MUSCATINE, IA (IRN) – A man has been arrested on a murder charge after police found a woman stabbed to death. WQAD-TV reports Darian Drew Lensgraf, 19, of Muscatine was arrested for first-degree murder. Police responded to a call at a approximately 3:30 a.m. reporting that a woman had been stabbed to death at a home. Sixteen minutes later, a clerk at a convenience store a few blocks away called 911, reporting a man with a bloody knife was there. Police arrested Lensgraf at the store. After he was read his rights, he admitted that he had taken the knife to the victim’s house with the intent to kill her.

DELAWARE COUNTY, IA (IRN) – A Dyersville man is dead after a fiery crash in Delaware County Tuesday night. According to the Iowa State Patrol, a semi had turned right onto a highway when a van hit the back of the vehicle. The van caught fire with the driver trapped inside. The driver of the van, 60-year-old Russell Faust, was killed. The driver of the semi was uninjured.

INDEPENDENCE, IA (IRN) An Independence couple were arrested for growing and using drugs around two children. KWWL-TV reports David and Carrie Stick were arrested for felony possession of twelve marijuana plants and two counts of child endangerment.

MARION, IA (IRN) – A student was taken into custody after threatening to use a firearm inside an eastern Iowa school. The Des Moines Register reports the threat was at Vernon Middle School in Marion and the school went into lockdown.The child who made the threat was charged with first-degree harassment and transferred to Linn County Juvenile Detention Center. No one was hurt and no weapon was found.

ALTOONA, IA (IRN) – Law enforcement officials closed off the Target, Lowes, and Staples stores in Altoona just before noon Tuesday. A bomb threat was made to the Target store. The store was evacuated and two bomb-sniffing dogs found nothing.