COUNCIL BLUFFS, OA (IRN) – A former city clerk in southwestern Iowa has been sentenced to five years of probation and six months of home confinement for stealing thousands of dollars from the city. Federal prosecutors say 57-year-old Carol Jennings also was ordered Tuesday to pay more than $77,000 in restitution. Jennings was clerk of Riverton. She opened two accounts with a local bank using falsified documents and deposited city funds into the accounts. Prosecutors say she then converted most of the money for her own use.
DES MOINES, IA (IRN) The Diocese of Des Moines released the names of nine priests who are credibly accused of sexually abusing children while working for the diocese between the 1950s and the 1990s.
DUBUQUE, IA (IRN) – A Dubuque police officer is in the hospital after he came into contact with a substance and got sick. KCRG-TV reports police were executing a warrant at an apartment when the officer became ill. Fellow officers performed emergency treatment at the scene. The officer is at a Dubuque hospital receiving treatment. He is in stable condition.
DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Police arrested a Des Moines middle school student for assaulting two teachers and a counselor Tuesday at McCombs middle school. WHO-TV reports the student threatened to assault a classmate. A teacher stepped in and was punched in the face and chest causing a bloody nose. Another teacher who tried to intervene was punched in the neck. Attempting to calm the student, a third woman, the school counselor, was punched four times in her chest and face, breaking her glasses. It took two men to restrain the student who was then taken to the Juvenile Detention Center.
IOWA (IRN) – Republican state leaders are brushing off President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated comments about wind energy as hot air, saying the industry has brought numerous benefits to Iowa. Trump told a crowd at the National Republican Congressional Committee’s annual spring dinner Tuesday night that he heard that noise from wind turbines causes cancer. Iowa Republican Senator Charles Grassley called Trump’s comments “idiotic.”