted Tuma’s sister about being engaged to another woman. Police say Tuma tried to hit his sister as she got out of her girlfriend’s car. She got back in and locked its doors before he smashed the car windows. Police say he and his friend later rammed the car with a pickup.

A police affidavit says Tuma said his sister disgraced their family, and he made disparaging remarks about her sexual orientation.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska corrections officer has resigned after police posted a video showing the theft of Legos from a Wal-Mart store.

Wal-Mart employees tell police they looked through surveillance footage after finding an empty Lego box Friday. They say a man accompanied by two small boys dumped the bricks into a diaper bag.

Grand Island police Capt. Dean Elliot says the man faces a misdemeanor theft by shoplifting charge. He says the case has been referred to the county attorney’s office. Elliot says the man turned himself in after images from the video were posted on the department’s Facebook page.

Hall County Clerk Marla Conley says the 29-year-old officer resigned on Tuesday. She said he had worked at the jail since January 2009.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln police are searching for a suspect after two people were involved in robbing a restaurant with a BB gun.

The Noodles restaurant in east Lincoln was robbed at gunpoint Wednesday night. They say they’ve taken one person into custody and believe one other is involved. No injuries were reported.

Police enlisted the help of a Nebraska State Patrol helicopter during the search.

The identities of the suspects have not been released. Police didn’t say what was taken.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man has been sentenced to 40-60 years in prison after pleading no contest to raping and molesting a 4-year-old girl at a day care.

27-year-old Albert Decoteau was sentenced Wednesday. He entered the plea in July to a first-degree sexual assault of a child charge.

Authorities say he assaulted the girl in September 2013 at an unlicensed day care he ran with his fiancee in their apartment. He was arrested a few days later after the girl was taken to the emergency room.

Decoteau will get credit for 349 days spent in jail. He could be eligible for parole in 17 ½ years. He’ll have to register as a sex offender upon release.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Doctors in Nebraska treating a U.S. doctor battling the Ebola virus say they now expect him to make a full recovery.

Fifty-one-year-old Rick Sacra contracted Ebola while working at a hospital in Liberia. He’s been hospitalized in Omaha since Sept. 5.

Dr. Phil Smith is the medical director of the Nebraska Medical Center isolation unit where Sacra is being treated. Smith said Wednesday that an initial set of blood samples from Sacra sent to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed a decreased amount of the virus in his blood

Doctors are now awaiting results of a second set of blood samples.

Dr. Angela Hewlett, associate medical director of the unit, says there must be two negative blood tests done 24 hours apart for Sacra to be released.

MADISON, Neb. (AP) — A man has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a man in Norfolk, following a second trial in the case.

Judge James Kube announced his decision Wednesday in Madison County District Court at the end of a short trial for 24-year-old De’Aris Trice. Sentencing has been set for Nov. 21.

Trice was convicted of the same charge following the death of 27-year-old Timothy Warren in December 2010. He was sentenced to between 40 years and life in prison. But the Nebraska Supreme Court overturned the conviction in July 2013, saying it found fault in an instruction given to jurors.

Kube said the state met the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt to convict Trice a second time.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man has been given more than 11 years in prison for distributing child pornography.

United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced Wednesday that 24-year-old Ian B. Wait will be required to register as a sex offender when he’s released.

Authorities say records show Wait distributed and received child pornography. He also exchanged text messages with an undercover investigator pretending to be a 10-year-old girl.

Authorities later searched Wait’s computer, where they found more than 860 images of child pornography.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say the owner of a central Omaha jewelry store has died after being shot during a robbery of the shop, located in one of the busiest shopping districts in the city.

Police say in a written release that officers were sent to JR’s Jewelry & Gifts around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday for reports of a shooting. There, they found 71-year-old James Minshall with three gunshot wounds. Minshall was taken to Nebraska Medical Center, where he died.

No arrests have yet been made. Witnesses have said the shooter fled in a gray or silver car.

The jewelry store is located in a strip mall that includes several other stores, directly across the street from Omaha’s massive Nebraska Furniture Mart.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say a man has been shot during a robbery at a jewelry store in central Omaha.

Officers were sent to JR’s Jewelry & Gifts around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday after the shooting was reported. The victim was hit three times and was taken to Nebraska Medical Center for treatment.

Witnesses say the shooter fled in a gray car. No arrests have been reported, and police haven’t released the victim’s name or any other details.

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — A 41-year-old woman has testified that her son didn’t help her stab to death her boyfriend’s mother in southern Nebraska.

Shelley Casterline took the stand Tuesday and said her son, 24-year-old Andrew Casterline, only helped her move the body of Virginia Barone after the October stabbing.

The Casterlines were arrested Oct. 5 in Newton, Iowa, accused of mugging a woman in a parking lot.

Andrew Casterline is charged with first-degree murder and two related crimes. Prosecutors have said he helped his mother stab Barone at her home in Guide Rock. His mother has already pleaded guilty to second-degree murder after making a deal with prosecutors for a lesser charge. She’s scheduled to be sentenced on Monday.

Closing arguments in Andrew Casterline’s trial are scheduled for Wednesday.