DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A Runnells woman was sentenced Thursday in a crash that happened while she was texting and driving, according to KCCI-TV. 20-year-old Lydia Ellen George was charged with texting while driving causing serious injury. On Oct. 9 George’s passengers had asked her to stop texting because she was scaring them, but she continued. The crash that happened next seriously injured one of her passengers. She was ordered to complete a driver’s safety course and 120 hours of public service.

FORT DODGE, IA (IRN) – Fort Dodge police responded Thursday night to a report of a home invasion. KCCI-TV reports 57-year-old Orval Rasmussen of Fort Dodge allegedly kicked through a side door to get inside the home. Rasmussen was armed with a knife and assaulted a woman inside the home. The woman sustained a minor injury to her arm. Rasmussen faces multiple charges.

BURLINGTON, IA (IRN) – Police are scouring a small eastern Iowa lake looking for additional human remains, weeks after a decomposed human foot was found near a spillway. The Hawk Eye reports Burlington police searched Lake West by kayak on Tuesday looking for additional body parts.

MARSHALLTOWN, IA (IRN) – About 15 detasselers who came into contact with herbicide north of Conrad Thursday afternoon have been hospitalized, according to KCCI-TV. A Monsanto crew was contaminated when the wind carried an herbicide being applied by a ground sprayer into the area they were working. Workers started having trouble breathing, and complained of sore throats and itchy eyes. All workers are expected to be released today.

SAC CITY, IA (IRN) – A human skull was found Monday afternoon near the Raccoon River in southern Sac County. KWWL-TV reports the state medical examiner concluded it was the skull of an adult white man. It has been forwarded to a forensic anthropologist in Kansas City for further examination.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – More than 20 governors of both parties are registered to be in Des Moines this week. For the second time in 10 years, Iowa is the host state for the National Governor’s Association Meeting. Governor Terry Branstad says the governors are there to learn from each other.

AYSHIRE, SCOTLAND (IRN) – Cedar Rapids native Zach Johnson is among the leaders in the first round of The Open Championship at Royal Troon golf course in Scotland. KCRG-TV reports Johnson is in a tie for 2nd at 5 under par through 14 holes, but he is three strokes behind the leader, Phil Mickelson, who is at eight under through 17 holes. Johnson won his first Open championship last year in dramatic fashion in a 3-hole playoff. Johnson won the Masters in 2007.