Tuesday, November 20, 2018

SIOUX CITY, IA (IRN) – A longtime Roman Catholic priest in Iowa has been removed from the ministry for a year after a girl complained that he improperly touched her. KETV reports the fourth-grader alleged that the Rev. Brian Danner of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Humboldt rubbed the top of her leg while taking her confession. Church officials reported the incident to the county attorney and indefinitely revoked Danner’s ability to function as a priest. A diocese review found that Danner’s actions were inappropriate but didn’t constitute sexual abuse.

DAVENPORT, IA (IRN) – A Davenport man whose wife’s intellectually disabled daughter was kept always locked in a bedroom has been given 10 years in prison. The Quad-City Times reports that 56-year-old Eugene Harris was sentenced Friday. Harris’ wife, 48-year-old Kimberly Williams, has pleaded not guilty to the same charges.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Community members packed a Des Moines City Council meeting Monday to advocate for an anti-racial profiling ordinance, according to KCCI-TV. The city faces several lawsuits regarding allegations of racial-profiling by police. Justyn Lewis told the council that it is difficult to live as a 28-year-old black man in Des Moines. He says, “I am a college-educated man–I have a family and I have a wife who is scared for me when I am out driving by myself.”

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Sexual misconduct allegations ended Nate Boulton’s campaign for Governor and could end up costing him his seat in the Iowa Senate, according to WHO-TV. The ethics complaint filed by Sharon Wegner is causing Senate Democratic Leader Janet Petersen to ask Boulton to resign. Wegner accuses Boulton of grabbing her in a bar in November 2015.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Iowa farmers are nearing the end of this year’s harvest.The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated Monday that 91 percent of the corn crop and 97 percent of the soybean crop have been harvested.