DUBUQUE, IA (IRN) – Police in Dubuque are looking into an attempted abduction from over the weekend, according to KCRG-TV. An 8-year-old girl was riding her bike when a man in a vehicle tried to get her to get in by telling her there was a puppy inside. The girl ran away and told her mom, who called police. The suspect is at large.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – The first cases of the West Nile virus have been identified in Iowa for 2016. The Iowa Department of Public Health confirmed a female child and an adult male, both of Sioux County, were hospitalized due to the virus but are now recovering. Since West Nile first appeared in Iowa in 2002, it has been found in every county in Iowa, either in humans, horses, or birds.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Two southeast Iowa men face multiple charges after they shot deer and left them to rot. 30-year-old Ryan Matthew Greiner of Morning Sun and 19-year-old Treyton Hartman of Yarmouth, were charged after search warrants on their residences were conducted. Greiner faces multiple charges related to taking 18 deer illegally, Hartman one. Greiner faces multiple drug charges as well. Both were hunting by artificial light.

GARNER, IA (IRN) – A boy died after an apparently accidental shooting at a firing range near the northern Iowa town of Garner. KIMT-TV reports a grandfather took two boys to a range used by the Garner Police Department Sunday. A 10-year-old boy was shot, and later died at the hospital.

AMES, IA (IRN) – Twenty vehicle fires and dozens of car burglaries in Ames were reported within a three-week period last September. KCCI-TV reports almost a year later, an arrest has been made. Roman Hart was arrested Monday and charged with three counts of second-degree arson and third-degree burglary. Friends and neighbors were surprised. One described him as a “sweet kid.”

WATERLOO, IA (IRN) – Waterloo police are looking for a driver that hit a moped and fled the scene, according to KCRG-TV. But authorities say the moped driver shares some of the blame for the crash. The moped didn’t have a working headlight. The driver of the moped had minor injurIes and wasn’t taken to the hospital. He did get several traffic tickets, including one for driving without a working headlight.

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL (IRN) – A native of Webster City did something Tuesday night no other American woman has ever done in the Olympics. WHO-TV reports Jenny Simpson earned the bronze medal in the 1500m, becoming the first U.S. woman to ever win an Olympic medal in the event.