DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – One person died in a house fire in Des Moines this morning. It happened around 5:30 a.m. near Sleepy Hollow Sports Park on the east side of the city. Neighbors reported the fire. Arriving rescue crews used thermal imaging to find someone inside the home. They then pulled them out but rescue attempts at the scene were unsuccessful, and that person has died.

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – If the Supreme Court of the United States reverses Roe v. Wade, as a leaked document from the court indicates, abortion would not become illegal in Iowa immediately. A woman’s right to have an abortion, which is federally protected in the 1973 decision, is also protected in the Iowa Consitution after an Iowa Supreme Court case from 2018. The right to have an abortion in Iowa could disappear if the Iowa Supreme Court reverses its decision or if the state constitution is amended. Republicans are working on a constitutional amendment, which would eventually require a state-wide election.

OTTUMWA, IA (IRN) – Police say Jaime Aguilar of Ottumwa shot Tyler Vandivier in the stomach yesterday morning at an apartment complex. Vandivier was hospitalized. Aguilar is charged with attempted murder and has been booked into the Wapello County Jail.

SIOUX CITY, IA (IRN) – A man who was accused of evading law enforcement for nearly a decade in Mexico was sentenced to prison on Thursday. Jose Sandoval, 39, of Webster City, was sentenced after he pleaded guilty in November 2013 to conspiring to distribute methamphetamine in central Iowa. Sandoval then fled the United States to live in Mexico. In 2021, Sandoval turned himself in at the U.S. – Mexico border.

BREMER COUNTY, IA (IRN) – The Iowa Department of Agriculture has confirmed a new case of the bird flu in Bremer County. This brings the number of detections in Iowa up to 19.