LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Officials at a Lincoln middle school have placed restrictions on the use of cologne and body sprays, saying heavy use of the odorous sprays is causing problems for students with allergies and asthma.

Administrators at Lux Middle School have restricted application of the scents to the gym locker room.

Middle school students change clothes for physical education classes, but they don’t shower. So the sprays will still be allowed in locker rooms.

Last year, a school in Pennsylvania asked its students to lighten up on the perfumed sprays after a student there suffered an allergic reaction so severe that he had to be hospitalized.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — Health officials in northeastern Nebraska are tracking down those who might have been exposed to a Norfolk student diagnosed with tuberculosis.

The Elkhorn Logan Valley Public Health Department has worked with the student’s family to compile a list of people who may have been in contact with the student.

Tuberculosis is a contagious lung disease that’s relatively rare in the United States. State health records say only 125 cases were recorded in Nebraska from 2009 through 2013. Federal records say that in 2013 only 9,600 new U.S. tuberculosis cases were reported.

Parents of students at Park Avenue Christian School were given information Wednesday night at a meeting arranged by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The 36-year-old wife of the gunman who killed one man and wounded a woman in a shooting in Topeka has been sentenced to 14 years and one month in prison.

Jamie Engstrom was sentenced Friday for conspiracy to commit second-degree murder and other charges in the February 2013 death of 34-year-old Ricky Mitchell of Topeka and the wounding of 28-year-old Bridget Gakle of Topeka.

Her Kansas sentences will run concurrently with sentences in Nebraska, where she and her husband, Michael Dean Engstrom, were captured after a shootout with law enforcement officers the same day as the Topeka shootings.

Michael Engstrom was sentenced to life in prison for the Topeka shootings, which will run concurrently with sentences he received in Nebraska.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Criminal defense attorneys are raising questions about whether Nebraska’s state psychiatric hospital in Lincoln has opened itself up to legal consequences after recently declining a judge’s order to house Nikko Jenkins, a convicted Omaha killer found too mentally ill to participate in his sentencing.

In a compromise, Jenkins is being housed in a Lincoln prison, where hospital staff will treat him.

Attorney Maren Chaloupka, of Scottsbluff, says the Lincoln Regional Center “is not above the law” and should be providing treatment for those in state custody with serious mental illnesses. She and other criminal defense attorneys say the hospital is opening itself up to lawsuits and that its plan to treat Jenkins while he’s in prison could jeopardize his conviction on appeal.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A University of Nebraska at Omaha dorm that was heavily damaged by fire earlier this year has been rebuilt and is ready for new students.

University officials say students will begin moving in to the rebuilt Scott Village dorm on Sunday, when students begin moving in for the new academic year.

The Feb. 26 fire destroyed the roof and third floor of the three-story building at UNO’s Scott Village. No students were injured. Investigators say the fire was caused by a discarded cigarette on an apartment balcony.

FAIRBURY, Neb. (AP) — A Fairbury man has died in a hospital three days after being injured in a crash.

Authorities say 56-year-old Darrell Parker died Wednesday at a Lincoln hospital. He’d been transferred there from Jefferson Community Health Center, where he was taken after Sunday’s accident.

Police say Parker was a volunteer firefighter who was headed to a fire when his pickup left a roadway, went into a pasture and struck a tree.

Fairbury Police Chief Chad Sprunk says it’s suspected that Parker suffered a medical problem before the crash.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — A trial judge has stood firm on the $300,000 award to a man wrongly convicted in a 1985 murder.

James Dean was among six people wrongfully convicted in the rape and murder of Helen Wilson of Beatrice.

Last month, the Nebraska Supreme Court upheld a $500,000 award to JoAnn Taylor, who had spent nearly 20 years in prison for Wilson’s murder. But the high court reversed Dean’s award, saying it was improperly based on the fact that he had spent less time in prison than Taylor.

Judge Daniel Bryan Jr. on Friday ruled that Dean’s $300,000 will stand. Beatrice radio station KWBE says the judge explained that the $500,000 cap set by state law for those wrongly convicted applies only if the person’s actual damages exceed $500,000.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 17-year-old boy has been accused of molesting a 7-year-old girl at a public swimming pool in Lincoln.

The teen was charged Thursday with first-degree sexual assault in connection to the alleged incident on July 31 at Irvingdale Pool.

The girl told police that the teen approached her at the shallow end of the pool and put his hand down the front of her swimming suit and rubbed her.

The teen was later taken to a youth detention center after a juvenile probation officer evacuated him.

The Associated Press generally does not name juveniles accused of crimes.

PENDER, Neb. (AP) — A Walthill man has been given eight to 16 years in prison for a drunken driving crash in northeast Nebraska that killed his passenger.

Twenty-year-old Miguel Tapia was sentenced on Wednesday in Thurston County District Court in Pender. He’d been convicted on May 21 of vehicular homicide and drunken driving, second offense.

The case stemmed from a Nov. 23 crash in which 20-year-old Princess Morris died. The Macy woman was traveling with Tapia when he lost control of his pickup. The truck rolled after it left a county roadway near Walthill, landing on Morris.

YORK, Neb. (AP) — A 32-year-old Milford woman has been given three years of probation and some jail time in a perjury case.

Betsy Smith was sentenced for attempted perjury. She’d pleaded no contest to the charge after prosecutors lowered it. Smith also was sentenced to 150 days in jail, which can be waived if Smith complies with probation conditions.

Prosecutors say Smith had sought a protection order against a York man, saying he was going to slit her throat. The order was granted and remained in place for a year. She later acknowledged under oath that the man had never threatened to hurt her.

Prosecutors also say Smith lied in a deposition for a criminal case and provided police with false information so they’d start a criminal investigation.