FORT DODGE, IA (IRN) – Two Iowa Central Community College football players are facing felony charges after badly beating a man early Tuesday morning in Fort Dodge. The Des Moines Register reports 19-year-old Jesse Drive Jr. and 20-year-old Darryl Kelley, both of Danville, Illinois, have been charged with willful injury causing serious injury after they allegedly punched and “stomped” another man’s head during a fight.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A man was shot during a home invasion robbery on Des Moines’ east side Wednesday. WHO-TV reports a woman told police three armed men kicked in the door of her home, shot her boyfriend, and then stole her car. Her boyfriend is expected to recover.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Opioid-related deaths in Iowa are down this year compared to this time last year, according to data from the Iowa Department of Public Health. The number of deaths involving opioids has fallen 35 percent.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Hundreds of books have been donated to a northwest Iowa library where a man checked out, and then burned, several LGBTQ children’s books. The Orange City Public Library has received more than 200 books since religious activist Paul Dorr engaged in a book burning Oct. 19. Thousands of dollars have been raised for the library, much more than the roughly $50 needed to replace the burned books. In protest of the city’s second annual OC Pride, Dorr threw four library books into a burning trash can while streaming live on Facebook.

DAVENPORT, IA (IRN) – A Davenport truck driver has driven UPS semis for 35 years without an accident, according to WQAD-TV. John Manderscheid says it takes your “A-game” to stay safe on the roads. He spends 10 hours a day driving 400 miles to drop off packages at UPS hubs in Chicago and Hammond, Indiana. Over 40 years, he estimates he’s traveled four or five million miles.