KANSAS CITY, MO (IRN) – The state of Missouri will pay $9 million to the family of an Iowa man who drowned while he was in custody of a state trooper. KCCI-TV reports the settlement ends a civil lawsuit filed by the family of Brandon Ellingson after he died in May 2014 on the Lake of the Ozarks. Ellingson was arrested on suspicion of boating while intoxicated. While in a boat with a trooper, he fell into the water while wearing handcuffs and an improperly secured life vest and drowned.

ONAWA, IA (IRN) – An Ankeny man was arrested Wednesday after police in western Iowa received a report of an attempted child abduction. WHO-TV reports Onawa Police arrested 56-year-old Jeff Lee Altmayer on charges of enticing a minor, impersonating a public official, and unlawful possession of a prescription drug. Altmayer allegedly approached a minor and tried to lure them into his car.

ALTOONA, IA (IRN) – Altoona police arrested a witness to a crash after he started beating a driver involved in the wreck. KCCI-TV reports the driver tried to flee the scene and 56-year-old Steven Webb started beating him. Webb’s daughter was in the other car. Other witnesses say Webb was enraged, and could hear bones breaking as he beat the man. The man is in critical condition in a medically-induced coma.

GRANDVIEW, IA (IRN) – Firefighters in the southeastern Iowa town of Grandview rescued a worker from more than 200 feet up inside a 620-foot industrial chimney at a MidAmerican Energy plant Tuesday. The Muscatine Journal reports in order to reach the trapped employee, the rescue team made its way up interior ladders and skywalks and used a system of ropes to lower the employee down in extreme heat and low visibility inside the chimney. He’s OK.

BAIKONUR COSMODROME, KAZAKHSTAN (IRN) – Today Iowa native Peggy Whitson will rocket into space on her third mission to the International Space Station. The Des Moines Register reports 56-year-old Whitson was the space station’s first female commander in 2007 and will become the first woman to ever command it twice. She’s spent 377 days in space.

DAVENPORT, IA (IRN) – A Davenport man has a new Donald Trump tattoo on his lower back, according to WQAD-TV. Bernie Sanders supporter Zach Cobert lost a bet with a buddy, and honored his commitment to get the tattoo if Trump was elected. Zach says “it’s the stupidest thing I’ve done.” His girlfriend agrees. “I’m not happy with it…now I have to look at it forever.”