FORT MADISON, IA (IRN) – A man died after saving his 5-year-old daughter from a dog attack in southeast Iowa. KCCI-TV reports 33-year-old Robert Quick, of Dallas City, Illinois, was one of three people attacked Friday by the dog outside a home in Fort Madison. Officers had to shoot the animal because it wouldn’t release a man who was pinned on his back in the front yard. First responders soon found the wounded Quick lying in the home’s doorway. Quick asked medics to first help his daughter, who’d been bitten on the face. One official said Quick “undoubtedly saved her life by his actions.” He later died at a hospital.

WINTERSET, IA (IRN) – A driver and an Iowa state trooper were injured Friday in a three-vehicle crash near Winterset. According to the crash report, 27-year-old Dawn Clements was driving northbound on Highway 69 when her vehicle hit the back of an SUV that had just turned onto the highway. The Clements’ vehicle veered into oncoming traffic and hit an unmarked Iowa State Patrol vehicle. Clements was injured in the crash. The trooper was treated for minor injuries.

BURLINGTON, IA (IRN) – Another floodwall has failed in Iowa, inundating a county seat in the eastern part of the state. The Des Moines Register reports a flood-prevention barrier in downtown Burlington failed Saturday afternoon. The city urged residents to avoid the floodwaters, saying sewage could begin to enter the water because the water had inundated a sanitary lift station.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA (IRN) – All students in the Council Bluffs school district will receive free meals beginning this fall. The entire school district now qualifies for Community Eligibility Provision, a federal program that allows students to eat free breakfast and lunch. The Daily Nonpareil reports families in elementary schools could say up to $700 a year, with families of high school students saving up to $900 a year.