WARREN COUNTY, IA (IRN) – One person is dead following a two-vehicle crash in Carlisle. WHO-TV reports a silver SUV pulled out in front of a maroon SUV. The driver of the silver SUV, 71-year-old Fran Richards Ross of Carlisle was ejected from her vehicle and was killed in the crash. She wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. The other driver, 28-year-old Stacia Taylor of Indianola was transported to a Des Moines hospital and her condition is unknown.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA (IRN) – A southwest Iowa woman has been imprisoned for using a veteran’s name and military service information to falsely obtain a Department of Veterans Affairs home loan. 34-year-old Mandy Whipple was sentenced Friday to 18 months in federal prison. She’d pled guilty in June to mortgage fraud for falsifying loan papers to buy a house in Fremont County.
DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Des Moines firefighters fought a two-alarm fire at the Logan Park Apartments on the city’s east side early this morning, according to KCCI-TV. Firefighters reported some residents were trapped when they arrived, but no injuries have been reported. Three residents were displaced following the fire.
DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Two Des Moines Police officers who are part of an internal investigation resigned from the force Monday, according to WHO-TV. Senior police officers Joshua Judge and Tyson Teut are accused of planting evidence in connection with a narcotics case. Both officers began working for the Des Moines Police Department in August of 2013.
SIOUX CITY, IA (IRN) – Two groups are suing a Sioux City cooperative they say is falsely advertising its honey as pure, despite tests that show it contains traces of glyphosate (GLY-phuh-sate), used in Roundup, a widely used farm herbicide. The Organic Consumers Association and Beyond Pesticides claim that the Sioux Honey Association, the 95-year-old cooperative that makes Sue Bee Honey, is misleading consumers by labeling its honey as pure and natural.
CEDAR FALLS, IA (IRN) – Thousands of undergraduates at Iowa’s three public universities will pay at least 2 percent more in tuition next year. KWWL-TV reports the Iowa Board of Regents voted Monday to raise tuition for resident undergraduate students for the 2017-2018 academic year. The vote means that tuition will increase to $7,270 at the University of Iowa and $7,240 at Iowa State University and UNI.