ALTOONA, IA (IRN) – Fire crews were still at the scene of an early morning fire in Altoona hours after it started. KCCI-TV reports it happened at the Burger King near Adventureland around 3:30 this morning.

ANKENY, IA (IRN) – A man was found dead Thursday afternoon after an apparent suicide in Ankeny. The Des Moines Register reports the man, in his mid-40s, killed himself in a room of a business after he was fired earlier in the day. He has not been identified.

CLINTON, IA (IRN) – A Clinton man is facing 47 felony sex offenses and 121 counts of invasion of privacy. The Clinton Herald reports that officers arrested Timothy Geerts Wednesday. A woman who lived with Geerts brought a memory card from his cell phone to police. Recordings allegedly show him sexually assaulting her while she was passed out – 39 times. Geerts also admitted to putting a camera by the toilet in his bathroom and a crack in the shower wall. There were also videos that included three minors performing sex acts.

WEST DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A man turned himself in to West Des Moines police Thursday after he beat up what he thought was an Uber driver following a night of New Year’s celebrations. KCCI-TV reports West Des Moines police used Facebook to help catch 23-year-old Patrick Kilmer. Kilmer and his girlfriend got into a car that they had mistaken for their Uber. The driver told the couple to get out and Kilmer attacked the driver.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (IRN) – Two Iowa women joined a record number of women in Congress on Thursday. U.S. Representative Cindy Axne, a West Des Moines Democrat in the Third Congressional District, and U.S. Representative Abby Finkenauer, a Dubuque Democrat in the First Congressional District, got sworn in as the first Iowa women to serve in the U.S. House.