DES MOINES, IA – A wanted “violent” felon was injured Thursday in a crash at the end of a police pursuit, according to KCCI-TV. The crash happened near Lutheran Medical Center in Des Moines. The man being chased suffered a head wound in the crash when the van he was driving hit a tree. Police say Brian Palm was treated and then taken to the Polk County Jail.

DAVENPORT, IA (IRN) – Three Davenport men are suspected of committing at least three business robberies in less than 24 hours, according to WQAD-TV. Police say the same mode of operation was involved in each of the robberies: one person was a lookout at the door while the others went inside and committed the robbery, and that the suspects used the ruse of a purchase to get the clerk to open the cash register each time. All three men are in the Scott County Jail

IOWA CITY, IA (IRN) – A former University of Iowa student has admitted to killing his girlfriend in September of 2014. KCRG-TV reports 20-year-old Xiangnan Li admitted to killing Tong Shao, an Iowa State student, during his trial in China. Shao’s father has called on Li to get the death penalty. In a meeting with Li’s family, Shao’s father reportedly said the family begged for forgiveness and offered to pay him off for his daughter’s death. Police found Tong Shao’s body in the trunk of her car in Iowa City. She died of strangulation.

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – A six week long initiative to reduce crime was successful in getting more than 50 of the most violent fugitives off the streets of northern Iowa. KWWL-TV reports the U.S. Marshals Service has conducted a high-impact national fugitive apprehension initiative focusing on the country’s most violent offenders. This initiative resulted in the arrest of more than 50 fugitives, gang members, sex offenders and violent criminals in the Northern District of Iowa.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A confrontation between an Iowa lawmaker and an Iowa mother caught on video has gone viral on the web, according to KCCI-TV. In the video, State Rep. Dean Fisher, a Republican from Tama, disagrees with Quincy Grittmann, telling her to go out of state to get help for her son who suffers from a debilitating seizure disorder. The Grittman family lived for a year in Colorado where medical cannabis helped her 5-year-old son go from 5-7 seizures a day to zero. The representative tells her she needs to do more as a parent, and “If it (were) my kid, I would move to Colorado.”

NORWALK, IA (IRN) – A stray kangaroo was captured by police after it was spotted hopping outside City Hall in Norwalk on Tuesday night. WHO-TV reports the kangaroo was turned over to the Iowa DNR. The kangaroo is a pet who escaped from its pen.