DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Des Moines Police Officers are looking for a hit-and-run driver who left a pedestrian in critical condition Thursday night in Des Moines. The 57-year-old man who was hurt is in the hospital in critical condition. Police are asking for help from the public to find and report the blue Buick with damage to the front-end.

CLARKSVILLE, IA (IRN) – A Clarksville police officer is facing multiple sex exploitation charges. Police say Mike Tobin, former police officer for the City of Clarksville, showed a minor evidence in a pending court case. Pieces of that evidence included sexually explicit images and videos of nude minors.

​​DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A Polk County judge said the fired former director of the Iowa Department of Human Services does not have a wrongful termination claim. The judge dismissed Jerry Foxhoven’s lawsuit this week against Gov. Kim Reynolds. Foxhoven said he was fired in 2019 for refusing to continue paying a governor’s aide with federal Medicaid money. The judge found that because Foxhoven served at the governor’s discretion, there is no basis for wrongful termination.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a harvest proclamation on Thursday. The proclamation allows vehicles that are carrying corn, soybeans, hay, straw, silage and stover to be overweight without a permit. The proclamation goes into effect immediately and will be in place through October 1, 2022.

OTTUMWA, IA (IRN) – A truck, three trailers and thousands of dollars worth of pork were stolen Thursday morning from the JBS plant in Ottumwa. The pork was inside the trailers, which police found empty and abandoned a short time later.