AMES – The Ames Police Department has charged a Marshalltown man with murder in connection to the death of a child in 2024. KCCI-TV reports 24-year-old Tyler Lee Zeuthen was arrested this week and faces a count of first degree murder and child endangerment resulting in death. First responders were called to a home in Ames on November 4th of last year for a child not breathing. Police say the individual died from blunt force trauma.

DES MOINES – A federal grand jury in Des Moines returned an 11‑count indictment charging a Des Moines man with wire fraud. As alleged in the Indictment, Marin James Tirrell, 65, ran a scheme to defraud multiple individuals between February 2024 and January 2025. Tirrell’s scheme involved obtaining money from individuals that he claimed would be used to buy tickets to high-demand sports and concert events and resold at a profit. Instead, Tirrell used a majority of the funds for gambling and personal expenses, repaying loans, and paying other investors for earlier payments. In total, investors provided Tirrell several million dollars and the victim investors sustained a combined loss exceeding $1.5 million. Tirrell was on federal supervised release for a 2019 mail fraud conviction. The former radio host was released from his 41-month prison sentence in January 2023.

IOWA CITY – A group of voters is suing the State of Iowa over a law passed this previous legislative session that limits how supervisors are elected in the counties that contain the state’s regent universities. The Des Moines Register reports the group is asking courts to halt Senate File 75, which requires Johnson, Story, and Black Hawk Counties to elect supervisors by district, rather than the current at-large system used. The lawsuit accuses Iowa Republicans of preventing students from fully participating in county elections.