DUBUQUE, IA (IRN) – A suspect accused of breaking into a Key West mobile home and killing the resident is in the Dubuque County Jail, according to KDTH-radio. 19-year-old Tacari Minifee was arrested in Maryland last month after Dubuque County authorities identified him as one of the suspects involved in the murder of 21-year-old Collin Brown of Dubuque in early April. He’s in jail on a one million dollar bond.

DAVENPORT, IA (IRN) – A 33-year-old Davenport woman is being held in the Scott County Jail after police say she sexually abused a 13-year-old boy. The Quad-City Times reports Tabatha Jo Howard is being held on $10,000 bail. She’s been charged with third-degree sexual abuse and lascivious acts with a child. Each charge is a felony and punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A driver found guilty in a crash that killed a bicyclist received the maximum sentence today, according to KCCI-TV. Jonathan Leyva Rodriguez received a sentence of 34 years in prison and must pay restitution of $150,000. Rodriguez was charged with vehicular homicide in a hit-and-run crash that killed bicyclist Gregory Franck. Two other bikers were also hurt in the crash.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Iowa is among the worst states in the nation in having state mental hospital beds. WHO-TV reports a new study by the Treatment Advocacy Center says Iowa now ranks 49th in the country with just 64 state mental hospital beds. In the 1950’s there were 7,000 beds. Utah, Mississippi, Arkansas and Kansas are all similar to Iowa in population but have from 4 times to 8 times the number of state beds.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Police are investigating a shooting on the north side of Des Moines, according to WHO-TV. A man was standing outside with his brother Thursday evening when a car sped by, going about 50 miles per hour. The man yelled at the driver to slow down. The driver of the vehicle drove around the block, parked down the street, came out with a gun and shot at the two men. No one was injured, and police are investigating.

DAVENPORT, IA (IRN) – An Indiana man convicted in the armed robbery of a Muscatine bank was sentenced to life in federal prison Thursday. 40-year-old Thomas Alexander Davis III entered U.S. Bank in Muscatine in November 2012, presented the teller with a black bag, demanded money and displayed a handgun. The teller placed money in the bag. Davis had been convicted in 1995 of armed bank robbery and robbery with a deadly weapon in Indiana.

BLAKESBURG, IA IIRN) – A Blakesburg woman woke up to a bedroom full of smoke Thursday afternoon, according to KTVO-TV. Helen Neville said she was asleep upstairs when she started choking on smoke. She grabbed her dogs and rushed out of the house. The home is a total loss. As friends comforted her, Neville said “I just lost everything, I mean I lost — everything.” Officials are investigating the cause of the fire.

DUBUQUE, IA (IRN) – Two traveling ship museums dropped anchor in the Port of Dubuque yesterday afternoon. KCRG-TV reports replicas of Christopher Columbus’s Nina and Pinta ships will be docked in Dubuque until June 26. Crews travel with the boats all over the world and are sailing the Upper Mississippi this summer. Visitors are welcome.