DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Authorities in Des Moines are investigating after a home intruder was shot by one of their victims in self-defense. The man forced entry into an apartment armed with a handgun. The man assaulted and threatened residents inside the apartment before being shot by one of the residents. The intruder’s injuries are not life-threatening.

DAVENPORT, IA (IRN) – Davenport police officers apprehended a robbery suspect early Thursday morning after he crashed his car during a police chase. 25-year-old Hunter Jones allegedly robbed a Walmart.

LINN COUNTY, IA (IRN) – Emergency crews responded to a person who jumped out of a moving pickup truck yesterday in rural Linn County. The 22-year-old was transported to a Cedar Rapids hospital for his injuries. He was intoxicated.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Tom Ahart will be issued a letter of reprimand for defying state law by keeping students online last fall. The decision was handed down by the Board of Educational Examiners, and is a symbolic slap on the wrist

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Worried parents with children too young to be vaccinated called on the the Iowa State Board of Education on Thursday to implore Gov. Kim Reynolds to reverse a state law that bans school mask mandates. Republican lawmakers in May rushed through in the final hours of the legislative session a measure that prohibited counties, cities or school boards from imposing face-covering requirements more strict than those ordered by the state. Reynolds immediately signed the bill into law at a festive news conference where she posed with activists who held signs with anti-mask slogans.