IOWA CITY, IA (IRN) – The woman who pled guilty to leaving her newborn baby in a trash can at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics was sentenced to probation and avoided prison time at a sentencing hearing Friday in Iowa City. The Des Moines Register reports the judge ruled that the prison time should be suspended in favor of five years of probation for 24-year-old Ashley Hautzenrader.

FORT DODGE, IA (IRN) – A boy was injured in a shooting in Fort Dodge Thursday night, according to WHO-TV. Police received reports of shots fired, and as they were investigating, they stopped two kids who were running near the scene. A short time later, a third child was admitted to a nearby hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the leg. Police charged one of the boys who had been running with carrying weapons. They believe a second gun was involved, and more charges could be filed.

HOPKINTON, IA (IRN) – An Iowa man has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for polluting water and failing to pay employment taxes. Randy Less, of Hopkinton, was sentenced Wednesday. Less failed to pay nearly $655,000 in federal taxes for employees at his Permeate Refining Inc., in Hopkinton, Iowa, from 2009 through 2012. Less also admitted that he knowingly discharged ethanol into a tributary of the Maquoketa River in 2013 without a permit to do so.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey has been nominated for a top position in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The White House said in a statement Friday that Northey, a third-term secretary of agriculture for the state of Iowa, has been nominated to be undersecretary for farm production and conservation, and if confirmed, will oversee the Farm Service Agency, the Risk Management Agency, and the Natural Resource Conservation Service.

BONDURANT, IA (IRN) – The Bondurant community is rallying in support of a sixth-grader who has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. KCCI-TV reports Ava Hutchinson’s favorite colors are pink and purple. Those colors are now filling schools, streets, and stadiums in support of Ava.