DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A woman robbed a Des Moines convenience store at gunpoint early this morning. KCCI-TV reports the woman walked into the store, pointed a gun at the clerk and demanded money. She got away with an undisclosed amount of cash. Police caught up with the suspect two miles away from the robbery and 45-year-old Windy Denise Nicodemus, of Pleasant Hill, was arrested without incident.

FORT COLLINS, CO (IRN) – A man convicted of second-degree murder for a crash that killed two Iowans has been sentenced to 70 years in prison. The Coloradoan reports 20-year-old Marcos Orozco was sentenced Friday in the deaths of Nicole Nees of Fort Collins and her father, John Nees of Cedar Rapids. The crash occurred last Thanksgiving Day. The victims had been shopping for Thanksgiving dinner and were stopped at a red light when Orozco, driving a stolen pickup, crashed into the rear of their vehicle at 90 mph. Earlier that day, Orozco had used the stolen pickup to crash into a pawn shop and steal firearms.

CEDAR FALLS, IA (IRN) – Three people were assaulted while walking in a group near the University of Northern Iowa campus early Sunday morning, according to KCRG-TV. At around 1:45 a.m., they reported they were assaulted by a group of three white males and three black males.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A house was set on fire after fireworks were discarded in Des Moines on Saturday. Spent fireworks placed in a trash can up against the house caused the fire.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Tana Goertz, a Des Moines metro woman who met Donald Trump as a contestant on his reality TV show, “The Apprentice”– is now part of a national effort to get women more comfortable with publicly supporting President Trump’s re-election. A top surrogate for President Trump, who holds a senior campaign position in Iowa, Goertz says the president has done more for women than anyone else she could think of besides Mother Teresa.