ORANGE CITY, IA (IRN) – In a video posted by an Ocheyedan-based Christian group called Rescue the Perishing, group leader Paul Dorr burned several LGBTQ+ books he had checked out from the Orange City Public Library. KCAU-TV reports Dorr calls the books “shameful” and “wicked.” The library is considering how to respond.

FORT DODGE, IA (IRN) – Two men shot and killed in an alley early Monday morning in Fort Dodge were brothers. WHO-TV reports police believe it was an isolated incident involving people who knew each other and there is no danger to the public.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia (IRN) – A 28-year-old from Cedar Rapids has been sentenced to 64 months in prison for aiding and abetting the distribution of heroin. Eddy Watt admitted he and other dealers in his group had at least eighty customers and made an average of 20 sales of heroin per day. Two other men are awaiting sentencing. The house where the group stored their heroin was within 1,000 feet of an elementary school.

DES MOINES, IA (IRNN) – An 84-year-old man says he is blessed to be alive Monday after a car crashed through a wall into his Des Moines home. KCCI-TV reports McRay Love was home at the time. The impact pinned him against a wall and injured his legs. Love is hard of hearing, but he heard the bang as the car plowed through his home Sunday afternoon. He says, “I was afraid. I was afraid for a little while.”

JOHNSTON, IA (IRN) – First Sergeant Jeffrey Lewis made Iowa history on Sunday. He’s the first African American to be promoted to Sergeant Major in the Iowa Army National Guard. Sergeant Major Lewis enlisted 37 years ago as a combat medic. He was deployed twice during his career, supporting Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom.