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PERRY, IA (IRN) – The adoptive father of 16-year-old Sabrina Ray, whose 2017 starvation death sparked statewide outrage, admitted in court Friday to imprisoning his three children in their Perry home. Raccoon Valley Radio reports Marc Ray, 43, pleaded guilty to four felony charges. He faces a minimum of 35 years in prison.

KNOXVILLE, IA (IRN) – A man is dead as a result of an apparent knife wound in Knoxville, according to KNIA/KRLS Radio. No name has been released, and the DCI is assisting the investigation.

HAMPTON, IA (IRN) – A Franklin County man is facing several felony charges. KIMT-TV reports security video from an apartment complex in Hampton shows Brady Joe Hunt, 38, leaving an apartment where $3,000 in cash was stolen. The video shows Hunt going into the laundry room on the third floor, where he reportedly dropped the money down the dryer vent to the 2nd floor. Hunt collected the cash from the 2nd floor, then returned a short time later to hide $1,310 in cash along with 10 grams of methamphetamine, less than an ounce of marijuana, syringes, one Viagra pill, and 69 Alprazolam pills.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Des Moines police responded to an armed robbery Friday evening. WHO-TV reports officers were called to Cash Advance on Southeast 14th Street around 6 p.m. The suspect wore a facemask and robbed the business at gunpoint. No one was injured, and investigators are reviewing store security video.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – The latest unemployment figures for November show Iowa and Hawaii have the lowest jobless rates in the country at 2.4%. The latest Iowa Workforce Development figures released Friday indicate 1,900 more Iowans entered the workforce during the month bringing the total number of employed Iowans to 1.64 million, the most in state history.