FAIRFIELD – A Fairfield High School student who plotted to kill his Spanish teacher will have to serve 35 years in prison before the possibility of parole. The Des Moines Register reports the Iowa Supreme Court affirmed a lower court decision that Willard Chaiden Miller will receive the full sentence. There is an Iowa law that deals with mandatory minimum sentencing and juveniles — both Miller and his accomplice Jeremy Goodale were teenagers at the time of the murder of Nohema Graber.

CALHOUN COUNTY – The man accused of murdering a teenager in Calhoun County has entered a plea of not guilty on Friday. WHO-13 reports Nathaniel Bevers-McGivney faces charges of abuse of a corpse and first degree murder for the death of 17-year-old Michele Luna Jackson of Farnhamville. A criminal complaint alleges that Bevers-McGivney cut the victim’s throat with a knife and stabbed her multiple times, and then attempted to hide her body on September 22nd.

IOWA – A couple of record highs were tied on Friday in both Des Moines and Ottumwa with 86 degrees at each site. The previous record for both was in 1962. This comes during an unusually warm and dry fall season so far, with some locations in Iowa having received less than an inch of rain since early August, according to the National Weather Service. Most Iowans will see their first frost of the year early next week, but warmer weather returns by next Friday.