CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – A former employee of The Swiss Colony catalog sales company has agreed to plead guilty to an elaborate fraud scheme in which he stole and sold its merchandise online for years. Chad Saeugling of Asbury was a manager at its warehouse in Peosta that helps fill customer orders. For five years he stole merchandise and sold it online to unwitting customers through eBay.

MASON CITY, IA (IRN) – A 21-year-old northern Iowa man has been accused of punching and robbing his mother. The Mason City Globe Gazette reports that Michael Dalluge was arrested and charged with felony robbery. Dalluge allegedly punched his mother in her arm and stole $180 from her in Mason City.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A leaking railroad tank car has left a 25,000-gallon trail of animal fat along tracks crossing Iowa. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources reports the leak ran about 200 miles, from Missouri Valley in western Iowa’s Harrison County to Fairfax in Linn County. A cap came off the bottom valve of the tanker. The biggest spill was found in Boone, where an estimated 1,500 gallons leaked where the train stopped for 15 minutes.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Former Iowa Lieutenant Governor Patty Judge has won the Democratic nomination and will face incumbent Chuck Grassley in November to represent Iowa in the United States Senate. Judge, who served as lieutenant governor from 2007-2011, came out on top in a four-way race. Grassley is seeking a seventh term in the Senate.

WEST DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Police in West Des Moines are investigating a bank robbery that occurred on Tuesday, according to WHO-TV. Officers say two subjects entered 1st National Bank and robbed the bank by displaying handguns and demanding money. One of the subjects jumped over the counter and removed money from the teller drawers. No one was injured.

WATERLOO, IA (IRN) – Waterloo police are investigating a shooting where two homes, a United States Postal Service truck, and two other vehicles were hit. KWWL-TV reports more than 25 bullet casings were found where the postal truck was parked. The postal worker was a block away at the time and is uninjured.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A senior member of the Iowa Senate says he has suspended his Republican Party membership to protest “racist remarks” made by the party’s presumptive nominee Donald Trump. The Des Moines Register reports Sen. David Johnson, of Ocheyedan, said that he changed his voter registration from Republican to “no party.” The senator says he would “not stand silent” if the Republican Party “buckles under the racial bias of a bigot.”