Saturday, April 21, 2018

HALIFAX, NS (IRN) – A former Coe college student who plotted to go on a Valentine’s Day shooting rampage at a Canadian mall was sentenced to life in prison Friday with no chance of parole for nearly a decade. The Des Moines Register reports Lindsay Souvannarath of Geneva, Illinois, pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to commit murder in a plan that involved opening fire at a mall in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2015.

MARSHALLTOWN, IA (IRN) – A central Iowa high school teacher who taught for 30 years faces multiple child pornography charges, according to KCCI-TV. Police found 67-year-old Glen Sedlacek had numerous computer files containing pornography of children. Sedlacek retired from the Marshalltown Community School District in 2010 after teaching music at the high school for three decades.

FLOYD COUNTY, IA (IRN) – At least one person is dead in a crash in Floyd County. The Iowa State Patrol reports a Dodge Ram pickup didn’t stop at a stop sign and hit a GMC Sierra pickup. The number of people killed or their identities has not been released.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – UnityPoint Health says an attack on its email system could have compromised the health and personal information of 16,000 patients. The Des Moines Register reports patients’ information that may have been exposed includs medical record numbers, diagnosis and treatment information, lab results, insurance information, names and dates of birth and some Social Security numbers and other financial information.

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – A Cedar Rapids teenager is putting on a benefit concert for people living with disabilities and he’ll have some help from a celebrity. KWWL-TV reports Nick Johnson, a senior at Cedar Rapids Prairie High School, lives with Cerebral palsy. Tomorrow, he’s putting on a benefit concert with the help of Mandy Harvey who, in 2015, was a finalist on “America’s Got Talent.” Harvey is a jazz singer and is deaf. The two became friends years ago at a No Barriers Summit, which the concert will directly benefit.

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