DAVENPORT, IA (IRN) – Police will be on site all day at Davenport Assumption High School because of “a threat against the school,” according to WQAD-TV. The threat was written on one of the boys’ bathroom walls. Police are investigating.
IOWA CITY, IA (IRN) – A powerful Iowa regulator has improperly mixed her state job with a personal law practice she runs, inadvertently using her government email for some private business and claiming sick leave on a day when she attended a court hearing. KGAN-TV reports Iowa Utilities Board chairwoman Geri Huser used her state email to send messages to colleagues at her law firm. She also claimed sick leave Feb. 6 even though she participated in a hearing at a courthouse 40 minutes from Des Moines.
OMAHA, NE (IRN) – An inmate accused of shooting and killing an Iowa deputy and injuring another appeared in a Nebraska court Thursday. KETV reports 24-year-old Wesley Correa-Carmenaty waived extradition and is being returned to Iowa. Bond was set at $10 million.
MUSCATINE, IA (IRN) – A June trial has been scheduled for a former assistant jail administrator charged with stealing from Muscatine County. The Muscatine Journal reports that 67-year-old Doug Boulton pled not guilty. $82,000 was found missing from the sheriff’s office jail accounts. Boulton is accused of not depositing and recording room-and-board fees of inmates.
IOWA CITY, IA (IRN) – A jury on Thursday awarded more than $1.4 million to a former University of Iowa athletic administrator, ruling that the university had discriminated against her. KCCI-TV reports Jane Meyer alleged she suffered workplace discrimination as a gay woman in a relationship with the school’s longtime and highly successful field hockey coach Tracey Griesbaum, that the school retaliated against her for complaining about Griesbaum’s firing, and that she was paid less than a male counterpart for similar work. The jury agreed.
CORALVILLE, IA (IRN) – A car fire at a gas station in Coralville could have been much worse, according to KCRG-TV. Truck driver Brad Aldrich noticed the smoke, called 911 and helped control the fire with fire extinguishers until firefighters arrived. Aldrich says he simply did what anyone else would have done, and the important thing is no one got hurt.