POWESHIEK COUNTY – Police have identified two people found dead in a submerged vehicle in Poweshiek County. WHO-13 reports 30-year-old Amanda Ray of Des Moines and 29-year-old Joshua Carroll of Montezuma were pronounced dead at the scene after the Poweshiek County Sheriff’s Office found a car in a drainage pond north of Montezuma. No additional details have been release from the ongoing investigation.

DES MOINES – Governor Kim Reynolds signed a law that changes training requirements for foster parents. KCCI-TV reports the new law could drop the required time for the state’s program from approximately nine months to around three-to-four months. The law signed by the Governor removes the number of hours for training. The program will keep several required topics before approval.

DES MOINES – Two immigrants who are truck drivers are suing the federal government after they were picked up as part of a joint operation with the Iowa State Patrol and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. The Des Moines Register reports two recent cases involve drivers from India and Pakistan, who were arrested in Iowa despite having authorization to work in the United States and had pending cases for asylum. The Iowa State Patrol had pulled over one of the drivers in March for failing to stop at a Dallas County weigh station on Interstate 80.