WATERLOO, IA (IRN) – A Waterloo woman will spend up to 10 years in prison for luring her cousin to his death. Prosecutors originally charged Danaesha Martin with first degree murder. She later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of conspiracy and testified at the trial of Raymond Birden Junior. Birden is one of two men who shot Shavondes Martin in 2018. Prosecutors said it was in retaliation for a drive-by shooting, which killed Birden’s brother in 2016. That’s when Birden had Danaesha bring her cousin to her apartment complex where he was killed in the alley behind the apartment.

WARREN COUNTY, IA (IRN) – A man is dead after a single-car crash around 5:30 p.m. in Warren County yesterday. The Iowa State Patrol says 57-year-old Russell Menth of Leonard, Texas was killed when his truck went into a ditch along Interstate 35 near Saint Mary’s.

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – For the first time in almost three decades, an alum of a Cedar Rapids minor league baseball team won a Major League Baseball batting championship. Luis Arraez, who won the Midwest League batting crown in 2016 with the Kernels, clinched his first title in the majors on Wednesday – finishing the season with a .316 batting average for the Minnesota Twins.

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – Former President George W. Bush will be in Cedar Rapids tomorrow. President Bush is in town to receive a humanitarian award and headline a fundraiser for the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum.

ROSEMONT, (IL) – The University of Iowa was voted as the 2022-23 preseason Big Ten Conference women’s basketball favorite by both the conference’s 14 head coaches and a select media panel, the conference office announced Wednesday. The coaches and media also named Iowa junior guard Caitlin Clark as the 2022-23 Big Ten Preseason Player of the Year, with Clark chosen by the coaches as the preseason honoree for the second consecutive year.