IOWA CITY, IA (IRN) – A daycare provider has been charged after a 7-month-old child at the daycare was found unresponsive and was later pronounced dead at a hospital. KCRG-TV reports 49-year-old Wendy Young was acting as a daycare provider for children in Iowa City. Young admitted to having 10 to 12 cans of beer before arriving at the daycare.

OSAGE, IA (IRN) – A Mitchell county man has been charged with 3rd degree kidnapping, assault with intent to commit sexual abuse, and possession of drug paraphernalia. KIMT-TV reports 43-year-old Timothy Eugene Hines is in jail. HIs victim is a 14-year-old girl.

LINN COUNTY, IA (IRN) – A driver has been convicted on two counts of homicide by vehicle and reckless driving. KGAN-TV reports 35-year-old Keith Furne was texting while driving when he ran into a vehicle near Robins in 2016. Two teenagers were killed, and another was seriously injured.

NEWTON, IA (IRN) – A crash involving two vehicles on Interstate 80 near Newton slowed traffic for hours Wednesday morning. KCCI-TV reports a semi with a flatbed trailer hauling large spools of wire was sideswiped by another vehicle. The crash left the semi-trailer overturned, causing an 11,000-pound spool of wire to hang over the side of the bridge and the railroad tracks below. No one was injured.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Our seemingly never-ending winter is impacting gardening centers and their ability to make money, according to WHO-TV. Lucille Vannoy of Lucille’s Garden Center in Bondurant has been in business for decades, and has seen a lot of Iowa winters. She says, “I’ve had bad years of snow and stuff, but this is really different–I have shrubs and trees and roses that would be out front in a normal year, but this year, nothing.”

BETTENDORF, IA (IRN) – A first grade teacher at Jefferson Elementary School in Bettendorf has opened up a hair salon in her classroom. WQAD-TV reports students can schedule appointments before school and during lunch periods to get the latest hairstyle from teacher Emily Hill. But the styles aren’t free. To pay, each student has to choose a book and read aloud for ten minutes to Miss Hill.