APPANOOSE COUNTY – A teenager from Moulton charged for allegedly shooting several family members will be arraigned in court next month. WHO-13 reports 17-year-old Drakona Lee Clark was charged with three counts each of attempted murder and willful injury as an adult. He’s accused of retrieving a semi-automatic handgun and opening fire on his estranged stepmother, brother, and his girlfriend.
IOWA – A former public defender in Iowa who was previously arrested for shoplifting is now accused of defrauding Medicaid and cancer patients. KCRG-TV reports Attorney Cassi Wigington will be sentenced next month on a charge of health care fraud. She’s agreed to pay nearly $450,000 in restitution in Nebraska. This came after her law license was reinstated following a theft charge in Iowa, with support of State Representative Megan Jones, Chief Judge of Iowa’s Third Judicial District Patrick Tott, and Buena Vista County Attorney Paul Allen. Wiginton is accused of selling medical equipment to women who had undergone mastectomies and forged their signatures and sent bills of undelivered devices to insurers.
DES MOINES – The Caitlin Clark Foundation partnered with Scholastic for a program that donates book vending machines to children’s hospitals. Three sites have been set up, including Blank Children’s Hospital in Des Moines and the University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital in Iowa City, according to WHO-13, allowing patients to pick out a free book as part of “Turning Pages, Turning Hearts.” Another vending site is in Indianapolis.
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