NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — A student at a parochial school in northeast Nebraska has been diagnosed with tuberculosis, a contagious lung disease that’s relatively rare in the United States.

Parents of students at Norfolk’s Park Avenue Christian School were given information at a meeting Wednesday night. It was arranged by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services after the student tested positive.

The school is affiliated with Community Bible Church. The Rev. Aaron Hess says other students exposed to the disease will be tested.

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.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — Hundreds of veterans are expected to attend the Nebraska Vietnam Veterans reunion this weekend in Norfolk.

The reunion begins Thursday and runs through Sunday. Most of the activities will be at the Divots Conference Center.

Bruce Bounds of Norfolk was on the committee that organized that first reunion three decades ago. He says the idea then was to get veterans together “and start a healing process.” He says the Norfolk event will provide opportunities for the veterans to connect with each other.

Programs on Friday and Saturday will address a number of topics, including the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder on spouses, significant others and friends of veterans.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have recovered a body from the Missouri River near the Omaha airport.

Anglers spotted the body Wednesday in the river, caught in submerged branches.

Omaha police Lt. Michael McGee says crews in boats from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office and Omaha Fire Department went to the location north of the airport and recovered the body about 4:15 p.m.

McGee says it’s too soon to know if the body is that of 23-year-old Aung M. Thu, who was last seen swimming in the river Sunday night.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 36-year-old Omaha man who spent less than three years in prison for participating in the gang-rape of teenager in 2000 has been given 42 to 110 years in prison for sexually assaulting two young girls within months of leaving prison in 2004.

Online court records say Kelvin Smith sentenced on Tuesday in Sarpy County District Court. He’d been convicted in June by a Sarpy County jury of 11 sex-related crimes against the girls, including first-degree sexual assault of a child and third-degree sexual assault of a child. Prosecutors say the girls were 9 and 10 years old when Smith began abusing them in 2004.

Smith was charged with sexual assault and false imprisonment in a 2000 attack on a 19-year-old woman. Smith pleaded no contest to attempted sexual assault.

DAVID CITY, Neb. (AP) — An eastern Nebraska sheriff has died several days after having a heart attack.

Butler County Attorney Julie Reiter said Wednesday that Sheriff Mark Hecker died Tuesday at age 53 at an Omaha hospital. He had suffered a heart attack on Friday.

Hecker had served as Butler County Sheriff since first winning election to the job in 1998.

Reiter says Hecker was an intelligent, thorough and professional sheriff who ran his department well.

And Reiter says she will remember Hecker as a loyal friend who was always willing to help when asked.

Hecker was the father of five adult daughters. Reiter says he was a proud father and grandfather who made family a priority.

Funeral arrangements were still pending Wednesday morning.

SEWARD, Neb. (AP) — A 56-year-old Washington man who had more than 83 pounds of marijuana in his car during a Nebraska traffic stop has been fined $5,000 and sentenced to six days in jail.

Online court records say a Seward County judge last week gave Kris Robertson, of Camas, Washington, credit for six days already served. Robertson pleaded guilty to possession of more than a pound of marijuana after prosecutors lowered the charge and dropped another.

The Nebraska State Patrol says a trooper pulled over Robertson’s car on Nov. 10 for speeding near the Crete exit off eastbound Interstate 80. A drug dog taken to the scene alerted officers to the odor of drugs. The patrol says more than 83 pounds of marijuana was found in the car trunk.

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — A judge has sentenced a former U.S. postal worker in Fremont who was accused of misappropriating money paid for stamps and other mail services.

Michael Peitzmeier was given three years of probation and ordered to pay nearly $4,000 in restitution. Peitzmeier pleaded guilty to making false entries and reports of money or securities. Prosecutors dropped a charge of misappropriation in return for Peitzmeier’s plea.

The original indictment says that from 2011 through June 2013, Peitzmeier converted to his use some money that came into his hands while selling stamps and making other transactions for the U.S. Postal Service. Prosecutors also said he falsely reported how much money he’d taken in during the transactions.

COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — A 23-year-old Schuyler man has been accused of stealing checks from his employer and forging signatures.

Miguel De La Paz is scheduled to be in Platte County Court on Wednesday to face forgery charges. He was arrested on Aug. 6.

Authorities say De La Paz wrote the checks to himself and deposited them in his checking account in a Columbus bank. The total was around $2,000.

Online court records don’t list the name of De La Paz’s attorney.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska judge has doubled a jailed man’s bond to $2 million after he was charged in a second drive-by shooting that wounded a 6-year-old girl celebrating her birthday.

The judge set the new bond Tuesday. Prosecutors say 20-year-old Willie Strickland fired into an Omaha home on June 5 and hit the girl in the face. He is charged with use of a deadly weapon at an occupied dwelling.

Strickland has been in the Douglas County Jail on charges from a separate shooting in May. The bond for each charge is $1 million.

The girl’s grandmother says the child survived the shooting after going through several surgeries.

Online jail records didn’t indicate an attorney.

WYMORE, Neb. (AP) — The City Council has affirmed the hiring of a new police chief for Wymore.

The action on Jay Welch was taken at a special council meeting on Monday.

Welch has been a sergeant with the Gage County Sheriff’s Office and a Beatrice police officer. He’s also worked for the Dundy and Thayer county sheriff’s departments. He’s been a law officer for 21 years.

Welch will lead a department with two full-time and four part-time officers who protect the city’s 1,400 residents.

Welch fills a vacancy created with the dismissal of Chief Russell Kirkpatrick, who was fired after only a few weeks on the job.